Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-332292
Chunk: 233

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 233
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 for a nomination under the proxy access bylaw for Essential’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders has closed. The window for submitting a nomination under the proxy access bylaw for the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be disclosed in Essential’s definitive proxy statement relating to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. 175

HOUSEHOLDING OF JOINT PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS

The SEC has adopted rules that permit companies and intermediaries such as brokers to satisfy delivery requirements for proxy statements and notices with
respect to two or more shareholders sharing the same address by delivering a single proxy statement or notice, as applicable, addressed to those shareholders. As permitted by the Exchange Act, only one copy of this joint proxy statement/prospectus
is being delivered to shareholders residing at the same address, unless shareholders have notified the company whose shares they hold of their desire to receive multiple copies of this joint proxy statement/prospectus. This process, which is
commonly referred to as “householding,” potentially provides extra convenience for shareholders, cost savings for companies and conserves natural resources. If, at any time, you no longer wish to participate in householding and would
prefer to receive a separate joint proxy statement/prospectus, or if you are receiving multiple copies of this joint proxy statement/prospectus and wish to receive only one, please contact the company whose shares you hold at their address
identified below. Each of American Water and Essential will promptly deliver, upon oral or written request, a separate copy of this joint proxy statement/prospectus to any shareholder residing at an address to which only one copy was mailed.
Requests for additional copies should be directed to: Secretary, American Water Works Company, Inc., 1 Water Street, Camden, NJ 08102-1658, or by telephone at (856) 955-4001; or to Corporate Secretary,
Essential Utilities, Inc., 762 W. Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, or by telephone at (610) 527-8000.

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LEGAL MATTERS

The validity of the American Water common stock to be issued in the merger will be passed upon for American Water by Skadden. Certain U.S. federal income tax
considerations relating to the merger will be passed upon for Essential by Gibson Dunn.

EXPERTS

American Water

The consolidated financial statements
and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting (which is included in Management’s Report on