Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001193125-25-033488
Chunk: 236

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 424B3
Chunk 236
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 is reproduced in its entirety, and we approve of the content of such disclosures prior to any filing, distribution or publication of such shareholder communications and prior to distribution of any amendments thereto. Based on the foregoing and our general experience as investment bankers, and subject to the limitations, assumptions and qualifications stated herein, we are of the opinion, on the date hereof, that the consideration to be received by the Shareholders in the Transaction is fair to them from a financial point of view. Very truly yours, STEPHENS INC.

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