Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 80

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 80
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 cause their respective Subsidiaries to, respond and comply as promptly as practicable to any requests by Governmental Entities for documents and information. Parent and the Company shall have the right to review in
advance, and, to the extent practicable, each will consult the other on, in each case subject to applicable laws relating to the exchange of information, all the information relating to the Company or Parent, as the case may be, and any of their
respective Subsidiaries, which appears in any filing made with, or written materials submitted to, any Governmental Entity in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. In exercising the foregoing right, each of the parties
hereto shall act reasonably and as promptly as practicable. Each party will provide the other with copies of any applications and all correspondence relating thereto prior to filing and with sufficient opportunity to comment, other than any portions
of material filed in connection therewith that contain competitively sensitive business or other proprietary information or confidential supervisory information filed under a claim of confidentiality. The parties hereto agree that they will consult
with each other with respect to the obtaining of all permits, consents, approvals and authorizations of all third parties and Governmental Entities necessary or advisable to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each party
will keep the other apprised of the status of matters relating to completion of the transactions contemplated herein. Each party shall consult with the other in advance of any communication, meeting or conference with any Governmental Entity in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and, to the extent permitted by such Governmental Entity, give the other party and/or its counsel the opportunity to attend and participate in such communications, meetings and
conferences.

(c) In furtherance of the foregoing, each of Parent and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to (i) avoid
the entry of, or to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any decree, judgment, injunction or other order, whether temporary, preliminary or permanent, that would restrain, prevent or delay the Closing, (ii) avoid or eliminate each and
every impediment so as to enable the Closing to occur as soon as possible and (iii) take or commit to take any and all actions and agree to any restrictions or conditions imposed by a requisite Governmental Entity in order to obtain the
Requisite Regulatory Approvals; , , that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Parent shall not be required to, and the Company shall not (without the