Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-039949
Chunk: 171

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 171
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 and after the date of the Merger Agreement, and through the earlier of the closing date and the date on which the Merger Agreement is terminated in accordance with the terms thereof, each of the parties to the Merger Agreement agreed to, and Fortegra agreed to cause each of the Subsidiaries to, use its respective reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and to do, or cause to be done, all things reasonably necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement as promptly as practicable, including satisfaction, but not waiver, of the conditions to closing set forth in the Merger Agreement; provided, that this requirement does not alter any efforts standard expressly set forth in any other provision of the Merger Agreement and nothing in this paragraph or any other provision of the Merger Agreement requires Purchaser or Merger Sub to take or refrain from taking any action that would or would reasonably be expected to result in the imposition of a burdensome condition.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, subject to the terms of the Merger Agreement, Tiptree and the Group Companies, on the one hand, and Purchaser and Merger Sub, on the other hand, each agreed to (i) furnish to the other such necessary information and reasonable assistance as the other party may reasonably request in connection with the foregoing, (ii) cooperate in all respects with each other in connection with any filing or submission and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry, including any proceeding initiated by a governmental authority or a private party, (iii) keep the other party reasonably informed of any communication received or given in connection with any proceeding by a governmental authority or a private party, in each case, regarding the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and (iv) permit the other party to review any communication given by it, and consult with each other a reasonable amount of time in advance of any meeting, in connection with any proceeding by a governmental authority or a private party, with any other person and, to the

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extent permitted by such other person, give the other party the opportunity to attend and participate in such meetings and conferences; provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph requires Purchaser or Merger Sub to take or refrain from taking any action that would or would reasonably be expected to result in the imposition of a burdensome condition.

In this proxy statement, a “burdensome condition”