Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 256

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 256
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 the Company shall be closed with respect to the shares of
Company Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, and there shall be no further registration of transfers on the stock transfer books of the Surviving Corporation of the shares of Company Common Stock that were
outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time. If, after the

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Effective Time, shares of Company Common Stock are presented to the Surviving Corporation or the Exchange Agent for any reason, they shall be canceled and exchanged as provided in this
.

(f) . Any portion of the Exchange Fund (including the proceeds
of any investments thereof) that remains undistributed to the former holders of shares of Company Common Stock for one (1) year after the Effective Time shall be delivered to Parent upon demand, and any holders of shares of Company Common Stock
who have not theretofore complied with this shall thereafter look only to Parent for payment of such holder’s claim for the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of fractional shares of Parent Common Stock
pursuant to and any dividends or distributions pursuant to .

(g) . Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, none of the Parties, the Surviving
Corporation, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any holder of shares of Company Common Stock for any portion of the Merger Consideration (or any portion of the Common Shares Trust or any dividends or distributions to which
such holders are entitled pursuant to ) delivered to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Law. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the
contrary, any portion of the Merger Consideration (and any associated dividends or distributions to which such holders are entitled pursuant to ) that remains unclaimed as of immediately prior to the date on
which any portion of such property would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any Governmental Entity shall, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, become the property of Parent free and clear of any claims or interest of any Person
previously entitled thereto.

(h) . If any certificate representing a share of Company Common Stock shall have
been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and, if required by Parent, the posting by such Person of a bond in such reasonable amount as Parent
may require as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such certificate, the