Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 98

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 98
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icers of Parent and the Company reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to such counsel.

(d) . Parent
shall have received from the Company a properly executed Foreign Investment and Real Property Tax Act of 1980 notification letter, which shall state that shares of capital stock of the Company do not constitute “United States real property
interests” under Section 897(c) of the Code, for purposes of satisfying Parent’s obligations under Treasury Regulations Section 1.1445-2(c)(3). In addition, simultaneously with delivery
of such notification letter, the Company shall have provided to Parent, as agent for the Company, a form of notice to the IRS in accordance with the requirements of Treasury Regulations
Section 1.897-2(h)(2) along with written authorization for Parent to deliver such notice form to the IRS on behalf of the Company upon the Closing.

(e) . No Requisite Regulatory Approval shall have resulted in the imposition of any Materially Burdensome
Regulatory Condition.

(f) . Parent shall have received a certificate signed on behalf of the Company by
an executive officer of the Company stating that the conditions specified in Sections 7.2(a) and 7.2(b) have been satisfied.

(g)
. Neither Company Bank nor any applicable Depositor (as defined under an applicable Deposit Noncompetition Agreement) shall be in breach of and shall not have stated in writing any intention to breach any
Deposit Noncompetition Agreement.

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7.3 . The obligation of the Company to
effect the Merger is also subject to the satisfaction or waiver by the Company at or prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions:

(a) . The representations and warranties of Parent set forth in (i) Sections 4.2(a) and 4.9 shall be
true and correct (other than, in the case of Section 4.2(a), such failures to be true and correct as are de minimis) in each case as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though made on and as of the Closing Date
(except to the extent such representations and warranties speak as of an earlier date, in which case as of such earlier date), and (ii) Sections 4.1(a), 4.1(b) (with respect to Parent Bank only), 4.2(c) (with respect to Parent Bank only),
4.3(a), 4.3(b)(i) and 4.8 shall be true and correct in all material