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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, broker or other nominee who is considered the registered shareholder of those shares. As the beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your bank, broker or other nominee on how to vote your shares and you are also invited to virtually attend the Annual Meeting through the website for the meeting using the control number provided on your Notice of Internet Availability, proxy card or voting instruction materials. Your bank, broker or other nominee has provided a voting instruction form for you to use in directing how to vote your shares.

Under certain circumstances banks, brokers and other nominees are prohibited from exercising discretionary authority for beneficial owners who have not provided voting instructions to the bank, broker or other nominee, which is referred to as a “broker non-vote”. In these cases, those shares will be counted for the purpose of determining whether a quorum is present. Pursuant to applicable regulations, if you do not give instructions to your bank, broker or other nominee, your bank, broker or other nominee will not be permitted to vote your shares with respect to Proposal 1, Election of Directors, or Proposal 2, Approval on an Advisory (Non-Binding) Basis of the Compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers.

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#### What is a proxy?
A proxy is your legal designation of another person to vote the stock you own. That other person is called a proxy. If you designate someone as your proxy in a written document, that document is also called a proxy or a proxy card. We have designated Godfrey B. Evans, our Corporate Secretary and General Counsel, and Mark K. Mason, our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, as the Company’s proxies for the Annual Meeting.

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#### How do I vote?
Registered Shareholders: If you are a “registered shareholder,” you can vote your shares in the following four ways:

• By Internet: Visit the website shown on your Notice of Internet Availability, proxy card or voting instruction materials to vote via the Internet ( www.proxyvote.com );

• By Telephone: Use the toll-free telephone number shown on your Notice of Internet Availability, proxy card or voting instruction materials to vote by telephone;

• By Mail: If you received proxy materials by mail, you can vote by submitting a proxy by mail by completing, signing and dating your proxy card and mailing it using the postage pre-paid envelope that was enclosed with your proxy materials. Note that you cannot vote by marking the Notice of Internet Availability and returning it. The Notice of Internet Availability provides instruction on