Company: CCNE
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-030821
Chunk: 243

Company: CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: S-4
Chunk 243
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 to satisfying the foregoing requirements under CNB’s bylaws, to comply with the universal proxy rules under the Exchange Act, shareholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than CNB’s nominees must provide notice that sets forth the information required by Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act, no later than , 2026.**

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**ESSA 2025 Annual Shareholder Meeting and Shareholder Proposals

ESSA does not anticipate holding a 2025 annual meeting of ESSA shareholders if the merger is completed in the first half of 2025. However, if the merger is not completed within the expected time frame, or at all, ESSA may hold an annual meeting of its shareholders in 2025. ESSA should have received proposals that shareholders intended to include in the proxy statement for ESSA’s next annual meeting by September 23, 2024. If the 2025 annual meeting of ESSA shareholders is held on a date that is more than 30 calendar days from March 7, 2025, a shareholder proposal must be received by a reasonable time before ESSA begins to print and mail its proxy solicitation materials for such annual meeting. Any shareholder proposals will be subject to the requirements of the proxy rules adopted by the SEC.

Under ESSA’s bylaws, a shareholder must follow certain procedures to nominate persons for election as directors or to introduce an item of business at a meeting of shareholders. These procedures provide, generally, that shareholders desiring to make nominations for directors, or to bring a proper subject of business before the meeting, must do so by a written notice timely received 120 days prior to the date of the prior year’s proxy statement. For the annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2025, this deadline was September 23, 2024.

In addition to satisfying the foregoing advance notice requirements under ESSA’s bylaws, to comply with the universal proxy rules under the Exchange Act, shareholders who intended to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than ESSA’s nominees should have provided notice that sets forth the information required by Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act, no later than January 6, 2025.**

<div align='center'>**HOUSEHOLDING OF PROXY MATERIALS**</div>

The SEC has adopted rules that permit companies and intermediaries (e.g., brokers) to satisfy the delivery requirements for proxy statements and