Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 44

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 44
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 Agreement;

(vi) (A) that is an agreement for the incurrence of indebtedness by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including any
debt for borrowed money, obligations evidenced by notes, debentures or similar instruments, sale and leaseback transactions, capitalized or finance leases and other similar financing arrangements, or any currency exchange, commodities or other
hedging arrangement or any leasing transaction of the type required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP (other than deposit liabilities, trade payables, federal funds purchased, advances and loans from the Federal Home Loan Bank and securities
sold under agreements to repurchase, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice), or (B) that provides for the guarantee, support, indemnification, assumption or endorsement by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries of, or any similar commitment by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to, the obligations, liabilities or indebtedness of any other person, in the case of each of clauses (A) and (B) above, in the principal
amount of $1,000,000 or more;

(vii) that is any alliance, cooperation, joint venture, shareholders’, partnership or
similar agreement involving a sharing of profits or losses relating to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

(viii) any
broker, distributor, dealer, agency, sales promotion, customer or client referral, underwriter, administrative services, market research, market consulting or advertising agreement;

(ix) that grants or contains any (A) exclusive dealing obligation, (B) “clawback” or similar undertaking
requiring the reimbursement or refund of any fees, (C) “most favored nation” or similar provision granted by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (D) right of first refusal, right of first offer or similar right with
respect to any material assets, rights or properties of the Company or its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;

(x) which
creates future payment obligations in excess of $250,000 per annum (other than any such contracts which are terminable by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries on sixty (60) days or less notice without any required payment or other conditions,
other than the condition of notice), other than extensions of credit, other customary banking products offered by the Company or its Subsidiaries, or derivatives issued or entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with