Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 141

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 141
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 in the merger agreement, were advisable and in the best interests of Mechanics and its shareholders and recommended that Mechanics shareholders entitled to consent approve the Mechanics merger proposal. The Mechanics board of directors unanimously recommends that Mechanics shareholders approve the Mechanics merger proposal. For a discussion of the factors considered by the Mechanics board of directors in approving the merger agreement, see the section entitled “ The Merger—Mechanics’ Reasons for the Merger; Recommendation of the Mechanics Board of Directors .”

#### Executing Consents
If you are a holder of Mechanics voting common stock, you may execute a written consent with respect to such share of Mechanics voting common stock to approve the Mechanics merger proposal. If you withhold your consent or do not return your written consent, it will have the same effect as a consent against the Mechanics merger proposal. If you are a holder of Mechanics voting common stock who holds such shares as of sixty (60) days before the action by written consent (the “consent record date”), and you return a signed written consent without indicating your decision on the Mechanics merger proposal, you will have given your consent to approve the Mechanics merger proposal.

**Consent Record Date; Shareholders Entitled to Consent**

Only holders of Mechanics voting common stock of record who hold such shares as of sixty (60) days before the action by written consent, the consent record date, will be entitled to execute and deliver a written consent. Each holder of Mechanics non-voting common stock is not entitled to consent to the Mechanics merger proposal. Under the Mechanics charter and the CGCL, each holder of Mechanics voting common stock is entitled to one vote for each share of Mechanics voting common stock held as of the consent record date.

#### Consents Required
Approval of the Mechanics merger proposal requires the affirmative vote or consent by execution and delivery to Mechanics of one or more written consents by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Mechanics voting common stock entitled to consent with respect to the merger proposal. As of the date of this proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement, there were approximately 60,859 shares of Mechanics voting common stock issued and outstanding.

Subsequent to the execution of the merger agreement, HomeStreet and the key shareholders entered into the key shareholder voting agreements. Pursuant to the key shareholder voting agreements, each of the key shareholders has agreed, promptly (and in any event within five (5) business days) after the registration statement, of which this proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement forms a part, is declared effective under