Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 120

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 120
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 seasoned issuer but is
eligible to file a 415 Shelf Registration Statement, Parent will file, within ten (10) business days of the First Sale Date, a 415 Shelf Registration Statement useable for the resale of Registrable Securities under the Securities Act from and
after the First Sale Date, in accordance with the methods of distribution elected by such Shareholders and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such 415 Shelf Registration Statement to become effective under the Securities Act with
forty-five (45) days of filing. Such 415 Shelf Registration Statement shall contain any intended method of distribution of the Registrable Securities specified in writing by any Shareholder and contemplated hereby.

(b) . Until the earlier of (i) such time as all Registrable Securities cease to be Registrable Securities
or (ii) Parent is no longer eligible to maintain a Shelf Registration Statement, Parent will keep current and effective any Shelf Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2.01(a), and file such supplements or amendments to such
Shelf Registration Statement as may be necessary or appropriate in order to keep such Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective and useable for the resale of Registrable Securities under the Securities Act. In the event that Parent is no
longer eligible to maintain a Shelf Registration Statement, Parent shall provide written notice to the Shareholders of such ineligibility within five (5) business days of the date on which Parent becomes aware of such ineligibility. Parent
shall use reasonable best efforts to cause the Registrable Securities to, on or prior to the Closing Date, be qualified for trading on any securities exchange on which the Parent Common Stock is listed or quoted.

(c) . Following the Closing Date, each Shareholder shall have the right to use any Shelf
Registration Statement then effective to Transfer all or a portion of its Registrable Securities (i) in an unrestricted number of brokered transactions and (ii) Underwritten Offerings in accordance with Section 2.01(d).

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(d) . Upon the receipt
by Parent of a written request from any Shareholder that desires to sell Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement, Parent will give written notice of such request to all other Shareholders, which
notice shall be given in any event within five (5) business days of the date on which Parent received the initial request. Any other Shareholders that desire to sell Registrable Securities in such Underwritten Offering shall give written notice
to Parent within five (5) business days after the date Parent