Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 109

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 109
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ment proposal, although none of them has entered into any agreements obligating them to do so.

#### Broker Non-Votes
A broker non-vote occurs when a bank, broker, trustee or other nominee is not permitted to vote on a “non-routine” matter without instructions from the beneficial owner of the shares and the beneficial owner fails to provide the bank, broker, trustee or other nominee with such instructions. Broker non-votes only count toward a quorum if at least one proposal is presented with respect to which the bank, broker, trustee or other nominee has discretionary authority. It is expected that all proposals to be voted on at the HomeStreet special meeting will be “non-routine” matters, and, as such, broker non-votes, if any, will not be counted as present and entitled to vote for purposes of determining a quorum at the HomeStreet special meeting. If your bank, broker, trustee or other nominee holds your shares of HomeStreet common stock in “street name,” such entity will vote your shares of HomeStreet common stock only if you provide instructions on how to vote by complying with the instructions provided to you by your bank, broker, trustee or other nominee with this proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement.

**Vote Required; Treatment of Abstentions, Broker Non-Votes and Failure to Vote

Proposal 1: HomeStreet articles amendment proposal:**

Vote required : If a quorum is present at the HomeStreet special meeting, approval of the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding shares of HomeStreet common stock entitled to vote thereon. Approval of the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal is a condition to the completion of the merger.

Effect of abstentions, broker non-votes, and failure to vote : If you are present at the HomeStreet special meeting and abstain from voting, or respond by proxy with an “ABSTAIN,” it will have the same effect as a vote cast “AGAINST” such proposal. If you are not present at the HomeStreet special meeting, do not respond by proxy or do not provide your bank, broker, trustee or other nominee with instructions, as applicable, it will have the same effect as a vote cast “AGAINST” such proposal.

**Proposal 2: HomeStreet share issuance proposal:**

Vote required : If a quorum is present at the HomeStreet special meeting, approval of the HomeStreet share issuance proposal requires that the number of votes cast at the HomeStreet special meeting favoring the