Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000007789-25-000025
Chunk: 124

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 124
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 or the exercise thereof shall be subject to such stop transfer orders and other restrictions as the

Committee may deem advisable under the rules, regulations or other requirements of the SEC, any securities exchange or

market upon which Shares are then listed, and any applicable securities law. If so requested by the Company, the Grantee shall

make a written representation and warranty to the Company that the Grantee will not sell or offer to sell any Shares unless a

registration statement shall be in effect with respect to such Shares under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any

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applicable state securities law or unless the Grantee shall have furnished to the Company an opinion of counsel, in form and

substance satisfactory to the Company, that such registration is not required.

If the Committee determines that the exercise or non-forfeitability of, or delivery of benefits pursuant to, any Award

would violate any applicable provision of securities laws or the listing requirements of any national securities exchange or

national market system on which any of the Company’s equity securities are listed, then the Committee may postpone any such

exercise, non-forfeitability or delivery to comply with all such provisions at the earliest practicable date.

14.6. Clawback . Notwithstanding anything in the Plan or in any Award Agreement to the contrary, the Company will be

entitled to the extent permitted or required by applicable law, including, without limitation, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform

and Consumer Protection Act and the requirements of any exchange on which the Company's shares are listed for trading, any

Company policy, or to comport with good corporate governance practices, in each case, as in effect from time to time to recoup

compensation of whatever kind paid by the Company at any time to a Grantee under this Plan.

14.7. Deferrals of Payment . The Committee may in its discretion permit a Grantee to defer the receipt of payment of cash or

delivery of Shares that would otherwise be due to the Grantee by virtue of the exercise of a right or the satisfaction of vesting or

other conditions with respect to an Award; provided, however, that such discretion shall not apply in the case of a Stock Option

or Stock Appreciation Right that is intended to satisfy the requirements of Treasury Regulations Section 1.409A-1(b)(5)(i)(A)

or (B). If any such deferral is to be permitted by the Committee, the Committee shall establish rules and procedures relating to

such def