Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 494

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 494
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 or the Chief Financial Officer of Parent to the foregoing effect and (ii) Parent Bank by the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of Parent Bank to the foregoing effect.

(c) Federal Tax Opinion . Company shall have received the opinion of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (or, if Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is unwilling or unable to issue the opinion, another nationally recognized law firm), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that, on the basis of facts, representations and assumptions set forth or referred to in such opinion, the Merger will qualify as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code (the “ Company Tax Opinion ” and, together with the Parent Tax Opinion, the “ Tax Opinions ”). In rendering such opinion, counsel may require and rely upon representations contained in certificates of officers of the Parent Parties and Company, reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to such counsel.

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(d) Exchange Listing . The shares of Parent Common Stock that shall be issuable pursuant to this Agreement shall have been authorized for listing on NASDAQ or NYSE, subject to official notice of issuance.

## Article VIII

### TERMINATION
8.1

#### Termination
. This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Effective Time:

(a) by mutual written consent of the Parent Parties and Company;

(b) by either the Parent Parties or Company if any Requisite Regulatory Approval has been denied by the relevant Governmental Entity that must grant such Requisite Regulatory Approval and such denial has become final and nonappealable or any Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction shall have issued a final and nonappealable Government Order or other legal restraint or prohibition permanently enjoining or otherwise prohibiting or making illegal the consummation of the Merger, unless the failure to obtain a Requisite Regulatory Approval shall be due to the failure of the Party seeking to terminate this Agreement to perform or observe the obligations, covenants and agreements of such Party set forth in this Agreement;

(c) by either the Parent Parties or Company if the Merger shall not have been consummated on or before March 28, 2026 (the “ Termination Date ”), unless the failure of the Closing to occur by such date shall be due to the failure of the Party seeking to terminate this Agreement to perform