Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-041757
Chunk: 196

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form: S-4
Chunk 196
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 stock issuable pursuant to the merger agreement having been authorized for listing on the NASDAQ, in each case subject to official notice of issuance; |

| • | the effectiveness under the Securities Act of the registration statement on Form S-4 of which this joint proxy statement/prospectus forms a part, and the absence of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the registration statement or proceedings for that purpose initiated or threatened by the SEC and not withdrawn; |

| • | no order, injunction or decree issued by any court or governmental entity of competent jurisdiction or other legal restraint or prohibition preventing the consummation of the merger being in effect, and no law, statute, rule, regulation, order, injunction or decree having been enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by any governmental entity which prohibits or makes illegal consummation of the merger; |

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| • | all requisite regulatory approvals having been obtained and remaining in full force and effect and all statutory waiting periods in respect thereof having expired, and no such requisite regulatory approval having resulted in the imposition of any materially burdensome regulatory condition (as defined in the section entitled “The Merger—Regulatory Approvals”); |

| • | the accuracy of the representations and warranties of each of the Huntington Parties and Cadence, generally as of the date on which the merger agreement was entered into and as of the closing date, subject to the materiality standards provided in the merger agreement, and the receipt by each party of a certificate signed on behalf of the other party by the chief executive officer or the chief financial officer to the foregoing effect; |

| • | the performance by each of the Huntington Parties and Cadence in all material respects of the obligations, covenants and agreements required to be performed by it under the merger agreement at or prior to the closing date, and the receipt by each party of a certificate signed on behalf of Huntington and Cadence, as applicable, by the chief executive officer or the chief financial officer to such effect; and |

| • | receipt by each of the Huntington Parties and Cadence of an opinion of legal counsel, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such party, dated as of the closing date, to the effect that, on the basis of facts, representations and assumptions set forth or referred to in such opinion, the merger will qualify as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code; in rendering such opinion, counsel may require and rely upon representations contained in