Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-237211
Chunk: 187

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form: S-4
Chunk 187
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centive awards shall be paid pursuant to the terms of the Annual Incentive Pay Plans prior to any such termination.

7.17 . Prior to the Effective Time, First Savings shall take such steps as may be necessary or appropriate to cause any disposition of First Savings Common Stock or conversion of any derivative securities in respect of shares of First Savings
Common Stock, as applicable, in connection with the consummation of the Merger to be exempt under Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the 1934 Act.

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SECTION 8

COVENANTS OF FIRST MERCHANTS

First Merchants covenants and agrees with First Savings as follows:

8.1 .

(a) . As soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event within forty-five (45) days following
execution and delivery of this Agreement, First Merchants will file an application with each of the Indiana DFI and the FDIC for approval of the Bank Merger and an application/notification/waiver of application with the Federal Reserve Board for
approval of the Merger, and take all other appropriate actions necessary to obtain the regulatory approvals referred to herein, and First Savings will use all reasonable and diligent efforts to assist in obtaining all such approvals. In advance of
filing any applications for such regulatory approvals, First Merchants shall provide First Savings and its counsel with a copy of such applications (but excluding any information contained therein regarding First Merchants and its business or
operations for which confidential treatment has been requested) and provide an opportunity to comment thereon, and thereafter shall promptly advise First Savings and its counsel of any material communication received by First Merchants or its
counsel from any regulatory authorities with respect to such applications and shall promptly provide First Savings and its counsel of all such communications transmitted in writing to First Merchants or its counsel.

(b) . In addition, First Merchants agrees to prepare, in cooperation with and subject to the
review and comment of First Savings and its counsel, a registration statement on Form S-4, including a prospectus of First Merchants (the “Registration Statement”), to be filed no later than
forty-five (45) days after the date hereof by First Merchants with the SEC in connection with the issuance of First Merchants Common Stock in the Merger (including the proxy statements and prospectus and other proxy solicitation materials of,
and to be filed by, First Savings and First Merchants constituting a part thereof (the “Proxy Statement”) and all related documents). In