Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 513

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 513
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gether, the “ Additional Shares ”). For the avoidance of doubt, all references to “Voting Company Common Stock” in this Agreement shall be deemed to include any Additional Shares, mutatis mutandis .

1.3 Other Definitional Provisions . Unless the express context otherwise requires: (a) the words “hereof”, “herein”, and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; (b) the words “date hereof”, when used in this Agreement, shall refer to the date set forth in the Preamble; (c) the terms defined in the singular have a comparable meaning when used in the plural, and vice versa; (d) the terms defined in the present tense have a comparable meaning when used in the past tense, and vice versa; (e) any references herein to a specific

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Section, Schedule, Annex or Exhibit shall refer, respectively, to Sections, Schedules, Annexes or Exhibits of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly stated; (f) wherever the word “include”, “includes”, or “including” is used in this Agreement, it shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”; (g) a “business day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banks in the State of Washington or California are authorized by law or executive order to be closed; and (h) the word “or” shall not be exclusive.

2. Agreement to Consent and Approve . From the date hereof until the Expiration Time, each Acquisition Entity shall, and the applicable Fund Entity shall cause such Acquisition Entity to, (a) promptly (and in any event within five (5) business days) after the S-4 is declared effective under the Securities Act, execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered) to Company a written consent approving the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (including the Merger), substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A , with respect to all of its Voting Company Common Stock entitled to act by written consent thereto and in accordance with such procedures relating thereto so as to ensure that it is duly counted for purposes of recording the results of such consent, and (b) vote or cause to be voted (including by written consent)