Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 508

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 508
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 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 Company Bylaws, the Company Shareholders Agreement or applicable securities laws), constructive sale, or other disposition of such security or the ownership thereof (including by operation of law), or the entry into of any contract, agreement or other obligation to effect any of the foregoing, including, for purposes of this Agreement, the transfer or sharing of any voting, investment or dispositive power of such security.

1.2 Additional Shares . Each Acquisition Entity and Fund Entity agrees that all applicable representations, terms and conditions of this Agreement will apply to the Voting Company Common Stock of which such Acquisition Entity or Fund Entity acquires record and Beneficial Ownership (and the power to vote and right to consent with respect to) after the date hereof and prior to the Expiration Time, whether upon the exercise of options, warrants or rights, the conversion or exchange of convertible or exchangeable securities, or by means of purchase, dividend, distribution, split-up, recapitalization, combination, exchange of shares of Voting Company Common Stock or the like, gift, bequest, inheritance, or as a successor in interest in any capacity or otherwise (together, the “ Additional Shares ”). For the avoidance of doubt, all references to “Voting Company Common Stock” in this Agreement shall be deemed to include any Additional Shares, mutatis mutandis .

1.3 Other Definitional Provisions . Unless the express context otherwise requires: (a) the words “hereof”, “herein”, and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; (b) the words “date hereof”, when used in this Agreement, shall refer to the date set forth in the Preamble; (c) the terms defined in the singular have a comparable meaning when used in the plural, and vice versa; (d) the terms defined in the present tense have a comparable meaning when used in the past tense, and vice versa; (e) any references herein to a specific

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