---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-24-013790"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PFS"
cik: "0001178970"
company_name: "PROVIDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2024-03-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T05:12:35.458031+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Provident Financial and Lakeland Bancorp extend merger deadline to June 30, 2024; reduce Lakeland board seats

## Summary
- Merger termination date extended from March 31, 2024 to June 30, 2024 via Amendment No. 2.
- Combined board size reduced to 14 directors; Lakeland to have 5 seats (down from 7).
- Other terms of the merger agreement remain unchanged per the amendment.
- This is the second amendment to the original September 2022 merger deal between PFS and LBAI.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-24-013790
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PFS
- cik: 0001178970
- company_name: PROVIDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2024-03-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828024013790/0001628280-24-013790-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828024013790/pfs-20240329.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  PROVIDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES INC amended Second Amendment with Lakeland Bancorp, Inc. (effective 2024-03-29).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Lakeland Bancorp, Inc.
  - 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, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Original Merger Agreement, dated as of December 20, 2023 (the “First Amendment” and the Original Merger Agreement, as amended by the First Amendment and the Second Amendment, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among Provident, Merger Sub and Lakeland.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1178970/000162828024013790/0001628280-24-013790-index.htm

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