Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-012768
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Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: S-4
Chunk 41
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”on your proxy card or ballot at the special meeting, or if your shares of Penns Woods common stock are held in “street name” and you fail to instruct your broker how to vote, it will have no effect on the proposals. A quorum, shareholders entitled to cast at least a majority of the votes which all shareholders are entitled to cast on a matter, must be present virtually or by proxy, to take action on that matter at the Penns Woods Special Meeting. A properly executed proxy card marked “ ABSTAIN” or voting instructions via the internet or by telephone instructing abstention will be counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present. The Penns Woods board of directors does not expect any matter other than the adoption and approval of the Merger Agreement, the approval of the specified compensation and, if necessary, the approval of the adjournment of the special meeting to solicit additional proxies, to be brought before the Penns Woods Special Meeting. Solicitation and Revocation of Proxies A proxy card accompanies each copy of this proxy statement/prospectus mailed to Penns Woods shareholders. Your proxy is being solicited by the board of directors of Penns Woods. Whether or not you attend the special meeting, the Penns Woods board of directors urges you to promptly submit your proxy by telephone, over the internet, or by mail by returning your properly executed proxy card as soon as possible. If you timely submit your properly executed proxy card prior to the Penns Woods Special Meeting or timely submit your voting instructions via the internet or by telephone and do not revoke it prior to its use, the Penns Woods common stock represented by that proxy card will be voted at the special meeting or, if appropriate, at any adjournment of the special meeting. Penns Woods’ common stock will be voted as specified on the proxy card or pursuant to your voting instructions via the internet or by telephone or, in the absence of specific instructions to the contrary, will be voted “FOR”the adoption and approval of the Merger Agreement, “FOR”the approval of the specified compensation and, “FOR”the approval of the adjournment of the special meeting, if necessary, to solicit additional proxies. If you have returned a properly executed proxy card, you may revoke it at any time before a vote is taken at the special meeting:

| • |     | by telephone, by calling the toll-free number indicated on the accompanying proxy card and following the recorded 
 instructions;                                                                                                     |

| • |     | through the internet