Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 35

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 35
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, excise, windfall profits, intangibles, franchise,
backup withholding, value added, alternative or add-on minimum, estimated and other taxes, charges, fees, levies or like assessments in the nature of a tax together with all penalties and additions to tax and
interest thereon.

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(h) As used in this Agreement, the term “” means any return,
declaration, report, claim for refund, estimate, or information return or statement relating to Taxes, including any schedule or attachment thereto, and including any amendment thereof, supplied or required to be supplied to a Governmental Entity.

(i) As used in this Agreement, the term “” means the regulations (including temporary regulations)
promulgated by the United States Department of the Treasury pursuant to and in respect of the provisions of the Code.

3.12
.

(a) Section 3.12(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule lists all material
Company Benefit Plans. For purposes of this Agreement, “” means all employee benefit plans (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
(“”)), whether or not subject to ERISA, and all bonus, stock option, stock purchase, restricted stock, incentive, deferred compensation, medical, life, retiree medical or life insurance, pension or retirement, supplemental
retirement, severance plans, programs, agreements or arrangements, and all retention, bonus, employment, severance plans, programs or arrangements that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries maintains, contributes to, sponsors, by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, or to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has any direct or indirect liability, for the benefit of any current or former employee, officer, director or individual independent contractor of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.

(b) The Company has heretofore made available to Parent true and complete copies of each Company Benefit Plan and the
following related documents, to the extent applicable: (i) the current plan document (or for an unwritten material Company Benefit Plan, a written description of the material terms thereof) and the current trust agreement or other funding
documents, (ii) all summary plan descriptions and amendments and material modifications, (iii) the annual report (Form 5500), if any, filed with the IRS for the last two (2) plan years, (iv) the most recently received IRS
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