Company: CCNE
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-044149
Chunk: 146

Company: CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 146
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 by complying with the instructions provided to you by your bank, broker, trustee or other nominee with this joint proxy statement/prospectus.

Accordingly, you are urged to mark and return the enclosed proxy card to indicate your vote, or fill out the voter instruction form, if applicable.

Abstentions will be counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at the special meeting. Abstentions will have no effect on any of the proposals.

Proxy Solicitation

If you are an ESSA shareholder, the enclosed proxy is solicited by and on behalf of the ESSA Board of Directors. ESSA will pay the expenses of soliciting proxies to be voted at the special meeting, including any attorneys’ and accountants’ fees, except ESSA and CNB have each agreed to share equally the costs of filing, printing and mailing this joint proxy statement/prospectus. Following the original mailing of the proxies and other soliciting materials, ESSA and its agents may also solicit proxies by mail, telephone, facsimile or in person. No additional compensation will be paid to directors, officers or other employees of ESSA for making these solicitations.

ESSA has retained a proxy solicitation firm, Laurel Hill Advisory Group, LLC, to aid it in the solicitation process. ESSA estimates it will pay a fee of approximately $7,500 plus certain expenses and has agreed to indemnify Laurel Hill Advisory Group, LLC against certain losses. ESSA intends to reimburse persons who hold ESSA common stock of record but not beneficially, such as brokers, custodians, nominees and fiduciaries, for their reasonable expenses in forwarding copies of proxies and other soliciting materials to, and requesting authority for the exercise of proxies from, the persons for whom they hold the shares.

This joint proxy statement/prospectus and the proxy card are first being sent to ESSA shareholders on or about , 2025.**

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#### Stock Certificates and Book-Entry Shares
If you are an ESSA shareholder, you should not send in any certificates representing ESSA common stock. Following completion of the merger, you will receive instructions for the exchange of your certificates representing ESSA common stock.

If your shares of ESSA common stock are held in book-entry form, you will not be required to take any additional actions. Promptly following the completion of the merger, shares of ESSA common stock held in book-entry form will