Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 93

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 93
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.2, in each case without any interest thereon. Old Certificates previously representing shares of Company Common Stock shall be exchanged for the Merger Consideration and the other amounts
specified in the immediately preceding sentence, including evidence of shares in book-entry form representing whole shares of Parent Common Stock as set forth in Section 1.5(a) (together with any dividends or distributions with respect thereto
and cash in lieu of fractional shares issued in consideration therefor) upon the surrender of such Old Certificates in accordance with Section 2.2, without any interest thereon. If, between the date of this Agreement and the Effective Time, the
outstanding shares of Parent Common Stock or Company Common Stock shall have been increased, decreased, changed into or exchanged for a different number or kind of shares or securities, in any such case as a result of a reorganization,
recapitalization, reclassification, stock dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, or other similar change in capitalization, or there shall be any extraordinary dividend or extraordinary distribution (for the avoidance of doubt, not including
the cash dividend provided for in Section 5.2(b)(ii) of the Company Disclosure Schedule), an appropriate and proportionate adjustment shall be made to the Merger Consideration to give holders of Company Common Stock the same economic effect as
contemplated by this Agreement prior to such event; that nothing in this sentence shall be construed to permit the Company to take any action with respect to its securities that is prohibited by the terms of this Agreement.

(c) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, at the Effective Time, all shares of Company Common Stock that are owned by
the Company or Parent (in each case other than the Exception Shares) immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be cancelled and shall cease to exist, and neither the Merger Consideration nor any other consideration shall be delivered in exchange
therefor.

1.6 . At and after the Effective Time, each share of Parent Common Stock
issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall remain issued and outstanding and shall not be affected by the Merger.

1.7 . At the Effective Time, the amended and
restated articles of incorporation, as amended, of Parent, as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, shall be the articles of incorporation of the Surviving Corporation until thereafter amended in accordance with applicable law.

1.8 . At the Effective Time, the amended and restated bylaws of Parent,
as in effect immediately