Company: PFIS
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: S-3
Source: 0001104659-25-036894
Chunk: 43

Company: PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: S-3
Chunk 43
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 under the Peoples bylaws.

Expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding may be paid by Peoples in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding as authorized in the manner provided in the Peoples bylaws upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director, officer and/or employee to repay such amount, unless it shall ultimately be determined that they are entitled to be indemnified by Peoples as authorized in the Peoples bylaws.

The indemnification provided by Peoples’ bylaws shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a person seeking indemnification may be entitled under any agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise, both as to action in their official capacity while serving as a director, officer and/or employee and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer and/or employee and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs and personal representatives of such a person.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Item 16. Exhibits.

| ​ | Exhibit No. | ​ | ​ | Document                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | ​ |
| ​ |         1.1 | ​ | ​ | Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Common Stock.*                                                                                                                                                                                                       | ​ |
| ​ |         1.2 | ​ | ​ | Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Preferred Stock.*                                                                                                                                                                                                    | ​ |
| ​ |         1.3 | ​ | ​ | Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Debt Securities.*                                                                                                                                                                                                    | ​ |
| ​ |         1.4 | ​ | ​ | Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Warrants.*                                                                                                                                                                                                           | ​ |
| ​ |         1.5 | ​ | ​ | Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Purchase Contracts.*                                                                                                                                                                                                 | ​ |
| ​ |         1.6 | ​ | ​ | Form of Standby Underwriting Agreement relating to Rights.*                                                                                                                                                                                                     | ​ |
| ​ |         1.7 | ​ | ​ | Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Units.*                                                                                                                                                                                                              | ​ |
| ​ |         3.1 | ​ | ​ | Peoples Financial Services Corp. Articles of Incorporation, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant’s Form 10-K filed with the Commission on March 17, 2014).                                                                    | ​ |
| ​ |       3.