Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-043815
Chunk: 258

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 258
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 arising out of the provisions for the treatment of fractional shares of stock in the successor; (c) the stock is not entitled to be voted on the transaction or the shareholder did not own the shares of stock on the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote on the transaction; or (d) the charter provides that the holders of the stock are not entitled to exercise the rights of an objecting shareholder. |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Shareholder Rights Plan: |     | Huntington does not currently have a shareholder rights plan in effect.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |     | Cadence does not currently have a shareholder rights plan in effect.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| Exclusive Forum:         |     | Neither Huntington’s charter nor its bylaws contain an exclusive forum provision. However, in respect of the assertion of any cause of action arising under the Securities Act of 1933 the federal district courts of the United States shall be the sole and exclusive forum.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |     | Cadence’s articles of incorporation provide that Lee County, Mississippi shall be the sole and exclusive venue for derivative actions, actions claiming breach of a fiduciary duty, actions involving Chapter 4 of Title 79 or Title 81 of the MS Code, or Cadence’s articles of incorporation or bylaws, and actions involving the internal affairs legal doctrine. |

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#### TABLE OF CONTENTS

### LEGAL MATTERS
The validity of the shares of Huntington common stock and new Huntington preferred stock to be issued by Huntington in connection with the merger will be passed upon by Venable LLP, Baltimore, Maryland.

Certain federal income tax consequences of the merger will be passed upon for Huntington by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, New York, counsel for Huntington, and for Cadence by Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, New York, counsel for Cadence.

### EXPERTS
The financial statements of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting (which is included in the Report of Management’s Assessment of Internal Control over Financial Reporting) incorporated in this joint proxy statement/prospectus by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 have been so incorporated in reliance on the report of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

The consolidated financial statements of Cadence Bank