---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001518715-25-000124"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MCHB"
cik: "0001518715"
company_name: "Mechanics Bancorp"
filed_at: "2025-08-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T11:26:03.838306+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HomeStreet and Mechanics Bank receive all regulatory approvals; merger closing set for Sept 2, 2025

## Summary
- Approvals from Fed, FDIC, CA and WA state regulators received for all-stock merger.
- HomeStreet shareholder vote scheduled Aug 21; closing expected Sept 2, 2025.
- HomeStreet renamed Mechanics Bancorp post-merger; remains publicly traded (HMST).
- Mechanics Bank shareholder consent already obtained from Ford Financial Fund and affiliates.
- Merger is structured as HomeStreet Bank merging into Mechanics Bank, with Mechanics surviving.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001518715-25-000124
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MCHB
- cik: 0001518715
- company_name: Mechanics Bancorp
- filed_at: 2025-08-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1518715/000151871525000124/0001518715-25-000124-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1518715/000151871525000124/hmst-20250819.htm

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