Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-041757
Chunk: 367

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form: S-4
Chunk 367
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, if Huntington or the Board of Directors of Huntington (i) withholds, withdraws, modifies or qualifies in a manner adverse to Cadence the Huntington Board Recommendation, (ii) fails to make the Huntington Board Recommendation in the Joint Proxy Statement, (iii) adopts, approves, recommends or endorses a Huntington Acquisition Proposal or publicly announces an intention to adopt, approve, recommend or endorse a Huntington Acquisition Proposal, (iv) fails to publicly and without qualification (A) recommend against any Huntington Acquisition Proposal or (B) reaffirm the Huntington Board Recommendation, in each case within ten (10) business days (or such fewer number of days as remains prior to the Huntington Meeting) after a Huntington Acquisition Proposal is made public or any request by Cadence to do so or (v) materially breaches its obligations under Section 6.4.

The party desiring to terminate this Agreement pursuant to clause (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) of this Section 8.1 shall give written notice of such termination to the other party in accordance with Section 9.5, specifying the provision or provisions hereof pursuant to which such termination is effected.

8.2 Effect of Termination .

(a) In the event of termination of this Agreement by either the Huntington Parties or Cadence as provided in Section 8.1, this Agreement shall forthwith become void and have no effect, and none of Huntington, Cadence, any of their respective Subsidiaries or any of the officers or directors of any of them shall have any liability of any nature whatsoever hereunder, or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, except that (i) Section 6.2(b) and this Section 8.2 and Article IX (other than Section 9.13) shall survive any termination of this Agreement, and (ii) notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, neither the Huntington Parties nor Cadence shall be relieved or released from any liabilities or damages arising out of its fraud or Willful Breach of any provision of this Agreement occurring prior to termination (which, in the case of Cadence, shall include the loss to the holders of its capital stock and of Cadence Equity Awards of the economic benefits of the Merger (including

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the loss of premium offered to the shareholders of Cadence), it being understood that Cadence shall be entitled to pursue damages for such losses and to enforce the right to