Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-237211
Chunk: 212

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form: S-4
Chunk 212
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 any facsimile or Adobe PDF copy thereof) shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which shall
constitute one and the same agreement. It is understood and agreed that Shareholders who execute this Agreement shall be bound hereby, irrespective of whether all Shareholders execute this Agreement. The obligations of each of the Shareholders under
the terms of this Agreement shall terminate contemporaneously with the earliest to occur of: (i) the approval of the Merger Agreement by the stockholders of First Savings, (ii) the termination of the Merger Agreement, or (ii) the
mutual written agreement of the parties hereto to terminate this Agreement.

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Each of the Shareholders is executing this Agreement solely in his or her capacity as a
stockholder of First Savings. Notwithstanding any provision hereof, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prohibit a Shareholder, or any officer or affiliate of a Shareholder who is or has been designated a member of First Savings’s
Board of Directors, from taking any action solely in his or her capacity as a member of First Savings’s Board of Directors or from exercising his or her fiduciary duties as a member of First Savings’s Board of Directors to the extent
specifically permitted by the Merger Agreement.

[Signatures appear on following pages.]

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, First Merchants and each of the undersigned Shareholders of First Savings have made and executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written, and First Merchants has caused this Agreement to be executed by its duly authorized officer.

| FIRST MERCHANTS CORPORATION |     |                         |
| By:                         |     |                         |
|                             |     | Mark K. Hardwick,       |
|                             |     | Chief Executive Officer |

[ Signature page to Voting Agreement] A-53

SIGNATURE PAGE OF SHAREHOLDERS OF FIRST SAVINGS

| Frank N. Czeschin     |
| L. Chris Fordyce      |
| Troy D. Hanke         |
| John P. Lawson, Jr.   |
| Pamela Bennett-Martin |
| Larry W. Myers        |
| Martin A. Padgett     |
| Steven R. Stemler     |
| Douglas A. York       |
| Tony A. Schoen        |
| Jackie R. Journell    |

[ Signature page to Voting Agreement] A-54

EXHIBIT A LISTING OF SHARES *

| Name                  |     | Number