Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 29

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 29
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 as a result of or in
connection with any disagreements with the Company on a matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedure.

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(b) The records, systems, controls, data and information of the Company and its Subsidiaries
are recorded, stored, maintained and operated under means (including any electronic, mechanical or photographic process, whether computerized or not) that are under the exclusive ownership and direct control of the Company or its Subsidiaries or
accountants (including all means of access thereto and therefrom), except for any non-exclusive ownership and non-direct control that would not reasonably be likely to
be, either individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to comply with all legal and accounting requirements applicable to
the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries. Except as set forth in Section 3.6(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, since January 1, 2023, the Company has not identified any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the
design or operation of its internal control over financial reporting. Since January 1, 2023, the Company has not experienced or effected any material change in internal control over financial reporting.

(c) Since January 1, 2023, (i) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director,
officer, auditor, accountant or Representative (as defined below) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, has received or otherwise had or obtained knowledge of any material complaint, allegation, assertion or claim, whether written or, to the
knowledge of the Company, oral, regarding the accounting or auditing practices, procedures, methodologies or methods (including with respect to loan loss reserves, write-downs, charge-offs and accruals) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
their respective internal accounting controls, including any material complaint, allegation, assertion or written claim that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has engaged in questionable accounting or auditing practices, and (ii) no
employee of or attorney representing the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, whether or not employed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, has reported evidence of a material violation of securities laws, breach of fiduciary duty or similar
violation by the Company