Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 123

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 123
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03. . If at any time after the Closing Date and in addition to the Shareholders’ rights in
Section 2.01 and Section 2.02, Parent proposes to file a registration statement under the Securities Act or consummate an Underwritten Offering with respect to an offering of Parent Common Stock for (a) Parent’s own account
(other than a Registration Statement on Form S-4 or S-8 (or any substitute form that may be adopted by the SEC)) or (b) the account of any holder of Parent Common
Stock (other than a Shareholder), then Parent shall give written notice of such proposed filing or Underwritten Offering to the Shareholders as soon as practicable (but in no event less than five (5) business days before the anticipated filing
date). Upon a written request given by any Shareholders to Parent within three (3) business days after delivery of any such notice by Parent, to include Registrable Securities in such registration or Underwritten Offering, as applicable (which
request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such registration or Underwritten Offering, as applicable), Parent shall, subject to the following proviso, include all such requested Registrable Securities in
such registration or Underwritten Offering, as applicable, on the same terms and conditions as applicable to Parent’s or such holder’s shares of Parent Common Stock (a “”); ,
, that if at any time after giving written notice of such proposed filing or Underwritten Offering, as applicable, and prior to the effective date of the Registration Statement filed in connection with such registration, or the
consummation of such Underwritten

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Offering, as applicable, Parent shall determine for any reason not to proceed with the proposed registration or disposition, as applicable, of the Parent Common Stock, then Parent may, at its
election, give written notice of such determination to such Shareholders and, thereupon, will be relieved of its obligation to register any Registrable Securities in connection with such registration, or dispose of any Registrable Securities in
connection with such Underwritten Offering, as applicable. Such Shareholders shall, subject to Section 2.06(b), enter into a customary underwriting agreement with the Underwriter or Underwriters selected by Parent with respect to any
Registrable Securities sold by such Shareholders pursuant to this Section 2.03. No registration of Registrable Securities effected pursuant to a request under this Section 2.03 shall relieve Parent of its obligations under
Section 2