Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-038514
Chunk: 188

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 188
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 consolidated, combined, unitary or any other similar tax group that includes both (a) Fortegra or any of its Subsidiaries and (b) Tiptree or any of Tiptree’s affiliates (other than Fortegra and its Subsidiaries) (the “Tiptree Tax Group”) that includes information in respect of Fortegra and its Subsidiaries, in each case subject to entry into a confidentiality agreement on terms and in substance reasonably acceptable to Tiptree. Purchaser will, and will cause the surviving corporation to, following the closing, preserve and keep any books and records held by them relating to the respective businesses of Fortegra and the Subsidiaries prior to the Effective Time that are required to be retained under document retention policies in effect on January 1, 2025, for a period of seven years from the closing date and will make such records (or copies) reasonably available, at reasonable times and upon reasonable advance notice, in a manner so as not to unreasonably interfere with normal business operations of Purchaser and the Group Companies, as may be reasonably required by any Eligible Holder in connection with any insurance claims by, litigation (other than involving Purchaser or its affiliates) or tax audits against, governmental investigations of or compliance with legal requirements by, any Eligible Holder or any of their respective affiliates. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph, the foregoing obligations will not apply to any such access or information that, after being advised in writing as such by legal counsel, Purchaser concludes in good faith cannot be provided without:

| • | violating applicable law or obligation of confidentiality in a contract with any third party; |

| • | constituting a waiver of the attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product privilege; or |

| • | resulting in information reasonably pertinent to any pending litigation in which any of Tiptree or its affiliates, on the one hand, and Purchaser or its affiliates on the other hand, are directly adverse to one another, being shared; |

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provided, however, that Purchaser or the surviving corporation will:

| • | notify the Eligible Holder that such information cannot be disclosed without (x) violating applicable law or the surviving corporation’s or any of the Subsidiaries’ obligations of confidentiality in contract with any third party, (y) waiving the attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product privilege, or (z) resulting in information reasonably pertinent to any pending litigation in which any of Purchaser or its