Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 611

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 611
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(2)(d) (as now in effect or as it may hereafter be amended).

7.2.3. Continuation After Separation . Such right of indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, trustee, officer, employee, or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors, and administrators.

7.2.4. Proceeding by Indemnitee . Except as provided in Section 7.3 , such right of indemnification shall not exist where the Indemnitee seeks indemnification in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such Indemnitee unless such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors prior to its initiation.

7.2.5. Contract Right, Expenses . The right of indemnification conferred in this Section 7.2 shall be a contract right and shall include the right to have the corporation pay the expenses incurred in defending any such

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proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided , however , that the payment of such expenses in advance of the final disposition of a proceeding shall be made only upon delivery to the corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of the Indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that the Indemnitee is not entitled to be Indemnified under this Section 7.2 or otherwise.

7.3

#### RIGHT OF CLAIMANT TO BRING SUIT.
If a claim under Section 7.2 is not paid in full by the corporation within sixty (60) days after a written claim has been received by the corporation, except in the case of a claim for expenses incurred in defending a proceeding, in advance of its final disposition, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty (20) days, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against the corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, to the extent successful in whole or in part, the claimant shall also be entitled to reimbursement for the expenses of prosecuting such claim. The claimant shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification under this Article 7 upon submission of a written claim (and, in an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in defending any proceeding, in advance of its final disposition, where the required undertaking has been tendered to the corporation), and thereafter the corporation shall have the