Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-043815
Chunk: 366

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 366
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 (the “ Cadence Tax Opinion ”). In rendering such opinion, counsel may require and rely upon representations contained in certificates of officers of the Huntington Parties and Cadence reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to such counsel.

## ARTICLE VIII
<div align='center'>TERMINATION AND AMENDMENT</div>

8.1 Termination . This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Effective Time, whether before or after receipt of the Requisite Cadence Vote or the Requisite Huntington Vote:

(a) by mutual consent of the Huntington Parties and Cadence in a written instrument;

(b) by either the Huntington Parties or Cadence if any Governmental Entity that must grant a Requisite Regulatory Approval has denied approval of the Merger and such denial has become final and nonappealable or any Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction shall have issued a final nonappealable order, injunction or decree permanently enjoining or otherwise prohibiting or making illegal the consummation of the Merger, unless the failure to obtain a Requisite Regulatory Approval shall be due to the failure of the party seeking to terminate this Agreement to perform or observe the obligations, covenants and agreements of such party set forth herein;

(c) by either the Huntington Parties or Cadence if the Merger shall not have been consummated on or before the first anniversary of the date of this Agreement (the “ Termination Date ”), unless the failure of the Closing to occur by such date shall be due to the failure of the party seeking to terminate this Agreement to perform or observe the obligations, covenants and agreements of such party set forth herein; provided , however , that if the conditions to the Closing set forth in Section 7.1(e) have not been satisfied or waived on or prior to such date but all other conditions to the Closing set forth in Article VII have been satisfied or waived (other than those conditions that by their nature can only be satisfied at the Closing (so long as such

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conditions are reasonably capable of being satisfied)), the Termination Date may be extended by either the Huntington Parties or Cadence to a date that is fifteen (15) months after the date of this Agreement, unless the failure of the Closing to occur by the Termination Date shall be due to the failure of the party seeking to extend the Termination Date to perform or observe the obligations, covenants and agreements of such party set forth herein, and such