Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 748

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 748
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 applicable to the sale of Registrable Equity Interests, and any related fees and expenses of the Rabobank Parties (including the Rabobank Parties’ own counsel fees) or Ford Shareholders (including the Ford Shareholders’ own counsel fees), as applicable. “ Subsidiary” means, when used with respect to any person, any other person of which (a) such first person directly or indirectly owns or controls at least a majority of the securities or other interests having by their terms ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or others performing similar functions or (b) such first person is or directly or indirectly has the power to appoint a general partner, manager or managing member with respect to a person. “ transfer” means, when used as a noun, any direct or indirect, voluntary or involuntary, sale, disposition, encumbrance (other than liens or other security interests that cover broadly all of a person’s assets or that are applied by a Governmental Authority on a similarly broad basis), gift, assignment, or other transfer and entry into a definitive agreement with respect to any of the foregoing and, when used as a verb, to directly or indirectly, voluntarily or involuntarily, sell, dispose, encumber (other than liens or other security interests that cover broadly all of a person’s assets or that are applied by a Governmental Authority on a similarly broad basis), gift, assign or otherwise transfer or enter into a definitive agreement with respect to any of the foregoing. For purposes of this Agreement, the sale to a third party of an interest of a person in an Affiliate of such person which beneficially owns Equity Interests shall be deemed a transfer by such person of such Equity Interests unless such person retains beneficial ownership of such Equity Interests at and following such transaction. Section 1.2 Additional Definitions. Each of the following terms has the meaning specified in the Section of this Agreement set forth opposite such term:

| Term                       |     | Section        |
| Articles Amendment         |     | Recitals       |
| Bank                       |     | Preamble       |
| Company                    |     | Preamble       |
| Company Control Effect     |     | Section 5.1(a) |
| Demand Registration        |     | Section 4.1(a) |
| Demand Request             |     | Section 4.1(a) |
| Effective Date             |     | Recitals       |
| Federal Reserve            |     | Section 5.1(a) |
| Ford Funds