Company: WHWK
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-018470
Chunk: 653

Company: Whitehawk Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 653
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 1.1502-36 Election.

(g) Tax Controversies.

(i) Seller shall control, at Seller’s expense, all Tax audits, Tax disputes or administrative, judicial or other proceedings relating
solely to Seller Group Tax Returns.

(ii) If any Party (or any Affiliate of any Party) receives notice of any Tax audits, Tax disputes or
administrative, judicial or other proceedings with respect to Taxes of or with respect to the Company (each, a “Tax Controversy”), such Party shall provide written notice to the other Parties with reasonable promptness.

(iii) After the Closing Date, Seller shall, upon written notice to Purchaser, have the right to control, at Seller’s expense, any Tax
Controversy that relates solely to taxable periods ending on or before the Closing Date; provided, however, that Purchaser shall have the right to participate in any such Tax Controversy, at Purchaser’s cost, and Seller shall not settle
or otherwise enter into any agreement that represents a final determination of such Tax Controversy without the prior written consent of Purchaser, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.

(iv) Purchaser shall have the right to control any Tax Controversy not described in or
(or that is described in , but which Seller does not elect to control), including with respect to Straddle Periods.

(v) This , and not , shall apply to the extent those two
provisions are inconsistent or contradictory.

(h) Termination of Tax Sharing Agreements. All Tax sharing, Tax allocation and
similar agreements and arrangements to which the Company is a party and pursuant to which the Company or Purchaser may have any obligations or responsibilities with respect to Taxes (other than any such agreements or arrangements entered into in the
ordinary course of business the primary purposes of which is unrelated to Taxes), will be terminated prior to the Closing, and the Company will have no further obligations or responsibilities thereunder following the Closing.

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(i) Refunds. Any Tax refunds that are received by the Company (or any Entity that is
an Affiliate of the Company after the Closing Date) after the Closing that relate to a Pre-Closing Tax Period (including the portion of a Straddle Period that is a
pre-Closing Tax period) of the Company, and the amount of any reductions in Taxes or credits for overpayment of Taxes in lieu of refunds of such Taxes, shall be for the benefit of Seller, except to the extent
that such Tax