Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-237211
Chunk: 230

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form: S-4
Chunk 230
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 request.                                                                                                                                                            |

| (8) | To supply by means of a post-effective amendment all information concerning a transaction, and the company                         
 being acquired involved therein, that was not the subject of and included in this registration statement when it became effective. |

| (9) | Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to                                                                                                                                                
 directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public 
 policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or    
 controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the   
 opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be     
 governed by the final adjudication of such issue.                                                                                                                                                                                                      |

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SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Muncie, State of Indiana, as of the 10 thday of October, 2025.

| FIRST MERCHANTS CORPORATION |     |                                           |
| By:                         |     | /s/ Mark K. Hardwick                      |
|                             |     | Mark K. Hardwick, Chief Executive Officer |

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Mark K. Hardwick and Michele M. Kawiecki and each of them his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-factand agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and any subsequent registration statement filed by First Merchants Corporation pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection