Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 164

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 164
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al Entity and any other
third party that is required to be obtained by the Company or Parent or any of their respective Subsidiaries in connection with the Merger, the Bank Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (c) to obtain the tax
opinions referenced in Section 7.2(c) and Section 7.3(e), including by executing and delivering representations contained in certificates of officers of the Company and Parent reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to their
respective counsel.

6.5 . Parent shall cause the shares of Parent Common Stock to
be issued in the Merger to be approved for listing on the NYSE, subject to official notice of issuance, prior to the Effective Time.

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6.6 .

(a) Parent shall provide the employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Effective Time (the “”), for so long as they are employed following the Effective Time, with the following during the period commencing at the Effective Time and ending on December 31, 2026: (i) annual base salary or wages, as applicable, that
are no less than the annual base salary or wages in effect for each such employee immediately prior to the Effective Time, (ii) a total target annual cash compensation opportunity (including base salary or wages plus short-term cash
bonus/incentive opportunity at target) for each such employee that is comparable in the aggregate to the total target annual cash compensation opportunity (including base salary or wages plus short-term bonus/incentive opportunity at target, but not
including the Company Stock Bonus Awards or any award under the Company Stock Incentive Plan) in effect for each such employee immediately prior to the Effective Time as determined by Parent, and
(iii) non-cash incentive compensation opportunities and employee benefits (excluding change in control or retention arrangements, any frozen benefit plans of Parent and its Subsidiaries or benefit plans
that exclusively provide benefits to grandfathered employees of Parent and its Subsidiaries) that are substantially comparable in the aggregate to those provided to similarly situated employees of Parent or its Subsidiaries; that,
until such time as Parent fully integrates the Continuing Employees into its plans, participation in the Company Benefit Plans shall be deemed to satisfy the foregoing standards, it being understood that the Continuing Employees may commence
participation in the plans of the Parent and its Subsidiaries on different dates following the Effective Time with respect to different benefit plans. For the period commencing on the Closing Date