Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 155

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 155
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 thereof) that does not involve or create an adverse precedent and that would not impose any material restriction on the business of the Company or its Subsidiaries or the Surviving Corporation or its Subsidiaries;

(h) (i) agree or consent to the issuance of any injunction, decree, order or judgment restricting or adversely affecting its or its
Subsidiaries’ respective businesses or operations or (ii) waive or release any material rights or claims other than in the ordinary course of business;

(i) take any 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;

(j) amend the
Company Articles, the Company Bylaws, or comparable organizational or governing documents of any Company Subsidiary;

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(k) merge or consolidate itself or any of its Subsidiaries with any other person, or
restructure, reorganize or completely or partially liquidate or dissolve it or any of its Subsidiaries;

(l) materially
restructure or materially change its investment securities or derivatives portfolio or its interest rate exposure, through purchases, sales or otherwise, or the manner in which the portfolio is classified or reported, except as may be required by
GAAP or by applicable laws, regulations, guidelines or policies imposed by any Governmental Entity or requested by a Governmental Entity;

(m) implement or adopt any change in its accounting principles, practices or methods, other than as may be required by GAAP or by applicable
laws, regulations, guidelines or policies imposed by any Governmental Entity;

(n) enter into a new line of business or change in any
material respect its lending, collateral eligibility, investment, underwriting, risk and asset liability management, interest rate or fee pricing policies and other banking and operating, hedging, securitization and servicing policies (including any
change in the maximum ratio or similar limits as a percentage of its capital exposure applicable with respect to its loan portfolio or any segment thereof), except as required by such policies or applicable law, regulation or policies imposed by any
Governmental Entity;

(o) except pursuant to existing commitments entered into prior to the date of this Agreement and disclosed to Parent
prior to the date of this Agreement, make or acquire, renew, modify or extend any loans that, (A) are outside of the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice or inconsistent