Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 791

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 791
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 courts, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum or that such party is not subject to personal jurisdiction in such court.

Section 7.12 Entire Understanding; Third Party Beneficiaries . Effective as of the Effective Date, this Agreement (including the documents and the instruments referred to herein), together with the Purchase Agreement and the Transaction Documents (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) and the Merger Agreement (and the documents referred to in the Merger Agreement) constitutes the entire agreement among the parties and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof (including the Shareholders Agreement). Nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended to confer upon any person, other than the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns, any rights or remedies under or by reason of this Agreement. This Agreement (including the documents and instruments referred to herein) is not intended to, and does not, confer upon any person other than the parties hereto any rights or remedies hereunder.

Section 7.13 Severability . The provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed severable and the invalidity or unenforceability of any provision shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions hereof. If any provision of this Agreement, or the application thereof to any person or entity or any circumstance, is found by a court or other Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, (a) a suitable and equitable

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provision shall be substituted therefore in order to carry out, so far as may be valid and enforceable, the intent and purpose of such invalid or unenforceable provision and (b) the remainder of this Agreement and the application of such provision to other persons, entities or circumstances shall not be affected by such invalidity or unenforceability, nor shall such invalidity or unenforceability affect the validity or enforceability, of such provision, or the application thereof, in any other jurisdiction.

Section 7.14 Termination of Shareholders Agreement . In accordance with Section 8.1 of the Shareholders Agreement, Rabobank, the Bank, the Ford Shareholders and the Ford Funds hereby agree to terminate the Shareholders Agreement effective