Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-242318
Chunk: 90

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 90
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ger Agreement and disclosed to First Merchants and payment of any termination fees previously disclosed to
First Merchants with respect to any contracts terminated in contemplation of the Merger, (g) the impact of the announcement of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, and compliance with the Merger Agreement on the
business, financial condition, or results of operations of First Savings and the Subsidiaries, or First Merchants and First Merchants Bank, as applicable, (h) the occurrence of any military or terrorist attack within the United States or any of
its possessions or offices, (i) changes, after the date hereof, resulting from any outbreak of any disease or other public health event (including the Pandemic) and (j) any failure, in and of itself, to meet projections for financial
performance, but not including the underlying causes thereof; except, with respect to clauses (a), (b), (e), (h), and (i), to the extent that the effects of such change are materially disproportionately adverse to the financial condition, results of
operations, or business of such party and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as compared to other companies in the industry (including, in the case of clause (a), material lines of business) in which such party and its subsidiaries operate. In no
event shall a change in the trading price of the First Merchants common stock, by itself, be considered to constitute a Material Adverse Effect on First Merchants or a change in the trading price of First Savings common stock, by itself, be
considered to constitute a Material Adverse Effect on First Savings, it being understood that this sentence shall not (i) prevent or otherwise affect a determination that any effect underlying such decline has resulted in a Material Adverse
Effect or (ii) limit the rights of First Savings or First Merchants under Section 10.1(i) of the Merger Agreement. As used in the Merger Agreement, the term “Pandemic” means any outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics relating to SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, or any evolutions, variations or mutations thereof, or any other viruses (including influenza), and the
governmental and other responses thereto; and the term “Pandemic Measures” means any quarantine, “shelter in place”, “stay at home”, workforce reduction, reduced capacity, social distancing, shut down, closure,
sequester or other directives, guidelines, executive orders, mandates