Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-052025
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Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form: S-8
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 Definitive Proxy Statement, filed with the Commission on April 3,  2025. |
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| 5.1*        |     | Opinion of Kathleen M. Boege, Esq., with respect to validity of issuance of securities.                                                                                                            |
| 23.1*       |     | Consent of Kathleen M. Boege, Esq. (included in Exhibit 5.1).                                                                                                                                      |
| 23.2*       |     | Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.                                                                                                                                          |
| 24.1*       |     | Power of Attorney (contained in signature page to this Registration Statement).                                                                                                                    |
| 107*        |     | Filing Fee Table.                                                                                                                                                                                  |

* Filed herewith.

Item 9. Undertakings.

(a) The Registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales
are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

(i) To
include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

(ii) To
reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective
amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration
Statement; and

(iii) To
include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any
material change to such information in the Registration Statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in
a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant
to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability
under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(b