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

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 12
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 Time, the Company shall merge with and into Parent. Parent shall be the Surviving
Corporation in the Merger, and shall continue its corporate existence under the laws of the State of Wisconsin. Upon consummation of the Merger, the separate corporate existence of the Company shall terminate.

1.2 . On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, the closing of the Merger
(the “”) will take place at 10:00 a.m., Central Standard Time, remotely via the electronic exchange of closing deliveries, on a date which shall be no later than five (5) business days after the satisfaction or
waiver (subject to applicable law) of all of the conditions set forth in Article VII (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver thereof at the Closing), unless
another date, time or place is agreed to in writing (email being sufficient) by Parent and the Company. The date on which the Closing occurs is referred to in this Agreement as the “.”

1.3 . Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, on or before the Closing Date, Parent and the Company shall
cause to be filed a certificate of merger with respect to the Merger as provided under the WBCL with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (the “”) and a certificate of merger with respect to the
Merger as provided under the NMBCA with the Secretary of State of the State of Nebraska (the “” and such certificates of merger as may be required, the “”). The
Merger shall become effective as of the date and time specified in the Certificates of Merger in accordance with the relevant provisions of the WBCL and the NMBCA, or at such other date and time as shall be provided by applicable law (such date and
time, the “”).

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1.4 . At and after the Effective Time, all assets of the Company
as they exist at the Effective Time shall pass to and vest in the Surviving Corporation without any conveyance or other transfer, the Surviving Corporation shall be responsible for all liabilities of every kind and description of the Company as they
exist as of the Effective Time, and the Merger shall have the effects set forth in the applicable provisions of the WBCL and the NMBCA and this Agreement.

1.5 . At the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of
Parent,