Company: OSBC
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001104659-25-037832
Chunk: 343

Company: OLD SECOND BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: S-4
Chunk 343
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 reasonably satisfactory to Company, to the effect that the conditions set forth in Sections 8.3(a) , 8.3(b) and 8.3(c) have been satisfied.

(e) Federal Tax Opinion . Company shall have received the opinion of Vedder Price P.C. (or other nationally recognized tax counsel), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that, on the basis of facts, representations and assumptions set forth or referred to in such opinion, the Merger will qualify as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code. In rendering such opinion, counsel may require and rely upon representations contained in the Buyer Tax Certificate and the Company Tax Certificate.

#### ARTICLE 9TERMINATION
9.1

#### Termination
. This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Effective Time, whether before or after receipt of the Requisite Company Vote has been obtained (except as otherwise noted) as follows:

(a) by mutual written agreement of Buyer and Company; or

(b) by either Buyer or Company in the event (i) (A) any Regulatory Agency has denied a Requisite Regulatory Approval and such denial has become final, or has advised either Party that it will not grant (or intends to rescind or revoke if previously approved) a Requisite Regulatory Approval, or (B) any Regulatory Agency shall have requested that Buyer, Company, or any of their respective affiliates withdraw (other than for technical reasons), and not be permitted to resubmit within sixty (60) days or has been advised that the applicable Regulatory Agency is unwilling to accept a resubmitted

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application, any application with respect to a Requisite Regulatory Approval; provided, that the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 9.1(b)(i) shall not be available to any Party whose failure to comply with any provision of this Agreement has been the cause of, or resulted in, such denial, lack of grant or request, or (ii) any Law, Order, injunction, decree or other legal restraint permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting or making illegal the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall have become final and nonappealable; provided that the Party seeking to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.1(b)(ii) shall have used its reasonable best efforts to contest, appeal and remove such Law,