Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 84

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 84
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 other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a shareholder, the shareholder must give timely notice. To be timely, a shareholder’s notice must be delivered to or mailed and                         
 received at the principal executive offices of Associated not less than 75 days nor more than 90 days before the anniversary of Associated’s annual meeting of shareholders in the immediately preceding year, provided, however, than in the event  
 that no annual meeting was held in the previous year or the annual meeting is called for a date that is not within 30 days before or after the anniversary date of the previous year’s annual meeting, to be timely, notice by the shareholder must  
 be so received not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which such notice of the date of the meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of the meeting was made, whichever occurs first.              |     | Neither the American National articles nor the American National bylaws include any advance notice or nomination procedures.                                                                                                                     |
| Indemnification of Directors and Officers:                                   |     | The Associated bylaws provide that Associated shall indemnify a director, officer, employee, or agent to the extent he or she has been successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of any proceeding, for all reasonable                    
 expenses. In other cases, Associated shall indemnify a director, officer, employee, or agent against liability and expenses incurred by such person in a proceeding unless it shall have been proven by final judicial adjudication that such person 
 breached or filed to perform a duty owed to Associated which constituted a willful failure to deal fairly with Associated or its shareholders in connection with a matter in which the individual has a material conflict interest, a violation of   
 criminal law unless the individual had reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was lawful or no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful, a transaction from which the individual derived an improper personal profit, or  
 willful misconduct. Unless provided otherwise by a written agreement with such director, officer, employee or agent, such person’s right to indemnification is                                                                                       |     | The American National articles provide that each director, whether or not then in office, shall be indemnified by American National against all cost and expenses reasonably incurred by or imposed upon such director in connection             
 with or resulting from any civil or criminal action, suit, or proceeding to which the director may be made apart by reason of being or having been an American National director, except in relation to matters in which the director has