Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-012768
Chunk: 14

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: S-4
Chunk 14
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 do not instruct your broker, bank or other nominee on how to vote your shares, your broker, bank or other nominee may not vote your shares on the proposal to approve the Merger, which broker non-votewill not constitute or be counted as a vote cast and, consequently, will have no effect on the proposal to approve the Merger, the specified compensation or the adjournment of Penns Woods’ special meeting, if necessary, to solicit additional proxies. Under the rules of Nasdaq, brokers who hold shares in “street name” for a beneficial owner of those shares typically have the authority to vote in their discretion on “routine” proposals when they have not received instructions from beneficial owners. However, brokers are not allowed to exercise their voting discretion with respect to the approval of matters that Nasdaq determines to be “non-routine”without specific instructions from the beneficial owner. It is expected that all proposals to be voted on at the Penns Woods Special Meeting are such “non-routine”matters. Broker non-votesoccur when a broker or nominee is not instructed by the beneficial owner of shares to vote on a particular proposal for which the broker does not have discretionary voting power. Q: Can I change my vote after I have submitted my proxy?

| A: | You may revoke a proxy at any time before a vote is taken at the special meeting by: (i) filing a written                                                                                                                    
 notice of revocation with Penns Woods’ Corporate Secretary, at 300 Market Street, P.O. Box 967, Williamsport, Pennsylvania 17703-0967, which must be received no later than     , 2025; (ii) executing and returning another 
 proxy card with a later date – only your latest completed, signed and dated proxy card received prior to     , 2025, will be counted; or (iii) attending the special meeting, notifying the Corporate Secretary, and         
 voting again by ballot at the special meeting.                                                                                                                                                                               |

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Your attendance at the special meeting will not, by itself, revoke your proxy. If you hold your shares in “street name” and you have instructed your broker, bank or nominee to vote your shares, you must follow directions received from your broker, bank or nominee to change your vote.

| Q: | Are the Penns Woods shareholders entitled to dissenters’ rights? |

| A: | No. Because Penns Woods’ common stock is traded on