Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-332292
Chunk: 192

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 192
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 past practice, except, in each case, as 
 required by the terms of an Essential benefit plan specified in the confidential disclosure schedule delivered by Essential, by any applicable collective bargaining agreement or by applicable Law;                                              |

| • |     | waive, release or amend the restrictive covenant obligations of any current or former director, officer, 
 employee, or natural independent contractor of Essential or any subsidiary;                              |

| • |     | engage in any “plant closing,” “mass layoff” or similar act requiring notice under the         
 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or any similar federal, state or local law; |

| • |     | materially change financial accounting policies or procedures or any of its methods of reporting income,                                
 deductions or other material items for financial accounting purposes, except as required by GAAP, SEC rule or policy or applicable Law; |

| • |     | (i) settle or compromise any material liability for taxes or any tax examination, audit, governmental claim,                                                                                                                             
 litigation or other proceeding relating to a material amount of taxes, (ii) change or revoke any material tax election, except in the ordinary course of business, (iii) change any tax accounting period or any material methods of tax 
 accounting, except as required by GAAP, (iv) file any material amended tax return, other than any amended tax return that is not expected to result in any additional material tax liability, (v) enter into any “closing                
 agreement” within the meaning of Section 7121 of the Code (or any analogous or similar state, local, or non-U.S. law), (vi) agree to an extension or waiver of any                                                                       |

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| statute of limitations regarding the assessment or collection of any material amount of tax, except in the ordinary course of business, (vii) surrender any right to claim a material refund 
 of taxes, or (viii) request any material ruling from any governmental entity with respect to taxes;                                                                                          |

| • |     | pay or settle material legal proceedings, other than payments or settlements (i) that do not exceed                                                                                    
 $25 million individually or $50 million in the aggregate over a 12-month period, (ii) that were due and payable prior to the date of the merger agreement, or (iii) in connection with 
 regulatory proceedings before any government entities; or                                                                                                                              |

| • |     | agree or commit, in writing or otherwise, to take any of the foregoing actions. |

Conduct of American Water’s Business