Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 94

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 94
---
 prior to the Effective Time, shall be the bylaws of the Surviving Corporation until thereafter amended in accordance with applicable law.

1.9 . The parties intend that the Merger qualify as a “reorganization”
within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code, and that this Agreement be and is adopted as a “plan of reorganization” for purposes of Sections 354 and 361 of the Code.

1.10 . Immediately following the Effective Time or at such later time and date as Associated may
determine in its sole discretion, American National Bank, a national banking association and a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company (“”), will merge with and into Associated Bank, National Association, a national
banking association and a wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent (“” and such merger, the “”). Parent Bank shall be the surviving entity in the Bank Merger and, following the Bank Merger,
the separate corporate existence of Company Bank shall cease. Promptly after the date of this Agreement, Parent Bank and Company Bank shall enter into an agreement and plan of merger in substantially the form attached hereto as
(the “”). Each of Parent and the

A-3

Company shall approve the Bank Merger Agreement and the Bank Merger as the sole shareholder of Parent Bank and Company Bank, respectively. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall cause
Company Bank, and Parent shall cause Parent Bank, to execute such certificates or articles of merger and such other documents and certificates as are necessary to effectuate the Bank Merger (“”).

ARTICLE II

EXCHANGE OF SHARES

2.1 . At or prior to the Effective Time, Parent shall
deposit, or shall cause to be deposited, with a bank or trust company designated by Parent and reasonably acceptable to the Company (the “”), for the benefit of the holders of Old Certificates, for exchange in
accordance with this Article II, (a) evidence in book-entry form, representing shares of Parent Common Stock to be issued pursuant to Section 1.5 and exchanged pursuant to Section 2.2(a) in exchange for outstanding shares of Company
Common Stock (collectively, referred to herein as “”), and (b) an amount in cash constituting the aggregate cash in lieu of any fractional shares to be paid to holders of Company Common Stock pursuant to
Article I (such New Certificates and cash described in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b), together with any dividends or distributions with respect thereto payable