Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 476

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 476
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 Parties’ or Company’s, as the case may be, customers, jeopardize the attorney-client privilege of the institution in possession or control of such information (after giving due consideration to the existence of any common interest, joint defense or similar agreement between the parties), contravene any law, rule, regulation, Government Order, fiduciary duty or binding agreement entered into prior to the date of this Agreement or to the extent that the Parent Parties or Company, as the case may be, reasonably determines, in light of any Pandemic or any Pandemic Measures that such access would jeopardize the health and safety of any of its employees. The parties hereto will make appropriate substitute disclosure arrangements under circumstances in which the restrictions of the preceding sentence apply.

(b) Each of Parent and Parent Bank, on the one hand and Company, on the other hand, shall hold all information furnished by or on behalf of the other Party (or Parties, as applicable) or any of such Party’s (or Parties’, as applicable) Subsidiaries or representatives pursuant to Section 6.2(a) in confidence to the extent required by, and in accordance with, the provisions of the confidentiality agreement, dated January 13, 2025, between Parent, Company and the other parties thereto (the “ Confidentiality Agreement ”).

(c) No investigation by either of the Parties or their respective representatives shall affect or be deemed to modify or waive the representations and warranties of the other set forth in this Agreement. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall give either Party, directly or indirectly, the right to control or direct the operations of the other Party prior to the Effective Time. Prior to the Effective Time, each Party shall exercise, consistent with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, complete control and supervision over its and its Subsidiaries’ respective operations.

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6.3

#### Shareholders’ Approvals
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(a) Within twenty-four (24) hours following the date of this Agreement, Company shall deliver to Parent duly executed counterparts of Support Agreement(s) executed by the shareholders listed on Exhibit C obligating certain of such shareholders to deliver written consents approving this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, and the principal terms thereof, following the effectiveness of the S-4, which written consents shall constitute the Requisite Company Vote. Following the delivery of the Consent Solicitation Statement to its shareholders, Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to solicit from