Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-043815
Chunk: 189

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 189
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ness and public announcements with respect to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement.

Shareholder Meetings and Recommendation of Huntington’s and Cadence’s Boards of Directors

Each of Cadence and Huntington have agreed to take, in accordance with applicable law and the Cadence articles and Cadence bylaws and the Huntington articles and Huntington bylaws, all actions necessary to convene a meeting of their respective shareholders (the “Cadence special meeting” and the “Huntington special meeting,” respectively) to be held as soon as reasonably practicable after the registration on Form S-4 of which this joint proxy statement/prospectus forms a part is declared effective for the purpose of obtaining the requisite Cadence vote and the requisite Huntington vote, respectively, required in connection with the merger agreement and the merger and, if so desired and mutually agreed by the parties, other matters of the type customarily brought before an annual or special meeting of shareholders to adopt a merger agreement. Each of the board of directors of Cadence and the board of directors of Huntington, respectively, will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain from, in the case of Cadence, the shareholders of Cadence the requisite Cadence vote, and in the case of Huntington, the shareholders of Huntington the requisite Huntington vote, including (except in the case of a Cadence adverse recommendation change or Huntington adverse recommendation change, respectively, in case defined below) by communicating to its shareholders its recommendation (and including such recommendation in this joint proxy statement/prospectus) that they approve, in the case of Cadence, the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby (the “Cadence board recommendation”), and in the case of Huntington, the issuance of Huntington common stock in connection with the merger (the “Huntington board recommendation”) and will not make a Cadence adverse recommendation change or a Huntington adverse recommendation change,**

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respectively, except as described below. Each of Cadence and the Huntington Parties will engage a proxy solicitor reasonably acceptable to the other party to assist in the solicitation of proxies from shareholders relating to the requisite Cadence vote or the requisite Huntington vote, as applicable. However, subject to certain termination rights in favor of the other party as described in the sections entitled “The Merger Agreement—Termination of the Merger Agreement” and “The Merger Agreement—Effect of Termination,” if the Cadence board of directors or the Huntington board of directors, after receiving the advice of its outside counsel and, with