Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-332292
Chunk: 203

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 203
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 coinsurance and maximum out-of-pocket requirements
applicable to the employee and his or her covered dependents.

Prior to the effective time, Essential will cause its applicable subsidiaries to satisfy
all legal or contractual requirements to provide notice to, or to enter into any consultation procedure with, any union which is representing any Essential employee in connection with the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement.

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Following the effective time, American Water will cause the surviving corporation’s applicable
subsidiaries to continue to honor the terms of each applicable collective bargaining agreement until such collective bargaining agreement otherwise expires pursuant to its terms or is modified by the parties thereto.

Efforts Related to Consents and Approvals of Governmental Entities

Subject to the terms and conditions of the merger agreement, each of American Water and Essential has agreed to use its reasonable best efforts to promptly
take all actions necessary, proper or advisable under applicable laws to consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement (including the merger), including obtaining all necessary consents and approvals from
governmental entities and defending any legal proceedings challenging the merger agreement or the completion of the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement.

In addition, without limiting the foregoing paragraph, and subject to the terms and conditions of the merger agreement (including any limitations relating to
burdensome effects described below), each of American Water and Essential has agreed to use its reasonable best efforts to: (i) at a mutually agreeable time, make (A) an appropriate filing pursuant to the HSR Act relating to the merger and
thereafter any other required submissions under the HSR Act, (B) all other necessary filings relating to the merger under any other applicable antitrust law and (C) all necessary filings with the FCC; (ii) make all necessary filings
with other governmental entities relating to the merger, including any such filings with the applicable PSCs, as promptly as practicable after the date of the merger agreement (and use reasonable best efforts to make, or cause to be made, such
filings within 60 days after the date of the merger agreement (or otherwise as extended by mutual agreement of the parties)); and (iii) take any other actions necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective the transactions
contemplated by the merger agreement, including taking any action necessary to resolve any objections that any federal antitrust authority or the applicable PSCs may assert under regulatory law with respect to the transactions contemplated by the
merger agreement, which may include (1) proposing, negotiating