Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 418

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 418
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 extent that the effects of such change are disproportionately adverse to the business, properties, assets, liabilities, results of operations or financial condition of such Party and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as compared to other companies in the industry in which such Party and its Subsidiaries operate) or (ii) prevents, materially delays or materially impairs, or would reasonably be expected to prevent, materially delay or materially impair, the ability of such Party to timely consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. As used in this Agreement, the term “ Pandemic ” means any outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics relating to SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, or any variants, evolutions or mutations thereof, or any other viruses (including influenza), and the governmental and other responses thereto and the term “ Pandemic Measures ” means any quarantine, “shelter in place,” “stay at home,” workforce reduction, social distancing, shut down, closure, sequester or other directives, guidelines or recommendations promulgated by any Governmental Entity, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, in each case, in connection with or in response to any Pandemic; and the term “ Subsidiary ” when used with respect to any person, means any subsidiary of such person within the meaning ascribed to such term in either Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC ”) or the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (the “ BHC Act ”). True and complete copies of the Company Articles and the Company Bylaws, in each case as in effect as of the date of this Agreement, have previously been made available by Company to the Parent Parties.

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(b) Each Subsidiary of Company (a “ Company Subsidiary ”) (i) is duly organized and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization, (ii) is duly licensed or qualified to do business and, where such concept is recognized under applicable law, in good standing in all jurisdictions (whether federal, state, local or foreign) where its ownership, leasing or operation of property or the conduct of its business requires it to be so licensed or qualified or in good standing unless the failure to be so licensed, qualified or in good standing would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on