Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-031511
Chunk: 126

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form: 424B3
Chunk 126
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quisition proposal” means, with respect to Veritex (a “Veritex acquisition proposal”), other than the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, any offer, inquiry or proposal relating to, or any third-party indication of interest in, (i) any acquisition or purchase, direct or indirect, of twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the consolidated assets of Veritex and its subsidiaries or twenty-five percent (25%) or more of any class of equity or voting securities of Veritex or its subsidiaries whose assets, individually or in the aggregate, constitute twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the consolidated assets of Veritex , (ii) any tender offer or exchange offer that, if consummated, would result in such third party beneficially owning twenty-five percent (25%) or more of any class of equity or voting securities of Veritex or its subsidiaries whose assets, individually or in the aggregate, constitute twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the consolidated assets of Veritex or (iii) a merger, consolidation, share exchange or other business combination, reorganization or similar transaction involving a party or its subsidiaries whose assets, individually or in the aggregate, constitute twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the consolidated assets of Veritex.

However, prior to the receipt of the requisite Veritex vote, in the event Veritex receives an unsolicited bona fide written Veritex acquisition proposal, it may, and may permit its subsidiaries and its and its subsidiaries’ officers, directors, agents, advisors and representatives to, furnish or cause to be furnished nonpublic information or data and participate in such negotiations or discussions to the extent that its board of directors concludes in good faith (after receiving the advice of its outside counsel, and with respect to financial matters, its financial advisors) that failure to take such actions would be more likely than not to result in a violation of its fiduciary

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duties under applicable law, provided that, prior to, or concurrently with providing any nonpublic information permitted to be so provided, Veritex has provided such information to Huntington, and has entered into a confidentiality agreement with such third party on terms no less favorable to it than the confidentiality agreement between Huntington and Veritex, which confidentiality agreement may not provide such person with any exclusive right to negotiate with Veritex. Veritex has also agreed to, and to use reasonable best efforts to cause its officers, directors,