Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 116

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 116
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Section 5.8 .

(a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Parties shall use their respective reasonable best efforts
(subject to, and in accordance with, applicable Law) to take promptly, or cause to be taken, all actions, and to do promptly, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other Parties in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable
under applicable Laws to consummate and make 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.

(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