Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 303

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 303
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ens. No claim has ever been made in writing by a taxing authority of a jurisdiction where Parent or any Parent Subsidiary has not filed Tax Returns or paid taxes of a particular
type that Parent or such Subsidiary is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction, or is required to file Tax Returns or pay Taxes of such type in such jurisdiction.

(c) Neither Parent nor any Parent Subsidiary (i) has ever been a member of any affiliated, combined, unitary or other similar group
(other than any such group the common parent of which is Parent or any Parent Subsidiary), (ii) is a party to or bound by any written Tax allocation, indemnification, sharing or similar agreement (other than an agreement exclusively between or among
Parent and the Parent Subsidiaries), except for customary commercial agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business the primary purpose of which is not related to Taxes, or (iii) has any liability for any Taxes of any Person (other
than Parent or any Parent Subsidiary) under Section 1.1502-6 of the Treasury regulations promulgated under the Code (or any analogous or similar provision of any state, local or non-U.S. Tax Law), as a transferee or successor, by contract (other than pursuant to customary commercial agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business the primary purpose of which is not related to
Taxes), or otherwise by operation of Law.

(d) Parent and the Parent Subsidiaries (A) have timely paid, deducted, withheld and
collected all amounts required to be paid, deducted, withheld or collected by any of them with respect to any payment owing to, or received from, their employees, creditors, independent contractors, customers and other third parties (and have timely
paid over, or set aside in accounts for such purpose, any amounts so withheld, deducted or collected to the appropriate Governmental Entity), and (B) have otherwise complied with all applicable Laws relating to the payment, withholding,
collection and remittance of Taxes (including information reporting requirements).

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(e) Neither Parent nor any Parent Subsidiary has distributed stock of another Person, or has
had its stock distributed by another Person, in a transaction that was purported or intended to be governed in whole or in part by Section 355(a) of the Code within the past two (2) years or otherwise as part of a plan that includes the
Merger.

(f) Neither