Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 281

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 281
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 loans); |

| • | other than in the ordinary course of business, (i) change or revoke any material tax election that is material to HomeStreet and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, on any tax return filed on or after the date of the merger agreement, except as a result of, or in response to, any changes in U.S. federal tax laws or regulations or administrative guidance promulgated or issued thereunder, (ii) change an annual tax accounting period, which change is material to HomeStreet and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (iii) file any material amended tax return with respect to an amount of taxes that is material to HomeStreet and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iv) enter into any closing agreement with respect to an amount of taxes that is material to HomeStreet and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; |

| • | merge or consolidate itself or any of its subsidiaries with any other person, or restructure, reorganize or completely or partially liquidate or dissolve it or any of its significant subsidiaries; |

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| • | make or acquire any loan or issue a commitment (or renew or extend an existing commitment), except to the extent approved by HomeStreet Bank and committed to, in each case prior to the date of the merger agreement and included in the confidential disclosure schedule to the merger agreement, outside of the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice or inconsistent with lending policies and procedures in effect as of the date of the merger agreement or that would require approval by the HomeStreet Bank board of directors or committee thereof under the terms of its lending policies and procedures as in effect as of the date of the merger agreement; |

| • | make any capital expenditures that exceed by more than fifteen percent (15%) in the aggregate the capital expenditures of the HomeStreet budget in effect as of the date of the merger agreement; |

| • | take any action or knowingly fail to take any action where such action or failure to act could reasonably be expected to prevent the merger from qualifying as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code; |

| • | take any action that is intended or expected to result in any of the conditions to the merger not being satisfied or prevent, materially impede or materially delay the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, except as may be required by applicable law; or |

| • | agree to take, make any commitment to take, or adopt any resolutions