Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-043815
Chunk: 350

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 350
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 any of their respective Subsidiaries in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

6.6 Stock Exchange Listing . Huntington shall cause the shares of Huntington Common Stock and New Huntington Preferred Stock (or depositary shares in respect thereof) to be issued in the Merger to be approved for listing on the NASDAQ, subject to official notice of issuance, prior to the Effective Time.

6.7 Tax Matters . The Huntington Parties shall use reasonable best efforts to obtain the Huntington Tax Opinion, and Cadence shall use reasonable best efforts to obtain the Cadence Tax Opinion (and, if the SEC requires any opinion regarding the U.S. federal income tax treatment of the Merger to be submitted in connection with the declaration of the effectiveness of the S-4, such opinions). In connection with the foregoing, each party shall deliver duly executed certificates (dated as of the necessary date and signed by an officer of the Huntington Parties or Cadence, as applicable) containing such representations and warranties as shall be reasonably

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satisfactory in form and substance to Huntington’s counsel and Cadence’s counsel and reasonably necessary or appropriate to enable such counsel to render such opinions (but only to the extent the Huntington Parties and Cadence in good faith believe they are able to make such representations and warranties truthfully).

6.8 Employee Matters .

(a) Huntington shall provide the employees of Cadence and its Subsidiaries as of the Effective Time (the “ Continuing Employees ”), during the period commencing at the Effective Time and ending on December 31 of the calendar year during which the Effective Time occurs, for so long as a Continuing Employee is employed following the Effective Time, with the following: (i) annual base salary or wages, as applicable, that are no less than the annual base salary or wages in effect for each such Continuing Employee immediately prior to the Effective Time; (ii) target short- and long-term incentive opportunities that are no less favorable in the aggregate than those provided to each such Continuing Employee immediately prior to the Effective Time, and (iii) employee benefits (other than severance, perquisites, defined benefit pension, deferred compensation, post-termination welfare, split dollar insurance, change in control and retention benefits) that are no less favorable in the aggregate than those provided to such Continuing Employees immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than severance, perquisites, defined benefit pension, deferred compensation, post-termination