Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-242318
Chunk: 206

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 206
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ices.Immediately following the Merger, FMB’s principal office shall be located at 200 East Jackson Street, Muncie, Indiana 47305 and the Bank’s principal office at 702 North Shore Drive, Suite 300,
Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130 shall become a branch office of FMB.

1.4 Savings Accounts.By virtue of the Merger,
savings accounts held at the Bank shall automatically, by operation of law, become savings accounts held at FMB.

ARTICLE II

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION, CODE OF BYLAWS,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

2.1 Name. The name of the surviving bank shall be “First Merchants Bank.”

2.2 Articles of Incorporation.The Articles of Incorporation of FMB shall be the Articles of Incorporation of the
surviving bank.

2.3 Code of Bylaws.The Code of Bylaws of FMB (the “Code of Bylaws”) shall be the Code
of Bylaws of the surviving bank.

2.4 Officers and Directors.The directors of FMB serving immediately before the
Effective Time and Larry W. Myers (subject to the surviving bank’s governance procedures) shall be the directors of the surviving bank and shall hold such offices from the Effective Time until their respective successors are duly elected and
qualified in the manner provided in the Code of Bylaws. The officers of FMB shall all remain officers of the surviving bank and shall hold such offices from the Effective Time until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified in the
manner provided in the Code of Bylaws.

ARTICLE III

CAPITAL STOCK OF THE SURVIVING BANK

3.1 Shares of the Bank. At the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any further action on the part of FMB
or the Bank, all one hundred (100) issued and outstanding shares of the common capital stock of the Bank, whose separate existence shall cease, shall automatically and by operation of law be canceled, void and of no further effect.

3.2 Shares of FMB. At the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any further action on the part of FMB or
the Bank, all one hundred fourteen thousand (114,000) issued and outstanding shares of the common capital stock of FMB, shall represent all of the issued and outstanding shares of the common capital stock of the surviving bank.

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ARTICLE IV

NO DISSENTING SHAREHOLDERS