Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-030716
Chunk: 228

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 228
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 at the Effective Time
shall be the Bylaws of the Surviving Bank.

5. . At the Effective Time, (i) the officers of Northwest
Bank shall be the officers of the Surviving Bank and (ii) the directors of Northwest Bank plus the PWOD Director (as defined in Section 6.23 of the Merger Agreement) shall be the directors of the Surviving Bank, in each case to serve in
such capacities

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until their successors have been duly elected or appointed or until their earlier death, resignation or removal from office.

6. . The name of the Surviving Bank shall be “Northwest Bank.” The main office of the Surviving Bank shall
be the main office of Northwest Bank immediately prior to the Effective Time. All branch offices of Northwest Bank and offices of Luzerne Bank which were in lawful operation immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the branch offices of the
Surviving Bank upon consummation of the Luzerne Bank Merger, subject to the opening or closing of any offices which may be authorized by Northwest Bank or Luzerne Bank and applicable regulatory authorities after the date hereof.

7. . At the Effective Time, each issued and outstanding share of Luzerne
Bank capital stock shall automatically by virtue of the Luzerne Bank Merger be canceled without payment.

8. . The shares of Northwest Bank capital stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall remain outstanding and shall not be affected by the Luzerne Bank Merger.

9. . At the Effective Time, in addition to the effects otherwise provided by the laws of the United States and
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Northwest Bank and Luzerne Bank shall become a single corporation and the separate existence of Luzerne Bank shall cease. The Surviving Bank shall possess all the rights, privileges, powers and franchises of both a
public and private nature of Luzerne Bank subject to all of its restrictions, disabilities and duties, and shall also possess all of the property (real, personal and mixed) and all debts due to Luzerne Bank. All other things or belonging to Luzerne
Bank shall be vested in the Surviving Bank; and all property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises and all and every other interest shall thereafter be the property of the Surviving Bank, and the title to any real estate vested by deed or
otherwise in Luzerne Bank shall not revert or be in any way impaired by reason of the Luzerne Bank Merger. All rights of creditors and all liens of Luzerne Bank