Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 474

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 474
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 conditions set forth in Article VII , to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as promptly as practicable; (ii) use reasonable best efforts to avoid the entry of any permanent, preliminary or temporary administrative decision or award, decree, injunction, judgment, order, quasi-judicial decision or award, ruling or writ of any arbitrator, mediator, tribunal, administrative agency or Governmental Entity (each, a “ Government Order ”) that would or is reasonably likely to delay, restrain, prevent, enjoin or otherwise prohibit consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the defense through litigation on the merits of any claim asserted in any court, agency or other proceeding by any person, including any Governmental Entity, seeking to delay, restrain, prevent, enjoin or otherwise prohibit consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and (iii) use reasonable best efforts to take, in the event that any permanent, preliminary or temporary Government Order is entered or issued, or becomes reasonably foreseeable to be entered or issued, in any proceeding or inquiry of any kind that would make consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in accordance with the terms of this Agreement unlawful or that would delay, restrain, prevent, enjoin or otherwise prohibit consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, steps reasonably necessary to resist, vacate, modify, reverse, suspend, prevent, eliminate or remove such actual, anticipated or threatened Government Order so as to permit such consummation on a schedule as close as possible to that contemplated by this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, nothing contained in this Agreement shall require Company or any of its affiliates, and neither Parent nor any of the Parent

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Subsidiaries shall be permitted (without the prior written consent of Company), to take, or agree to take, any action or agree to any condition or restriction, in connection with the grant of a Requisite Regulatory Approval, that would reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, after giving effect to the Merger (measured on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger) (a “ Material Burdensome Condition ”).

(d) Each Party shall promptly inform the other Party, and promptly respond to any request for information and use reasonable best efforts to