Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-337086
Chunk: 99

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: S-4
Chunk 99
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 has the corporate power and authority to own, lease or operate all of its properties and assets and to carry on its business as it is now being conducted in all material respects. The Company is duly licensed
or qualified to do business and in good standing (or local equivalent) in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted by it or the character or location of the properties and assets owned, leased or operated by it makes such
licensing, qualification or standing necessary, except where the failure to be so licensed or qualified or to be in good standing (or local equivalent) would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect on the Company. As used in this Agreement, the term “” means, with respect to Parent, the Company or the Surviving Corporation, as the case may be, any effect, change, event, circumstance,
condition, occurrence or development that, either individually or in the aggregate, has had or would reasonably be likely to have a material adverse effect on (i) the business, properties, assets, liabilities, results of operations or financial
condition of such party and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole (, , that, with respect to this clause (i), Material Adverse Effect shall not be deemed to include the impact of (A) changes, after the date hereof, in
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“”) or applicable regulatory accounting requirements or interpretations thereof, (B) changes, after the date hereof, in laws, rules or regulations of general applicability to
companies in the industries in which such party and its Subsidiaries operate, or interpretations thereof by courts or Governmental Entities, (C) changes, after the date hereof, in global, national or regional political conditions (including the
outbreak of war or acts of terrorism) or in economic or market (including equity, credit and debt markets, as well as changes in interest rates) conditions affecting the financial services industry generally and not specifically relating to such
party or its Subsidiaries, (D) changes, after the date hereof, resulting from hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods or other natural disasters or from any outbreak of any disease or other public

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health event, (E) public disclosure of the execution of this Agreement, public disclosure of the transactions contemplated hereby or actions expressly required by this Agreement or that are
taken with the prior written consent of the other party in contemplation of