Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-242318
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Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: S-4/A
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 order, or take other appropriate action with respect to any nomination or proposal
that does not comply with these and other applicable requirements.

Any proposals, notices, or director nominee suggestions should be sent
to the attention of the Secretary of First Merchants at 200 East Jackson Street, Muncie, Indiana 47305.

First Savings

If the Merger occurs, there will be no First Savings annual meeting of shareholders for 2026. In that case, shareholder proposals must be or
must have been submitted to First Merchants in accordance with the procedures described above.

If the Merger is not completed, First
Savings will hold its 2026 annual meeting in accordance with its current governing documents and as required by Indiana law.

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION First Merchants has filed with the SEC a Registration Statement on Form S-4under the Securities Act, with respect to the common stock of First Merchants being offered in the Merger. This proxy statement and prospectus does not contain all the information set forth in the registration statement, certain parts of which are omitted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC. For further information with respect to First Merchants and the securities offered by this proxy statement and prospectus, reference is made to the registration statement. Statements contained in this proxy statement and prospectus concerning the provisions of such documents are necessarily summaries of such documents and each such statement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the copy of the applicable documents filed with the SEC. First Merchants and First Savings each files annual, quarterly, and current reports, proxy statements, and other information with the SEC. These filings are available to the public over the internet at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. You may also obtain additional information about First Merchants on its website at http://www.firstmerchants.com. You may obtain additional information about First Savings on its website at https://www.fsbbank.net. However, the contents of those websites are not incorporated by reference in, or otherwise a part of, this proxy statement and prospectus and are not soliciting material. First Merchants “incorporates by reference” into this proxy statement and prospectus the information in documents it files with the SEC, which means that it can disclose important information to you through those documents. The information incorporated by reference is an important part of this proxy statement and prospectus. Some information contained in this proxy statement and prospectus updates the information incorporated by reference and some information filed by First Merchants subsequently with