Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 478

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 478
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 otherwise, against Parent, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates relating to the negotiation, execution or delivery of this Agreement or the Merger Agreement or the consummation of the transactions

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contemplated hereby or thereby, including any claim challenging the validity of, or seeking to enjoin the operation of, any provision of this Agreement.

d. The obligations of the Stockholders set forth in this Section 3 shall apply whether or not the Merger, the adoption of the Merger Agreement or any action described above is recommended by the Company Board (or any committee thereof).

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#### Prohibition on Transfers and Conversion
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a. Each Stockholder hereby agrees that it will not, prior to the termination of this Agreement, without the prior written consent of Parent, directly or indirectly offer for sale, sell, transfer, assign, give, convey, grant a proxy with respect to, tender in any tender or exchange offer, pledge, encumber, hypothecate or dispose of (by merger, by testamentary disposition, by operation of law or otherwise), either voluntarily or involuntarily, enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of, or enter into any contract, option or other arrangement or understanding with respect to the sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance, hypothecation or other transfer or disposition of, any of the Shares, or any legal or beneficial interest therein, whether or not for value and whether voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law (any of the foregoing, a “ Transfer ”).

b. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit a Transfer of Shares for estate-planning purposes, or by testamentary disposition, or to an Affiliate, or with respect to a trust over which such Stockholder has sole or shared investment power, so long as (i) the transferee, prior to the time of such Transfer, agrees in a signed writing satisfactory to Parent to be bound by and comply with the provisions of this Agreement (the “ Transferee Consent ”), (ii) the Stockholder provides at least five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice to Parent of any such Transfer (which shall include the Transferee Consent) and (iii) the Stockholder shall remain responsible for any breach of this Agreement by such transferee (any Transfer permitted in accordance with this Section 4(b) , a “ Permitted Transfer ”).

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