Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-237211
Chunk: 49

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form: S-4
Chunk 49
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 to vote, or caused to be voted, an aggregate of [●] shares of First Savings common stock outstanding, representing [●]% of the outstanding shares on that date. The voting agreement is attached to this document as Annex Band is incorporated in this document by reference. 30

Proxies If you are a First Savings shareholder, you should have received a proxy card for use at the First Savings special meeting with this proxy statement and prospectus. The accompanying proxy card is for your use in voting at the special 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