Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-242318
Chunk: 179

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 179
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 or loss will be recognized by holders of First Savings Common Stock upon the receipt of shares of First Merchants Common Stock in exchange for their shares of First Savings Common
Stock, except to the extent of any cash received in lieu of fractional shares of First Merchants Common Stock; and (ii) Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP confirms that the discussion contained in the Registration Statement under the caption
“Material Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Merger” subject to the limitations, qualifications and assumptions described therein, constitutes its opinion of the material federal income tax consequences of the Merger to a stockholder
who holds shares of First Savings Common Stock as a capital asset. First Merchants agrees to use its reasonable best efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC as promptly as practicable after the filing of the
Registration Statement and to keep the Registration Statement effective so long as is necessary to consummate the Merger and the transactions contemplated hereby. First Merchants agrees to advise First Savings, promptly after First Merchants
receives notice thereof, of the time when the Registration Statement has become effective or any supplement or amendment has been filed, of the issuance of any stop order or the suspension of the qualification of First Merchants Common Stock for
offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threat of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of the receipt of any comment letters from the SEC regarding, or of any request by the SEC for the amendment or supplement of, the
Registration Statement, or for additional information.

(c) . First Merchants shall, prior to the Effective
Time, cause the shares of First Merchants Common Stock to be issued to the holders of shares of First Savings Common Stock in connection with the Merger to be approved for listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, subject to official notice of
issuance.

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8.2 .

(a) First Merchants shall take such action as may be necessary so that, as soon as reasonably practicable following the
Effective Time, employees of First Savings and the Subsidiaries shall be entitled to participate in the employee benefit plans of First Merchants. With respect to each employee benefit plan or benefit arrangement maintained by First Merchants in
which employees of First Savings or the Subsidiaries subsequently participate, for purposes of determining eligibility, vesting, vacation and severance entitlement, First Merchants will ensure that service with First Savings or the Subsidiaries (or
any other entity service with which has previously been credited by