secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     FIRST MERCHANTS CORP (FRME)
CIK:        0000712534
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000712534-23-000141
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

First Merchants annual meeting results: director Brooks gets 53% support, say-on-pay approved
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- Director Brooks elected with only 53% of votes cast (23.8M for, 21.0M withheld); 6.3M broker non-votes.
- Other directors elected with >90% support except Fehring (64%) and Lehman (62%).
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with 95% approval (42.4M for, 2.2M against).
- Ratification of Forvis as auditor passed with 49.3M for, 1.7M against.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712534/000071253423000141/0000712534-23-000141-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712534/000071253423000141/frme-20230510.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000712534-23-000141

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