Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 120

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 120
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 existing relationships, contractual rights or obligations of either of the Parent or its
Subsidiaries, or the Company or its Subsidiaries; (E) unless otherwise required by the Divestiture Actions or Behavioral Remedies, terminate any venture or other

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arrangement of either the Parent or its Subsidiaries, or the Company or its Subsidiaries; (F) unless otherwise required by the Behavioral Remedies, create any relationship, contractual
rights or obligations with either the Parent or its Subsidiaries, or the Company or its Subsidiaries, or accept any restriction on Parent’s freedom of action following the Closing; or (G) unless otherwise required by the Behavioral
Remedies, effectuate any other change or restructuring of Parent or its respective Subsidiaries, or the Company or its Subsidiaries, to avoid the entry of or effect the dissolution of any Law preliminarily or permanently restraining, enjoining or
prohibiting the consummation of the Merger, or to ensure the expiration or termination of the waiting period under the HSR Act as promptly as reasonably practicable. In the event that any action is threatened or instituted challenging the
Transactions or which would otherwise prohibit, materially delay or materially impair the Closing, Parent and Company shall, each at their own expense, use reasonable best efforts to (a) defend any such litigation, action or proceeding
(including by appeal if necessary) and (b) seek to have vacated lifted, reversed or overturned as promptly as practicable any Law or order entered by a Governmental Entity described in this sentence, in each case so as bring about the Closing
as promptly as practicable and in any event no later than the End Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Parent shall consult with the Company in good faith in connection with obtaining the expiration or termination of any
applicable waiting period under the HSR Act and effecting the consummation of the Transactions, provided that Parent shall have the right to direct, devise, implement and control (AA) the strategy, decisions, and communications with Governmental
Entities for obtaining expiration or termination of any applicable waiting periods under the HSR Act, and defending any such litigation, action or proceeding (including by appeal if necessary), with respect to the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, (BB) responses to any requests of, inquiry from, or investigation by, an Antitrust Authority (including directing the timing, nature and substance of