Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-237211
Chunk: 9

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form: S-4
Chunk 9
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 later decide not to attend the special meeting.                                  |

If you choose to vote in person at the special meeting:

| • |     | If you are a shareholder of record, to vote your shares at the special meeting you should bring the enclosed 
 proxy card and proof of identity.                                                                            |

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| • |     | If you hold your shares in street name, you must obtain a proxy in your name from your bank, broker, or other                                                                            
 holder of record, proof of beneficial ownership, such as a recent brokerage statement or letter from your bank or broker, and proof of identity in order to vote at the special meeting. |

Bring the proxy (for record holders) or proof of beneficial ownership (for street name holders), such as a recent brokerage statement or a letter from your bank or broker, and proof of identity for admission to the special meeting.

| Q: | If I participate in the First Savings Bank Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the “ESOP”) and/or the           
 First Savings Bank Profit Sharing/401(k) Plan (the “401(k) Plan”), how do I vote my shares in those plans? |

| A: | If you participate in the ESOP or invest in First Savings common stock through the 401(k) Plan, you will                                                                                                                                                  
 receive a voting instruction card for each plan that reflects all shares you may direct the trustees to vote on your behalf under the plan. You may submit your voting instruction cards, or convey your voting instructions via the Internet, by         
 telephone or by mail. Specific instructions for internet or telephone submission are set forth on the voting instruction cards. Under the terms of the ESOP, all allocated shares of Company common stock held by the ESOP are voted by the ESOP trustee, 
 as directed by plan participants. The ESOP trustee generally votes all unallocated shares of First Savings common stock held by the ESOP and allocated shares for which no timely voting instructions are received in the same proportion as shares for   
 which the ESOP trustee has received timely voting instructions, subject to the exercise of its fiduciary duties. Under the terms of the 401(k) Plan a participant may direct the trustee how to vote the shares of First Savings common stock credited to 
 the participant under the plan. First Savings will direct the 401(k) Plan trustee how to vote the shares of First Savings common stock for which timely voting instructions are not received. The deadline for returning voting instruction cards is      
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