Company: PFIS
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: S-3/A
Source: 0001104659-25-044501
Chunk: 13

Company: PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: S-3/A
Chunk 13
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 participating, optional or other special rights, if any, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, if any, including specifically, but not limited to, the dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption rights and liquidation preferences, if any, of any wholly unissued class (if issued without series) or series of preferred stock (or the entire class of preferred stock if none of such shares have been issued), the number of shares constituting any such class (if issued without series) or series and the terms and conditions of the issue thereof. Prior to the issuance of any shares of preferred stock, a statement setting forth a copy of each such resolution or resolutions and the number of shares of preferred stock of each such class (if issued without series) or series shall be executed and filed in accordance with the Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law of 1988, as amended (“PBCL”). Unless otherwise provided in any such resolution or resolutions, the number of shares of preferred stock of any such class (if issued without series) or series set forth in such resolution or resolutions may thereafter be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares then outstanding), by a statement likewise executed and filed setting forth a statement that a specified increase or decrease therein had been authorized and directed by a resolution or resolutions likewise adopted by the board of directors. In case the number of such shares shall be decreased, the number of shares so specified in the statement shall resume the status they had prior to the adoption of the first resolution or resolutions.

At the time of the filing of this prospectus Peoples has no outstanding shares of preferred stock.

#### Venue and Forum
Peoples’ bylaws provide that unless it consents in writing to the selection of an alternate forum, the state courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in and for Lackawanna County shall be the sole and exclusive forum, to the fullest extent permitted by law, for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of Peoples; (ii) any action asserting a claim of a breach of fiduciary duty owed by any director or officer of Peoples to Peoples or Peoples’ shareholders; (iii) any action asserting a claim against Peoples arising pursuant to any provision of the PBCL, the Peoples articles of incorporation of the Peoples bylaws; (iv) any action seeking to interpret, apply, enforce or determine the validity of the Peoples article of incorporation or the Peoples bylaws; or (v) any action asserting a claim against Peoples governed by the internal affairs doctrine.

Additionally, Peoples’ bylaws provide that unless it cons