Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 137

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 137
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 of HomeStreet common stock is not a condition to the completion of the merger. The vote on the HomeStreet new equity incentive plan proposal is a vote separate and apart from the votes on the HomeStreet share issuance proposal, the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal, the HomeStreet merger-related compensation proposal and the HomeStreet adjournment proposal. Accordingly, if you are a holder of HomeStreet common stock, you may vote to approve the HomeStreet share issuance proposal, the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal, the HomeStreet merger-related compensation proposal and/or the HomeStreet adjournment proposal and vote not to approve the HomeStreet new equity incentive plan proposal, and vice versa.

If a quorum is present at the HomeStreet special meeting, approval of the HomeStreet new equity incentive plan proposal requires that the number of votes cast at the HomeStreet special meeting favoring the HomeStreet new equity incentive plan proposal exceeds the number of votes cast opposing the HomeStreet new equity incentive plan proposal. If you are present at the HomeStreet special meeting and abstain from voting, or respond by proxy with an “ABSTAIN,” it will have no effect on such proposal. Assuming a quorum is present, if you are not present at the HomeStreet special meeting, do not respond by proxy and do not provide your bank, broker, trustee or other nominee with instructions, as applicable, it will have no effect on such proposal.

THE HOMESTREET BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT HOMESTREET SHAREHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THE HOMESTREET NEW EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN PROPOSAL.**

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**PROPOSAL 4: HOMESTREET MERGER-RELATED COMPENSATION PROPOSAL**

**Pursuant to Section 14A of the Exchange Act and Rule 14a-21(c) thereunder, HomeStreet is seeking a non-binding, advisory shareholder approval of the compensation of HomeStreet’s named executive officers that may or will be payable in connection with the merger as disclosed in the section entitled “ The Merger—Interests of HomeStreet’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger .” The proposal gives holders of HomeStreet common stock the opportunity to vote, on a non-binding, advisory basis, on the merger-related compensation that may be paid or will be payable to HomeStreet’s named executive officers in connection with the merger.

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