Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 747

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 747
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 statements, memoranda, notes, studies or any other written or electronic materials prepared by or for any Rabobank Party or its Affiliates or Representatives that contain, reflect or are based upon or generated from such information, including all copies, electronic or otherwise, and reproductions thereof; provided , that the term “Confidential Information” will not include information that (A) is or becomes available to a Rabobank Party on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Company or the Bank or their respective Affiliates or Representatives, if such other source is not bound by a confidentiality obligation covering the relevant information or otherwise prohibited from disclosing the relevant information to any Rabobank Party or (B) is or becomes generally available to the public (other than as a result of a breach by a Rabobank Party or its Affiliates or Representatives of this Agreement).

“ control ” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “ controlled by ” or “ under common control with ”), with respect to the relationship between or among two or more persons, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the affairs or management of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, as trustee or executor, by contract or any other means.

“ Deemed Conversion Ratio ” has the meaning set forth in the Articles Amendment, as may be amended from time to time.

“ Equity Interest ” means any share of capital stock or other class of equity securities of a person, whether voting or non-voting, and including for the avoidance of doubt shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock.

“ Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations thereunder.

“ Ford Permitted Transferee ” means any Affiliate of a Ford Party (or of any subsequent Ford Permitted Transferee) that is transferred Company Equity Interests by a Ford Party or an Affiliate of a Ford Party and becomes a party to and fully subject to and bound by this Agreement to the same extent as the transferring party by executing and delivering a joinder to this Agreement in the form attached as Exhibit B.

“ Ford Shareholders ” means EB Acquisition Company LLC, EB Acquisition Company II LLC and any Ford Permitted Transferee to whom Company Equity Interests are transferred in compliance with the terms of this Agreement.

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“ Governing Documents ” means the charter, certificate of incorporation, constitution,