---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-24-018230"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMCB"
cik: "0001085913"
company_name: "FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP"
filed_at: "2024-04-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T01:39:42.083557+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Farmers & Merchants Bancorp extends poison pill rights to 2034, increases exercise price to $3,900

## Summary
- Amended Rights Agreement extends expiration of preferred stock purchase rights from Aug 2025 to Aug 2034.
- Purchase price per one-hundredth of a Preferred Share increased from $1,600 to $3,900.
- Other changes clarify legal relationship with rights agent and align with customary provisions.
- Rights will expire upon termination of the Amended Rights Agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-24-018230
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMCB
- cik: 0001085913
- company_name: FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP
- filed_at: 2024-04-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 3.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036124018230/0001140361-24-018230-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036124018230/ef20026016_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP entered into Amended and Restated Rights Agreement with Computershare Trust, N.A. valued at Rights expiration extended to August 5, 2034; purchase price increased to $3,900 per one one-hundred (effective 2024-04-05).
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: Computershare Trust, N.A.
  - Value: Rights expiration extended to August 5, 2034; purchase price increased to $3,900 per one one-hundred
  - Effective: 2024-04-05
  source text: On April 5, 2024, the Company entered into an Amended and Restated Rights Agreement (the “Amended Rights Agreement”), which amends and restates the Rights Agreement, dated as of August 5, 2008, as amended, by and between the Company and Computershare Trust, N.A., a federally chartered, limited purpose trust company (as successor to Registrar and Transfer Company), as the duly appointed rights agent.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036124018230/0001140361-24-018230-index.htm

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