Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 65

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 65
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 for the fiscal quarter ended September 30,
2025 (including any notes thereto) and for liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice since September 30, 2025, or in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

4.8 . Neither Parent nor any Parent Subsidiary nor any of their respective officers or directors has
employed any broker, finder or financial advisor or incurred any liability for any broker’s fees, commissions or finder’s fees in connection with the Merger or related transactions contemplated by this Agreement, other than any such fee
that will be payable solely by Parent or any Parent Subsidiary.

4.9 . Since December 31,
2024, there has not been any effect, change, event, circumstance, condition, occurrence or development that has had or would reasonably be likely to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Parent.

4.10 .

(a) Except as set forth in Section 4.10 of the Parent Disclosure Schedule, neither Parent nor any of its Subsidiaries is or, since
January 1, 2023, has been, a party to any, and there are not and have not been since January 1, 2023, any pending or, to the knowledge of Parent, threatened, legal, administrative, arbitral or other proceedings, claims, actions or
governmental or regulatory investigations of any nature against Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their current or former directors or executive officers (i) that would reasonably be likely to have, either individually or in the
aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Parent or (ii) of a material nature challenging the validity or propriety of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

(b) There is not, and has not been since January 1, 2023, any material injunction, order, judgment, decree, or regulatory restriction
imposed upon Parent, any of its Subsidiaries or the assets of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (or that, upon consummation of the Merger, would apply to the Surviving Corporation or any of its affiliates) that would reasonably be likely to have,
either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Parent.

4.11 . Except as would not
reasonably be likely, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect on Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, since January