Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-012768
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Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: S-4
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 27, 2025 Registration No. 333- UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM S-4 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 Northwest Bancshares, Inc. (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

| Maryland                        |     |                         6712 |     | 27-0950358            |
| (State or other jurisdiction of 
 incorporation or organization)  |     | -Primary Standard Industrial 
   Classification Code Number |     | -I.R.S. Employer      
 Identification Number |

3 Easton Oval Street, Suite 500, Columbus, Ohio 43219 (814) 726-2140 (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices) Louis J. Torchio President & Chief Executive Officer Northwest Bancshares, Inc. 3 Easton Oval Street, Suite 500, Columbus, Ohio 43219 (814) 726-2140 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) Copies to:

| Christian Gonzalez, Esq.           
 Michael Dailey, Esq.               
 Dinsmore & Shohl LLP               
 199 W. Nationwide Blvd., Suite 200 
 Columbus, Ohio 43215 Phone:        
 (614) 628-6921                     |     | David Swartz, Esq.          
 Stevens & Lee P.C.          
 111 North Sixth Street      
 Reading, Pennsylvania 19603 
 Phone: (610) 478-2184       |

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale of the securities to the public: As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective and all other conditions to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement described in the included proxy statement/prospectus have been satisfied or waived. If the securities being registered on this Form are being offered in connection with the formation of a holding company and there is compliance with General Instruction G, check the following box. ☐ If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐ If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities