Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 126

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 126
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 rata among any other holders of shares of Parent Common Stock requested to be registered, or disposed of, as applicable, so that the
total number of Parent Common Stock to be included in any such offering for the account of all such persons will not exceed the number recommended by such lead Underwriter.

Section 2.06. . (a) In connection with the registration of the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant
hereto, Parent will as promptly as reasonably practicable:

(i) but no less than three (3) business days prior to the
initial filing of a Registration Statement, furnish to the relevant Shareholders copies of such Registration Statement as it is proposed to be filed, and thereafter such copies of such Registration Statement as filed, each amendment and supplement
thereto (in each case including all exhibits thereto, including each preliminary Prospectus), any agreement with Underwriters related to such offering and such other documents in such quantities as such Shareholders may reasonably request from time
to time in order to facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities (including in connection with any Underwritten Offering), and give such Shareholders and their Representatives a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on the same
prior to filing any such documents, it being understood that Parent shall not file any such Registration Statement containing any statements with respect to the Shareholders or the “Plan of Distribution” relating to the Shareholders to
which the Shareholders shall reasonably object in writing; that Parent shall incorporate all reasonable comments from the Shareholders regarding disclosure about them and the Plan of Distribution;

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(ii) cause Parent’s Representatives to supply all information
reasonably requested by the relevant Shareholders, any Underwriter or their respective Representatives in connection with the Registration Statement or Underwritten Offering that is customarily provided by issuers and their Representatives in
connection with a registration statement or Underwritten Offering;

(iii) use its reasonable best efforts to register or
qualify such Registrable Securities under such other securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions as the relevant Shareholders reasonably request; , , that Parent shall in no event be required to
(w) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified, (x) subject itself to taxation in any jurisdiction where it is not otherwise then so subject, (y) take any action that would subject it to
service of process in suits other than those arising out of the offer and sale of the securities covered by the Registration Statement or (z) consent to general service of process in any jurisdiction