Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-043815
Chunk: 254

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 254
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, if a determination is made by a person or persons enumerated in Section 79-4-8.55(b) of the MBCA that (a) the director, officer, employee or agent is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification in view of all of the relevant circumstances, and (b) the acts or omissions of the officer, employee or agent did not constitute gross negligence or willful misconduct. Cadence’s articles of incorporation and bylaws state that the foregoing rights are intended to be greater than those which are otherwise provided for under applicable Mississippi law. Cadence may also carry directors’ and officers’ insurance providing indemnification for its directors and officers for certain liabilities. |

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|                           |     | Huntington                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |     | Cadence         |
|                           |     | Huntington or any individual who, while a director or officer of Huntington and at the request of Huntington, serves or has served as a director, officer, partner, trustee, member or manager of another corporation, real estate investment trust, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise and who is made or threatened to be made a party to, or witness in, the proceeding by reason of his or her service in that capacity. The rights to indemnification and advance of expenses provided by the Huntington charter and bylaws vests immediately upon election of a director or officer.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
 The Huntington bylaws also permit it to indemnify and advance expenses to any individual who served a predecessor of Huntington in any of the capacities described above and any employees or agents of Huntington or a predecessor of Huntington with the approval of the board of directors.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |     |                 |
| Anti-Takeover Provisions: |     | Maryland law includes a control share acquisition statute that, in general terms, provides that where a person acquires issued and outstanding shares of a Maryland corporation’s voting stock (referred to as control shares) within one of several specified ranges (one-tenth (1/10) or more but less than one-third (1/3), one-third (1/3) or more but less than a majority or a majority or more), approval of the control share acquisition by the corporation’s shareholders must be obtained before the acquiring person may vote the control shares. Control shares do not include shares that the person is then entitled to vote as a result of having previously obtained shareholder approval. The required shareholder vote is two-thirds