---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001471265-25-000071"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NWBI"
cik: "0001471265"
company_name: "Northwest Bancshares, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T08:00:59.766847+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Northwest Bancshares receives all regulatory and shareholder approvals for Penns Woods merger

## Summary
- Received FDIC, Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities, and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland approvals.
- Penns Woods shareholders approved merger at a special meeting on April 22, 2025.
- Merger completion expected in late July 2025.
- Agreement and Plan of Merger dated December 16, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001471265-25-000071
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NWBI
- cik: 0001471265
- company_name: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471265/000147126525000071/0001471265-25-000071-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471265/000147126525000071/nwbi-20250423.htm

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