Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-216443
Chunk: 59

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: 425
Chunk 59
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 Property, in each case, which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.19 . First Merchants’ common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol of
“FRME.” First Merchants has complied in all material respects with all applicable state, federal or foreign securities laws, statutes, rules, regulations or orders, injunctions or decrees of any applicable government agency relating
thereto. Since January 1, 2023, First Merchants has filed all reports and other documents required to be filed by it under the 1934 Act and the 1933 Act, including First Merchants’ Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 and First Merchants’ Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the six month period ended June 30, 2025, copies of
which have previously been delivered to First Savings. Since January 1, 2023, all such SEC filings were true, accurate and complete in all material respects as of the dates of the filings (except for information included therein as of a certain
date, which shall have been true and correct as of such date), and no such filings, at the time they were filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, at
the time and in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not false or misleading.

6.20 . Except for Stephens Inc., no agent, broker or other person acting on behalf of First Merchants or under any authority of First Merchants is or shall be entitled to any commission, broker’s or finder’s fee or any
other form of compensation or payment from any of the parties hereto, other than attorneys’ or accountants’ fees, in connection with any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

6.21 . First Merchants does not have a shareholder rights plan or except as expressly provided in the Articles
of Incorporation of First Merchants, any other plan, program or agreement involving, restricting, prohibiting or discouraging a change in control or merger of First Merchants or FMB.

6.22 . Except as set forth in the First Merchants Disclosure Letter, neither First Merchants nor any First
Merchants Subsidiary is a party to any indemnification, indemnity or reimbursement agreement, contract, commitment or understanding to indemnify any present or former director, officer or shareholder against any liability or