Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 93

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 93
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 litigation, suit, subpoena or summons issued, commenced, brought, conducted or heard by or before, or otherwise involving, any

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Governmental Entity or arbitrator pending or, to the knowledge of Parent or the Company, as applicable, threatened against Parent, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries that
(a) questions or would reasonably be expected to question the validity of this Agreement, the Bank Merger Agreement or the other agreements contemplated hereby or thereby or any actions taken or to be taken by Parent, the Company, or their
respective Subsidiaries with respect hereto or thereto, or (b) seeks to enjoin or otherwise restrain the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. The Company shall give Parent the opportunity to participate, at Parent’s expense, in
the Company’s defense or settlement of any shareholder litigation against the Company and/or its directors or executive officers relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger and the Bank Merger. The Company
agrees that it shall not settle or offer to settle any litigation commenced prior to or after the date of this Agreement against the Company or its directors, executive officers or similar persons by any shareholder of the Company relating to this
Agreement, the Merger, the Bank Merger or any other transaction contemplated hereby without the prior written consent of Parent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.

6.15 . Effective as of the Effective Time, Parent shall take all appropriate action to cause to be appointed as a
director of Parent one Company Board Representative. If Parent’s board of directors will consist of greater than eleven (11) members following its 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Parent shall take all appropriate action to cause to
be appointed effective immediately following such meeting a second Company Board Representative as a director of Parent, such that two (2) Company Board Representatives are members of Parent’s board of directors effective immediately
following such meeting. A “” refers to a director of the Company as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, who is mutually agreed by the Company and Parent prior to the Closing;
that the parties agree that Wende Kotouc will be a Company Board Representative. The Company and Parent further agree to the selected governance arrangements set forth in Section 6.15 of the Company Disclosure Schedule.

6.16

(a)
. Wende Kotouc (the “”) shall cause to be prepared any income Tax Returns of the Company and any Subsidiaries of the Company