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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ants. The Registration Statement shall have been declared effective by the SEC and no stop order shall have been issued or threatened. The shares of First Merchants Common Stock shall have been listed for
trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (subject to official notice of issuance).

(c) . The
Federal Reserve Board and the Indiana DFI shall have authorized and approved the Merger and the transactions related thereto. The Indiana DFI and the FDIC shall have approved the Bank Merger and the transactions related thereto. In addition, all
appropriate orders, consents, approvals and clearances from all other regulatory agencies and governmental authorities whose orders, consents, approvals or clearances are required by law for consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement shall have been obtained. All regulatory approvals remain in full force and effect and all statutory waiting periods shall have expired or been terminated.

(d) . Neither First Savings and the Bank, on the one hand, nor First Merchants and FMB, on the
other hand, shall be subject to any order, decree or injunction of a court or agency of competent jurisdiction which enjoins or prohibits the consummation of the Merger or the Bank Merger.

(e) . First Savings shall have obtained the First Savings Fairness Opinion. Such opinion
shall be provided orally to First Savings Board of Directors on or prior to the date hereof and a written copy of the First Savings Fairness Opinion shall be delivered to First Savings within thirty (30) days of the date hereof.

9.2 . The obligation of First Savings to effect the Merger is subject to the satisfaction or waiver
by First Savings at or prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions:

(a) . First Savings
shall have obtained an opinion of Luse Gorman, PC, tax counsel to First Savings, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to First Savings, dated as of the Closing Date, to the

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effect that: (a) the Merger will constitute a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code; (b) each of First Savings and First Merchants will be a party to such
reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(b) of the Code; and (c) no gain or loss will be recognized by holders of First Savings Common Stock upon the receipt of shares of First Merchants Common Stock in exchange for their shares of
First Savings Common Stock, except to the extent of any cash received in lieu of fractional shares