Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 210

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 210
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 where such information is
normally kept, any financial and other records and corporate documents of Parent (collectively, the “”) as will be reasonably necessary to enable them to conduct reasonable and customary due diligence with respect to Parent
and the related Registration Statement and Prospectus and request the Representatives of Parent and its Subsidiaries to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Inspector; , , that Records and information
obtained hereunder will be used by such Inspectors only for purposes of conducting such due diligence;

(ix) use its
reasonable best efforts to obtain and deliver to each Underwriter and each such Shareholder in an Underwritten Offering a comfort letter from the independent registered public accounting firm for Parent (and additional comfort letters from the
independent registered public accounting firm for any company acquired by Parent whose financial statements are included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement) in customary form and covering such matters as are customarily
covered by comfort letters as such Underwriter and such Shareholders may reasonably request;

(x) use its reasonable best
efforts to obtain and deliver to each Underwriter and each such Shareholder in an Underwritten Offering a 10b-5 statement and legal opinion from Parent’s external counsel in customary form and covering
such matters as are customarily covered by 10b-5 statements and legal opinions delivered to Underwriters in Underwritten Offerings as such Underwriter and/or such Shareholders may reasonably request;

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(xi) otherwise use its reasonable best efforts to comply with all applicable
rules and regulations of the SEC and make generally available to its security holders, within the required time period, an earnings statement covering a period of twelve (12) months, beginning with the first fiscal quarter after the effective
date of the Registration Statement relating to such Registrable Securities (as the term “effective date” is defined in Rule 158(c) under the Securities Act), which earnings statement will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of
the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder or any successor provisions thereto;

(xii) provide and cause to be maintained a
transfer agent and registrar for all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement not later than the effective date of such Registration Statement;

(xiii) cooperate with such Shareholders and the lead Underwriter or Underwriters, if any, to facilitate the timely preparation
and delivery of certificates representing the Registrable Securities to be sold under the Registration Statement in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company not bearing any restrictive legends