Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001193125-25-033488
Chunk: 182

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 424B3
Chunk 182
---
 Representative be invited to or permitted to attend any executive session of PWOD’s Board, Luzerne Bank’s board or
Jersey Shore State Bank’s board or any meeting at which PWOD reasonably determines that such attendance is inconsistent with the fiduciary obligations, attorney-client privilege or confidentiality requirements of the PWOD Board, Luzerne
Bank’s board or Jersey Shore State Bank’s board, as applicable. Upon the reasonable request of PWOD, NWBI shall furnish such reasonable information about it and its business as is relevant to PWOD and its shareholders in connection with
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Neither PWOD nor NWBI, nor any of their Subsidiaries shall be required to provide access to or to disclose information where such access or disclosure would jeopardize the attorney-client privilege of
such party or its Subsidiaries or contravene any law, judgment, decree, fiduciary duty or binding agreement entered into prior to the date of this Agreement. The parties shall make appropriate substitute disclosure arrangements under circumstances
in which the restrictions of the preceding sentence apply.

A-42

(b) Neither PWOD nor NWBI shall, nor shall either party’s Representatives, use any
information obtained pursuant to this (as well as any other information obtained prior to the date hereof in connection with the entering into of this Agreement) for any purpose unrelated to the consummation of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and such information will be subject to the confidentiality provisions of .

(c) In the event that this Agreement is terminated or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall otherwise fail to be consummated,
each party shall promptly upon request cause all copies of documents or extracts thereof containing information and data as to another party hereto to be returned to the party which furnished the same. No investigation by either party of the
business and affairs of the other shall affect or be deemed to modify or waive any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement in this Agreement, or the conditions to either party’s obligation to consummate the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement.

(d) During the period from the date of this Agreement to the Effective Time, as soon as reasonably practicable after they
become available, but in no event more than 30 days after the end of each calendar month ending after the date hereof, PWOD will furnish to NWBI (i) consolidated financial statements (including balance sheets, statements of operations and
stockholders’ equity) of PWOD or any of its Subsidiaries (to the extent available