Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 45

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 45
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practice;

(xi) that is a settlement, consent or similar agreement and contains any material continuing obligations of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

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(xii) that relates to the acquisition or disposition of any person, business
or asset and under which the Company or its Subsidiaries have or may have material ongoing obligations or liabilities (including with respect to any “earn-out,” contingent purchase price or similar
contingent payment obligation, or any material indemnification liability after the date hereof);

(xiii) that is any lease
or other similar contract (whether real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible) pursuant to which the annualized rent or lease payments for the lease year that includes December 31, 2024, as applicable, were in excess of $250,000;

(xiv) that is any contract or agreement that (A) grants the Company or one of its Subsidiaries any right to use any
Intellectual Property (other than “shrink-wrap,” “click-wrap” or “web-wrap” licenses in respect of commercially available software) and that provides for annual payments in
excess of $150,000, (B) permits any third person (including pursuant to any license agreement, coexistence agreements and covenants not to use) to use, enforce or register any Intellectual Property that is owned by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries and that is material to their business, taken as a whole or (C) restricts the right of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries to use or register any Intellectual Property that is owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries; or

(xv) that relates to the pledge of or Lien on any material assets of the Company or its
Subsidiaries.

Each contract, arrangement, commitment or understanding of the type described in this Section 3.14(a), whether or not set forth in the
Company Disclosure Schedule, is referred to herein as a “” and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has knowledge of, or has received written, or to the knowledge of the Company, oral notice of, any
violation of any the Company Contract by any of the other parties thereto which would reasonably be likely to be, either individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The Company has made available
to Parent