Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 184

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 184
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 law. To the extent legally permissible, appropriate substitute disclosures or actions shall be made or taken under
circumstances in which the limitations of this Section 9.7 apply.

9.8 . This Agreement
may be executed in counterparts (including by electronic means), all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each of the parties and delivered to the other parties, it
being understood that all parties need not sign the same counterpart.

9.9 . This
Agreement (including the Company Disclosure Schedule, Parent Disclosure Schedule and other documents and the instruments referred to herein) together with the Shareholders’ Agreement and the Confidentiality Agreement constitutes the entire
agreement among the parties and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof.

9.10 .

(a) This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Wisconsin, without regard to any applicable
conflicts of law principles (except that matters relating to the fiduciary duties of the board of directors of the Company shall be subject to the laws of the State of Nebraska).

(b) Each party agrees that it will bring any action or proceeding in respect of any claim arising out of or related to this Agreement or the
transactions contemplated hereby exclusively in the state courts of the State of Wisconsin or any federal court of competent jurisdiction located in the State of Wisconsin (the “”), and, solely in connection with
claims arising under this Agreement or the transactions that are the subject of this Agreement, (i) irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Chosen Courts, (ii) waives any objection to laying venue in any such action or
proceeding in the Chosen Courts, (iii) waives any objection that the Chosen Courts are an inconvenient forum or do not have jurisdiction over any party and (iv) agrees that service of process upon such party in any such action or
proceeding will be effective if notice is given in accordance with Section 9.5.

9.11 . EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY