Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 129

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 129
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 and/or such Shareholders may reasonably request;

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(xi) otherwise use its reasonable best efforts to comply with all applicable
rules and regulations of the SEC and make generally available to its security holders, within the required time period, an earnings statement covering a period of twelve (12) months, beginning with the first fiscal quarter after the effective
date of the Registration Statement relating to such Registrable Securities (as the term “effective date” is defined in Rule 158(c) under the Securities Act), which earnings statement will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of
the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder or any successor provisions thereto;

(xii) provide and cause to be maintained a
transfer agent and registrar for all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement not later than the effective date of such Registration Statement;

(xiii) cooperate with such Shareholders and the lead Underwriter or Underwriters, if any, to facilitate the timely preparation
and delivery of certificates representing the Registrable Securities to be sold under the Registration Statement in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company not bearing any restrictive legends and not subject to any stop
transfer order with any transfer agent, and cause such Registrable Securities to be issued in such denominations and registered in such names as the lead Underwriter or Underwriters, if any, may request in writing or, if not an Underwritten
Offering, in accordance with the instructions of such Shareholders, in each case in connection with the closing of any sale of Registrable Securities;

(xiv) not later than the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement, provide a CUSIP number for all Registrable
Securities;

(xv) furnish to each such Shareholder and each Underwriter, if any, without charge, as many conformed copies
as such Shareholder or Underwriter may reasonably request of the applicable Registration Statement and any amendment or post-effective amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules, all documents incorporated therein by reference
and all exhibits (including those incorporated by reference);

(xvi) make representations and warranties to such
Shareholders and the Underwriters or agents, if any, in form, substance and scope as are customarily made by issuers in secondary offerings;

(xvii) use reasonable best efforts to cooperate with each such Shareholder and each Underwriter, if any, participating in the
disposition of such Registrable Securities and their respective counsel in connection with any filings required to be made with FINRA;

(xviii) use