Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 79

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 79
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 to take, make any commitment to take, or adopt any resolutions of its board of directors or similar governing body in support of,
any of the actions prohibited by this Section 5.3.

ARTICLE VI

ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS

6.1
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(a) Parent (with the Company’s reasonable cooperation) shall promptly prepare and file with the SEC the
S-4 in respect of the shares of Parent Common Stock to be issued (other than to the Voting Shareholders) in connection with the Merger. Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to make such filing within forty-five (45) days of the date of this
Agreement. Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to have the S-4 declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicable after such filing and to keep the S-4 effective for so long as necessary to consummate the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement. Parent shall also use its reasonable best efforts to obtain all necessary state securities law or “Blue Sky” permits and approvals required to carry out the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as
promptly as practicable, and the Company shall furnish all information concerning the Company and its Subsidiaries and the holders of Company Common Stock as may be reasonably requested in connection with any such action.

(b) The parties hereto shall cooperate with each other and use their reasonable best efforts to promptly prepare and file all necessary
documentation, to effect all applications, notices, petitions and filings (and in the case of the applications, notices, petitions and filings required to obtain the Requisite Regulatory Approvals, use their reasonable best efforts to make

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such filings within thirty (30) days of the date of this Agreement), to obtain as promptly as practicable all permits, consents, approvals and authorizations of all third parties and
Governmental Entities which are necessary or advisable to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Merger and the Bank Merger), and to comply with the terms and conditions of all such permits, consents, approvals and
authorizations of all such third parties and Governmental Entities. Parent and the Company shall, and shall cause their respective Subsidiaries to use reasonable best efforts to obtain each such Requisite Regulatory Approval and any approvals
required for the Merger as promptly as reasonably practicable and cooperate with each other in connection therewith (including the furnishing of any information that may be reasonably requested or required to obtain the Requisite Regulatory
Approvals) and shall, and shall