Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 141

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 141
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Street special meeting favoring the HomeStreet merger-related compensation proposal exceeds the number of votes cast opposing the HomeStreet merger-related compensation plan proposal. If you are present at the HomeStreet special meeting and abstain from voting, or respond by proxy with an “ABSTAIN,” it will have no effect on such proposal. Assuming a quorum is present, if you are not present at the HomeStreet special meeting, do not respond by proxy and do not provide your bank, broker, trustee or other nominee with instructions, as applicable, it will have no effect on such proposal.

**Recommendation of the HomeStreet Board of Directors**

THE HOMESTREET BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT HOMESTREET SHAREHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THE HOMESTREET MERGER-RELATED COMPENSATION PROPOSAL .

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#### PROPOSAL 5: HOMESTREET ADJOURNMENT PROPOSAL
The HomeStreet special meeting may be adjourned to another time or place, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies if there are insufficient votes at the time of the HomeStreet special meeting to approve the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal or the HomeStreet share issuance proposal. If, at the HomeStreet special meeting, the number of shares of HomeStreet common stock present virtually or represented and voting in favor of the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal or the HomeStreet share issuance proposal is insufficient to approve the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal or the HomeStreet share issuance proposal, as applicable, HomeStreet intends to move to adjourn the HomeStreet special meeting in order to enable the HomeStreet board of directors to solicit additional proxies for approval of the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal and/or the HomeStreet share issuance proposal, as applicable. In that event, HomeStreet will ask HomeStreet shareholders to vote upon the HomeStreet adjournment proposal, but not the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal or the HomeStreet share issuance proposal.

In this proposal, HomeStreet is asking HomeStreet shareholders to authorize the holder of any proxy solicited by the HomeStreet board of directors, on a discretionary basis, to vote in favor of adjourning the HomeStreet special meeting to another time and place for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies, including the solicitation of proxies from HomeStreet shareholders who have previously voted, if a quorum is not present or if there are not sufficient votes at the time of the HomeStreet special meeting to approve