Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 447

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 447
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 commissions or finder’s fees in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Merger). Parent has disclosed to Company as of the date of this Agreement the aggregate fees provided for in connection with the engagement by Parent of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. related to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Merger).

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4.8

#### Absence of Certain Changes or Events
.

(a) Since January 1, 2023, there has not been any effect, change, event, circumstance, condition, occurrence or development that has had or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Parent Parties.

(b) Since January 1, 2023, Parent and its Subsidiaries have carried on their respective businesses in all material respects in the ordinary course, except in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

4.9

#### Legal and Regulatory Proceedings
.

(a) Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Parent Parties, neither Parent nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any, and there are no outstanding or pending or, to the knowledge of Parent, threatened, legal, administrative, arbitral or other proceedings, claims, actions or governmental or regulatory investigations of any nature against Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their current or former directors or executive officers or challenging the validity or propriety of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

(b) There is no Government Order or regulatory restriction imposed upon Parent, any of its Subsidiaries or the assets of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (or that, upon consummation of the Merger, would apply to Parent or any of its affiliates) that would reasonably be expected to be material to, or otherwise have a Material Adverse Effect on, Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

4.10

#### Taxes
. In each case except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Parent Parties:

(a) Each of Parent and its Subsidiaries (i) has timely filed or caused to be timely filed, taking into account any extensions, all U.S. federal income Tax Returns and all other material Tax Returns required to be filed by it and such Tax Returns are true, correct and complete in all material respects