Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 496

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 496
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 of a termination by Company, or by its nature or timing cannot be cured during such period (or such fewer days as remain prior to the Termination Date);

(e) (i) by either the Parent Parties or Company if the Requisite Parent Vote shall not have been obtained at the Parent Meeting or at any adjournment or postponement thereof at which a vote on the matters comprising the Requisite Parent Vote is taken or (ii) by the Parent Parties if Company shall have failed to deliver to Parent duly executed counterparts of the Support Agreements from the shareholders listed on Exhibit C within twenty-four (24) hours following the date of this Agreement; or

(f) by Company, prior to the time the Requisite Parent Vote is obtained, if (i) Parent or the Board of Directors of Parent shall have made a Recommendation Change or (ii) Parent or the Board of Directors of Parent shall have breached its obligations under Section 6.3 ( Shareholders’ Approvals ) or Section 6.11 ( Acquisition Proposals ) in any material respect.

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8.2

#### Effect of Termination
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(a) In the event of termination of this Agreement by either the Parent Parties or Company as provided in Section 8.1 , this Agreement shall forthwith become void and have no effect, and none of Parent, Parent Bank, Company, any of their respective Subsidiaries or any of the officers or directors of any of them shall have any liability of any nature whatsoever hereunder, or in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except that (i) Section 6.2(b) ( Access to Information; Confidentiality ), Section 6.12 ( Public Announcements ), this Section 8.2 and Article IX ( General Provisions ) shall survive any termination of this Agreement, and (ii) notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, neither Parent, Parent Bank nor Company shall be relieved or released from any liabilities or damages arising out of its willful and material breach of any provision of this Agreement.

(b) (i) In the event that after the date of this Agreement and prior to the termination of this Agreement, a bona fide Acquisition Proposal shall have been communicated to or otherwise made known to the Board of Directors or senior management of Parent or shall have been made directly to the shareholders of Parent or any person shall have publicly announced (and not withdrawn at least two (2)