Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 97

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 97
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(a), such failures to be true and correct as are de minimis) in each case as
of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though made on and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent such representations and warranties speak as of an earlier date, in which case as of such earlier date), and
(ii) Sections 3.1, 3.2(b), 3.2(c), 3.2(d), 3.3(a), 3.3(b)(i) and 3.8 shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though made on and as of the Closing Date (except to the
extent such

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representations and warranties speak as of an earlier date, in which case as of such earlier date). All other representations and warranties of the Company set forth in this Agreement (read
without giving effect to any qualification as to materiality or Material Adverse Effect set forth in such representations or warranties) shall be true and correct in all respects as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though
made on and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent such representations and warranties speak as of an earlier date, in which case as of such earlier date); , , that for purposes of this sentence, such
representations and warranties shall be deemed to be true and correct unless the failure or failures of such representations and warranties to be so true and correct, either individually or in the aggregate, and without giving effect to any
qualification as to materiality or Material Adverse Effect set forth in such representations or warranties, has had or would reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or the Surviving Corporation.

(b) . The Company shall have performed in all material respects the obligations, covenants and
agreements required to be performed by it under this Agreement at or prior to the Closing Date.

(c) . Parent shall have
received the opinion of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Parent, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that, on the basis of facts, representations and assumptions set forth or referred
to in such opinion, the Merger will qualify as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code. In rendering such opinion, counsel may require and rely upon representations contained in certificates of
off