Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 36

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 36
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etermination letter, if any, relating to any such Company Benefit Plan, (v) the most recently prepared actuarial report for each such Company Benefit Plan (if applicable) for each of the last two (2) years and (vi) all material non-routine correspondence received from or sent to any Governmental Entity since January 1, 2023.

(c) Each Company Benefit Plan has been established, operated, maintained and administered in all material respects in accordance with its
terms and the requirements of all applicable laws, including ERISA and the Code. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has, within the prior three (3) years, taken any material correction action or made a filing under any voluntary
correction program of the IRS, Department of Labor or any Governmental Entity with respect to any Company Benefit Plan.

(d) Each Company
Benefit Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination or opinion letter from the IRS with respect to such qualification, which letter has not been revoked (nor has revocation been
threatened), or is in a form that is the subject of a favorable advisory or opinion letter from the IRS, and, to the knowledge of the Company, there are no existing circumstances and no events have occurred that would have a material adverse effect
on the qualified status of any such Company Benefit Plan.

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(e) Section 3.12(e) of the Company Disclosure Schedule contains a list of all Company
Benefit Plans that are nonqualified deferred compensation or salary continuation arrangements, including (i) the amount of all future benefit payments owed on behalf of each participant, which amounts, as of the date of this Agreement, have
been accrued in accordance with GAAP on the Company Financial Statements and will be, as of the Closing Date, accrued to the extent necessary to make full and final payments under any such arrangements or fully paid and which amount of all future
benefit payments are fully funded; and (ii) the amount of any funding and source of such funding. Each Company Benefit Plan has been maintained in documentary and operational compliance, in all material respects, with Section 409A of the
Code and the regulations thereunder or an available exemption therefrom.

(f) No Company Benefit Plan is subject to Title IV or
Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 or 4971 of the Code, and none of the Company and its Subsidiaries nor any Company ERISA Affiliate has,