Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-242318
Chunk: 219

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 219
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 24, 2025, among First Merchants Corporation, each member of the Board of Directors of First Savings Financial Group, Inc. and certain executive officers of First Savings Financial Group, Inc. (attached as Annex B to the proxy statement and prospectus contained 
 in this Registration Statement)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| 21.1    |     | Subsidiaries of First Merchants Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 21 of First Merchants’ Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on February 24, 2025)                                                                                                      |
| 23.1    |     | Consent of Forvis Mazars, LLP (with respect to First Merchants Corporation)**                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| 23.2    |     | Consent of Forvis Mazars, LLP (with respect to First Savings Financial Group, Inc.)**                                                                                                                                                                                |
| 23.3    |     | Consent of Monroe Shine & Co., Inc. (with respect to First Savings Financial Group, Inc.)**                                                                                                                                                                          |
| 23.4    |     | Consent of Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP (legality) (included in Exhibit 5.1)**                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| 23.5    |     | Consent of Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP (tax matters) (included in Exhibit 8.1)**                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 23.6    |     | Consent of Luse Gorman, PC (tax matters) (included in Exhibit 8.2)**                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 24.1    |     | Power of Attorney included on “Signature” page of Form S-4*                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| 99.1    |     | Forms of Proxy and Voting Instruction Card for First Savings Financial Group, Inc. Shareholder Meeting**                                                                                                                                                             |
| 99.2    |     | Consent of Piper Sandler & Co.**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| 107     |     | Filing Fee Table*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |

| * | Previously filed |

| ** | Filed herewith |

| † | Pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K, First Merchants agrees to                                                       
 furnish supplementally a copy of any omitted schedule or exhibit to the Agreement and Plan of Merger to the SEC upon request. |

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(b) Financial Statement Schedules: All schedules for which provision is made in the applicable accounting regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission have been omitted because they are not required, amounts