Company: WBI
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0000950170-25-113383
Chunk: 278

Company: WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 278
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 In addition, upon a change of control our (or our successor’s) payments under the Tax Receivable Agreement for each taxable year after any such event would be based on certain assumptions, including an assumption that we would have sufficient taxable income to fully use all potential tax benefits that are subject to the Tax Receivable Agreement.

As a result of the foregoing, we could be required to make an immediate cash payment, possibly significantly in advance of the actual realization, if any, of such future cash tax savings. We also could be required to make cash payments to the TRA Holders that are greater than 85% of the actual benefits we ultimately realize in respect of the tax benefits that are subject to the Tax Receivable Agreement. In these situations, our obligations under the Tax Receivable Agreement could have a substantial negative impact on our liquidity and could have the effect of deferring or preventing certain mergers, asset sales, other forms of business combination, or other changes of control. There can be no assurance that we will be able to finance our obligations under the Tax Receivable Agreement.

Payments under the Tax Receivable Agreement will be based on the tax reporting positions that we determine, which are complex and factual in nature, and the IRS or another taxing authority may challenge all or any part of the Basis Adjustments, as well as other tax positions that we take, and a court may sustain such a challenge. We will not be reimbursed for any cash payments previously made to the TRA Holders pursuant to the Tax Receivable Agreement if any tax benefits initially claimed by us are subsequently challenged by a taxing authority and ultimately disallowed. Instead, any excess cash payments made by us to a TRA Holder will be netted against future cash payments, if any, we might otherwise be required to make under the terms of the Tax Receivable Agreement to such TRA Holders. However, a challenge to any tax benefits initially claimed by us may not arise for a number of years following the initial time of such payment or, even if challenged early, such excess cash payment may be greater than the amount of future cash payments, if any, we might otherwise be required to make under the terms of the Tax Receivable Agreement and, as a result, there might not be future cash payments from which to net against. As a result, it is possible that we could make cash payments under the Tax Receivable Agreement that are substantially greater than 85% of our actual cash tax savings.

We will have full responsibility for, and sole discretion over, all our and