Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 158

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 158
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 action or
knowingly fail to take any action where such action or failure to act could reasonably be expected to prevent or impede the Merger from qualifying as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code;

(e) knowingly take any action that is intended to or would reasonably be likely to adversely affect or materially delay the ability of Parent
or its Subsidiaries to obtain any necessary approvals of any Governmental Entity required for the transactions contemplated hereby or to perform its covenants and agreements under this Agreement or to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby
or thereby; or

(f) agree to take, make any commitment to take, or adopt any resolutions of its board of directors or similar governing
body in support of, any of the actions prohibited by this Section 5.3.

ARTICLE VI

ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS

6.1 .

(a) Parent (with the Company’s reasonable cooperation) shall promptly prepare and file with the
SEC the S-4 in respect of the shares of Parent Common Stock to be issued (other than to the Voting Shareholders) in connection with the Merger. Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to make such filing within forty-five

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(45) days of the date of this Agreement. Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to have the S-4 declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicable after such filing and
to keep the S-4 effective for so long as necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Parent shall also use its reasonable best efforts to obtain all necessary state securities law or “Blue Sky” permits and
approvals required to carry out the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as promptly as practicable, and the Company shall furnish all information concerning the Company and its Subsidiaries and the holders of Company Common Stock as may be
reasonably requested in connection with any such action.

(b) The parties hereto shall cooperate with each other and use their reasonable
best efforts to promptly prepare and file all necessary documentation, to effect all applications, notices, petitions and filings (and in the case of the applications, notices, petitions and filings required to obtain the Requisite Regulatory
Approvals, use their reasonable best efforts to make such filings within thirty (30) days of the date of this Agreement), to obtain as promptly as practicable all permits, consents, approvals and authorizations of all third parties and
Governmental Entities which are necessary or advisable to consummate the transactions contemplated