Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 526

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 526
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 terms of the Class B Common Stock (as defined in the Articles Amendment).

“ Ford Support Agreement ” shall mean that certain Voting and Support Agreement, by and among Parent and the Ford Entities, contemplated to be entered into pursuant to the Merger Agreement.

“ Person ” shall mean an individual, corporation (including not-for-profit), general or limited partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, estate, trust, association, organization, Governmental Entity or other entity of any kind or nature.

“ Transfer ” means, with respect to any Company Common Stock, the sale, grant, assignment, transfer, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance (excluding any encumbrance created by this Agreement, the Company Articles, the Company Bylaws, the Company Shareholders Agreement or applicable securities laws), constructive sale, or other disposition of such security or the ownership thereof (including by operation of law), or the entry into of any contract, agreement or other obligation to effect any of the foregoing, including, for purposes of this Agreement, the transfer or sharing of any voting, investment or dispositive power of such security.

1.2 Additional Shares . The Shareholder agrees that all applicable representations, terms and conditions of this Agreement will apply to the Company Common Stock of which the Shareholder acquires record and Beneficial Ownership (and the power to vote and right to consent with respect to) after the date hereof and prior to the Expiration Time, whether upon the exercise of options, warrants or rights, the conversion or exchange of convertible or exchangeable securities, or by means of purchase, dividend, distribution, split-up, recapitalization, combination, exchange of shares of Company Common Stock or the like, gift, bequest, inheritance, or as a successor in interest in any capacity or otherwise (together, the “ Additional Shares ”). For the avoidance of doubt, all references to “Company Common Stock” in this Agreement shall be deemed to include any Additional Shares, mutatis mutandis .

1.3 Other Definitional Provisions . Unless the express context otherwise requires: (a) the words “hereof”, “herein”, and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; (b) the words “date hereof”, when

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used in this Agreement, shall refer to the date set forth in the P