Company: CCNE
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-004105
Chunk: 102

Company: CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: 425
Chunk 102
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 bring any
action relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in any court other the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania or any state court located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Section 8.05 . Each party hereto will bear all expenses incurred by it in connection with this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including fees and expenses of its own financial consultants, accountants and legal counsel, except that printing expenses and SEC filing and registration fees shall be shared equally between CNB and
ESSA; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall limit either party’s rights to recover any liabilities or damages arising out of the other party’s Willful Breach of any provision of this Agreement.

Section 8.06 . All notices, requests and other communications hereunder to a party shall be in writing and shall be deemed
given if personally delivered, mailed by registered or certified mail (return receipt requested) or sent by reputable courier service to such party at its address set forth below or such other address as such party may specify by notice to the
parties hereto (with a copy provided to the email addresses specified below).

If to CNB:

CNB Financial Corporation

1
South Second Street

PO Box 42

Clearfield, PA 16830

Attention:
Michael D. Peduzzi

Email: michael.peduzzi@cnbbank.bank

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With a copy to: Hogan Lovells US LLP 555 Thirteenth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20004

| Attention: | Richard A. Schaberg |

Les Reese

| Email: | richard.schaberg@hoganlovells.com |

leslie.reese@hoganlovells.com If to ESSA: ESSA Bancorp, Inc. 200 Palmer Street Stroudsburg, PA 18360

| Attention: | Gary S. Olson |

| Email: | golson@essabank.com |

With a copy to: Luse Gorman, PC 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Suite 780 Washington, D.C. 20015

| Attention: | John J. Gorman Marc Levy |

| Email: | jgorman@luselaw.com |

mlevy@luselaw.com Section 8.07 Entire Understanding; No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement (including the Disclosure Schedules), the Plan of Bank Merger, the ESSA Voting Agreements, the CNB Voting