Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-041757
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Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form: S-4
Chunk 9
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 Shareholders of Cadence Bank: On October 26, 2025, Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (“Huntington”), The Huntington National Bank (“Huntington National Bank”) and Cadence Bank (“Cadence”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended from time to time, the “merger agreement”), a copy of which is attached as Annex Ato the accompanying joint proxy statement/prospectus. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special meeting of holders of Cadence common stock (the “Cadence special meeting”) will be held virtually on [ ] at [ ], Central Time. The Cadence special meeting will be held in a virtual-only format conducted via live audio webcast. You will be able to attend the special meeting by visiting www.meetnow.global/MDSTX6J (which we refer to as the “Cadence special meeting website”) and inserting the control number included in your proxy card or voting instruction form provided by your bank, broker, trustee, nominee or other holder of record if you hold your shares of Cadence common stock in “street name.” You will be able to vote your shares electronically over the Internet and submit questions online during the meeting by logging in to the website listed above and using the control number. We are pleased to notify you of and invite you to the Cadence special meeting. At the Cadence special meeting, you will be asked to vote on the following matters:

| • | Proposal to approve the merger agreement (the “Cadence merger proposal”). |

| • | Proposal to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to Cadence’s named executive officers that is based on or otherwise relates to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement (the “Cadence compensation proposal”). |

| • | Proposal to adjourn the Cadence special meeting, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies if, immediately prior to such adjournment, there are not sufficient votes to approve the Cadence merger proposal or to ensure that any supplement or amendment to the accompanying joint proxy statement/prospectus is timely provided to holders of Cadence common stock (the “Cadence adjournment proposal”). |

The Cadence board of directors has fixed the close of business on [ ], 2025 as the record date for the Cadence special meeting. Only holders of record of Cadence common stock as of the close of business on the record date for the Cadence special meeting are entitled to notice of, and to vote at,