Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-049104
Chunk: 6

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 6
---
 broker or other intermediary to hold your common stock rather than having them directly registered with our transfer agent, Equiniti Trust Company, LLC, you will receive instructions directly from your broker or other intermediary in order to vote your shares. Your brokerage firm may also provide the ability to vote your proxy via the Internet, mobile or phone. Please be advised that if you choose to not vote your proxy, your brokerage firm only has the authority under applicable stock market rules to vote your shares in relation to routine matters. The ratification of the appointment of the independent registered public accounting firm is deemed to be a routine matter. Accordingly, we urge you to vote by following the instructions provided by your broker, bank, or other intermediary. We are utilizing Securities and Exchange Commission rules that allow companies to furnish proxy materials to shareholders via the Internet. Accordingly, we are sending a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (“Notice”) to our shareholders of record and beneficial owners, unless they have directed us to provide the materials in a different manner or hold shares of our common stock through our stock-based benefit plans. The Notice provides instructions on how to access and review all of the information contained in the Company’s Proxy Statement and Annual Report to shareholders, as well as how to cast a vote. Shareholders who receive the Notice and who would still like to receive a printed copy of the proxy materials can find instructions for requesting these materials included in the Notice. We plan to mail the Notice to shareholders by March 7, 2025. Persons and groups who beneficially own in excess of 5% of our shares of common stock are required to file certain reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, also referred to below as the “SEC”, regarding such ownership pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). The following table sets forth, as of February 18, 2025, the shares of our common stock beneficially owned by each person known to us who was the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock. Percentage of shares of common stock outstanding are based on 127,514,858 shares of common stock outstanding as of February 18, 2025.

| Name and address of beneficial owners                                                                                |     | Number of shares owned and nature 
 of beneficial ownership (1)       |            |     | Percent of shares of         
 common stock outstanding (2) |      |   |
| BlackRock, Inc. (3)  50 Hudson Yards