Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001140361-25-039871
Chunk: 4

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 9.01
Chunk 4
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Item 9.01.      Financial Statements and Exhibits.  

(d) Exhibits

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          2.1      Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 26, 2025, by and among Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, The Huntington National Bank and Cadence Bank.*  
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*Pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K, certain schedules and similar attachments have been omitted. The registrant hereby agrees to furnish a copy of any omitted
schedule or similar attachment to the SEC upon request.

CAUTION REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This communication may contain certain forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, certain plans, expectations, goals, projections, and statements about the
benefits of the proposed transaction, the plans, objectives, expectations and intentions of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (“ Huntington”) and Cadence Bank (“ Cadence”), the expected timing of completion of the transaction, and other
statements that are not historical facts. Such statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks, estimates, uncertainties and other important factors that change over time and could cause actual results to differ materially from any results,
performance, or events expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including as a result of the factors referenced below. Statements that do not describe historical or current facts, including statements about beliefs and expectations,
are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as expect, anticipate, continue, believe, intend, estimate, plan, trend, objective, target, goal, or similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs such
as will, may, might, should, would, could, or similar variations. The forward-looking statements are intended to be subject to the safe harbor provided by Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Huntington and Cadence caution that the forward-looking statements in this communication are not guarantees of future performance and involve a number of known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to assess and are subject to change