Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-012768
Chunk: 194

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: S-4
Chunk 194
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 reasonable best efforts to obtain any required consents to
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, which are set forth in of the PWOD Disclosure Schedules.

6.14. Insurance Coverage. PWOD shall cause the policies of insurance listed in the PWOD Disclosure Schedule to remain in effect
until the Effective Time.

6.15. Dividends. In the calendar quarter in which the Closing occurs, each of NWBI and PWOD shall
coordinate with the other the declaration of any dividends in respect of NWBI Common Stock and PWOD Common Stock and the record dates and payment dates relating thereto, it being the intention of the parties hereto that holders of PWOD Common Stock
shall not receive two dividends, or fail to receive one dividend, in any quarter with respect to their shares of PWOD Common Stock and any shares of NWBI Common Stock any such holder receives in exchange therefor in the Merger.

6.16. Confidentiality. Except for the use of information in connection with the Proxy Statement/Prospectus described in
hereof and any other governmental filings required in order to complete the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, all information (collectively, the “”) received by each of
PWOD and NWBI pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be kept in strictest confidence and not used for any purpose other than a mutually acceptable transaction contemplated hereby; , subsequent to the mailing
of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus to the shareholders of PWOD, this shall not apply to Information included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus to be sent to the shareholders of PWOD under
. PWOD and NWBI agree that the Information will be used only for the purpose of completing the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. PWOD and NWBI agree to hold the Information in strictest confidence and
shall not use such Information for any purpose other than a mutually acceptable transaction contemplated hereby, and shall not disclose directly or indirectly any of such Information except when, after and to the extent such Information (i) is
or becomes generally available to the public other than through the failure of PWOD or NWBI to fulfill its obligations hereunder, (ii) is demonstrated as already known to the party receiving the Information on a nonconfidential basis prior to
the disclosure, or (iii) is subsequently disclosed to the party receiving the Information on a nonconfidential basis by a third party having no obligation of confidentiality to the party disclosing the Information, provided nothing herein shall
prohibit a party from making any disclosure

A