Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-041757
Chunk: 197

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form: S-4
Chunk 197
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 certificates of officers of the Huntington Parties and Cadence reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to such counsel. |

Neither Huntington nor Cadence can provide assurance as to when or if all of the conditions to the merger can or will be satisfied or waived by the appropriate party. Termination of the Merger Agreement The merger agreement can be terminated at any time prior to completion of the merger, whether before or after the receipt of the requisite Huntington vote or the requisite Cadence vote, in the following circumstances:

| • | by mutual consent of the Huntington Parties and Cadence in a written instrument; |

| • | by either the Huntington Parties or Cadence if any governmental entity that must grant a requisite regulatory approval has denied approval of the merger and such denial has become final and nonappealable or any governmental entity of competent jurisdiction has issued a final nonappealable order, injunction or decree permanently enjoining or otherwise prohibiting or making illegal the consummation of the merger, unless the failure to obtain a requisite regulatory approval is due to the failure of the party seeking to terminate the merger agreement to perform or observe its obligations, covenants and agreements set forth in the merger agreement; |

| • | by either the Huntington Parties or Cadence (provided that the terminating party is not then in material breach of any representation, warranty, obligation, covenant or other agreement contained in the merger agreement) if there is a breach of any of the obligations, covenants or agreements or any of the representations or warranties (or if any such representation or warranty ceases to be true) set forth in the merger agreement on the part of Cadence, in the case of a termination by the Huntington Parties, or |

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the Huntington Parties, in the case of a termination by Cadence, which breach or failure to be true, either individually or in the aggregate with all other breaches by such party (or failures of such representations or warranties to be true), would constitute, if occurring or continuing on the closing date, the failure of an applicable closing condition of the terminating party and which is not cured by the earlier of the termination date and forty-five (45) days following written notice to the Huntington Parties or Cadence, as applicable, or by its nature or timing cannot be cured during such period;

| • | by the Huntington Parties, prior to such time as the requisite Cadence vote is obtained, if Cadence or the Cadence board of directors (i) withholds, withdraws, modifies or qualifies in