Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
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Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
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 the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries that has not been resolved in full. There are no pending or threatened (in writing) disputes, claims, audits, examinations or other proceedings regarding any material Taxes of the Company and its Subsidiaries or the assets of the
Company and its Subsidiaries. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been informed in writing in the past three (3) years by any jurisdiction that the jurisdiction believes that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries was required
to file any Tax Return that was not filed or was liable for any amount of Taxes that was not paid. No closing agreements, private letter rulings, technical advice memoranda or similar agreements or rulings have been entered into with or issued by
any Governmental Entity with respect to Taxes or Tax Returns of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that would bind the Company or such Subsidiary in any taxable period (or portion thereof) ending after the Closing. There are no Liens for
material Taxes (except Taxes not yet due and payable) on any of the assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or is bound by any Tax sharing, allocation or indemnification
agreement or arrangement (other than such an agreement or arrangement (i) exclusively between or among the Company and its Subsidiaries or (ii) entered into in the ordinary course of business which does not primarily relate to Taxes).

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(d) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (A) is or has been a member of an
affiliated group filing a consolidated federal income Tax Return (other than a group the common parent of which was the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) or (B) has any liability for the Taxes of any person (other than the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries) under Treasury Regulations Section 1.1502-6 (or any similar provision of state, local or foreign law), as a transferee or successor, by contract or otherwise (other than as a result of any agreement or arrangement entered into
in the ordinary course of business which does not primarily relate to Taxes). Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been, within the past two (2) years or otherwise as part of a “plan (or series of related
transactions)” within the meaning of Section 355