Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 100

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 100
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(a) by mutual consent of Parent and the Company in a written instrument;

(b) by either Parent or the Company if any Governmental Entity that must grant a Requisite Regulatory Approval has denied approval of the
Merger or the Bank Merger and such denial has become final and nonappealable or any Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction shall have issued a final nonappealable order, injunction or decree permanently enjoining or otherwise prohibiting or
making illegal the consummation of the Merger or the Bank Merger, unless the failure to obtain a Requisite Regulatory Approval shall be due to the failure of the party seeking to terminate this Agreement to perform or observe the obligations,
covenants and agreements of such party set forth herein;

(c) by either Parent or the Company if the Merger shall not have been
consummated on or before the first (1st) anniversary of the date hereof (the “”) unless the failure of the Closing to occur by such date shall be due to the failure of the party seeking to terminate this
Agreement to perform or observe the obligations, covenants and agreements of such party set forth herein; that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 8.1(c), Parent and the Company may mutually agree in
writing to amend the Termination Date to any other date as they mutually agree;

(d) by either Parent or the Company ( that
the terminating party is not then in material breach of any representation, warranty, obligation, covenant or other agreement contained herein) if there shall have been a breach of any of the obligations, covenants or agreements or any of the
representations or warranties (or any such representation or warranty shall cease to be true) set forth in this Agreement on the part of the Company, in the case of a termination by Parent, or Parent, in the case of a termination by the Company,
which breach or failure to be true, either individually or in the aggregate with all other breaches by such party (or failures of such representations or warranties to be true), would constitute, if occurring or continuing on the Closing Date, the
failure of a condition set forth in Section 7.2, in the case of a termination by Parent, or Section 7.3, in the case of a termination by the Company, and which is not cured by the earlier of the Termination Date and forty-five
(45) days following written notice to the Company, in the case of a termination by Parent, or Parent, in the case