Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 746

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 746
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 respective Affiliates.

“ Agreement ” means this Registration Rights Agreement, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

“ beneficial ownership ” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “ beneficially own ” or “ beneficial owner ”) has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, and a person’s beneficial ownership of securities shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of such Rule (in each case, irrespective of whether or not such Rule is actually applicable in such circumstance).

“ BHC Act ” means the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and the rules and regulations thereunder.

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“ Board of Directors ” or “ Board ” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

“ Class A Common Stock ” means shares of class A common stock, no par value, of the Company as described in the Articles Amendment.

“ Class B Common Stock ” means shares of class B common stock, no par value, of the Company as described in the Articles Amendment.

“ Common Stock ” means, collectively, the Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, and any securities issued in respect thereof, or in substitution therefor, in connection with any stock split, dividend or combination, or any reclassification, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, exchange or other similar reorganization.

“ Company Equity Interests ” means the Equity Interests of the Company, including the Common Stock, and any securities issued in respect thereof, or in substitution therefor, in connection with any stock split, dividend or combination, or any reclassification, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, exchange or other similar reorganization.

“ Confidential Information ” means all information and data that the Company, the Bank or any of their respective Affiliates or Representatives furnishes or otherwise makes available to any Rabobank Party or such Rabobank Party’s Affiliates or Representatives in connection with their being shareholders, on or after the date of the Shareholders Agreement, including any technical, scientific, trade secret or other proprietary information of the Company or the Bank with which any Rabobank Party or its Affiliates or Representatives may come into contact pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise as a shareholder of the Company or Bank, and whether oral, visual, written, or electronic, or other form, together with any reports, analyses, summaries, interpretations, compilations, forecasts, financial