Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-012768
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Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: S-4
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 consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by NWBI and (assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by NWBI) constitutes a valid and binding obligation
of NWBI, enforceable against NWBI in accordance with its terms (except in all cases as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization). The NWBI Common Stock to be issued in the Merger have been validly
authorized and, when issued, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and no current or past shareholder of NWBI will have any preemptive right or similar rights in respect thereof.

(ii) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement by NWBI, nor the consummation by NWBI of the transactions
contemplated hereby, including the Merger and the Subsidiary Bank Mergers, nor NWBI’s compliance with any of the terms or provisions hereof, will (A) violate any provision of the NWBI Articles or the NWBI Bylaws, or (B) assuming that
the consents and approvals referred to in are duly obtained, (1) violate any statute, code, ordinance, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ, decree or injunction applicable to NWBI, any of the NWBI
Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets or (2) violate, conflict with, result in a breach of any provision of or the loss of any benefit under, constitute a default (or an event which, with notice or lapse of time, or both,
would constitute a default) under, result in the termination of or a right of termination or cancellation under, accelerate the performance required by, or result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the respective properties or assets of NWBI or
any of the NWBI Subsidiaries under, any of the terms, conditions or provisions of any note, bond, mortgage, indenture, deed of trust, license, lease, agreement or other instrument or obligation to which NWBI or any of the NWBI Subsidiaries is a
party, or by which they or any of their respective properties or assets may be bound, except (in the case of clause (2) above) for such violations, conflicts, breaches or defaults which would not,

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either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on NWBI.

(e) Consents and Regulatory Appro