Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 68

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 68
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 any Parent Subsidiary is the subject of any currently ongoing examination, audit, litigation or other proceeding with
respect to Taxes, nor has any examination, audit, litigation or other proceeding with respect to Taxes been proposed against any of them in writing, and any deficiencies asserted or assessments made as a result of any examination, audit, litigation
or other proceeding with respect to Taxes have been paid in full or are being contested in good faith and adequate accruals or reserves for such deficiencies or assessments have been established. There are no Liens for Taxes on any of the assets of
Parent or any Parent Subsidiary other than Parent Permitted Liens. No claim has ever been made in writing by a taxing authority of a jurisdiction where Parent or any Parent Subsidiary has not filed Tax Returns or paid taxes of a particular type that
Parent or such Subsidiary is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction, or is required to file Tax Returns or pay Taxes of such type in such jurisdiction.

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(c) Neither Parent nor any Parent Subsidiary (i) has ever been a member of any
affiliated, combined, unitary or other similar group (other than any such group the common parent of which is Parent or any Parent Subsidiary), (ii) is a party to or bound by any written Tax allocation, indemnification, sharing or similar agreement
(other than an agreement exclusively between or among Parent and the Parent Subsidiaries), except for customary commercial agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business the primary purpose of which is not related to Taxes, or
(iii) has any liability for any Taxes of any Person (other than Parent or any Parent Subsidiary) under Section 1.1502-6 of the Treasury regulations promulgated under the Code (or any analogous or
similar provision of any state, local or non-U.S. Tax Law), as a transferee or successor, by contract (other than pursuant to customary commercial agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business the
primary purpose of which is not related to Taxes), or otherwise by operation of Law.

(d) Parent and the Parent Subsidiaries (A) have
timely paid, deducted, withheld and collected all amounts required to be paid, deducted, withheld or collected by any of them with respect to any payment owing to, or received from, their employees, creditors, independent contractors, customers and
other third parties (and have timely paid over, or set