Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 84

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 84
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 Statements. The Company shall make available to Parent all
relevant books, records and other supporting information reasonably required for Parent’s review of the Subsequent Unaudited Monthly Financial Statements upon reasonable advance notice and during normal business hours. As soon as practicable
after they become available, the Company shall provide Parent all call reports filed by the Company’s depositary Subsidiaries with any Governmental Entity after the date of this Agreement.

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(e) The Company shall, and shall use reasonable best efforts to cause the Company’s
independent auditor to, cooperate with Parent in connection with the preparation of financial statements of the Company and pro forma financial statements, if any, that Parent informs the Company it intends to file with the SEC, including delivering
such audited and/or unaudited financial statements as Parent may request for inclusion in such filings and using reasonable best efforts to cause the Company’s independent auditor to deliver to Parent any related consents.

6.3 . Not later than 5:00 p.m., Central Standard Time, on the day following the date hereof, the Company
will deliver to Parent the Written Consent.

6.4 . Subject in all respects to Section 6.1, each of
Parent and the Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, use their reasonable best efforts, in each case as promptly as practicable, (a) to take, or cause to be taken, all actions necessary, proper or advisable to comply promptly with
all legal requirements that may be imposed on such party or its Subsidiaries with respect to the Merger and the Bank Merger and, subject to the conditions set forth in Article VII hereof, to consummate the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, (b) to obtain (and to cooperate with the other party to obtain) any material consent, authorization, order or approval of, or any exemption by, any Governmental Entity and any other third party that is required to be obtained by the
Company or Parent or any of their respective Subsidiaries in connection with the Merger, the Bank Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (c) to obtain the tax opinions referenced in Section 7.2(c) and
Section 7.3(e), including by executing and delivering representations contained in certificates of officers of the Company and Parent reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to their respective counsel.

6.5 . Parent shall cause the shares of Parent Common Stock to be issued in the Merger to