Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 43

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 43
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 applicable laws and regulations, (ii) none of the Company, any of its
Subsidiaries, or any of its or its Subsidiaries’ directors, officers or employees, has committed any breach of trust or fiduciary duty with respect to any such fiduciary account, and the accountings for each such fiduciary account are true and
correct and accurately reflect the assets and results of such fiduciary account and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written or, to the knowledge of the Company, oral, customer demands, complaints or other
communications that are unresolved and which assert facts or circumstances that would, if true, constitute a breach of trust with respect to any fiduciary or agency account.

3.14 .

(a) Except as set forth in Section 3.14(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, as of the date hereof, neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is a party to or bound by any contract, arrangement, commitment or understanding (whether written or oral, but excluding any Company Benefit Plan):

(i) which contains a provision that restricts the conduct of any line of business by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
upon consummation of the Merger will restrict the ability of the Surviving Corporation or any of its affiliates to engage in any line of business or in any geographic region;

(ii) that is a contract with one of the Company’s top ten (10) suppliers, based on the aggregate amount spent by the
Company and its Subsidiaries with respect to such supplier during the twelve (12) months ended December 31, 2024;

(iii) which contains a provision prohibiting the Company or its Subsidiaries or upon consummation of the Merger will prohibit
the Surviving Corporation or any of its affiliates from soliciting customers, clients or employees;

(iv) which is a
collective bargaining agreement or similar agreement with any labor organization;

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(v) any of the material benefits of or obligations under which will arise or
be increased or accelerated by the occurrence of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, receipt of the Written Consent or the announcement or consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or under which a right of
cancellation or termination will arise as a result thereof, or the value of any of the benefits of which will be calculated on the basis of any of the transactions contemplated by this