Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: CORRESP
Source: 0001193125-25-030720
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Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: CORRESP
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Northwest Bancshares, Inc. 3 Easton Oval Street, Suite 500 Columbus, OH 43219 February 20, 2025 VIA EDGAR Madeleine Joy Mateo U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance Office of Finance 100 F Street NE Washington, D.C. 20549

| Re: | Northwest Bancshares, Inc. |

Registration Statement on Form S-4,As Amended on February 20, 2025 File No. 333-284511 Dear Ms. Mateo: Pursuant to Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Northwest Bancshares, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Registrant”), hereby requests that the effectiveness under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of the above-captioned Registration Statement be accelerated to 4:00 PM, Eastern time, on February 24, 2025, or as soon thereafter as practicable. Please contact Christian Gonzalez, Esq. of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, counsel to the Registrant, at (614) 628-6921with any questions you may have concerning this letter, or if you require any additional information. Please notify Mr. Gonzalez when this request for acceleration of effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been granted.

| Very truly yours,          |     |                         |
| Northwest Bancshares, Inc. |     |                         |
| By:                        |     | /s/ Douglas M. Schosser |
| Name:                      |     | Douglas M. Schosser     |
| Title:                     |     | Chief Financial Officer |