Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 503

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 503
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 otherwise, except by an instrument in writing signed on behalf of each of the Parties.

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#### TABLE OF CONTENTS
9.2

#### Extension; Waiver
**. At any time prior to the Effective Time, each of the Parties may, to the extent legally allowed, (a) extend the time for the performance of any of the obligations or other acts of the other Party contained in this Agreement, (b) waive any inaccuracies in the representations and warranties of the other Party contained in this Agreement or in any document delivered by such other Party pursuant to this Agreement, and (c) waive compliance with any of the agreements or satisfaction of any conditions for such Party’s benefit contained in this Agreement; provided that after the receipt of the Requisite Parent Vote or the Requisite Company Vote, there may not be, without further approval of the shareholders of Parent or Company, as applicable, any extension or waiver of this Agreement or any portion of this Agreement that requires such further approval under applicable law. Any agreement on the part of a Party to any such extension or waiver shall be valid only if set forth in a written instrument signed on behalf of such Party, but such extension or waiver or failure to insist on strict compliance with an obligation, covenant, agreement or condition shall not operate as a waiver of, or estoppel with respect to, any subsequent or other failure.

9.3 Nonsurvival of Representations, Warranties and Agreements . None of the representations, warranties, obligations, covenants and agreements in this Agreement (or in any certificate delivered pursuant to this Agreement) shall survive the Effective Time, except for**

## Section 6.7
**and for those other obligations, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement which by their terms apply in whole or in part after the Effective Time.

9.4**

#### Expenses
. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement (including as set forth on Section 9.4 of the Company Disclosure Schedule), all costs and expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be paid by the Party incurring such expense; provided that the costs and expenses of printing and mailing the Proxy Statement and the Consent Solicitation Statement and all filing and other fees paid to Governmental Entities in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be borne equally by Parent and Company.

9.5

#### Notices
. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing