Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-012768
Chunk: 144

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: S-4
Chunk 144
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 of its Subsidiaries maintains a system
of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) promulgated under the Exchange Act) reasonably designed and
maintained to ensure that all information (both financial and non-financial) required to be disclosed by PWOD in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized
and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to PWOD’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure and to make
the certifications of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of PWOD required under the Exchange Act with respect to such reports. PWOD has

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disclosed, based on its most recent evaluation prior to the date of this Agreement, to PWOD’s outside auditors and the audit committee of the PWOD Board (A) any significant deficiencies
and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that would be reasonably likely to adversely affect
PWOD’s ability to accurately record, process, summarize and report financial information, and (B) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in PWOD’s internal controls
over financial reporting. Since December 31, 2022, neither PWOD, its Subsidiaries nor any director, officer, employee, auditor, accountant or representative of PWOD or its Subsidiaries has received or otherwise had or obtained knowledge of any
material complaint, allegation, assertion or claim, whether written or oral, regarding the accounting or auditing practices, procedures, methodologies or methods of PWOD or its Subsidiaries or their respective internal accounting controls, including
any material complaint, allegation, assertion or claim that PWOD or its Subsidiaries has engaged in questionable accounting or auditing practices.

(g) Litigation. Except as set forth in of the PWOD Disclosure Schedule, there is no
suit, action, investigation, claim, proceeding or review pending, or to PWOD’s Knowledge, threatened against or affecting it or any of its Subsidiaries or any of the current or former directors or executive officers of it or any of its
Subsidiaries (and it is not aware of any basis for any such suit, action, investigation,