Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-07-21
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-026508
Chunk: 52

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-07-21
Form: S-4
Chunk 52
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 approve the Veritex compensation proposal, and vice versa. The approval of the Veritex compensation proposal by holders of Veritex common stock is not a condition to the completion of the merger. If the merger is completed, the merger-related compensation will be paid to Veritex’s named executive officers to the extent payable in accordance with the terms of the compensation agreements and arrangements even if holders of Veritex common stock fail to approve the advisory vote regarding merger-related compensation.

The Veritex board of directors unanimously recommends a vote “FOR” the advisory Veritex compensation proposal.**

#### Proposal 3: Veritex Adjournment Proposal
The Veritex special meeting may be adjourned to another time or place, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies if there are insufficient votes at the time of the Veritex special meeting to approve the Veritex merger proposal or to ensure that any supplement or amendment to this proxy statement/prospectus is timely provided to holders of Veritex common stock.

If, at the Veritex special meeting, the number of shares of Veritex common stock present or represented and voting in favor of the Veritex merger proposal is insufficient to approve the Veritex merger proposal, Veritex intends to move to adjourn the Veritex special meeting in order to enable the Veritex board of directors to solicit

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additional proxies for approval of the Veritex merger proposal. In that event, Veritex will ask holders of Veritex common stock to vote upon the Veritex adjournment proposal, but not the Veritex merger proposal or the Veritex compensation proposal.

In this proposal, Veritex is asking holders of Veritex common stock to authorize the holder of any proxy solicited by the Veritex board of directors, on a discretionary basis, to vote in favor of adjourning the Veritex special meeting to another time and place for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies, including the solicitation of proxies from holders of Veritex common stock who have previously voted. If the date of the adjournment is not announced at the Veritex special meeting or a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a new notice of the adjourned meeting will be given to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting.

The approval of the Veritex adjournment proposal by holders of