Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 351

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 351
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 effective the Transactions, including (i) the obtaining of all necessary actions or nonactions and Consents, including the HSR Clearance, the Company
Regulatory Approvals and the Parent Regulatory Approvals, from Governmental Entities and the making of all necessary Filings and the taking of all steps as may be necessary to obtain an approval or waiver from, or to avoid an action or proceeding
by, any Governmental Entity and (ii) the defending of any lawsuits or other legal proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions.

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(b) Subject to the terms and conditions herein provided and without limiting the foregoing,
the Company and Parent shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to:

(i) make, or cause to be made, in
consultation and cooperation with the other Party, at a mutually agreeable time after the date of this Agreement, (A) an appropriate Filing pursuant to the HSR Act relating to the Merger and thereafter any other required submissions under the
HSR Act, (B) all other necessary Filings relating to the Merger under any other applicable Antitrust Law and (C) all necessary Filings with the FCC;

(ii) make, or cause to be made, in consultation and cooperation with the other Party, all necessary Filings with other
Governmental Entities relating to the Merger, including any such Filings with the Applicable PSCs, as promptly as practicable after the date hereof (and use reasonable best efforts to make, or cause to be made, such Filings within sixty
(60) days after the date hereof, which may be extended by mutual agreement of the Parties (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed));

(iii) shall furnish to the other Party all assistance, cooperation and information reasonably required for any such Filing made
by such Party and in order to achieve the effects set forth in this ; and

(iv)
subject to , (A) take, or cause to be taken, all other actions and do, or cause to be done, all other things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective the Transactions, including taking
all such further action as may be necessary to resolve such objections, if any, the FTC, the DOJ or the Applicable PSCs may assert under Regulatory Law with respect to the Transactions so as to enable the Closing to occur as soon as reasonably
practicable (and in any event no later than the