Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 128

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 128
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 Underwriter(s), if any, promptly
include in any Registration Statement or Prospectus, pursuant to a supplement or post-effective amendment if necessary, such information as such Shareholders and such Underwriter(s), if any, may reasonably request to have included therein, including
information relating to the “Plan of Distribution” of the Registrable Securities, information with respect to the number of Registrable Securities being sold to such Underwriter(s), the purchase price being paid therefor and any other
terms of the offering of the Registrable Securities to be sold in such offering, and make all required filings of such Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment as promptly as practicable after Parent is notified of the matters to be
included in such Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment;

(viii) except to the extent prohibited by applicable
Law and subject to entry into a customary confidentiality agreement or arrangement, make available, after reasonable advance notice, for inspection by the relevant Shareholders, any Underwriter participating in any disposition of such Registrable
Securities and any Representative for such Shareholders and/or such Underwriter (collectively, the “”), during business hours at the offices where such information is normally kept, any financial and other records and
corporate documents of Parent (collectively, the “”) as will be reasonably necessary to enable them to conduct reasonable and customary due diligence with respect to Parent and the related Registration Statement and
Prospectus and request the Representatives of Parent and its Subsidiaries to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Inspector; , , that Records and information obtained hereunder will be used by such
Inspectors only for purposes of conducting such due diligence;

(ix) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain and deliver
to each Underwriter and each such Shareholder in an Underwritten Offering a comfort letter from the independent registered public accounting firm for Parent (and additional comfort letters from the independent registered public accounting firm for
any company acquired by Parent whose financial statements are included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement) in customary form and covering such matters as are customarily covered by comfort letters as such Underwriter and such
Shareholders may reasonably request;

(x) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain and deliver to each Underwriter and
each such Shareholder in an Underwritten Offering a 10b-5 statement and legal opinion from Parent’s external counsel in customary form and covering such matters as are customarily covered by 10b-5 statements and legal opinions delivered to Underwriters in Underwritten Offerings as such Underwriter