Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-216443
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Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: 425
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 Merchants 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 Merchants or any First Merchants ERISA Affiliate.

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

(i) There
is no contract, agreement, plan or arrangement covering any employee, director or former employee or director of First Merchants or any First Merchants 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 Merchants’ Management, no event has occurred that would cause the imposition of the tax described in Section 4980B of the Code on First Merchants or any First Merchants ERISA Affiliate. To the knowledge of First Merchants’
Management, First Merchants has materially complied with all requirements of Section 601 or ERISA, as applicable, with respect to any First Merchants Employee Plan.

(k) The First Merchants Disclosure Letter contains a list of each employment, severance or other similar contract, arrangement
or policy and each plan or arrangement (written or oral) providing for insurance coverage (including any self-insured arrangements), workers’ compensation, disability benefits, supplemental unemployment benefits, vacation benefits, retirement
benefits or deferred compensation, profit sharing, bonuses, stock options, stock appreciation or other forms of incentive compensation or post-retirement insurance, compensation or benefits which (i) is not a First Merchants Employee Plan,
(ii) was entered into, maintained or contributed to, as the case may be, by First Merchants or any First Merchants Subsidiary and (iii) covers any employee, director or former employee or director of First Merchants or any First Merchants
Subsidiary. Such contracts, plans and arrangements as are described above, copies or descriptions of all of which have been furnished previously to First Merchants, are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “First Merchants Benefit Arrangements.” Each of the First Merchants Benefit Arrangements has been maintained in compliance in all material respects with its terms and with the requirements prescribed by any and all