Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-043815
Chunk: 183

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 183
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 or the property or assets of any other individual, corporation or other entity, other than a wholly owned subsidiary of Huntington, except for transactions in the ordinary course of business or in a transaction that, together with such other transactions, is not reasonably likely to prevent or materially delay the receipt of the requisite regulatory approvals or the closing; |

| • | merge or consolidate itself or Huntington National Bank or any of their respective significant subsidiaries with any other person (i) where it or Huntington National Bank, is not the surviving person or (ii) if the merger or consolidation is reasonably likely to prevent, materially delay or materially impair the receipt of the requisite regulatory approvals or the closing; |

| • | take any action or knowingly fail to take any action where such action or failure to act could reasonably be expected to prevent the merger from qualifying as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code; |

| • | knowingly take any action that is intended to or would reasonably be likely to adversely affect or materially delay the ability of Huntington or its subsidiaries to obtain any necessary approvals of any governmental entity required for the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement or the requisite Huntington vote or to perform its covenants and agreements under the merger agreement or to consummate the transactions contemplated thereby; or |

| • | agree to take, make any commitment to take, or adopt any resolutions of its board of directors or similar governing body in support of, any of the foregoing. |

Regulatory Matters Huntington and Cadence have agreed to cooperate with each other and use their respective reasonable best efforts to promptly prepare and file all necessary documentation, to effect all applications, notices, petitions and filings (and in the case of the applications, notices, petitions and filings required to obtain the requisite regulatory approvals, use their reasonable best efforts to make such filings within thirty (30) days of the date of the merger agreement), to obtain as

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promptly as practicable all permits, consents, approvals and authorizations of all third parties and governmental entities which are necessary or advisable to consummate the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, and to comply with the terms and conditions of all such permits, consents, approvals and authorizations of all such third parties and governmental entities. Each of Huntington and Cadence has agreed to use, and to cause their applicable subsidiaries to use, reasonable best efforts to obtain each such requisite regulatory approval as promptly as reasonably practicable. The parties have agreed to cooperate with each other in connection therewith (