Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-052025
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Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form: S-8
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indemnification through its by-laws, agreements, votes of shareholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise, and may purchase and
maintain insurance on behalf of any indemnifiable person against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person
in his or her capacity as an indemnifiable person whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against
liability under the terms of Section 8.75 of the IBCA.

Article NINE of the Registrant’s Amended
and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, and Article VI of the Registrant’s Amended and Restated By-Laws, as amended,
provide that the Registrant shall, to the full extent permitted by law, indemnify those persons whom the Registrant may indemnify pursuant
thereto, and contain provisions substantially similar to Section 8.75 of the IBCA.

The Registrant has entered into individual indemnification
agreements with each of its non-employee directors and certain of its executive officers, which implement with more specificity the indemnification
provisions provided by the Registrant’s Amended and Restated By-Laws and provide, among other things, that to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, the Registrant will indemnify such director or officer against any and all losses, expenses and liabilities
arising out of such director’s or officer’s service as a director or officer of the Registrant, as the case may be. The indemnification
agreements also contain detailed provisions concerning expense advancement and reimbursement. The indemnification agreements are in addition
to any other rights each non-employee director or officer may be entitled to under the Registrant’s Amended and Restated Articles
of Incorporation, Amended and Restated By-Laws and applicable law.

The Registrant maintains insurance policies under
which its directors and officers are insured, within the limits and subject to the limitations of the policies, against certain expenses
in connection with the defense of actions, suits or proceedings, and certain liabilities which might be imposed as a result of such actions,
suits or proceedings, to which they are parties by reason of being or having been such directors or officers.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

| Exhibit No. 
 4.1         |     | Description                                                                                                                                                                                        
 Wintrust Financial Corporation 2025 Stock Incentive Plan, incorporated herein by reference to Annex A to the Registrant’s