Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 696

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 696
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 for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

1. Definitions and Related Matters .

1.1 Definitions . This Agreement is a “Support Agreement” as defined in the Merger Agreement. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Merger Agreement. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated below:

“ Affiliate ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, a Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls, is Controlled by, or is under common Control with such Person.

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“ Beneficially Own ” shall mean, with respect to any securities, having “beneficial ownership” of such securities for purposes of Rule 13d-3 or 13d-5 under the Exchange Act (or any successor statute or regulation) (whether or not any such rule, statute or regulation is applicable to such securities). “ Beneficial Ownership ” shall have a correlative meaning.

“ Control ” shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

“ Company Shareholders Agreement ” shall mean that certain Shareholders Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2019, by and among Company, Rabobank International Holding B.V., the Fund Entities and the Acquisition Entities.

“ Expiration Time ” shall mean, with respect to any Acquisition Entity and Fund Entity, the earliest to occur of (a) the Effective Time, (b) the termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms and (c) any amendment to the Merger Agreement without the prior written consent of such Acquisition Entity or Fund Entity if such amendment reduces the Exchange Ratio or alters the form of Merger Consideration.

“ Person ” shall mean an individual, corporation (including not-for-profit), general or limited partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, estate, trust, association, organization, Governmental Entity or other entity of any kind or nature.

“ Transfer ” means, with respect to any Voting Company Common Stock, the sale, grant, assignment, transfer, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance (excluding any encumbrance created by this Agreement, the Company Articles, the