Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-237211
Chunk: 191

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form: S-4
Chunk 191
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 Merchants intend to
jointly issue a press release mutually acceptable to the parties. Except as otherwise required by law, neither First Merchants nor a First Merchants Subsidiary shall issue any additional press releases or make any other public announcements or
disclosures relating to the Merger or the Bank Merger without the prior approval of First Savings; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 8.3 shall be deemed to prohibit any party from making any disclosure that its counsel deems
necessary in order to satisfy such party’s disclosure obligation imposed by law or the rules of any securities exchange.

8.4
. First Merchants shall, and shall use its best efforts to cause the First Merchants Subsidiaries and its officers, employees, and authorized representatives to, hold in strict confidence all confidential data and information
obtained by them from First Savings, unless such information (i) was already known to First Merchants prior to entering into merger discussions with First Savings, (ii) becomes available to First Merchants from other sources, (iii) is
independently developed by First Merchants, (iv) is disclosed by First Merchants with and in accordance with the terms of prior written approval of First Savings, or (v) is or becomes readily ascertainable from public or published
information or trade sources or public disclosure of such information is required by law or requested by a court or other governmental agency, commission, or regulatory body. First Merchants further agrees that in the event this Agreement is
terminated, it will return to First Savings, or will destroy, all information obtained by it regarding First Savings or the Bank, including all copies made of such information by First Merchants. This provision shall survive the Effective Time or
the earlier termination of this Agreement.

8.5 .

(a) For a period of six (6) years from the Effective Time (the “Tail Coverage Period”) First Merchants
shall maintain in effect each of First Savings’s and the Bank’s directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies (including fiduciary, errors and omissions, and cyber coverage) (or a comparable or better policy) to cover
the present and former officers and directors of First Savings and the Bank (determined as of the Effective Time) with respect to claims against such directors and officers arising from facts or events which occurred before the Effective Time, which
insurance shall contain at least the same coverage and amounts, and contain terms and conditions no less advantageous, as that coverage currently provided by First