Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 284

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
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 “ Key Shareholder Voting Agreements .”

HomeStreet has agreed to call a special meeting of its shareholders to be held as soon as reasonably practicable after the Form S-4 is declared effective, for the purpose of obtaining approval of (i) the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal, (ii) the HomeStreet share issuance proposal, (iii) an equity compensation plan on terms as determined in good faith jointly by HomeStreet and Mechanics (and the adoption of such plan) and (iv) if agreed by both HomeStreet and Mechanics, other matters of the type customarily brought before a special meeting.

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HomeStreet and its board of directors must use their reasonable best efforts to obtain from the HomeStreet shareholders the requisite HomeStreet shareholder approval, including by communicating to the HomeStreet shareholders the HomeStreet board of directors’ recommendation that the HomeStreet shareholders approve the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal and the HomeStreet share issuance proposal (the “HomeStreet board recommendation”). HomeStreet and its board of directors generally cannot (i) withhold, withdraw, modify or qualify in a manner adverse to Mechanics the HomeStreet board recommendation, (ii) fail to make the HomeStreet board recommendation, (iii) adopt, approve, recommend or endorse an acquisition proposal or publicly announce an intention to adopt, approve, recommend or endorse an acquisition proposal (as defined below), (iv) fail to publicly and without qualification (A) recommend against any acquisition proposal that has been made public or (B) reaffirm the HomeStreet board recommendation, in each case within ten (10) business days (or such fewer number of days as remains prior to the HomeStreet shareholder meeting, or any adjournment or postponement thereof, as applicable) after an acquisition proposal is made public or any request by Mechanics to do so, or (v) publicly propose to do any of the foregoing (any of the foregoing, a “recommendation change”).

However, subject to certain termination rights described in the section entitled “ —Termination of the Merger Agreement ” below, the board of directors of HomeStreet may, prior to the receipt of the requisite HomeStreet shareholder approval, effect a recommendation change, if (i)(A) the board of directors of HomeStreet receives a bona fide acquisition proposal (as defined below) after the date of the merger agreement which did not result from a breach of rights described in the section entitled “ —Agreement Not to Solicit Other Offers ,” which it determines in good faith