Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 353

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 353
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 Entity, and determining the strategy and timing for, and making all material decisions relating to, obtaining
the HSR Clearance, the Parent Regulatory Approvals and

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Company Regulatory Approvals and any other approvals from any Governmental Entity or other Person necessary, proper or advisable to consummate the Merger.

(d) In furtherance and not in limitation of the covenants of the Parties contained in this , if any
administrative or judicial action or proceeding, including any proceeding by a private party, is instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any transaction contemplated by this Agreement as violative of any Regulatory Law, each of the
Company and Parent shall cooperate in all respects with each other and shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to contest and resist any such action or proceeding and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any decree, judgment,
injunction or other order, whether temporary, preliminary or permanent, that is in effect and that prohibits, prevents or restricts consummation of the Transactions. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement, nothing in
this shall limit a Party’s right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to or so long as such Party has, prior to such termination, complied with its
obligations under this Agreement, including this .

(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to
the contrary, nothing in this shall be construed to require the Company, Parent or any of their respective Affiliates to undertake any efforts or take any action (including agreeing to accept or accepting any
terms, conditions, liabilities, obligations, commitments, sanctions or other measures and proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order or otherwise, the sale, divestiture, licensing or disposition of
assets or businesses of the Company, Parent or any of their respective Affiliates) as may be required to resolve objections, if any, of the FTC, the DOJ or Applicable PSC (or any other Governmental Entity that may assert jurisdiction under
applicable Law and to which the Parties deem it necessary, proper or advisable to obtain or make a Consent or Filing with such Governmental Entity to consummate the Merger), if the taking of such efforts or action with respect thereto would
reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the business, condition (financial or otherwise), properties, results of operations, liabilities, assets or operations of Parent and the Parent
Subsidiaries and Parent