Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 300

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 300
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itation statement. HomeStreet shareholders and Mechanics shareholders are urged to read the registration rights agreement carefully and in its entirety, as well as this proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement and the information incorporated by reference into this proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement.

In connection with the merger agreement, HomeStreet, Mechanics, the Ford Entities and Rabobank entered into a registration rights agreement, dated as of March 28, 2025 (the “registration rights agreement”), which will become effective as of the effective time.

Pursuant to the registration rights agreement, (i) each of the Ford Entities and Rabobank is entitled to certain demand registration rights, shelf takedown rights and piggyback registration rights with respect to shares of combined company common stock it acquires in the merger, in each case, subject to certain minimum and maximum thresholds and other customary limitations, including the right of underwriters in an underwritten offering to limit the number of shares to be included in an offering and the combined company’s right to suspend the use of (or discontinue the disposition of combined company common stock pursuant to) a registration statement under specified circumstances, and (ii) the combined company is required to use reasonable best efforts to file, within 180 days of the closing date, a resale shelf registration statement on Form S-3 covering the shares of combined company common stock acquired by the Ford Entities and Rabobank in the merger. The shares of HomeStreet common stock to be issued by HomeStreet to the Ford Entities in the merger are not being registered pursuant to the registration statement of which this proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement forms a part.

The combined company will pay the registration expenses (other than underwriting discounts, selling commissions, stock transfer taxes and fees and certain legal fees) of the shares registered pursuant to the demand registration rights, shelf takedown rights and piggyback registration rights. The applicable Ford Entities or Rabobank and its permitted transferees (the “Rabobank Parties”) will pay such underwriting discounts, selling commissions, stock transfer taxes and fees and legal fees. The combined company, on the one hand, and the Rabobank Parties and the Ford Entities, on the other hand, will each indemnify the other and its representatives for certain securities law matters in connection with any registration statement.

Further, the combined company, Mechanics, the Ford Entities and Rabobank each agree to, and agree to cause their respective affiliates to, cooperate with each other with