Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-012768
Chunk: 242

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: S-4
Chunk 242
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 deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.                                                                                                          |

| (e) | Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to                                                                                                                                                 
 directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public  
 policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling    
 person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its 
 counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final          
 adjudication of such issue.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |

| (f) | The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes to respond to requests for information that is incorporated by                                                                                                                                          
 reference into the proxy statement/prospectus which forms a part of the registration statement pursuant to Item 4, 10(b), 11 or 13 of this Form, within one business day of receipt of such request, and to send the incorporated documents by first 
 class mail or other equally prompt means. This includes information contained in documents filed subsequent to the effective date of the registration statement through the date of responding to the request.                                       |

| (g) | The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes to supply by means of a post-effective amendment all information                                                               
 concerning a transaction, and the company being acquired involved therein, that was not the subject of and included in the registration statement when it became effective. |

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

| Exhibit 
 Number# 
 2.1     |     | Document                                                                                                                                         
 Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 16, 2024, as amended, by and between Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Penns Woods Bancorp, Inc. |     | Exhibit Location                                                                                                                      
 Included as Annex A to the proxy statement/prospectus, which forms a part of this Registration Statement on Form S-4                  |
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