Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-043815
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Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form: S-4/A
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verse Effect set forth in such representations or warranties, has had or would reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on Cadence or Huntington. Huntington shall have received a certificate signed on behalf of Cadence by the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of Cadence to the foregoing effect.

(b) Performance of Obligations of Cadence . Cadence shall have performed in all material respects the obligations, covenants and agreements required to be performed by it under this Agreement at or prior to the Closing Date, and the Huntington Parties shall have received a certificate signed on behalf of Cadence by the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of Cadence to such effect.

(c) Federal Tax Opinion . The Huntington Parties shall have received the opinion of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (or another nationally recognized tax counsel, including, for the avoidance of doubt, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Huntington, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that, on the basis of facts, representations and assumptions set forth or referred to in such opinion, the Merger will qualify as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code (the “ Huntington 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.

7.3 Conditions to Obligations of Cadence . The obligation of Cadence to effect the Merger is also subject to the satisfaction or waiver by Cadence at or prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions:

(a) Representations and Warranties . The representations and warranties of the Huntington Parties set forth in (i) Sections 4.2(a) and 4.8(a) (in each case, after giving effect to the lead-in to Article IV) shall be

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true and correct (other than, in the case of Section 4.2(a), such failures to be true and correct as are de minimis ) in each case as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though made on and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent such representations and warranties speak as of an earlier date, in which case as of such earlier date), and (ii) Sections 4.1(a), 4.1(b) (with respect to Huntington National