Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 96

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 96
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 the owners of the Company prior to the Effective Time under applicable law.

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ARTICLE VII

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

7.1
. The respective obligations of the parties to effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions:

(a) . The Company shall have received the Written Consent.

(b) . The shares of Parent Common Stock that shall be issuable pursuant to this Agreement shall have been
authorized for listing on the NYSE, subject to official notice of issuance.

(c) . The
S-4 shall have become effective under the Securities Act and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the S-4 shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the SEC and not withdrawn.

(d) . No order, injunction or decree issued by any court or Governmental Entity of competent
jurisdiction or other legal restraint or prohibition preventing the consummation of the Merger, the Bank Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be in effect. No law, statute, rule, regulation, order, injunction
or decree shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by any Governmental Entity which prohibits or makes illegal consummation of the Merger, the Bank Merger or any of the other material transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

(e) . All regulatory authorizations, consents, orders or approvals (i) from the Federal Banking Agencies
and (ii) set forth in Sections 3.4 and 4.4 which are necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger and the Bank Merger, or those the failure of which to be obtained would reasonably be likely to
have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Parent or the Surviving Corporation, shall have been obtained and shall remain in full force and effect and all statutory waiting periods in respect thereof shall have expired
(such approvals and the expiration of such waiting periods being referred to herein as the “”).

7.2 . The obligation of Parent to effect the Merger is also subject to the satisfaction, or
waiver by Parent, at or prior to the Effective Time, of the following conditions:

(a) . The
representations and warranties of the Company set forth in (i) Sections 3.2(a) and 3.9(a) shall be true and correct (other than, in the case of Section 3.2