Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 48

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 48
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, disposal, release or threatened release of, or exposure to, any hazardous substance, or (c) noise, odor, wetlands, indoor air, pollution, contamination or any injury to persons or property from exposure to any hazardous substance

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(collectively, “”). There are no legal, administrative, arbitral or other proceedings, claims or actions, or, to the knowledge of the Company, any private
environmental investigations or remediation activities or governmental investigations of any nature seeking to impose, or that could reasonably be likely to result in the imposition, on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any liability or
obligation arising under any Environmental Law, pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company, which liability or obligation would reasonably be likely to be, either individually or in the aggregate, material to the
Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. To the knowledge of the Company, there is no reasonable basis for any such proceeding, claim, action or governmental investigation that would impose any liability or obligation that would reasonably be
likely to be, either individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The Company is not subject to any agreement, order, judgment, decree, letter agreement or memorandum of agreement by or with any
court, Governmental Entity, regulatory agency or third party imposing any liability or obligation with respect to any Environmental Law that would reasonably be likely to be, either individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. There has been no written third-party environmental site assessment conducted since January 1, 2023 assessing the presence of hazardous materials located on any property owned or leased by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries that is within the possession or control of the Company and its affiliates as of the date of this Agreement that has not been made available to Parent prior to the date of this Agreement.

3.18 .

(a) Except as would not reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has
good title to all securities and commodities owned by it (except those sold under repurchase agreements or held in any fiduciary or agency capacity), free and clear of any Lien, except (i) as set forth in the Company Financial Statements and
(ii) to the extent such securities or commodities are pledged in the