secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     FIRST MERCHANTS CORP (FRME)
CIK:        0000712534
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000712534-25-000123
Event type: other
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.10
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

First Merchants shareholders elect four directors, approve say-on-pay and auditor
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- Directors Halderman, Johnson, Kellogg, Rechin elected for one-year terms expiring at 2026 meeting.
- Advisory say-on-pay resolution approved: 41,044,302 for, 3,027,719 against, 135,087 abstain.
- Forvis Mazars, LLP ratified as auditor for 2025: 48,086,570 for, 2,092,977 against, 121,254 abstain.
- Broker non-votes of 6,093,693 on each director and both proposals.
- Annual meeting held May 16, 2025.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712534/000071253425000123/0000712534-25-000123-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712534/000071253425000123/frme-20250516.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000712534-25-000123

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