Company: PNBK
Filing Date: 2025-09-02
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001437749-25-028162
Chunk: 26

Company: PATRIOT NATIONAL BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-09-02
Form: 424B5
Chunk 26
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 consideration to be received by the shareholders meets certain price and other requirements set forth in Section 33-842 of the CBCA or unless the board of directors of the corporation has by resolution determined to exempt business combinations with that interested shareholder prior to the time that such shareholder became an interested shareholder.

We are also subject to Section 33-756(g) of the CBCA, generally permitting directors acting with respect to mergers, sales of assets and other specified transactions to consider, in determining what they reasonably believe to be in the best interests of the corporation, specified interests, including those of the corporation’s employees, customers, creditors and suppliers, and community and societal considerations, including any community in which any office or other facility of the corporation is located. Section 33- 756(g) of the CBCA also allows a director to consider, in the discretion of such director, any other factors the director reasonably considers appropriate in determining what the director reasonably believes to be in the best interest of the corporation.

Blank Check Preferred Stock.Our Certificate of Incorporation provides that our board of directors may from time-to-time issue one or more series of Preferred Stock without shareholder approval. Our board is authorized to adopt resolutions to, among other things, issue shares of Preferred Stock in one or more series and to fix the designations, powers, preferences, and relative participating, optional or other special rights of the shares of each such series and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof. As a result, our board of directors could, without shareholder approval, authorize the issuance of Preferred Stock with voting, dividend, redemption, liquidation, sinking fund, conversion and other rights that could proportionately reduce, minimize or otherwise adversely affect the voting power and other rights of holders of Common Stock or that could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control.

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Written Consent. Board of Directors.Our Bylaws prohibit shareholders from acting by written consent. Accordingly, shareholder action must take place at an annual or a special meeting of our shareholders. Our Bylaws impose notice and information requirements in connection with the nomination by shareholders of candidates for election as director, and under our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws, our board of directors may enlarge the size of the board (not to exceed 25) and fill the vacancies.

Transfer Agent.The transfer agent for our Common Stock is Computershare Trust Company, N.A.

Series A Preferred Stock

The preferences, limitations, powers and relative rights of the Series A Preferred Stock are set forth in