Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 485

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 485
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 thereof, any right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement.

6.6

#### Certain Tax Matters
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(a) Subject to Section 6.1, each of Parent and Company shall use their reasonable best efforts to obtain the Tax Opinions. In connection with the rendering of the Tax Opinions, Parent and Company shall each deliver a duly executed certificate containing such customary representations and warranties as shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Parent’s and Company’s counsel and reasonably necessary to enable such counsel to render the Tax Opinions (but only to the extent Parent and Company in good faith believe they are able to make such representations and warranties truthfully).

(b) The Company shall, on or prior to the Closing Date, provide Parent with a properly executed certificate, together with the required notice to the IRS, each in accordance with Sections 897 and 1445 of the Code and the applicable Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder and in form and substance satisfactory to Parent, stating that the Company (and any interest therein) is not, and has not been within the applicable period set forth in Section 897(c)(1)(A)(ii) of the Code, a “United States real property holding corporation” within the meaning of Section 897(c)(2) of the Code.

**6.7 Indemnification; Directors’ and Officers’ Insurance .**

(a) From and after the Effective Time, Parent shall, and shall cause the Surviving Entity to, indemnify and hold harmless and shall advance expenses as incurred, in each case to the fullest extent that (i) Company or its respective Subsidiaries would have been permitted by applicable law, the Company Articles, the Company Bylaws and the

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governing or organizational documents of any Company Subsidiary, and any indemnification agreements in existence as of the date of this Agreement and disclosed in Section 6.7(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, each present and former director, officer and employee of Company and its Subsidiaries (collectively, the “ Company Indemnified Parties ”) or (ii) Parent or its respective Subsidiaries (prior to the Effective Time) would have been permitted by applicable law, the articles of incorporation of Parent as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, the bylaws of the Parent as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, and