Terrence E Bichsel Form 4 FIRSTMERIT / TERRENCE E BICHSEL ownership change

SEC Form 4

FORM 4

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*

BICHSEL TERRENCE E

(Last) (First) (Middle)

III CASCADE PLAZA

(Street)

AKRON OH 44308

(City) (State) (Zip)

2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
FIRSTMERIT CORP /OH/ [ FMER ]

5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

	Director	10% Owner
X	Officer (give title below)	Other (specify below)
Sr. Exec. Vice President/CFO

3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
03/03/2016

4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X	Form filed by One Reporting Person
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Common Stock	03/03/2016		A		5,502(1)(2)	A	$0.00	157,653	D
Common Stock	03/03/2016		F		1,822	D	$21.11	155,831	D
Common Stock	03/03/2016		A		4,663(2)	A	$0.00	156,576	D
Common Stock	03/03/2016		F		1,544	D	$21.11	155,032	D
Common Stock								156,774	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

1. This reflects the vesting of certain performance based restricted stock units, originally granted on April 5, 2013, with respect to 1/3 of the original award based on performance during the 2015 performance period. 4,623 of these shares were previously reported on a Form 4 filed on April 9, 2013, and are reported again due to the vesting of those shares, plus an additional 879 previously unreported shares on March 3, 2016. The total securities owned has been updated to reflect this vesting and the prior reporting.

2. This reflects the vesting of certain performance based restricted stock units, originally granted on April 16, 2014, with respect to 1/3 of the original award based on performance during the 2015 performance period. 3,918 of these shares were previously reported on a Form 4 filed on April 22, 2014, and are reported again due to the vesting of those shares, plus an additional 745 previously unreported shares on March 3, 2016. The total securities owned has been updated to reflect this vesting and the prior reporting.

Remarks:

	By: Carlton E. Langer For: Terrence E. Bichsel	03/07/2016
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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