Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 756

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 756
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, the Ford Shareholders or any persons holding securities that the Company is obligated to register pursuant to other registration rights arrangements, as applicable, in any Demand Registration.

(b) Notwithstanding Section 4.1(a), (i) with respect to the Rabobank Parties, the Company shall not be required to effect more than, and the Rabobank Parties may not request more than, one Demand Registration in any 12-month period, and (ii) with respect to the Ford Shareholders, the Company shall not be required to effect more

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than, and the Ford Shareholders may not request more than, four Demand Registrations in any 12-month period, including, in each case, any Underwritten Shelf Takedown in accordance with the second sentence of Section 4.3(a), which shall be deemed a Demand Registration for these purposes and count toward such maximum number of registrations. Unless prior written approval has been obtained from the Company, the Rabobank Parties and the Ford Shareholders shall not be permitted to request a Demand Registration within ninety (90) days after the effectiveness of a registration statement of the Company (other than in connection with a registration pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-8, Form S-4 or comparable form, a registration statement relating to an employee benefit plan or employee stock plan, in connection with any direct or indirect merger, acquisition, stock or asset purchase, joint venture, reorganization, consolidation, business combination or similar transaction or in connection with any dividend or distribution reinvestment or similar plan, or a Shelf Registration).

(c) Any registration initiated pursuant to Section 4.1(a) shall not count as a Demand Registration (i) unless and until a registration statement with respect thereto has become effective and remained effective for a period of ninety (90) days or, if a shorter time, until all of the Registrable Equity Interests registered thereunder have been sold or withdrawn and (ii) if, as a result of an exercise of the cut-back provisions in Section 4.1(d), fewer than 50% of the Registrable Equity Interests that the Rabobank Parties or Ford Shareholders, as applicable (in each case, as Requesting Shareholder), have requested to be included in such registration statement are actually included; provided , that if, after it has become effective, such registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the