Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-09-02
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001140361-25-033639
Chunk: 6

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-09-02
Form: S-8
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 be a new registration statement relating to 
 the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initialbona fideoffering thereof.                                                                                                       |

| (c) | Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers, and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been         
 advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other    
 than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer, or controlling 
 person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such 
 indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.                                                                                                    |

4 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Walnut Creek, State of California, on September 2, 2025.

| MECHANICS BANCORP |                 |                                                      |
| By:               | /s/ Nathan Duda |                                                      |
|                   | Name:           | Nathan Duda                                          |
|                   | Title:          | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints C.J. Johnson and Nathan Duda, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this registration statement, including post-effective amendments, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other documents