---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000943374-24-000117"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000846901"
company_name: "LAKELAND BANCORP INC"
filed_at: "2024-03-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T05:38:27.100869+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lakeland and Provident extend merger deadline to June 30, 2024; reduce board to 14 members

## Summary
- Termination date extended from March 31, 2024 to June 30, 2024.
- Combined board size reduced from 16 to 14; Lakeland appointees cut from 7 to 5.
- Provident bylaws amended to reflect new board composition.
- All other terms of the original merger agreement remain unchanged.
- Merger still subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000943374-24-000117
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000846901
- company_name: LAKELAND BANCORP INC
- filed_at: 2024-03-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/846901/000094337424000117/0000943374-24-000117-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/846901/000094337424000117/form8k_032924.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000943374-24-000117.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  LAKELAND BANCORP INC amended Second Amendment with Provident Financial Services, Inc., NL 239 Corp. (effective 2024-03-29).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Provident Financial Services, Inc., NL 239 Corp.
  - Effective: 2024-03-29
  source text: On March 29, 2024, Provident Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Provident”), NL 239 Corp., a Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Provident (“Merger Sub”), and Lakeland Bancorp, Inc., a New Jersey corporation (“Lakeland”), entered into Amendment No. 2 (the “Second Amendment”) to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Original Merger Agreement”), dated as of September 26, 2022, by and among Provident, Merger Sub and Lakeland
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/846901/000094337424000117/0000943374-24-000117-index.htm

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