Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-332292
Chunk: 326

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 326
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 information where such information or access would, in the reasonable judgment of such Party, (A) breach any agreement with any third party ( that, to the extent any document or information is
subject to the terms of confidentiality restrictions pursuant to an agreement with a third party, Parent and the Company, as applicable, shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the required consent of such third party to disclose such
document or information, and develop an alternative to providing such information so as to address such matters that is reasonably acceptable to the other Party), (B) constitute a waiver of the attorney-client or other privilege held by such Party
( that Parent and the Company, as applicable, shall use its reasonable best efforts to allow the disclosure of such document or information (or as much of it as possible) in a manner that does not result in a loss of attorney-client
privilege), (C) result in access to or disclosure of commercially sensitive information (as determined in Parent’s and the Company’s, as applicable, reasonable discretion), (D) result in access to or the disclosure of (1) any
information concerning a Company Competing Proposal (which shall be governed by ) or a Parent Competing Proposal (which shall be governed by ), as applicable or (2) any
information regarding the deliberations of the Parent Board or Company Board, as applicable, with respect to the Transactions or any similar transaction or transactions with any other Person, the entry into this Agreement, or any materials provided
to the Parent Board or Company Board, as applicable, in connection therewith or (E) otherwise violate any applicable Law; , , that neither Parent nor the Company nor their respective Representatives shall have the
right to conduct any environmental sampling or testing on, under, at or from any of the properties owned, leased or operated by the other Party or its Subsidiaries.

(b) The Parties hereby agree that all information provided to them or their respective Representatives in connection with this Agreement and
the consummation of the Transactions shall be deemed to be “Proprietary Information,” as such term is used in, and shall be treated in accordance with, the Confidentiality Agreement, dated as of August 25, 2025, between Parent and
the Company (the “”). The Parties hereby agree, pursuant to Section 17 of the Confidentiality Agreement (which permits amendment by mutual written agreement), to amend the Confidentiality Agreement
such that its term shall be extended until the earlier of (i) the Effective Time and (ii) twenty