Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-242318
Chunk: 165

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 165
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 Form 10-Q for the six month period ended June 30, 2025, copies of which have previously been delivered to First Savings. 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.

6.20 . Except for Stephens Inc., no agent, broker or other person acting on behalf of First
Merchants or under any authority of First Merchants is or shall be entitled to any commission, broker’s or

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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.

6.21 . First Merchants does not have a shareholder rights plan or except as
expressly provided in the Articles of Incorporation of First Merchants, any other plan, program or agreement involving, restricting, prohibiting or discouraging a change in control or merger of First Merchants or FMB.

6.22 . Except as set forth in the First Merchants Disclosure Letter, neither First Merchants nor any First
Merchants 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 By-Laws of First Merchants and the First Merchants Subsidiaries.

6.23 . Except as would not reasonably be expected, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material
Adverse Effect on First Merchants, to the knowledge of First Merchants, since January 1, 2023, no third party has gained unauthorized access to any information technology networks controlled by and material to the operation of the business of
First Merchants and the First Merchants Subsidiaries.

6.24 . The approval of the stockholders of First
Merchants is not a condition precedent to the consummation of the Merger