Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 498

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 498
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 such earlier date); provided that for purposes of this sentence, such representations and warranties shall be deemed to be true and correct unless the failure or failures of such representations and warranties to be so true and correct and without giving effect to any qualification as to materiality or Material Adverse Effect set forth in such representations or warranties, has had or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Parent Parties (taken as a whole). Company shall have received a certificate dated as of the Closing Date and signed on behalf of (i) Parent by the Chief Executive Officer 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.

(b) Performance of Obligations of the Parent Parties . Each Parent Party shall have performed in all material respects the obligations, covenants and agreements required to be performed by it under this Agreement at or prior to the Closing Date, and Company shall have received a certificate dated as of the Closing Date and signed on behalf of (i) Parent by the Chief Executive Officer 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