Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 467

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 467
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, materially impede or materially delay the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, except as may be required by applicable law; or

(s) agree to take, make any commitment to take, or, subject to Section 6.3(c) adopt any resolutions of its Board of Directors or similar governing body in support of, any of the actions prohibited by this Section 5.3 .

5.4

#### Pandemic Measures
. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 5.1, Parent and its respective Subsidiaries may take any commercially reasonable actions that Parent reasonably determines is necessary or prudent for Parent to take or not take in response to any Pandemic or any Pandemic Measures; provided that Parent and its Subsidiaries shall provide prior notice to and consult with the Company in good faith to the extent such actions would otherwise require consent of the Company under Section 5.1 .

## Article VI

### ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS
6.1

#### Regulatory Matters
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(a) Promptly after the date of this Agreement, Parent and Company shall prepare, and Parent shall file with the SEC the S-4 in which the Proxy Statement and Consent Solicitation Statement will be included as a prospectus. Parent and Company shall use reasonable best efforts to make such filing within forty-five (45) days of the date of this Agreement. Parent and Company shall use reasonable best efforts to respond as promptly as practicable to any comments of the SEC staff with respect to the S-4 and to keep the S-4 effective for so long as necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and Parent shall cause the definitive Proxy Statement to be mailed to its shareholders as promptly as practicable after the date on which the S-4 is declared effective under the Securities Act. Company shall cause the definitive Consent Solicitation Statement to be delivered to its shareholders as promptly as practicable after the date on which the S-4 is declared effective under the Securities Act. Parent shall as promptly as practicable notify Company of the receipt of any written comments from the staff of the SEC relating to the S-4. If at any time prior to the Effective Time in the case of the S-4, prior to the receipt of the Requisite Parent Vote in the case of the Proxy Statement or prior to the receipt of the Requisite Company Vote in the

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case of the Consent Solicitation Statement, any