Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001518715-25-000066
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Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: DEF 14A
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 how to vote via the Internet and how to request paper copies of the proxy materials.

• At the Annual Meeting: If you virtually attend the Annual Meeting through the website provided using the control number from your Notice of Internet Availability, proxy card or voting instruction materials, you may vote your shares associated with that control number online during the Annual Meeting. However, you are encouraged to read the Proxy Statement and vote by telephone or by Internet or complete, sign and date your proxy card and mail it using the postage pre-paid envelope that was enclosed with your proxy materials regardless of whether you plan to attend the Annual Meeting to ensure your vote is counted.

Beneﬁcial Shareholders: If you are a “beneﬁcial shareholder,” then you will receive voting instructions from your bank, broker or other nominee on how you may vote your shares, which will include a control number that you can use to virtually attend the Annual Meeting on the website www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HSMT2025 .

For more information, please see “Information about the Annual Meeting — How do I virtually attend and participate in the Annual Meeting” on page 8of this Proxy Statement.

8. What should I do if I receive more than one proxy card or set of proxy materials from the Company?

Your shares may be owned through more than one brokerage or other share ownership account. In order to vote all of the shares that you own, you must either sign and return all of the proxy cards or follow the instructions for any alternative voting procedure on each of the proxy cards that you receive.

Please note that if you have more than one account through which you hold shares, you will receive more than one control number. The control number is used to vote your shares, and is also used to log on to the meeting website to virtually attend the meeting, which will allow you to vote the shares held in the account associated with that control number at the meeting. However, you will not be able to vote shares held in other accounts not associated with the control number you are using to log in to the virtual shareholder meeting. Therefore, it is important that you return your proxy cards for all of your accounts prior to the Annual Meeting so that all of your shares may be counted.

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#### Can I revoke my proxy?
Yes. You can revoke your proxy and/or change your vote at any time prior to the Annual Meeting. Only your latest dated voting instructions or proxy will count.

Registered Shareholders: If you are a “