Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 195

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 195
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 effect on the Shareholder’s ability to satisfy its
obligations hereunder.

(iii) The execution and delivery of this Agreement by such Shareholder does not, and the performance by such
Shareholder of its obligations under this Agreement and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby will not, require such Shareholder to obtain any consent, approval, authorization or permit of, or to make any filing with or
notification to, any Governmental Entity.

(iv) Each Shareholder is acquiring the Parent Common Stock to be issued by Parent to the
Shareholders under the Merger Agreement solely for the purpose of investment and not with a view to, or in connection with, any sale or offering for sale of such shares of Parent Common Stock, in whole or in part, except pursuant to sales registered
or exempted under the Securities Act, and no Shareholder has a present arrangement or agreement to effect any sale or offering for sale of any such shares of Parent Common Stock to or through any person. Each Shareholder has sufficient knowledge and
experience in financial and business matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of its investment in the Parent Common Stock and is capable of bearing the economic risks of its investment in Parent Common Stock. Each Shareholder
is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act. The Shareholders understand that the shares of Parent Common Stock to be issued by Parent to the Shareholders under
the Merger Agreement have not been and are not being registered under the Securities Act or any state or other country’s securities laws, and may not be offered for sale, sold, assigned or transferred unless pursuant to an effective
registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state or other country’s securities laws, or an exemption from such registration under the Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable state or other country’s
securities laws.

Section 4.2 . Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement
or Exhibit A, this Agreement shall terminate when the Shareholders (including for all purposes of this Section 4.2, all Permitted Transferees) in the aggregate Beneficially Own less than five percent (5%) of the outstanding Parent Voting
Securities; that nothing in this Section 4.2 shall be deemed to release any party from any liability for any willful and material breach of this Agreement occurring prior to the termination hereof.

Section 4.3 . For