---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-23-042091"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PFS"
cik: "0001178970"
company_name: "PROVIDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2023-12-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T09:44:29.215602+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Provident and Lakeland extend merger agreement deadline to March 31, 2024 for regulatory approvals

## Summary
- Merger termination date extended from December 26, 2023 to March 31, 2024.
- Extension via amendment to Sept 26, 2022 Agreement and Plan of Merger.
- Both parties remain committed to merger; seek additional time for regulatory approvals.
- Combined company to operate under Provident name; no other substantive changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-23-042091
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PFS
- cik: 0001178970
- company_name: PROVIDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2023-12-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828023042091/0001628280-23-042091-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828023042091/pfs-20231220.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  PROVIDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES INC amended Agreement and Plan of Merger with Lakeland Bancorp, Inc. (effective 2023-12-20).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Lakeland Bancorp, Inc.
  - Effective: 2023-12-20
  source text: On December 20, 2023, 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 an amendment (the “Amendment”) to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “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/1178970/000162828023042091/0001628280-23-042091-index.htm

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