Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-030716
Chunk: 158

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 158
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 of its Subsidiaries other than
Liens for current Taxes not yet due and payable.

(ii) No Tax is required to be withheld pursuant to Section 1445 of
the Code as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

(iii) PWOD and its Subsidiaries have withheld or
collected and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Authorities, or are properly holding for such payment, all Taxes required by law to be withheld or collected.

(iv) No claim has ever been made by any Governmental Authority in a jurisdiction where PWOD or any of its Subsidiaries do not
file Tax Returns that PWOD, or any of its Subsidiaries, is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction nor is there any factual basis for any such claim.

(v) Neither PWOD nor any of its Subsidiaries has applied for any ruling from any Governmental Authority with respect to Taxes
nor entered into a closing agreement (or similar arrangement) with any Governmental Authority.

(vi) Neither PWOD nor any
of its Subsidiaries has been audited by any Governmental Authority for taxable years ending on or subsequent to December 31, 2015. No Tax audit or administrative or judicial Tax proceedings of any Governmental Authority are pending or being
conducted with respect to PWOD or any of its Subsidiaries and, to the Knowledge of PWOD, no such audit or other proceeding has been threatened. No Governmental Authority has asserted, is now asserting, or, to the Knowledge of PWOD, is threatening to
assert against PWOD or any of its Subsidiaries any deficiency or claim for additional Taxes.

(vii) Neither PWOD nor any of
its Subsidiaries (A) is a party to any Tax allocation or sharing agreement (other than a tax allocation agreement between and among PWOD and its Subsidiaries), (B) has ever been a member of an affiliated group of corporations, within the
meaning of Section 1504 of the Code, other than an affiliated group of which PWOD is or was the common parent corporation (the “”), or (C) has any liability for the Taxes of any Person (other than members of the
PWOD Group) as a transferee or successor, by contract, or otherwise.

(viii) Neither PWOD nor any of its Subsidiaries has
agreed to any extension of time with respect to any Tax Return or a Tax assessment or deficiency