Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000007789-25-000025
Chunk: 127

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 127
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 in Section 6.7 with respect to Restricted Stock Awards) that may be deliverable upon exercise or

payment of such Award until such Shares have been delivered to such Grantee.

14.11. Awards Not Taken into Account for Other Benefits . Awards shall be special incentive payments to the Grantee and

shall not be taken into account in computing the amount of salary or compensation of the Grantee for purposes of determining

any pension, retirement, death or other benefit under (a) any pension, retirement, profit-sharing, bonus, insurance or other

employee benefit plan of the Company or a Subsidiary, except as such plan shall otherwise expressly provide, or (b) any

Services Agreement between the Company or a Subsidiary and the Grantee, except as such agreement shall otherwise expressly

provide.

14.12. Services Agreement Supersedes Award Agreement . In the event a Grantee is a party to a Services Agreement with the

Company or a Subsidiary that provides for vesting or extended exercisability of equity compensation Awards on terms more

favorable to the Grantee than the Grantee’s Award Agreement or this Plan, the Services Agreement shall be controlling;

provided that (a) if the Grantee is a Section 16 Person, any terms in the Services Agreement requiring Compensation

Committee of the Board, Board or shareholder approval in order for an exemption from Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act to

be available shall have been approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board, the Board or the shareholders, as

applicable, and (b) the Services Agreement shall not be controlling to the extent the Grantee and the Company or Subsidiary

agree it shall not be controlling, and (c) a Services Agreement or modification to a Services Agreement shall be deemed to

modify the terms of any pre-existing Award only if the terms of the Services Agreement expressly so provide.

14.13. Non-Exclusivity of Plan . The adoption of the Plan by the Board or its submission to the shareholders of the Company

for approval shall not be construed as creating any limitations on the power of the Board to adopt such other compensatory

arrangements for employees as it may deem desirable.

14.14. No Trust or Fund Created . The Plan or any Award shall not create or be construed to create a trust or separate fund of

any kind or a fiduciary relationship between the Company or any Subsidiary and a Grantee or any other Person. To