Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 130

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 130
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 its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registrable Securities to be listed or quoted on the New York Stock
Exchange or, if the Parent Common Stock is not then listed on the New York Stock Exchange, then on such other securities exchange or national quotation system on which the Parent Common Stock is then listed or quoted; and

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(xix) take all such other commercially reasonable actions as are necessary
or advisable in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the terms hereof.

(b)
In connection with the Registration Statement relating to such Registrable Securities covering an Underwritten Offering, Parent and the relevant Shareholders agree to enter into a written agreement with the Underwriters selected in the manner herein
provided in such form and containing such provisions as are customary in the securities business for such an arrangement.

Section 2.07. . (a) The obligations of Parent to take the actions contemplated by Section 2.01,
Section 2.02, Section 2.03 and Section 2.06 with respect to an offering of Registrable Securities will be subject to the following conditions:

(i) Parent may require the relevant Shareholders to furnish to Parent such information regarding such Shareholders, the
Registrable Securities or the distribution of such Registrable Securities as Parent may from time to time reasonably request in writing, in each case to the extent reasonably required by the Securities Act and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder, or under state securities or “blue sky” laws; that Parent shall use any such information solely for purposes of the applicable registration and shall maintain the confidentiality of such information that is
not publicly available; and

(ii) in any Underwritten Offering, the relevant Shareholders together with Parent and any
other holders of Parent’s securities proposing to include securities in any Underwritten Offering, will enter into a customary underwriting agreement in accordance with Section 2.06(b) with the Underwriter or Underwriters selected for
such underwriting, as well as such other documents customary in similar offerings; that such underwriting agreement shall not impose obligations materially more burdensome than those imposed on Parent or other selling shareholders.

(b) The Shareholders agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from Parent of the happening of any event of the kind described in
Section 2.06(a)(iv) or 2.06(a)(v) or a condition described in Section 2.08(a), the Shareholders will forthwith discontinue disposition of such Registrable Securities pursuant to