Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-242318
Chunk: 48

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 48
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 meeting if you are unable or do not wish to attend the special meeting in person. The shares represented by proxies properly signed, dated, and returned will be voted at the special meeting as instructed by the First Savings shareholder giving the proxies. Proxy cards that are properly signed, dated and returned but do not have voting instructions will be voted “ FOR” approval of the Merger Proposal, “ FOR” approval of the Merger-Related Compensation Proposal, and “ FOR” approval of the Adjournment Proposal. If you deliver a properly signed proxy card, you may revoke your proxy at any time before it is exercised by:

| • |     | delivering to the Corporate Secretary of First Savings at or prior to the special meeting a written notice of                                                                    
 revocation addressed to First Savings Financial Group, Inc., 702 North Shore Drive, Suite 300, Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130, Attention: Tony A. Schoen, Corporate Secretary; or |

| • |     | delivering to First Savings at or prior to the special meeting a properly completed proxy card having a later 
 date;                                                                                                         |

| • |     | voting by telephone or internet at a later time (if initially able to vote in such manner); or |

| • |     | voting in person by ballot at the special shareholders meeting. |

Because approval of the Merger Proposal requires the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of First Savings common stock, abstentions will have the same effect as voting “AGAINST” approval of the Merger Proposal. Accordingly, your Board of Directors urges all First Savings shareholders to vote by proxy by completing, dating, and signing the accompanying proxy and returning it promptly in the enclosed postage-paid envelope. Approval of the Merger-Related Compensation Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal requires the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of First Savings common stock cast at the meeting, in person or by proxy, so long as a quorum is present. Therefore, abstentions from voting and broker non-votes,if any, will have no effect on the Merger-Related Compensation Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal. You should not send stock certificates with your proxy card. Solicitation of Proxies First Savings will bear the entire cost of soliciting proxies from and mailing proxies to its shareholders in connection with the First Savings special meeting. In addition to solicitation of proxies by mail, proxies may be solicited personally or by telephone by directors, officers and certain employees of First Savings, who will not be