Company: CCNE
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-044149
Chunk: 257

Company: CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 257
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<div align='center'>**ANNEX A

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER**</div>

### AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

#### DATED AS OF JANUARY 9, 2025

### BY AND AMONG

### CNB FINANCIAL CORPORATION,

#### CNB BANK,

#### ESSA BANCORP, INC.

#### AND

### ESSA BANK & TRUST
TABLE OF CONTENTS

|                                                                  |     |                                                                                                                               |     | Page |      |
| ARTICLE I THE MERGER                                             |     |                                                                                                                               |     |      | A-2  |
| Section 1.01                                                     |     | Terms of the Merger                                                                                                           |     |      | A-2  |
| Section 1.02                                                     |     | Tax Consequences                                                                                                              |     |      | A-2  |
| Section 1.03                                                     |     | Name of the Surviving Corporation and the Surviving Bank                                                                      |     |      | A-2  |
| Section 1.04                                                     |     | Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Surviving Corporation; Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Surviving Bank |     |      | A-2  |
| Section 1.05                                                     |     | Directors and Officers of the Surviving Corporation and the Surviving Bank                                                    |     |      | A-2  |
| Section 1.06                                                     |     | Effect of the Merger                                                                                                          |     |      | A-3  |
| Section 1.07                                                     |     | Effective Date and Effective Time; Closing                                                                                    |     |      | A-3  |
| Section 1.08                                                     |     | Alternative Structure                                                                                                         |     |      | A-4  |
| Section 1.09                                                     |     | Additional Actions                                                                                                            |     |      | A-4  |
| Section 1.10                                                     |     | Absence of Control                                                                                                            |     |      | A-4  |
| ARTICLE II CONSIDERATION; EXCHANGE PROCEDURES                    |     |                                                                                                                               |     |      | A-4  |
| Section 2.01                                                     |     | Merger Consideration                                                                                                          |