Company: OSBC
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001104659-25-045103
Chunk: 318

Company: OLD SECOND BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 318
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 of Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall (i) withhold, withdraw, modify or qualify in a manner adverse to Buyer the Company Board Recommendation, (ii) fail to make the Company Board Recommendation in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus, (iii) adopt, approve, recommend or endorse an Acquisition Proposal or publicly announce an intention to adopt, approve, recommend or endorse an Acquisition Proposal, (iv) fail to publicly and without qualification (A) recommend against any Acquisition Proposal, or (B) reaffirm the Company Board Recommendation within ten (10) business days (or such fewer number of days as remains prior to the Company Meeting, as applicable) after an Acquisition Proposal is made public or any request by Buyer to do so, or (v) publicly propose to do any of the foregoing (any of the foregoing a “ Recommendation Change ”). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, unless this Agreement has been terminated in accordance with Article 9 , the Company Meeting shall be convened and this Agreement shall be submitted to the Company Stockholders at the Company Meeting, for the purpose of voting on the approval of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and nothing contained herein shall be deemed to relieve Company of such obligation. Company shall adjourn or postpone the Company Meeting, if, as of the time for which such meeting is originally scheduled, there are insufficient shares of Company Common Stock represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct the business of such meeting, or if on the date of such meeting, Company has not received proxies representing a sufficient number of shares necessary to obtain the Requisite Company Vote; provided that Company shall only adjourn or postpone the Company Meeting two (2) times, for aggregate adjournments or postponements not exceeding sixty (60) calendar days from the originally scheduled Company Meeting without the prior written consent of Buyer.

7.5

#### Legal Conditions to the Merger
. Subject in all respects to Section 7.1 of this Agreement, each of Buyer and Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, use commercially reasonable efforts (a) to take,

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or cause to be taken, all actions necessary, proper or advisable to comply promptly with all legal requirements that may be imposed on such Party or its Subsidiaries with respect to the Merger and the Bank Merger and, subject to the conditions set forth in Article 8 hereof, to consum