Company: OSBC
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001104659-25-045103
Chunk: 317

Company: OLD SECOND BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 317
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 The Parties will make appropriate substitute arrangements to permit reasonable disclosure under circumstances in which the restrictions of the preceding sentence apply.

(b) Each of Buyer and Company shall hold all information furnished by or on behalf of the other Party or any of such Party’s Subsidiaries or representatives pursuant to Section 7.2(a) in confidence to the extent required by, and in accordance with, the provisions of the confidentiality agreement, dated November 20, 2024, between Buyer and Company (the “ Confidentiality Agreement ”).

7.3

#### Non-Control
. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall give either Party, directly or indirectly, the right to control or direct the operations of the other Party prior to the Effective Time. Prior to the Effective Time, each Party shall exercise, consistent with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, complete control and supervision over its and its Subsidiaries’ respective operations.

7.4

#### Company Stockholder Approval
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(a) Company shall call, give notice of, convene and hold a meeting of its stockholders (the “ Company Meeting ,”) promptly after the Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC under the Securities Act, for the purpose of obtaining (a) the Requisite Company Vote required in connection with this Agreement and the Merger, and (b) if so desired and mutually agreed, a vote upon other matters of the type customarily brought before a meeting of stockholders in connection with the approval of a merger agreement or the transactions contemplated thereby, and Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such meeting to occur as soon as reasonably practicable . The Board of Directors of Company has resolved to recommend to the Company Stockholders that they approve this Agreement and Company shall, acting through its Board of Directors, (i) recommend that the Company Stockholders approve this Agreement (the “ Company Board Recommendation ”), (ii) include the Company Board Recommendation in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus and (iii) use reasonable best efforts to solicit from the Company Stockholders proxies in favor of the approval of this Agreement, including communicating to the Company Stockholders the recommendation of the Board of Directors of Company that they approve this Agreement, and (iv) take all other action necessary or advisable to secure the vote or consent of the Company Stockholders required by applicable Law to obtain such approvals. Except as expressly permitted by Section 7.13(b) below, neither the Board of Directors of Company nor the Board of Directors of any Subsidiary of Company nor any committee of any Boards of Directors