Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-043349
Chunk: 5

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: S-8
Chunk 5
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ed, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do
not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with
or furnished to the SEC by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated
by reference in the Registration Statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered that remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

| (b) | That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant       
 to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of the Plan’s annual                            
 report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall               
 be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time 
 shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.                                                                             |

| (h) | Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling           
 persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the      
 SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that      
 a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director,    
 officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,    
 officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel   
 the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification 
 by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.               |

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