Company: PFIS
Filing Date: 2025-07-18
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001104659-25-069074
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Company: PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-07-18
Form: S-4
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 18, 2025 Registration No. 333- UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 F orm S-4 REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 Peoples Financial Services Corp. (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

| ​ | Pennsylvania                                                   
 (State or other jurisdiction ofincorporation or organization)​ | ​ | ​ | 6021                                                     
 (Primary Standard IndustrialClassification Code Number)​ | ​ | ​ | 23-2391852                          
 (I.R.S. EmployerIdentification No.) | ​ |

102 E. Drinker Street
Dunmore, PA 18512
(570) 346-7741 (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices) Gerard A. Champi
Chief Executive Officer
Peoples Financial Services Corp.
102 E. Drinker Street
Dunmore, PA 18512
(570) 346-7741 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) Copies to : Donald R. Readlinger
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP
301 Carnegie Center
Suite 400
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 452-0808 Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale of the securities to the public: As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement is declared effective. If the securities being registered on this Form are being offered in connection with the formation of a holding company and there is compliance with General Instruction G, check the following box. ☐ If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐ If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,”