Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-012768
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Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: S-4
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that are due have been fully and timely paid. Each of NWBI and its Subsidiaries has withheld and paid all material Taxes required to have been withheld and paid in connection with amounts paid or owing to any employee, creditor, shareholder,
independent contractor or other third party. Neither NWBI nor any of its Subsidiaries has granted any extension or waiver of the limitation period applicable to any material Tax that remains in effect. Neither NWBI nor any of its Subsidiaries has
received written notice of assessment or proposed assessment in connection with any material amount of Taxes, and, to the knowledge of NWBI, there are no threatened in writing or pending disputes, claims, audits, examinations or other proceedings
regarding any material Tax of NWBI and its Subsidiaries or the assets of NWBI and its Subsidiaries. NWBI has not entered into any private letter ruling requests, closing agreements or gain recognition agreements with respect to a material amount of
Taxes requested or executed in the last three (3) years. Neither NWBI nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or is bound by any Tax sharing, allocation or indemnification agreement or arrangement (other than such an agreement or
arrangement exclusively between or among NWBI and its Subsidiaries or agreements or arrangements the principal purpose of which is not Taxes). Neither NWBI nor any of its Subsidiaries (A) has been a member of an affiliated group filing a
consolidated federal income Tax Return for which the statute of limitations is open (other than a group the common parent of which was NWBI) or (B) has any liability for the Taxes of any person (other than NWBI or any of its Subsidiaries) under
Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6 (or any similar provision of state, local or foreign law), as a transferee or successor, by contract or otherwise. Neither NWBI nor any of its Subsidiaries has
been, within the past two (2) years or otherwise as part of a “plan (or series of related transactions)” within the meaning of Section 355(e) of the Code of which the Merger is also a part, a “distributing corporation”
or a “controlled corporation” (within the meaning of Section 355(a)(1)(A) of the Code) in a distribution of stock intending to qualify for tax-free treatment under Section 355 of the Code.
Neither NWBI nor