Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 141

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 141
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08102

Attention: Stacy Mitchell, General Counsel

Email: stacy.mitchell@amwater.com

with copies to:

American Water
Works Company, Inc.

1 Water Street

Camden, NJ 08102

Attention:
Jordan Mersky

Email: jordan.mersky@amwater.com

and

Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP

1440 New York Avenue, N.W.

Washington, DC 20005

Attention: Pankaj Sinha; Emily Prezioso Walsh

Email: psinha@skadden.com; emily.walsh@skadden.com

To the Company:

Essential
Utilities, Inc.

762 West Lancaster Avenue

Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

Attention:
Christopher Luning

Email: CPLuning@essential.co

93

with copies to:

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

1700 M Street N.W.

Washington,
DC 20036

Attention: George Stamas; Alexander Fine; Evan D’Amico

Email: gstamas@gibsondunn.com; afine@gibsondunn.com;

edamico@gibsondunn.com

Section 8.8 . The Parties acknowledge and agree that (a) any reference in a particular Section of either
the Company Disclosure Schedule or the Parent Disclosure Schedule shall be deemed to be an exception to (or, as applicable, a disclosure for purposes of) (i) the representations and warranties (or covenants, as applicable) of the relevant Party
that are contained in the corresponding Section of this Agreement and (ii) any other representations and warranties of such Party that are contained in this Agreement (regardless of the absence of an express reference or cross-reference in a
particular Section of this Agreement or a particular Section of either the Company Disclosure Schedule or Parent Disclosure Schedule), but only if the relevance of that reference as an exception to (or a disclosure for purposes of) such
representations and warranties would be reasonably apparent and (b) the fact that any item of information is disclosed in the Company Disclosure Schedule or the Parent Disclosure Schedule shall not be construed to mean that such information is
required to be disclosed by this Agreement, and such information and the dollar thresholds set forth herein shall not be used as a basis for interpreting the terms “material,” “material adverse effect” or other similar terms
in this Agreement.

Section 8.9 . Neither this Agreement nor any of the