Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 436

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 436
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 shares of its capital stock or other equity or voting securities of or ownership interests in Parent, or that otherwise obligate Parent to issue, transfer, sell, purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, any of the foregoing (collectively, “ Parent Securities ,” and any of the foregoing in respect of Parent Subsidiaries, collectively, “ Parent Subsidiary Securities ”). Other than Parent RSUs and Parent PSUs, no equity-based awards (including any cash awards where the amount of payment is determined, in whole or in part, based on the price of any capital stock of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries) are outstanding. There are no voting trusts, shareholder agreements, proxies or other agreements in effect to which Parent or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or bound with respect to the voting or transfer of Parent Common Stock, capital stock or other voting or equity securities or ownership interests of Parent or granting any shareholder or other person any registration rights.

(b) Parent owns, directly or indirectly, all the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity ownership interests of each of the Parent Subsidiaries, free and clear of any Liens, and all such shares or equity ownership interests are duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid, nonassessable (except, with respect to Subsidiaries that are depository institutions, as provided under 12 U.S.C. § 55 or comparable state law (as applicable)) and free of preemptive rights, with no personal liability attaching to the ownership thereof. No Parent Subsidiary owns any capital stock of Parent.

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(a) Each Parent Party has full corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and, subject to obtaining the Requisite Parent Vote, to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Merger) have been duly and validly approved by the Boards of Directors of each Parent Party. The Board of Directors of Parent has (i) determined that this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Merger, the Parent Share Issuance and the Parent Articles Amendment), on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, is advisable and in the best interests of Parent and its shareholders, (ii) approved this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Merger,