Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 117

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 117
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 or, to the extent not required to be
made or paid on or before the date hereof, have been fully reflected on the books and records of the Company in accordance with GAAP.

(j)
There are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened claims (other than claims for benefits in the ordinary course), lawsuits or arbitrations that have been asserted or instituted, and, to the knowledge of the Company, no set of
circumstances exists that may reasonably be likely to give rise to a material claim or lawsuit, against any Company Benefit Plan, any fiduciaries thereof.

(k) To the knowledge of the Company, there has not been any “prohibited transaction” (as defined in Section 4975 of the Code
or Section 406 of ERISA) which could subject any of the Company Benefit Plans or their related trusts, the Company, or any of its Subsidiaries or any person that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has an obligation to indemnify, to any
material tax or material penalty imposed under Section 4975 of the Code or Section 502 of ERISA.

(l) Except as disclosed under
Section 3.12(l), neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will (either alone or in conjunction with any other

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event) (i) entitle any employee, officer or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any payment or benefit, including severance pay, accrued pension benefit, or a change in
control bonus or retention payment, (ii) result in, accelerate, cause the vesting, exercisability, funding, payment or delivery of, or increase the amount or value of, any payment, right or other benefit to any employee, officer or director of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) accelerate the timing of or trigger any funding obligation under a rabbi trust or similar funding vehicle under any Company Benefit Plan or (iv) result in any limitation on the right of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries to amend, merge, or terminate or receive a reversion of assets from any Company Benefit Plan or related trust.

(m) No amount paid or payable (whether in cash, in property, or in the form of benefits) by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in
connection with the transactions contemplated hereby (either solely as a result thereof or as a result