Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 131

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 131
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 the Registration Statement covering the sale of such
Registrable Securities until the Shareholder’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 2.06(a)(iv) or notice from Parent of the termination of the stop order or Suspension Period;
that Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to minimize the duration of any Suspension Period.

(c) Each Shareholder
agrees that to the extent timely notified in writing by the Underwriters managing any Underwritten Offering by Parent of shares of Parent Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of Parent Common
Stock, each such Shareholder that is participating in such Underwritten Offering shall agree (the “”) not to Transfer any Covered Shares without the prior written consent of Parent or such
Underwriters during the period beginning seven (7) days before and ending one hundred and eighty (180) days (or, in either case, such lesser period as may be permitted for all Shareholders by Parent or such managing Underwriter or
Underwriters) after the effective date of

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the Registration Statement filed in connection with such Underwritten Offering. The Underwriter’s Lockup shall provide that if all or a portion of the Covered Shares of any Shareholder is
released from an Underwriter’s Lockup or all or a portion of the Covered Shares of any other party who entered into a substantially similar agreement with the Underwriters in connection with such Underwritten Offering is released from such
agreement, then the same percentage of the shares of each Shareholder shall be released from the Underwriter’s Lockup.

Section 2.08. .

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if the filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of
(i) any Shelf Registration Statement for resales of Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.01 or Section 2.03 or (ii) any Registration Statement for resales of Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.02 or
Section 2.03 at any time would, in the good faith judgment of the chief executive officer or chief financial officer of Parent after consultation with counsel to Parent, (A) materially adversely affect an offering of securities of Parent,
(B) require the disclosure of material non-public information by Parent and the disclosure of such information during the period specified in such notice would be materially detrimental to Parent,
(C) require the disclosure in any such Shelf Registration Statement or Registration Statement a contemplated financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other similar material transaction or other material