Company: CCNE
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001193125-25-047258
Chunk: 312

Company: CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: 424B3
Chunk 312
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 corrects such misstatement or omission, and CNB shall file an amended Merger Registration Statement with the SEC, and each of ESSA and CNB shall mail
an amended Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus to their respective shareholders.

Section 5.08
. Each of ESSA and CNB will cooperate with the other and use all reasonable efforts to promptly prepare all necessary documentation, to affect all necessary filings and to obtain all necessary permits, consents, approvals,
waivers and authorizations of all third parties and Governmental Authorities necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and CNB shall use its reasonable best efforts to make any initial application filings with
Governmental Authorities within forty-five (45) days from the date hereof. ESSA and CNB will furnish each other and each other’s counsel with all information concerning their respective entities, their subsidiaries, directors, officers and
shareholders and such other matters as may be necessary or advisable in connection with the filing of the Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus and any application, petition or any other statement or application made by or on behalf of CNB or

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ESSA to any Governmental Authority in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Each party hereto shall have the right to review and approve in advance
all characterizations of the information relating to such party and any of its Subsidiaries that appear in any filing made in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement with any Governmental Authority. In addition, CNB and ESSA
shall each furnish to the other for review a copy of each such filing made in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement with any Governmental Authority prior to its filing.

Section 5.09 . ESSA and CNB shall consult with each other before issuing any press
release with respect to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby and shall not issue any such press release or make any such public statements (including written employee and customer communications required to be filed under the
Securities Act or the Exchange Act) without the prior consent of the other party, which shall not be unreasonably withheld; provided, however, that a party may, without the prior consent of the other party (but after such consultation, to the
extent practicable in the circumstances), issue such press release or make such public statements as may upon the advice of outside counsel be required by law. ESSA and CNB shall cooperate to develop all public announcement materials