Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-046769
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Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 424B5
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 on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 filed with the SEC on February 28, 2023;

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our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 filed with the SEC on May 9, 2023;

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those portions of our Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on April 6, 2023incorporated by reference in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022;

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our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 5, 2023and January 30, 2023(Items 5.02 and 5.03 only); and

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the description of our common stock, which is registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, in our Form 8-A filed with the SEC on January 3, 1997, including any subsequently filed amendments and reports updating such description.

You may request a copy of these filings, other than an exhibit to a filing unless that exhibit is specifically incorporated by reference into that filing, at no cost, by writing to us at the following address or calling us at the following telephone number:

<div align='center'>Wintrust Financial Corporation 
 9700 W. Higgins Road, Suite 800 
 Rosemont, Illinois 60018 
 Attention: Investor Relations 
 (847)939-9000</div>

We will provide to each person, including any beneficial owner, to whom a copy of this prospectus is delivered a copy of any or all of the information that has been incorporated by reference in this prospectus but not delivered with this prospectus. We will provide this information upon written or oral request at no cost to the requester. You should direct your requests to us at the address or telephone number above.

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You should rely only on the information incorporated by reference or provided in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement. We have not authorized anyone else to provide you with different information or to make any representations other than as contained in this prospectus or in any prospectus supplement. This document may only be used where it is lawful to sell these securities. Neither we nor any selling securityholders are making any offer of these securities in any state where the offer is not permitted.

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