Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
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Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 132
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affecting Parent or its securities and the disclosure of such information at such time would be materially detrimental to Parent or the holders of its Parent Common Stock, or (D) require the inclusion in such Shelf Registration Statement or
Registration Statement, as applicable, of financial statements that are not reasonably available to Parent for reasons beyond Parent’s control, Parent shall be entitled, from time to time, by providing prior written notice to the Shareholders,
to require the Shareholders to suspend the use of the Prospectus included in any Shelf Registration Statement or to postpone the filing or suspend the use of any Registration Statement for a reasonable period of time not to exceed ninety
(90) days in succession (or a longer period of time with the prior written consent of the Shareholders owning a majority of the Covered Shares, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), one hundred and twenty (120) days in the
aggregate in any one (1)-year period or two (2) times in any one (1)-year period (a “”). In the event of any such suspension pursuant to this Section 2.08(a), Parent shall furnish to the Shareholders a
written notice setting forth the estimated length of the anticipated delay. Parent will use reasonable best efforts to limit the length of any Suspension Period and shall notify the Shareholders promptly upon the termination of the Suspension
Period. Notice of the commencement of a Suspension Period shall simply specify such commencement and shall not contain any facts or circumstances relating to such commencement or any material non-public
information. Parent shall respond promptly to reasonable inquiry by a Shareholder as to such facts and circumstances. Upon notice by Parent to the Shareholders of any determination to commence a Suspension Period, the Shareholders shall keep the
fact of any such Suspension Period strictly confidential, and during any Suspension Period, promptly halt any offer, sale, trading or transfer of any Parent Common Stock pursuant to such Prospectus for the duration of the Suspension Period until
(x) the Suspension Period has expired or, if earlier (y) Parent has provided notice that the Suspension Period has been terminated.

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(b) After the expiration of any Suspension Period and without any further request from a
Shareholder, Parent shall as promptly as reasonably practicable prepare a Registration Statement or post-effective amendment or supplement to the applicable shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus, or any document incorporated therein by
reference, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to purchasers of the Registrable Securities included therein, if necessary so that