Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 366

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 366
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 Company Regulatory Approvals and the Parent Regulatory Approvals shall have been obtained and the HSR Clearance shall have occurred at or prior to the Effective Time, and such approvals shall have become Final Orders and (ii) such
Final Orders shall not impose terms or conditions that, individually or in the aggregate, constitute a Burdensome Effect.

ARTICLE VII

TERMINATION

Section 7.1 . Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, this Agreement may be terminated at any time
prior to the Effective Time, whether before or after any approval of the matters presented in connection with the Merger by the shareholders of the Company or the stockholders of Parent:

(a) by the mutual written consent of the Company and Parent;

(b) by either the Company or Parent if the Merger shall not have been consummated on or prior to the eighteen (18)-month anniversary of the
date hereof (the “”); , , that if all of the conditions to Closing contained in shall have been satisfied or shall be then capable of being satisfied (other than the
conditions set forth in (No Legal Restraints), (Required Regulatory Approvals) or (Required Regulatory Approvals)), the End Date shall automatically be extended by an additional three (3) months after the End Date (the “”); , , that if, on the First Extended End Date, all
of the conditions to Closing contained in shall have been satisfied or shall be then capable of being satisfied (other than the conditions set forth in (No Legal Restraints), (Required Regulatory Approvals) or (Required Regulatory Approvals)), then either the Company or Parent may, by written notice to the
other Party, further extend the End Date for an

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additional three (3) months (the “”); , , that if the End Date shall occur (i) during any mandatory waiting
period prescribed by Law, the End Date shall be extended until the third (3rd) Business Day after the expiration of such waiting period or (ii) during the three (3)-Business Day period referred to in , the
End Date shall be extended until the Business Day immediately after the expiration of such three (3)-Business Day period, and all references to the term “End Date” herein shall mean the End Date as extended pursuant to this
, including, as applicable, the First Extended End Date and the Second Extended End Date; , , that the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this
shall not be available to a