Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 451

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 451
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(ii) which contains a provision that materially restricts the conduct of any line of business by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or upon consummation of the Merger will materially restrict the ability of the Surviving

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Entity or Parent or any of its affiliates to (x) engage in any line of business or operate in any geographic region or (y) solicit any customer, client or employee of any person in any jurisdiction (other than, in the case of this clause (y), contracts with vendors entered into by Parent and the Parent Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business);

(iii) which is a collective bargaining agreement or similar agreement with any labor union or guild;

(iv) any of the benefits of or obligations under which will arise or be increased or accelerated by the occurrence of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, receipt of the Requisite Parent Vote or the announcement or consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or under which a right of cancellation or termination will arise as a result thereof, or the value of any of the benefits of which will be calculated on the basis of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, where such increase or acceleration of benefits or obligations, right of cancellation or termination, or change in calculation of value of benefits would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Parent Parties;

(v) (A) that relates to the incurrence of indebtedness by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, including any sale and leaseback transactions, capitalized leases (except facility leases) and other similar financing arrangements (other than deposit liabilities, trade payables, federal funds purchased, borrowings from the Federal Reserve Bank discount window, advances and loans from the Federal Home Loan Bank and securities sold under agreements to repurchase, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business) or (B) that provides for the guarantee, support, assumption or endorsement by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries of, or any similar commitment by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to, the obligations, liabilities or indebtedness of any other person, in the case of each of clauses (A) and (B), in the principal amount of $2,000,000 or more.

(vi) that grants any right of first refusal, right of first offer or similar right with respect to any material assets, rights