Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 123

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 123
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 of its affiliates from soliciting customers, clients or employees;

(iv) which is a
collective bargaining agreement or similar agreement with any labor organization;

(v) any of the material benefits of or
obligations under which will arise or be increased or accelerated by the occurrence of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, receipt of the Written Consent or the announcement or consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, or under which a right of cancellation or termination will arise as a result thereof, or the value of any of the benefits of which will be calculated on the basis of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;

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(vi) (A) that is an agreement for the incurrence of indebtedness by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including any debt for borrowed money, obligations evidenced by notes, debentures or similar instruments, sale and leaseback transactions, capitalized or finance leases and other similar financing arrangements, or
any currency exchange, commodities or other hedging arrangement or any leasing transaction of the type required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP (other than deposit liabilities, trade payables, federal funds purchased, advances and loans
from the Federal Home Loan Bank and securities sold under agreements to repurchase, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice), or (B) that provides for the guarantee, support, indemnification,
assumption or endorsement by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of, or any similar commitment by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to, the obligations, liabilities or indebtedness of any other person, in the case of each of
clauses (A) and (B) above, in the principal amount of $1,000,000 or more;

(vii) that is any alliance, cooperation,
joint venture, shareholders’, partnership or similar agreement involving a sharing of profits or losses relating to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

(viii) any broker, distributor, dealer, agency, sales promotion, customer or client referral, underwriter, administrative
services, market research, market consulting or advertising agreement;

(ix) that grants or contains any (A) exclusive
dealing obligation, (B) “clawback” or similar undertaking requiring the reimbursement or refund of any fees, (C) “most favored nation” or similar provision granted by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
(D) right of first refusal