Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-216443
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Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: 425
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 to indemnification and exculpation from liabilities for matters, acts or omissions occurring on or prior to the
Effective Time now existing in favor of the current or former directors, officers or employees of First Savings and the Subsidiaries as provided in their respective Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws (or Articles of Organization and LLC Agreement,
as applicable) and any existing indemnification agreements or arrangements of First Savings or the subsidiaries described in the First Savings Disclosure Letter, shall survive the Merger and shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with
their terms to the extent permitted by law, and shall be honored by First Merchants as of and following the Effective Time with respect to matters, or acts or omissions of such individuals, occurring or alleged to occur on or prior to the Effective
Time.

(d) In the event of any threatened or actual claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation, whether civil,
criminal or administrative, including, without limitation, any such claim, action suit, proceeding or investigation in which any individual who is now, or has been at any time prior to the date of this Agreement, or who becomes prior to the
Effective Time, a director or officer of First Savings or any subsidiary (the “Indemnified Parties”), is, or is threatened to be, made a party based in whole or in part on, or arising in whole or in part out of, or pertaining to
(i) the fact that he is or was a director, officer or employee of First Savings or a Subsidiary or any of their predecessors or (ii) this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, whether in any case asserted or arising
before or on or after the Effective Time, the parties hereto agree to cooperate and use their best reasonable efforts to defend against and respond thereto.

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(e) If First Merchants shall consolidate with or merge into any other entity
and shall not be the continuing or surviving entity of such consolidation or merger or shall transfer all or substantially all of its assets to any entity, then and in each case, proper provision shall be made so that the successors and assigns of
First Merchants shall assume the obligations set forth in this Section 8.5.

8.6 . Promptly upon its
becoming available, First Merchants shall furnish to First Savings one (1) copy of each financial statement, report, notice, or proxy statement sent by First Merchants to its shareholders generally and of each regular or periodic report,
registration statement or prospect