Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-039949
Chunk: 187

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 187
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 excluding any disclosures that would jeopardize the rights of Fortegra or its affiliates in any pending litigation in which they are adverse to Purchaser or its affiliates. |

In no event will Fortegra (or its affiliates) allow Purchaser (or its affiliates) access to, or examination rights of, any tax returns or other tax books and records, other than solely (1) tax returns or other tax books and records of Fortegra and its Subsidiaries in respect of a pre-closing tax period or (2) tax returns or other tax books and records of any consolidated, combined, unitary or any other similar tax group that includes both (a) Fortegra or any of its Subsidiaries and (b) Tiptree or any of Tiptree’s affiliates (other than Fortegra and its Subsidiaries) (the “Tiptree Tax Group”) that includes information in respect of Fortegra and its Subsidiaries, in each case subject to entry into a confidentiality agreement on terms and in substance reasonably acceptable to Tiptree. Purchaser will, and will cause the surviving corporation to, following the closing, preserve and keep any books and records held by them relating to the respective businesses of Fortegra and the Subsidiaries prior to the Effective Time that are required to be retained under document retention policies in effect on January 1, 2025, for a period of seven years from the closing date and will make such records (or copies) reasonably available, at reasonable times and upon reasonable advance notice, in a manner so as not to unreasonably interfere with normal business operations of Purchaser and the Group Companies, as may be reasonably required by any Eligible Holder in connection with any insurance claims by, litigation (other than involving Purchaser or its affiliates) or tax audits against, governmental investigations of or compliance with legal requirements by, any Eligible Holder or any of their respective affiliates. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph, the foregoing obligations will not apply to any such access or information that, after being advised in writing as such by legal counsel, Purchaser concludes in good faith cannot be provided without:

| • | violating applicable law or obligation of confidentiality in a contract with any third party; |

| • | constituting a waiver of the attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product privilege; or |

| • | resulting in information reasonably pertinent to any pending litigation in which any of Tiptree or its affiliates, on the one hand, and Purchaser or its affiliates on the