Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 338

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 338
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for Parent’s Affiliates and their respective Representatives or the Company and the Company’s Affiliates and its and their respective Representatives) regarding, or furnish to any such Person, any nonpublic information with respect to,
or knowingly cooperate in any way with any such Person with respect to, any Parent Competing Proposal or any inquiry or proposal that would reasonably be expected to lead to a Parent Competing Proposal (other than informing such Person of the
existence of the provisions contained in this ). Parent shall, and shall cause the Parent Subsidiaries and its and their respective Representatives to, promptly cease and cause to be terminated all existing
discussions or negotiations with any Person (except Parent’s Affiliates and their respective

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Representatives or the Company and the Company’s Affiliates and its and their respective Representatives) with respect to any Parent Competing Proposal, request the prompt return or
destruction of all confidential information previously furnished to any such Person with respect to any such Parent Competing Proposal, and terminate all physical and electronic data room access previously granted to any such Person with respect to
any such Parent Competing Proposal. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, at any time prior to obtaining the Parent Stockholder Approval, in response to the receipt of a bona fide written Parent Competing Proposal made after the date of
this Agreement that does not result from a material breach of this and that the Parent Board determines in good faith (after consultation with outside legal counsel and a financial advisor) constitutes or would
reasonably be expected to lead to a Parent Superior Proposal, Parent and its Representatives may (A) furnish nonpublic information with respect to Parent and Parent Subsidiaries to the Person making such Parent Competing Proposal (and its
Representatives) (provided that all such information has previously been provided to the Company or is provided or made available to the Company or its Representatives prior to or substantially concurrently with the provision of such information to
such Person) pursuant to an Acceptable Confidentiality Agreement and (B) participate in discussions regarding the terms of such Parent Competing Proposal, including the terms of a Parent Competing Agreement with respect thereto, and the
negotiation of such terms with the Person making such Parent Competing Proposal (and such Person’s Representatives). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Parent may (1) inform a Person that has made a Parent Competing Proposal
of the provisions of this and (2) grant a waiver, amendment, modification or release under any confidentiality,