Company: PFIS
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-021551
Chunk: 83

Company: PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 83
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 an annual meeting that is called for a date that is not within 30 days before or after the anniversary
date of the immediately preceding annual meeting, or in the case of a special meeting, any such proposal must be received not later than
the close of business on the 5th day following the earlier of the day on which notice of the date of the meeting was mailed or public
disclosure of the meeting date was made.

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In addition to satisfying
the foregoing requirements under the Company’s bylaws, to comply with the SEC’s universal proxy rules, shareholders who intend
to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the Company’s nominees must provide notice that sets forth the information
required by Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act no later than March 10, 2026. Any shareholder nomination that fails to comply
with the advance notice requirements of our Bylaws or with the requirements set forth in Rule 14a-19 will be disregarded by the Company.

A shareholder’s notice
must set forth (i) the name and address of the shareholder who intends to bring the business before the meeting (“Proposing
Shareholder”); (ii) the name and address of the beneficial owner, if different than the Proposing Shareholder, or any of the
shares of Peoples common stock which are owned of record and beneficially by the Proposing Shareholder and the number which are owned
beneficially by any beneficial owner; (iii) any interest (other than an interest solely as a shareholder) which the Proposing Shareholder
or a beneficial owner has in the business being proposed by the Proposing Shareholder; (iv) a description of all arrangements and
understandings between the Proposing Shareholder and any beneficial owner and any other person or persons (naming such person or persons)
pursuant to which the proposal in the shareholder notice is being made; (v) a description of the business which the Proposing Shareholder
seeks to bring before the meeting, the reason for doing so and, if a specific action is to be proposed, the text of the resolution or
resolutions which the Proposing Shareholder proposes that the Company adopt; and (vi) a representation that the Proposing Shareholder
is at the time of giving the shareholder notice, was or will be on the record date for the meeting, and will be on the meeting date a
holder of record of shares of the Company entitled to vote at