Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 143

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 143
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 of directors, at a special meeting held on March 26, 2025, based upon the information provided to the Mechanics board and upon such other matters as were deemed relevant by the Mechanics board, unanimously determined that the entry into the merger agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, on the terms and conditions set forth in the merger agreement, were advisable and in the best interests of Mechanics and its shareholders and recommended that Mechanics shareholders entitled to consent approve the Mechanics merger proposal. The Mechanics board of directors unanimously recommends that Mechanics shareholders approve the Mechanics merger proposal. For a discussion of the factors considered by the Mechanics board of directors in approving the merger agreement, see the section entitled “ The Merger—Mechanics’ Reasons for the Merger; Recommendation of the Mechanics Board of Directors .”

#### Executing Consents
If you are a holder of Mechanics voting common stock, you may execute a written consent with respect to such share of Mechanics voting common stock to approve the Mechanics merger proposal. If you withhold your consent or do not return your written consent, it will have the same effect as a consent against the Mechanics merger proposal. If you are a holder of Mechanics voting common stock who holds such shares as of sixty (60) days before the action by written consent (the “consent record date”), and you return a signed written consent without indicating your decision on the Mechanics merger proposal, you will have given your consent to approve the Mechanics merger proposal.

**Consent Record Date; Shareholders Entitled to Consent**

Only holders of Mechanics voting common stock of record who hold such shares as of sixty (60) days before the action by written consent, the consent record date, will be entitled to execute and deliver a written consent. Each holder of Mechanics non-voting common stock is not entitled to consent to the Mechanics merger proposal. Under the Mechanics charter and the CGCL, each holder of Mechanics voting common stock is entitled to one vote for each share of Mechanics voting common stock held as of the consent record date.

#### Consents Required
Approval of the Mechanics merger proposal requires the affirmative vote or consent by execution and delivery to Mechanics of one or more written consents by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Mechanics voting common stock entitled to consent with respect to the merger proposal. As of the date of this proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement, there were approximately [60,859] shares of Mechanics voting common stock issued and outstanding.

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