Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 114

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 114
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 Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has, nor has it ever had,
a “permanent establishment” in any foreign country, as such term is defined in any applicable Tax treaty or convention between the United States and such foreign country.

(g) As used in this Agreement, the term “” or “” means all federal, state, local, and foreign
income, excise, gross receipts, ad valorem, profits, gains, property, capital, sales, transfer, use, license, payroll, employment, social security, severance, unemployment, withholding, duties, excise, windfall profits, intangibles, franchise,
backup withholding, value added, alternative or add-on minimum, estimated and other taxes, charges, fees, levies or like assessments in the nature of a tax together with all penalties and additions to tax and
interest thereon.

(h) As used in this Agreement, the term “” means any return, declaration, report, claim
for refund, estimate, or information return or statement relating to Taxes, including any schedule or attachment thereto, and including any amendment thereof, supplied or required to be supplied to a Governmental Entity.

(i) As used in this Agreement, the term “” means the regulations (including temporary regulations)
promulgated by the United States Department of the Treasury pursuant to and in respect of the provisions of the Code.

3.12 .

(a) Section 3.12(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule lists all
material Company Benefit Plans. For purposes of this Agreement, “” means all employee benefit plans (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
(“”)), whether or not subject to ERISA, and all bonus, stock option, stock purchase, restricted stock, incentive, deferred compensation, medical, life, retiree medical or life insurance, pension or retirement, supplemental
retirement, severance plans, programs, agreements or arrangements, and all retention, bonus, employment, severance plans, programs or arrangements that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries maintains, contributes to, sponsors, by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, or to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has any direct or indirect liability, for the benefit of any current or former employee, officer, director or individual independent contractor of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.

(b) The Company has heretof