Company: OSBC
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001104659-25-045103
Chunk: 334

Company: OLD SECOND BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 334
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 the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, if necessary, challenging the validity or applicability of any such Takeover Statute.

7.17

#### Termination of Certain Agreements
. Company shall use its best efforts to terminate the agreement set forth on Section 7.17 of the Company Disclosure Memorandum (the “ Company Agreement ”), which termination shall be effective at or prior to the Effective Time.

7.18

#### Certain Tax Matters
. Each of Company and Buyer shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Merger to qualify as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code. Each of Company and Buyer shall use its reasonable best efforts and shall cooperate with one another to obtain the opinions of counsel referred to in Sections 8.2(e ) and 8.3(e) . In connection with the foregoing, (a) Company shall deliver to each of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and Vedder Price P.C. (or, if applicable, to such other nationally recognized tax counsel as is delivering the opinion referred to in Section 8.2(e) or 8.3(e) ) a duly executed letter of representation customary for transactions of this type and reasonably satisfactory to such counsel (the “ Company Tax Certificate ”), and (b) Buyer shall deliver to each of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and Vedder Price P.C. (or, if applicable, to such other nationally recognized tax counsel as is delivering the opinion referred to in Section 8.2(e) or 8.3(e) ) a duly executed letter of representation customary for transactions of this type and reasonably satisfactory to such counsel (the “ Buyer Tax Certificate ”), in the case of each of clauses (a) and (b), at such times as such counsel shall reasonably request.

7.19

#### Dividends
. From the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the Effective Time or the termination of this Agreement, each of Buyer and Company shall coordinate with the other regarding the declaration of any dividends in respect of Buyer Common Stock and Company Common Stock (to the extent permitted by this Agreement) and the record dates and payment dates relating thereto, it being the intention of the parties that the holders of Company Common Stock shall not receive two (2) dividends, or fail to receive one (1) dividend, in any quarter with respect to their shares of Company Common Stock and any shares of Buyer Common Stock any such holder receives in exchange therefor in the Merger