Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 580

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 580
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 definition of “associate” shall not include any limited partner that is not involved in the management of the relevant partnership.

ii. “

#### Compensation Arrangement
” shall mean any direct or indirect compensatory payment or other financial agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity other than the corporation, including any agreement, arrangement or understanding with respect to any direct or indirect compensation, reimbursement or indemnification in connection with candidacy, nomination, service or action as a nominee or as a director of the corporation.

iii. “

#### Competitor
” shall mean any entity that provides products or services that compete with or are alternatives to the principal products produced or services provided by the corporation or its affiliates.

iv. “

#### Holder
” shall mean a Noticing Shareholder and, if the Noticing Shareholder holds for the benefit of another, the beneficial owner on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made.

v. “

#### Nominee Holder
” shall mean a person or entity that holds shares of the corporation in “street name” or through a nominee holder of record of such shares and can demonstrate to the corporation such indirect ownership of such shares and such nominee holder’s entitlement to vote such shares on such business.

vi. “

#### Noticing Shareholder
” shall mean a Nominee Holder and a Record Holder.

vii. “

#### Public announcement
” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by a national news service or in a document publicly filed by the corporation with the SEC (as defined below) pursuant to Section 13, 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.

viii. “

#### Record Holder
” shall mean a shareholder that holds of record shares of the corporation entitled to vote at the meeting.

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ix. “

#### SEC
” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

x. “

#### Securities Act
” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

xi. “

#### Voting Commitment
” shall mean any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how a person, if elected as a director of the corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question.

(b) To be timely, a Noticing Shareholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices