Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
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Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
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 merger that are different from, or in addition to, the interests of HomeStreet shareholders generally. For a more complete description of these interests, see the information provided in the section entitled “ The Merger—Interests of HomeStreet Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger.”

| Q: | Who is entitled to vote at the HomeStreet special meeting? |

| A: | The record date for the HomeStreet special meeting is [ ], 2025, which we refer to as the “HomeStreet record date.” All HomeStreet shareholders of record who held shares at the close of business on the HomeStreet record date are entitled to receive notice of, and to vote at, the HomeStreet special meeting. If your shares are held in “street name” through a broker, bank, trustee or other nominee, you must instruct the broker, bank, trustee or other nominee on how to vote your shares. Your broker, bank, trustee or other nominee will vote your shares only if you provide specific instructions on how to vote by following the instructions provided to you by your broker, bank, trustee or other nominee. You may not vote shares held in “street name” by returning a proxy card directly to HomeStreet. |

Each holder of HomeStreet common stock is entitled to cast one (1) vote on each matter properly brought before the HomeStreet special meeting for each share of HomeStreet common stock that such holder owned of record as of the HomeStreet record date. As of the close of business on the HomeStreet record date, there were [ ] outstanding shares of HomeStreet common stock. Attendance at the special meeting via the HomeStreet special meeting website is not required to vote. See below and the section entitled “ The HomeStreet Special Meeting—Proxies” for instructions on how to vote your shares of HomeStreet common stock without attending the HomeStreet special meeting.

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| Q: | What constitutes a quorum for the HomeStreet special meeting? |

| A: | The presence at the HomeStreet special meeting, virtually or by proxy, of holders of majority of the outstanding shares of HomeStreet common stock entitled to vote at the HomeStreet special meeting will constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at the HomeStreet special meeting. Abstentions will be included in determining the number of shares present at the meeting for the purpose of determining the presence of a quorum. Broker non-votes, if any, will not be counted in determining the number of shares present at the meeting for the purpose of determining