Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-07-21
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-026508
Chunk: 122

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-07-21
Form: S-4
Chunk 122
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 such indemnification and directors’ and officers’ insurance without the prior written consent of the affected person.

#### Restructuring Efforts
The merger agreement provides that if Veritex fails to obtain the requisite Veritex vote at the duly convened Veritex special meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, the parties will in good faith use its reasonable best efforts to negotiate a restructuring of the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement (provided, however, that no party will have any obligation to agree to (i) alter or change any material term of the merger agreement, including the amount or kind of the merger consideration, in a manner adverse to such party or its shareholders or (ii) adversely affect the tax treatment of the merger with respect to such party or its shareholders) and/or resubmit the merger agreement or the transactions contemplated thereby (or as restructured pursuant to the merger agreement) to its shareholders for approval.

#### Certain Additional Covenants
**The merger agreement also contains additional covenants, including, among others, covenants relating to the filing of this proxy statement/prospectus, obtaining required consents, the listing of the shares of Huntington common stock to be issued in the merger, access to information of the other company, advice of changes, exemption from takeover laws, shareholder litigation relating to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, the assumption by Huntington or The Huntington National Bank of Veritex and Veritex Community Bank indebtedness and public announcements with respect to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement.

Shareholder Meeting and Recommendation of Veritex’s Board of Directors

Veritex has agreed to take, in accordance with applicable law and the Veritex certificate of formation and Veritex bylaws, all actions necessary to convene a meeting of its shareholders (the “Veritex special meeting”) to be held as soon as reasonably practicable after the registration on Form S-4 of which this proxy statement/prospectus forms a part is declared effective for the purpose of obtaining the requisite Veritex vote required in connection with the merger agreement and the merger. Except in the case of a Veritex adverse recommendation change, the Veritex board of directors will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain from the shareholders of Veritex the requisite Veritex vote, including by communicating to its shareholders its recommendation (and including such recommendation in this proxy statement/prospectus) that they approve the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby (the “Veritex board recommendation”) and will not make