Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 68

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 68
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4.14 . Parent has not taken any action and is not aware of any fact or circumstance that
could reasonably be expected to prevent the Merger from qualifying as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code.

4.15 .

(a) Each contract, arrangement, commitment or understanding (whether written or oral) which is a “material contract” (as such
term is defined in Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K of the SEC) to which Parent or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which Parent or any of its Subsidiaries is bound as of the date hereof has been
filed as an exhibit to the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by Parent, or a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or Current Report on Form 8-K subsequent thereto (each, a “”), and neither Parent nor any of its Subsidiaries knows of, or has received written, or to the knowledge of Parent, oral notice of, any
violation of any Parent Contract by any of the other parties thereto which would reasonably be likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Parent.

(b) In each case, except as set forth in Section 4.15(b) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule or as would not reasonably be likely to have,
either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Parent, each Parent Contract is valid and binding on Parent or one of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, and in full force and effect, Parent and each of its Subsidiaries have
performed all obligations required to be performed by it prior to the date hereof under each Parent Contract, to the knowledge of Parent, each third-party counterparty to each Parent Contract has performed all obligations required to be performed by
it to date under such Parent Contract, and no event or condition exists which constitutes or, after notice or lapse of time or both, will constitute, a default on the part of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Parent, any
counterparty thereto, under any such Parent Contract.

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4.16 . Except as would not reasonably be likely to
have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Parent, as of the date hereof, neither Parent nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any
cease-and-desist or