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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. First Savings does not have a shareholder rights plan or, except as expressly provided in the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws of First Savings, any other plan, program or agreement involving, restricting,
prohibiting or discouraging a change in control or merger of First Savings or the Bank or which may be considered an anti-takeover mechanism.

5.25 . Except as set forth in the First Savings Disclosure Letter, neither First Savings nor any Subsidiary
is a party to any indemnification, indemnity or reimbursement agreement, contract, commitment or understanding to indemnify any present or former director, officer or shareholder against any liability or hold the same harmless from liability other
than as expressly provided in the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws (or Articles of Organization or LLC Agreement, as applicable) of First Savings or the Subsidiaries.

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5.26 . Except as would not reasonably be expected, either
individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect on First Savings, to the knowledge of First Savings’s Management, since January 1, 2023, no third party has gained unauthorized access to any information technology
networks controlled by and material to the operation of the business of First Savings and its Subsidiaries.

5.27 . First Savings and each Subsidiary owns or has a license to use all of the Intellectual Property (as defined below) used by it in the course of its business, including sufficient rights in each copy possessed by First Savings and each
Subsidiary, as applicable. First Savings and each Subsidiary is the owner of or has a license, with the right to sublicense, to any Intellectual Property sold or licensed to a third party by it in connection with its business operations, and First
Savings and each Subsidiary has the right to convey by sale or license any Intellectual Property so conveyed. To the knowledge of First Savings’s Management, neither First Savings nor any Subsidiary is in material default under any of its
Intellectual Property licenses. To the knowledge of First Savings’s Management, no proceedings have been instituted, or are pending or threatened, which challenge the rights of First Savings or any Subsidiary with respect to Intellectual
Property used, sold, or licensed by it in the course of its business, nor has any person claimed or alleged any rights to such Intellectual Property. To the knowledge of First Savings’s Management, the conduct of the business of First Savings
and the Subs