Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 136

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 136
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ants or other agreements set forth in this Agreement. The Parties acknowledge and agree that in no event shall a
Party be required to pay the Company Termination Fee or the Parent Termination Fee on more than one occasion.

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(e) Each Party acknowledges and agrees that the agreements contained in this
are integral parts of the Transactions and that, without these agreements, such Party would not enter into this Agreement. Each Party further acknowledges and agrees that payment of the Company Termination Fee
and Parent Termination Fee, as applicable, if, as and when required pursuant to this , shall not constitute a penalty but rather will constitute liquidated damages, in a reasonable amount that will compensate the
Party receiving such amount in the circumstances in which it is payable for the efforts and resources expended and opportunities foregone while negotiating this Agreement and in reliance on this Agreement and on the expectation of the consummation
of the Transactions, which amount would otherwise be impossible to calculate with precision. Accordingly, (i) if Parent fails to pay the Parent Termination Fee pursuant to when due, and, in order to
obtain such payment, the Company commences a Claim that results in a Judgment against Parent for the Parent Termination Fee, Parent shall pay to the Company, together with the Parent Termination Fee, the Company’s costs and expenses (including
reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees) in connection with such Claim, and interest on the Parent Termination Fee for the period commencing as of the date such payment was required to be made and ending on the date such payment is actually
paid to the Company at a rate per annum equal to the Prime Rate in effect on the date such payment was required to be made, or (ii) if the Company fails to pay the Company Termination Fee pursuant to
when due, and, in order to obtain such payment, Parent commences a Claim that results in a Judgment against the Company for the Company Termination Fee, the Company shall pay to Parent, together with the Company Termination Fee, Parent’s costs
and expenses (including reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees) in connection with such Claim, and interest on the Company Termination Fee for the period commencing as of the date such payment was required to be made and ending on the date
such payment is actually paid to Parent at a rate per annum equal to the Prime Rate in effect on the date such payment was required to be made.

ARTICLE VIII

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 8.1 .

(a) None of the