Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-216443
Chunk: 19

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: 425
Chunk 19
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 10.1(i). As used in this 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 or recommendations promulgated by any international, federal, state or local governmental authority, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health
Organization, in each case, in connection with or in response to the Pandemic.

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(c) Other than required filings with Nasdaq and the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority and the filing of Articles of Merger (the “Articles of Merger”) with the Indiana Secretary of State, the filing of articles of merger, certificates of merger or other filings necessary to consummate the Bank
Merger, and such notices and filings made in connection or in compliance with the banking regulatory approvals contemplated by Section 9.1(c) and federal and state securities laws and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, no notice
to, filing with, authorization of, exemption by, or consent or approval of, any public body or authority is necessary with respect to First Savings or the Bank for the consummation by First Savings or the Bank of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement.

(d) Other than those filings, authorizations, consents and approvals referenced in Section 5.2(c)
above and except as set forth in the First Savings Disclosure Letter, no notice to, filing with, authorization of, exemption by, or consent or approval of, any third party is necessary for the consummation by First Savings or the Bank of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except for such authorizations, exemptions, consents or approvals, the failure of which to obtain, would not be reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

5.3 .

(a) As of the close of business on the business day immediately preceding the date of this Agreement, First Savings has
authorized Twenty-One Million (21,000,000) shares of capital stock, comprised of Twenty Million (20,000,000) authorized shares of First Savings Common Stock, $0.01 par