Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
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Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
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Street’s Chairman of the Board. Questions pertinent to meeting matters will be answered during the meeting, subject to time constraints, and HomeStreet may choose to exclude questions deemed inappropriate or not relevant to the HomeStreet special meeting or the proposals being considered thereat.

The virtual HomeStreet special meeting has been designed to provide substantially the same rights to participate as you would have at an in-person meeting. Shareholders participating in the virtual meeting will be in a listen-only mode and will not be able to speak during the webcast. However, in order to maintain the interactive nature of the virtual meeting, virtual attendees are able to submit questions before and during the meeting through the virtual meeting portal. To submit a question, log into the virtual meeting platform at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HMST2025SM, type your question into the “Ask a Question” field, and click “Submit.” Questions and answers may be grouped by topic and substantially similar questions may be grouped and answered once. In order to promote fairness and efficient use of time, HomeStreet may respond to only up to two questions from a single shareholder and may not be able to respond to all questions.

The virtual HomeStreet special meeting website will be hosted by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (“Broadridge”). In the event you have any technical difficulties logging into the meeting, support from

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Broadridge will be available. For more information, please go to the virtual meeting website, where you will be able to find additional information on technical support matters. See the section entitled “ —Shares of HomeStreet Common Stock Held in Street Name” below for further information. Proxies If you are a shareholder of record of HomeStreet as of July 11, 2025, the record date for the HomeStreet special meeting, you may submit your proxy before the HomeStreet special meeting in any of the following ways:

| • | via the Internet, by accessing the website www.proxyvote.com and following the instructions on the website; |

| • | by mail, by completing, signing, dating and returning the enclosed proxy card to HomeStreet using the enclosed postage-paid envelope; or |

| • | by telephone, by calling toll-free 1-800-690-6903 and following the recorded instructions. |

If you intend to submit your proxy by telephone or via the Internet, you must do so by 11:59 p.m. EST on the day before the HomeStreet special meeting. If you intend to submit your