Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 294

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 294
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 voting agreements, as applicable, and not by this summary or any other information contained in or incorporated by reference into this proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement. HomeStreet shareholders and Mechanics shareholders are urged to read the key shareholder voting agreements carefully and in their entirety, as well as this proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement and the information incorporated by reference into this proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement.

Shortly after the execution of the merger agreement, HomeStreet entered into (a) a voting and support agreement with EB Acquisition Company LLC, EB Acquisition Company II LLC, Ford Financial Fund II, L.P. and Ford Financial III, L.P. (the parties, the “Ford Entities,” and the agreement, the “Ford Entities voting agreement”) and (b) a voting and support agreement with Rabobank International Holding B.V. (“Rabobank”, together with the Ford Entities, the “key shareholders,” and the agreement, the “Rabobank voting agreement,” and together with the Ford Entities voting agreement, the “key shareholder voting agreements”).

The key shareholder voting agreements provide, among other things, that each key shareholder will (i) following the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement forms a part, promptly (and in any event within five (5) business days) execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered) to Mechanics a written consent approving the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, with respect to all of such key shareholder’s shares of Mechanics capital stock entitled to act by written consent thereto, and (ii) vote or cause to be voted (including by written consent) all of such key shareholder’s shares of Mechanics capital stock against any actions, agreement or transaction involving Mechanics that is intended, or would reasonably be expected, to impede, interfere with, delay, postpone, adversely affect or prevent the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, including the merger, in any material respect. Additionally, the key shareholder voting agreements contain customary transfer restrictions restricting the key shareholders from transferring their shares of Mechanics capital stock during the pendency of the transaction, subject to limited exceptions.

The Ford Entities voting agreement generally obligates each Ford Entity and HomeStreet to use its reasonable best efforts to promptly prepare and file all necessary documentation in respect of the requisite regulatory approvals that are required to be obtained to consummate the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement and, among other obligations,