Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 104

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 104
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 “person” means any individual,
corporation (including not-for-profit), general or limited partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, estate, trust, association, organization, Governmental
Entity or other entity of any kind or nature, (c) an “affiliate” of a specified person is any person that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified person, (d) the
term “made available” means any document or other information that was (i) provided by one party or its Representatives to the other party and its Representatives at least one (1) business day prior to the date hereof,
(ii) included in the virtual data room of a party at least one (1) business day prior to the date hereof or (iii) in the case of Parent, filed by Parent with the SEC and publicly available on EDGAR at least one (1) business day
prior to the date hereof and (e) references to a party’s “shareholders” shall mean its shareholders. The Company Disclosure Schedule and the Parent Disclosure Schedule, as well as all other schedules and all exhibits hereto,
shall be deemed part of this Agreement and included in any reference to this Agreement. All references to “dollars” or “$” in this Agreement are to United States dollars. This Agreement shall not be interpreted or construed
to require any person to take any action, or fail to take any action, if to do so would violate any applicable law.

9.7 . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no disclosure, representation or warranty shall be required to be made (or any other action taken) pursuant to this Agreement that would involve the disclosure of
confidential supervisory information of a Governmental Entity by any party hereto to the extent prohibited by applicable law. To the extent legally permissible, appropriate substitute disclosures or actions shall be made or taken under circumstances
in which the limitations of this Section 9.7 apply.

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9.8 . This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (including by
electronic means), all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each of the parties and delivered to the other parties, it being understood that all parties need not
sign the same counterpart.

9.9 . This Agreement (including the Company Disclosure Schedule, Parent Disclosure
Schedule and other documents and the instruments referred to herein) together with the Shareholders’ Agreement and the Confidentiality