Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001140361-25-046769
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Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 8.01
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Item 8.01.      Other Events.  

As previously disclosed, on October 26, 2025, Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, a Maryland corporation (“ Huntington”), entered into an Agreement
and Plan of Merger (the “ Merger Agreement”) with The Huntington National Bank, a national bank and a wholly owned subsidiary of Huntington (“ Huntington National Bank”) and Cadence Bank, a Mississippi-chartered bank (“ Cadence”). The Merger Agreement
provides that, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, Cadence will merge with and into Huntington National Bank (the “ Merger”), with Huntington National Bank continuing as the surviving bank in the Merger. The Merger
Agreement was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of each of Cadence, Huntington and Huntington National Bank.

In connection with the proposed Merger, Huntington filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC”) a registration statement on Form
S-4 on November 13, 2025, as amended on December 1, 2025 and declared effective by the SEC on December 3, 2025, which contained a joint proxy statement of Cadence and Huntington and also constituted a prospectus of Huntington. Huntington and
Cadence filed a definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus with the SEC and the Federal Reserve, respectively, on December 3, 2025 (the “joint proxy statement/prospectus”), which Huntington and Cadence first mailed to their respective stockholders
on or about December 3, 2025.

Huntington and Cadence will each hold a special meeting of stockholders on January 6, 2026 to consider certain proposals related to the Merger
Agreement as further described in the joint proxy statement/prospectus.

Litigation Related to the Merger

Following the announcement of the Merger Agreement, as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K, two lawsuits challenging the Merger have been
filed (each, a “ Lawsuit” and, collectively, the “ Lawsuits”). The first Lawsuit, captioned Jones v. Cadence Bank et al. (No. 656371/2025), was filed in New York Supreme Court, New York County on December 10, 2025. The second Lawsuit, Parshall v.
Cadence Bank et al. (No. 656404/2025), was filed in New York Supreme Court, New York County on December 11, 2025. In