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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 be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code.

(f) Except as disclosed in the First Savings
Disclosure Letter, no Employee Plan has incurred an “accumulated funding deficiency,” as determined under Section 412 of the Code and Section 302 of ERISA. First Savings has at all times met the minimum funding standard, and
has made all contributions required, under Section 412 of the Code and Section 302 of ERISA. No facts or circumstances exist that may subject First Savings, any Subsidiary, or any First Savings ERISA Affiliate, to any liability under
Sections 4062, 4063 or 4064 of ERISA. Neither First Savings, any Subsidiary nor any First Savings ERISA Affiliate ever has engaged in any transaction within the meaning of Section 4069 of ERISA. Except as disclosed in the First Savings
Disclosure Letter, there exist no facts or circumstances which could subject First Savings, or any First Savings ERISA Affiliate thereof, to withdrawal liability within the meaning of Section 4201 of ERISA or to contingent withdrawal liability
under Section 4204 of ERISA. Neither First Savings nor any First Savings ERISA Affiliate ever has been a party to a transaction within the meaning of Section 4212(c) of ERISA.

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(g) No Employee Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA has been terminated or
incurred a partial termination (either voluntarily or involuntarily), in such a way as to cause material additional liability to First Savings, any Subsidiary or any First Savings ERISA Affiliate.

(h) No claims involving an Employee Plan (other than normal benefit claims) have been filed in a court of law or, to the
knowledge of First Savings’s Management, have been threatened to be filed in a court of law.

(i) Except as set forth
in the First Savings Disclosure Letter, there is no contract, agreement, plan or arrangement covering any employee, director or former employee or director of First Savings or any Subsidiary that, individually or collectively, could give rise to the
payment of any amount that would not be deductible by reason of Section 280G or Section 162(a)(1) of the Code.

(j) To the knowledge of First Savings’s Management, no event has occurred that would cause the imposition of the tax
described in Section 4980B of the Code on First Savings. To the knowledge of First Savings’s Management, First Savings has materially complied with all requirements of Section