Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 194

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 194
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invalidate, impair, or otherwise adversely affect such Shareholder’s rights under this Agreement, (ii) to amend Parent’s articles of incorporation or by-laws in a manner that would adversely
affect the rights or privileges of such Shareholder relative to other holders of Parent Common Stock, (iii) to approve any merger agreement or transaction involving a Parent Change of Control (unless unanimously approved by all directors,
including Wende Kotouc), or (iv) any action that would reasonably be expected to materially increase such Shareholder’s liability or obligations, reduce its economic rights, or impose additional restrictions on transferability of its
shares beyond those expressly agreed herein.

(b) Each Shareholder shall, and shall direct each of its Permitted Transferees, use
commercially reasonable efforts to be present in person or represented by proxy at all meetings of security holders of Parent so that all Voting Securities Beneficially Owned by such Shareholder and its Permitted Transferees are counted as present
for the purpose of determining the presence of a quorum, that no Shareholder shall be obligated to attend any meeting in person if it is able to be represented by proxy thereat.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Article III shall cease to apply following a Parent Change of Control Transaction.

ARTICLE IV

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 4.1 . Each Shareholder, severally and not jointly, hereby represents and warrants to Parent as follows:

(i) Such Shareholder has the requisite capacity and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, to perform its obligations hereunder and
to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. This Agreement has been duly authorized (to the extent authorization is required), executed and delivered by such Shareholder and, assuming this Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding
obligation of Parent, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Shareholder, enforceable against such Shareholder in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

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(ii) The execution and delivery of this Agreement by such Shareholder does not, and the
performance by such Shareholder of its obligations under this Agreement will not, (a) violate any law applicable to the Shareholder or the Covered Shares or (b) conflict with, or result in a breach or default under, any agreement or
instrument to which the Shareholder is a party, except where such conflict, breach or default would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a materially adverse