Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 82

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 82
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approval is required for consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement that causes such party to believe that there is a reasonable likelihood that any Requisite Regulatory Approval will not be obtained or that the receipt of any
such approval will be materially delayed.

6.2 .

(a) Subject to Section 9.7, upon reasonable notice and subject to applicable laws, each of Parent and the Company, for the purposes of
verifying the representations and warranties of the other party and preparing for the Merger and the other matters contemplated by this Agreement, shall, and shall cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to, afford to the officers, employees,
accountants, counsel, advisors and other Representatives of the other party, access, during normal business hours during the period prior to the Effective Time and in a manner so as not to unreasonably interfere with normal business operations, to
all its properties, books, contracts, personnel, information technology systems, and records, and each shall reasonably cooperate with the other party in preparing to execute after the Effective Time the conversion or consolidation of systems and
business operations generally (including by entering into customary confidentiality, non-disclosure and similar agreements with such service providers and/or the other party), and, during such period, during
normal business hours and in a manner so as not to unreasonably interfere with normal business operations, each of Parent and the Company shall, and shall cause its respective Subsidiaries to, make available to the other party such information
concerning its business, properties and personnel as such party may reasonably request. Each party shall use commercially reasonable efforts to minimize any

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interference with the other party’s regular business operations during any such access. Neither Parent nor the Company nor any of their respective Subsidiaries shall be required to provide
access to or to disclose information where such access or disclosure would violate or prejudice the rights of Parent’s or the Company’s, as the case may be, customers, jeopardize the attorney-client privilege of the institution in
possession or control of such information (after giving due consideration to the existence of any common interest, joint defense or similar agreement between the parties) or contravene any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree, fiduciary
duty or binding agreement entered into prior to the date of this Agreement. The parties hereto will make appropriate substitute disclosure arrangements under circumstances in which the restrictions of the preceding sentence apply.

(b) Each of Parent and the Company shall hold all