Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 616

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 616
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 on Schedule 14C (any such shareholder, a “

#### Solicited Shareholder
”), and “

#### Special Meeting Request
” refers to a request to call a special meeting that is delivered to the Secretary by a shareholder as of the Requested Record Date and is timely and in proper form under this Section 1.2 .

(e) The Secretary shall not accept, and shall consider ineffective, any Special Meeting Request that (i) does not comply with this Section 1.2 , (ii) relates to an item of business to be transacted at the special meeting that is not a proper subject for shareholder action under applicable law, (iii) includes an item of business to be transacted at such meeting that did not appear on the written request that resulted in the determination of the Requested Record Date or (iv) otherwise does not comply with applicable law.

(f) A shareholder may revoke a Special Meeting Request by written revocation delivered to the Secretary at any time prior to the Shareholder Requested Special Meeting. If written revocation(s) of the Special Meeting Request have been delivered to the Secretary and the result is that shareholders holding less than the Requisite Percentage have delivered to the Secretary, and not revoked, Special Meeting Requests: (i) if the notice of meeting has not already been mailed to shareholders, the Secretary shall refrain from mailing the notice of the Shareholder Requested Special Meeting or (ii) if the notice of meeting has already been mailed to shareholders, the Secretary shall revoke the notice of the meeting. If, subsequent to the revocation of the notice of meeting pursuant to clause (ii) of the preceding sentence (but, in any event, on or prior to the sixtieth (60th) day after the Requested Record Date), the Secretary has received Special Meeting Requests from shareholders holding the Requisite Percentage, then, at the Board’s option, either (x) the original record date, meeting date and time, and location for the Shareholder Requested Special Meeting set in accordance with Section 1.2(g) below shall apply with respect to the Shareholder Requested Special Meeting or (y) the Board may disregard the original record date, meeting date and time, and location for the

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#### TABLE OF CONTENTS
Shareholder Requested Special Meeting from those originally set in accordance with Section 1.2(g) below and, within ten (10) days following the date on which the Secretary has received