Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-039949
Chunk: 186

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 186
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 confidentiality agreement between Purchaser and Fortegra, if applicable, and treated as “Confidential Information” as defined thereunder; |

| • | without the prior written consent of Fortegra, Purchaser has agreed not to contact any customer, supplier or distributor of Fortegra or any Subsidiary, and provided that Fortegra will have the right to have a representative present during any such contact in the event that it consents to such contact; and |

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| • | Purchaser will have no right to perform materially disruptive or subsurface investigations of the properties or facilities of Fortegra or any Subsidiary without the prior written consent of Fortegra (which consent may be withheld for any reason). |

In addition, and notwithstanding anything contained in the Merger Agreement to the contrary, Fortegra will not have any obligation to provide Purchaser with any such access or information that cannot be provided without:

| • | violating applicable law or obligation of confidentiality pursuant to 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 Purchaser or its subsidiaries, on the one hand, or Fortegra or its affiliates, on the other hand, are directly adverse to one another, being shared; |

provided, however, that Fortegra will:

| • | notify Purchaser, as applicable, that such information cannot be disclosed without (x) violating applicable law or Fortegra’s or any of the Subsidiaries’ obligations of confidentiality in a contract with any third party, (y) waiving the attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product privilege or (z) resulting in information reasonably pertinent to any pending litigation in which any of Fortegra or its affiliates, on the one hand, and Purchaser or its affiliates, on the other hand, are directly adverse to one another, being shared; |

| • | communicate to Purchaser in reasonable detail (x) the facts giving rise to such notification and (y) the subject matter of such information (to the extent it is able to do so in accordance with the foregoing proviso); and |

| • | use reasonable best efforts to identify and pursue a legally permissible method of providing such disclosure, including in the case where such disclosures are reasonably likely to violate Fortegra’s or any of the Subsidiaries’ obligations of confidentiality, using reasonable best efforts to seek a waiver of any such obligations of confidentiality,