Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 385

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 385
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, rule, regulation, judgment, order,
injunction, decree or agency requirement of any Governmental Entity, including common law or the interpretation thereof.

“” means any corporate, partnership or limited liability organizational documents, including
certificates or articles of incorporation, bylaws, certificates of formation, operating agreements

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(including limited liability company agreement and agreements of limited partnership), certificates of limited partnership, partnership agreements, shareholder agreements and certificates of
existence, as applicable.

“” means each “employee benefit plan” (as defined in
Section 3(3) of ERISA), whether or not subject to ERISA, and each bonus, stock, stock purchase, stock option or other equity or equity-based compensation arrangement or plan, incentive compensation, deferred compensation, retirement or
supplemental retirement, severance plan or policy, termination pay, employment, consulting, change-in-control, retention, transaction bonus, profit sharing, pension,
retirement, vacation, cafeteria, dependent care, medical care, death and disability benefit, flexible benefits, supplemental unemployment benefit, employee assistance program, education or tuition assistance program, and each insurance and other
fringe or employee benefit plan, program or arrangement, in each case, (a) that is sponsored, maintained, entered into, contributed to or required to be contributed to by Parent or any Parent Subsidiary or any of their ERISA Affiliates,
(b) for the benefit of current or former employees, directors, individual consultants or other individual service providers (or any dependent or beneficiary thereof) of Parent or any Parent Subsidiary or any of their ERISA Affiliates or
(c) with respect to which Parent or any Parent Subsidiary has or may have any obligation or liability (whether actual or contingent), other than any plan to which Parent or any Parent Subsidiary contributes (or has an obligation to contribute)
pursuant to applicable Law and that is sponsored or maintained by a Governmental Entity.

“” means
Parent’s Dividend Reinvestment and Direct Stock Purchase Plan.

“” means the Second Amended and
Restated American Water Works Company, Inc. and its Designated Subsidiaries 2017 Nonqualified Employee Stock Purchase Plan, adopted on July 27, 2018, effective as of February 5, 2019.

“” means any Change that has, individually or in the aggregate with all other Changes, a
material adverse effect on the business, condition (financial or otherwise), properties,