Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 42

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 42
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 (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic governmental officials or employees or to foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from funds of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, (iii) violated any provision that would result in the violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any similar law, (iv) established or maintained any unlawful fund of monies or other assets of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (v) made any fraudulent entry on the books or records of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (vi) made any unlawful bribe, unlawful rebate, unlawful payoff, unlawful influence payment, unlawful
kickback or other unlawful payment to any person, private or public, regardless of form, whether in money, property or services, to obtain favorable treatment in securing business, to obtain special concessions for the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, to pay for favorable treatment for business secured or to pay for special concessions already obtained for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or is

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currently subject to any United States sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Treasury Department, except in each case as would not reasonably be
likely to be, either individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

(f) As of the date
hereof, the Company, Company Bank and each other insured depository institution Subsidiary of the Company is “well-capitalized” (as such term is defined in the relevant regulation of the institution’s primary bank regulator) and,
as of the date hereof, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any indication from a Governmental Entity that its status as “well-capitalized” or that Company Bank’s Community Reinvestment Act rating will
change within one (1) year from the date of this Agreement.

(g) Except as would not reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, since January 1, 2023, (i) the Company and each of its Subsidiaries have properly administered all accounts for which it acts as a fiduciary, including accounts for which it serves
as a trustee, agent, custodian, personal representative, guardian, conservator or investment advisor, in accordance with the terms of the governing documents and