Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-242318
Chunk: 148

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 148
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 decrees of any applicable government agency relating
thereto. Since January 1, 2023, First Savings has filed all reports and other documents required to be filed by it under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), and the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “1933 Act”), including First Savings’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2024 and First Savings’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the nine-month period ended June 30, 2025, copies of which have previously been delivered to First Merchants. Since January 1, 2023, all such SEC filings were true, accurate and complete in all
material respects as of the dates of the filings (except for information included therein as of a certain date, which shall have been true and correct as of such date), and no such filings, at the time they were filed, contained any untrue statement
of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, at the time and in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not false or misleading.

5.23 . Except for Piper Sandler & Co., no agent, broker or other person acting on behalf
of First Savings or any Subsidiary or under any authority of First Savings or any Subsidiary is or shall be entitled to any commission, broker’s or finder’s fee or any other form of compensation or payment from any of the parties hereto,
other than attorneys’ or accountants’ fees, in connection with any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

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5.24 . First Savings does not have a shareholder rights plan
or, except as expressly provided in the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws of First Savings, any other plan, program or agreement involving, restricting, prohibiting or discouraging a change in control or merger of First Savings or the Bank or
which may be considered an anti-takeover mechanism.

5.25 . Except as set forth in the First Savings
Disclosure Letter, neither First Savings nor any Subsidiary is a party to any indemnification, indemnity or reimbursement agreement, contract, commitment or understanding to indemnify any present or former director, officer or shareholder against
any liability or hold the same harmless from liability other than as expressly provided in the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws (or Articles of Organization or LLC Agreement