Company: EXEEZ
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000895126-25-000021
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Company: EXPAND ENERGY Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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 process include the following: 

•the inability to successfully combine the business of the Company and Southwestern in a manner that permits us to achieve, on a timely basis, or at all, the enhanced revenue opportunities and cost savings and other benefits anticipated to result from the Southwestern Merger;

•complexities associated with managing the combined businesses, including difficulty addressing possible differences in operational philosophies and the challenge of integrating complex systems, technology, networks and other assets of each of the companies in a seamless manner that minimizes any adverse impact on customers, suppliers, employees and other constituencies; 

•the assumption of contractual obligations with less favorable or more restrictive terms; and

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•potential unknown liabilities and unforeseen increased expenses or delays following the Southwestern Merger. 

As a result of the Southwestern Merger, the size of the Company’s business has increased significantly. Our future success will depend, in part, upon our ability to manage this expanded business, which will pose substantial challenges for management, including challenges related to the management and monitoring of new operations and associated increased costs and complexity. We may also face increased scrutiny from governmental authorities as a result of the significant increase in the size of the business.

We believe that, once the business of Southwestern is fully integrated into the Company, the Southwestern Merger will provide operational and financial scale, increasing free cash flow and an enhanced corporate rate of return. However, achieving these benefits requires, among other things, realization of the targeted cost and commercial synergies expected from the Southwestern Merger. This growth and the anticipated benefits of the transaction may not be realized fully or at all or may take longer to realize than expected. Actual operating, technological, strategic and revenue opportunities, if achieved at all, may be less significant than expected or may take longer to achieve than anticipated. If we are not able to achieve these objectives and realize the anticipated benefits and synergies expected from the Southwestern Merger within the anticipated timing or at all, our business, financial condition and operating results may be adversely affected, our earnings per share may be diluted, the accretive effect of the Southwestern Merger may decrease or be delayed and our share price may be negatively impacted. 

The market price for our common stock as a result of the Southwestern Merger may be affected by factors different from those that historically have affected our common stock. 

Upon completion of the Southwestern Merger, legacy Southwestern shareholders became shareholders of the Company. Our financial position may differ from our financial position before the completion of