Company: CCNE
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-030821
Chunk: 146

Company: CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: S-4
Chunk 146
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, ESSA and its agents may also solicit proxies by mail, telephone, facsimile or in person. No additional compensation will be paid to directors, officers or other employees of ESSA for making these solicitations.

ESSA has retained a proxy solicitation firm, Laurel Hill Advisory Group, LLC, to aid it in the solicitation process. ESSA estimates it will pay a fee of approximately $7,500 plus certain expenses and has agreed to indemnify Laurel Hill Advisory Group, LLC against certain losses. ESSA intends to reimburse persons who hold ESSA common stock of record but not beneficially, such as brokers, custodians, nominees and fiduciaries, for their reasonable expenses in forwarding copies of proxies and other soliciting materials to, and requesting authority for the exercise of proxies from, the persons for whom they hold the shares.

This joint proxy statement/prospectus and the proxy card are first being sent to ESSA shareholders on or about , 2025.**

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#### Stock Certificates and Book-Entry Shares
If you are an ESSA shareholder, you should not send in any certificates representing ESSA common stock. Following completion of the merger, you will receive instructions for the exchange of your certificates representing ESSA common stock.

If your shares of ESSA common stock are held in book-entry form, you will not be required to take any additional actions. Promptly following the completion of the merger, shares of ESSA common stock held in book-entry form will automatically be exchanged for the merger consideration.

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ESSA PROPOSAL 1 – THE MERGER PROPOSAL**</div>

**ESSA shareholders are being asked to consider and vote on a proposal to approve the merger agreement, a copy of which is attached as Annex A to this joint proxy statement/prospectus. For a summary and detailed information regarding this proposal, see the information about the merger and the merger agreement throughout this joint proxy statement/prospectus, including the information set forth in the sections entitled “The Merger” and “The Merger Agreement” beginning on pages 111 and 155, respectively, of this joint proxy statement/prospectus.

Pursuant to the merger agreement, approval of this proposal is a condition to the consummation of the merger. If this proposal is not approved, the merger will not be completed.

Vote Required for Approval

The affirmative vote of a majority of the