Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 126

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 126
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 respect to the defense or settlement of any Transaction Litigation and shall
provide such other Party the opportunity to participate in (but not control) such defense and settlement and shall not settle or compromise or agree to settle or compromise any Transaction Litigation without the other Party’s consent (not to
be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

Section 5.19 . During the Interim Period, each of the Company and
Parent shall coordinate with the other Party regarding the declaration and payment of dividends in respect of Company Common Stock and Parent Common Stock and the record dates and payment dates relating thereto, it being the intention of the Company
and Parent that no holder of Company Common Stock or Parent Common Stock shall receive two (2) dividends, or fail to receive one (1) dividend, for any single calendar quarter with respect to its shares of Company Common Stock or Parent
Common Stock (including Parent Common Stock issued in connection with the Merger), as the case may be.

Section 5.20 .

(a) Following the Effective Time, Parent shall:

(i) retain its current name; and

(ii) maintain its headquarters and principal corporate offices in Camden, New Jersey.

(b) Following the Effective Time, Parent shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, maintain substantial operations within the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, including (i) maintaining the Company’s office complex located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania for a period of five (5) years immediately following the Effective Time and (ii) maintaining the headquarters and
principal corporate offices for the Company’s gas business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the case of clause (ii), in accordance with the Company’s settlement with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in connection with the
acquisition of the Company’s gas business.

Section 5.21 . During the two (2)-year period
immediately following the Effective Time, Parent shall provide, directly or indirectly, community development and charitable contributions within the service areas of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries that are utilities at levels consistent
with the levels of community development and charitable contributions historically provided by the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, and thereafter, at levels consistent with those provided by Parent and the Parent Subsidiaries within their
service areas.

Section 5.22 .

(a) During the Interim Period, the Parties shall cooperate in good faith to mutually determine and use commercially reasonable efforts to
implement any necessary, appropriate or desirable arrangements, in anticipation of the consummation of the Merger