Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 50

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 50
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• furnish any information regarding Compass or Anywhere or their respective subsidiaries, as applicable, or access to the properties, assets or employees of Compass or Anywhere or their respective subsidiaries, as applicable, to any person in connection with or in response to any competing proposal or offer that could be reasonably expected to lead to a competing proposal;

• enter into any letter of intent or agreement in principle, or other agreement providing for a competing proposal (other than a confidentiality agreement entered into in accordance with the merger agreement); or

• submit any competing proposal to a vote of the stockholders of Compass or Anywhere, as applicable.

Under the merger agreement, however, at any time prior to obtaining the Compass stockholder approval or the Anywhere stockholder approval, as applicable, under certain specified circumstances and subject to certain conditions, the Compass Board or Anywhere Board, as applicable, may engage in, continue or otherwise participate in any discussions or negotiations with any person or furnish any information regarding or access to the properties, assets or employees of Compass or Anywhere or their subsidiaries, as applicable, to any person in connection with or in response to a bona fide, written competing proposal that is not solicited at any time following the date of the merger agreement and that did not arise from a material breach of the non-solicitation obligations of Compass or Anywhere, as applicable, set forth in the merger agreement, subject to certain requirements and restrictions as set forth in the merger agreement.

As more fully described in this joint proxy statement/prospectus and in the merger agreement, and subject to the exceptions summarized below, Compass and Anywhere have each agreed not to:

• withhold, withdraw, qualify or modify, or publicly propose or announce any intention to withhold, withdraw, qualify or modify, in a manner adverse to the other party the Compass or Anywhere Board recommendation, as applicable;

• fail to include in this joint proxy statement/prospectus the Compass or Anywhere Board recommendation, as applicable;

• authorize, adopt, approve, endorse or recommend, or publicly propose or announce any intention to authorize, adopt, approve, endorse or recommend, any competing proposal;

• publicly declare advisable or publicly propose to enter into, any letter of intent, memorandum of understanding, agreement in principle, acquisition agreement, merger agreement, option agreement, joint venture agreement, partnership agreement or other agreement (other than a confidentiality agreement entered into in accordance with the merger agreement) relating to a competing proposal;

• in the case of a competing proposal that is structured