Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-030716
Chunk: 202

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 202
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 efforts to prepare and file, on an accelerated basis, any and all reports with the SEC on or before the Effective Date, including but not limited any Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q. NWBI shall have the right to review in advance, subject to applicable laws relating to the exchange of information, all material written information submitted to the Regulatory Authorities
in connection with such filings after the date hereof. Notwithstanding the forgoing sentence, NWBI shall not have any right to review and/or inspect any competitively sensitive business or other proprietary information or any confidential
supervisory information submitted by PWOD to any Regulatory Authority, including, but not limited to any business plan and/or financial data or analysis prepared by PWOD in relation to such filings.

6.27. Estoppel Certificates. After the receipt of the last to be obtained of either the Requisite PWOD Vote and the regulatory
approvals required by of this Agreement, PWOD shall use commercially reasonably efforts to obtain an estoppel certificate, in such form as is acceptable to NWBI, for each lease agreement set forth in
of the PWOD Disclosure Schedule from the applicable counterparty for the benefit of NWBI.

ARTICLE VII

Conditions to Consummation of the Merger

7.01. Conditions to Each Party’s Obligation to Effect the Merger. The respective obligation of each of NWBI and PWOD to consummate the Merger is subject to the fulfillment or written waiver by NWBI and PWOD, as the case may be, prior to the Effective Time of each of the following conditions:

(a) Shareholder Approval.This Agreement and the Merger shall have been duly adopted and approved by the requisite vote
of the shareholders of PWOD.

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(b) Regulatory Approvals. All regulatory approvals required to consummate the
transactions contemplated hereby shall have been obtained and shall remain in full force and effect and all statutory waiting periods in respect thereof shall have expired and no such approvals shall contain (i) any conditions, restrictions or
requirements which the NWBI Board reasonably determines would either before or after the Effective Time have a Material Adverse Effect on NWBI and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole after giving effect to the consummation of the Merger, or
(ii) any conditions, restrictions or requirements that are not customary and usual for approvals of such type and which the NWBI Board reasonably determines would either before or after the Effective Time be unduly burdensome. For purposes of
this , any regulatory approval that