Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 175

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 175
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Returns of Company or any of its Subsidiaries for Pre-Closing Tax Periods, (vi) change any accounting method or adopt any convention for Company or any of its Subsidiaries that shifts taxable income from
a post-Closing Tax Period to a Pre-Closing Tax Period or shifts deductions or losses from a Pre-Closing Tax Period to a post-Closing Tax Period or (vii) take any
action after the Closing or the Closing Date outside the ordinary course of business (except as provided in this Agreement or any other accompanying document), in each case, to the extent such action would reasonably be expected to result in Tax
liability of the owners of the Company prior to the Effective Time under applicable law.

ARTICLE VII

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

7.1 . The respective obligations of the parties to effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of the following
conditions:

(a) . The Company shall have received the Written Consent.

(b) . The shares of Parent Common Stock that shall be issuable pursuant to this Agreement shall have been
authorized for listing on the NYSE, subject to official notice of issuance.

(c) . The
S-4 shall have become effective under the Securities Act and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the S-4 shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the SEC and not withdrawn.

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(d) . No order, injunction or decree issued
by any court or Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction or other legal restraint or prohibition preventing the consummation of the Merger, the Bank Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be in effect. No
law, statute, rule, regulation, order, injunction or decree shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by any Governmental Entity which prohibits or makes illegal consummation of the Merger, the Bank Merger or any of the other
material transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

(e) . All regulatory authorizations, consents, orders or
approvals (i) from the Federal Banking Agencies and (ii) set forth in Sections 3.4 and 4.4 which are necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger and the Bank Merger, or those the failure of
which to be obtained would reasonably be likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Parent or