Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-237211
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Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form: S-4
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SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS FOR NEXT YEAR

First Merchants

If the Merger is
completed, First Savings shareholders will become shareholders of First Merchants. Proposals of shareholders pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act intended to be presented at the 2026 annual meeting of
First Merchants must be received by the Secretary of First Merchants at its principal office by December 2, 2025, for inclusion in the proxy statement and form of proxy relating to that meeting. If notice of any other shareholder proposal
intended to be presented at the 2026 annual meeting of First Merchants is not received by the First Merchants on or before February 15, 2026, the proxy solicited by the Board of Directors for use in connection with that meeting may confer
authority on the proxies to vote in their discretion on such proposal, without any discussion in the proxy statement for that meeting of either the proposal or how such proxies intend to exercise their voting discretion. The submission of a
shareholder proposal does not guarantee that it will be included in the proxy statement.

First Merchants’ Bylaws include separate
advance notice provisions applicable to shareholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees for election at an annual meeting of shareholders, other than First Merchants’ nominees, or to bring proposals before an annual
meeting of shareholders other than pursuant to Rule 14a-8. These advance notice provisions require that, among other things, shareholders give timely written notice to the Secretary of the First Merchants
regarding such nominations or proposals and provide the information and satisfy the other requirements set forth in First Merchants’ Bylaws. To be timely, a shareholder must provide the information set forth in Article IV, Section 10, of
First Merchants’ Bylaws (which includes information required under Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act) to the Secretary of First Merchants no earlier than January 16, 2026, and no later than
February 15, 2026. However, if the date of the 2026 annual meeting of First Merchants is more than 30 days before, or more than 60 days after, the anniversary of the 2025 annual meeting date, then the information must be received no earlier
than the 120 day prior to the 2026 annual meeting date, and not later than (i)