Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 744

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 744
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 Section 7.10  |     | WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL                                |     | H-28 |
| Section 7.11  |     | Venue for Resolution of Disputes                    |     | H-28 |
| Section 7.12  |     | Entire Understanding; Third Party Beneficiaries     |     | H-28 |
| Section 7.13  |     | Severability                                        |     | H-28 |
| Section 7.14  |     | Termination of Shareholders Agreement               |     | H-29 |
| Section 7.15  |     | Counterparts and Facsimile Signature; Effectiveness |     | H-29 |

| Exhibit A – Form of Rabobank Party Joinder Agreement   |     | H-33 |
| Exhibit B – Form of Ford Shareholder Joinder Agreement |     | H-35 |
| Exhibit C – Form of Articles Amendment                 |     | H-37 |

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<div align='center'>REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT</div>

This REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT, dated as of March 28, 2025, is by and among HomeStreet, Inc., a Washington corporation (the “ Company ”), Mechanics Bank, a California banking corporation (the “ Bank ”), EB Acquisition Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, EB Acquisition Company II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Rabobank International Holding B.V., a Besloten Vennootschap Met Beperkte Aansprakelijkheid (“ Rabobank ”) and solely with respect to Section 7.4 through Section 7.14, Ford Financial Fund II, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, Ford Financial Fund III, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (Ford Financial Fund II, L.P. and Ford Financial Fund III, L.P., collectively, the “ Ford Funds ”), and each person who becomes a party to this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof by executing and delivering a joinder to this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof.

### RECITALS
WHEREAS, in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 15, 2019 (the “ Purchase Agreement ”), between Rabobank and the Bank, Rabobank, the Bank, the Ford Shareholders and the Ford Funds entered into the Shareholders Agreement, dated as of August 31,