Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 121

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 121
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 which the Company or any Company Subsidiary is
a party, which rights shall survive the Merger and shall continue in full force and effect to the extent permitted by Law. For a period of six (6) years from the Effective Time, Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation to maintain in effect
the exculpation, indemnification and advancement of expenses provisions of the Company Organizational Documents and any Organizational Documents of the Company Subsidiaries in effect as of the date hereof or in any indemnification agreements of the
Company or the Company Subsidiaries with any of their respective directors, officers or employees in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, and shall not amend, repeal or otherwise modify any such provisions in any manner that would
adversely affect the rights thereunder of any individuals who immediately before the Effective Time were current or former directors, officers or employees of the Company or any Company Subsidiary; , , that all rights to
indemnification in respect of any Claim pending, asserted or made within such period shall continue until the disposition or resolution of such Claim. Parent shall assume, be jointly and severally liable for, and honor, guaranty and stand surety
for, and shall cause the Surviving Corporation and its Subsidiaries to honor, in accordance with their respective terms, each of the covenants contained in this .

(b) From and after the Effective Time, each of Parent and the Surviving Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable
Law, indemnify and hold harmless (and advance funds in respect of each of the foregoing) each Company Personnel and each Person who served as a director, officer, member, trustee or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust, pension or other employee benefit plan or enterprise if such service was at the request or for the benefit of the Company or any Company Subsidiary (each, together with such Person’s heirs, executors or administrators, an
“”) against any costs or expenses (including advancing attorneys’ fees and expenses in advance of the final disposition of any Claim to each Indemnified Party to the fullest extent permitted by Law),
judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages, liabilities and amounts paid in settlement ( that any Claim may

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only be settled with the prior written consent of Parent, not to be unreasonably withheld) in connection with any actual or threatened Claim, arising out of, relating to or in connection with