Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 789

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 789
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 Funds and the Ford Shareholders; provided, that (a) the Rabobank Parties may assign such rights or delegate such obligations to any Permitted Transferee who is transferred such Rabobank Party’s Company Equity Interests in accordance with this Agreement, without the consent of the Company, the Bank or the Ford Shareholders, (b) the Company, the Bank, the Ford Shareholders and the Ford Funds may assign such rights or delegate such obligations to any of their respective Affiliates without the consent of the Rabobank Parties and (c) the Rabobank Parties and the Ford Shareholders may assign rights and delegate obligations pursuant to and in accordance with Section 4.9 without the consent of any other party hereto; providedthat in the case of (a), (b) or (c), such assignment or delegation shall not relieve each Rabobank Party, the Company, the Bank, Ford Shareholder or Ford Fund, as applicable, of any of its obligations hereunder; and provided, further, that this Agreement may be assigned without consent by a party hereto by operation of any consolidation or merger of such party, and no consent shall be required in the case of the

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Company and the Bank in connection with the Merger (as defined in the Merger Agreement) (including any change in the legal name of the Company), and no express assumption shall be required in connection therewith. Any purported direct or indirect transfer, assignment or delegation in violation of this Section 7.7 shall be void and of no force or effect.

Section 7.8 Amendment; Waiver . No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed (a) in the case of an amendment, by the Ford Shareholders, the Company, the Bank and the Rabobank Representative, or (b) in the case of a waiver, by the Rabobank Representative, if the waiver is to operate against any of the Rabobank Parties, by the Company, if the waiver is to operate against the Company or Bank, or by the Ford Shareholders, if the waiver is to operate against the Ford Shareholders. No failure or delay by any party hereto in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.

Section 7.9