Green Dot agrees to merger with CommerceOne; holders get $8.11 cash plus 0.2215 New CommerceOne shares

On November 23, 2025, Green Dot Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Green Dot”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with CommerceOne Financial Corporation, an Alabama corporation (“CommerceOne”), Compass Sub North, Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of CommerceOne (“New CommerceOne”), Compass Sub East, Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of New CommerceOne (“Merger Sub One”), and Compass Sub West, Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation and an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of New CommerceOne (“Merger Sub Two,” and together with CommerceOne, New CommerceOne and Merger Sub One, the “CommerceOne Parties”).

Concurrently with the execution of the Merger Agreement, Green Dot entered into a Separation Agreement (the “Separation Agreement”) with New CommerceOne and Green Dot OpCo, LLC, a newly formed Delaware limited liability company and affiliate of Smith Ventures, LLC (“OpCo”) , pursuant to which, upon the terms and subject to the conditions therein, following the First Mergers, (i) Green Dot will convert into a limited liability company, (ii) Green Dot will distribute the stock of Green Dot Bank, a Utah-chartered bank and wholly owned subsidiary of Green Dot, to Compass Sub Northwest, Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation and direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of New CommerceOne (“CommerceOne Intermediate Holdco”), and (iii) OpCo will acquire Green Dot and its non-bank financial technology and related assets and operations (the “Business” and, collectively with the matters contemplated by clauses (ii) and (iii), the “Sale Transactions”).