Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-030716
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Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: S-4/A
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 date of this Agreement (the “”) is publicly available. No such SEC Report, at the time filed, furnished or communicated (and, in the case of registration statements and proxy statements, on
the dates of effectiveness and the dates of the relevant meetings, respectively), and considering all amendments to any NWBI’s SEC Report filed prior to the date hereof, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, except that information filed as of a later date (but before the date of
this Agreement) shall be deemed to modify information as of an earlier date. As of their respective dates, all NWBI’s SEC Reports complied as to form in all material respects with the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect
thereto.

(g) Financial Statements; Material Adverse Effect; Internal Controls.

(i) The financial statements of NWBI and its Subsidiaries included (or incorporated by reference) in NWBI’s SEC Reports
(including the related notes, where applicable) (A) have been prepared from, and are in accordance with, the books and records of NWBI and its Subsidiaries, (B) fairly present in all material respects the consolidated results of
operations, cash flows, changes in shareholders’ equity and consolidated financial position of NWBI and its Subsidiaries for the respective fiscal periods or as of the respective dates therein set forth (subject in the case of unaudited
statements to recurring year-end audit adjustments normal in nature and amount), (C) complied as to form, as of their respective dates of filing with the SEC, in all material respects with applicable
accounting requirements and with the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto, and (D) have been prepared in accordance with GAAP, consistently applied during the periods involved, except, in each case, as indicated in
such statements or in the notes thereto. As of the date hereof, the books and records of NWBI and its Subsidiaries have been maintained in all material respects in accordance with GAAP and any other applicable legal and accounting requirements and
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only actual transactions. As of the date hereof, KPMG, LLP has not resigned (or informed NWBI that it intends to resign) or been dismissed as independent public accountants of NWBI as a result