Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-237211
Chunk: 208

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form: S-4
Chunk 208
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 the date of the legal opinions referred to in Sections 9.2(a) and 9.3(a), certificates substantially in compliance with the IRS
Guidelines, to enable counsel to First Merchants and counsel to First Savings to deliver the legal opinions contemplated by Sections 9.2(a) and 9.3(a), and First Merchants hereby agrees to deliver such certificates effective as of the date of such
opinions; or (ii) why counsel to First Merchants would not be able to deliver the opinion required by Section 9.3(a). First Merchants will deliver such certificates to counsel to First Merchants and counsel to First Savings.

13.11 . Each party shall notify the other party hereto in writing of any litigation related to this Agreement,
the Merger or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement that is brought, or, to the knowledge of either party, threatened in writing, against it and/or the members of its Board of Directors (any such litigation and/or the executive
officers or members of the Board of Directors of a party (a “Transaction Litigation”)), and shall keep the other party reasonably informed with respect to the status thereof. Each party shall give the other party the opportunity
to participate in the defense or settlement of any Transaction Litigation, and, except to the extent required by applicable law, neither party shall settle, agree to any undertakings or approve or otherwise agree to any waiver that may be sought in
connection with such Transaction Litigation, without the prior written consent of the other party (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

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13.12 . For purposes of this Agreement,
“First Savings’s Management” means any of Larry W. Myers, Anthony A. Schoen, and Jackie R. Journell; and “First Merchants’ Management” means any of Mark K. Hardwick, Michael J. Stewart, and Michele
M. Kawiecki. The phrases “to the knowledge of”, “known to” and similar formulations with respect to First Savings’s Management or First Merchants’ Management means matters that are within the actual conscious
knowledge of such persons after due inquiry. For purposes of this Agreement, “business day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day that a federal savings bank or a national banking association is authorized or
required by applicable law to be closed. The parties have participated jointly in negotiating and drafting this Agreement. In the event that an ambiguity or a question