Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 117

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 117
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 other actions and do, or cause to
be done, all other things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective the Transactions, including taking all such further action as may be necessary to resolve such objections, if any, the FTC, the DOJ or the Applicable PSCs may
assert under Regulatory Law with respect to the Transactions so as to enable the Closing to occur as soon as reasonably practicable (and in any event no later than the End Date), including (1) proposing, negotiating, committing to and
effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of such assets or businesses of Parent or the Parent Subsidiaries or Parent’s Affiliates or of the Company or the Company Subsidiaries or the
Company’s Affiliates and (2) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Closing Date would limit Parent’s or any Parent Subsidiary’s (including the Surviving Corporation’s) or Parent’s
Affiliates’ freedom of

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action with respect to, or its or their ability to retain, one or more of Parent’s or any Parent Subsidiary’s (including the Surviving Corporation’s) businesses, product lines
or assets, in each case, as may be required in order to avoid the entry of, or to effect the dissolution of, any injunction, temporary restraining order or other order in any suit or proceeding which would otherwise have the effect of preventing or
materially delaying the Closing, and (B) subject to applicable legal limitations and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, keep each other apprised of the status of matters relating to the completion of the transactions contemplated
thereby, including promptly furnishing the other Party with copies of notices or other communications received by the Company or Parent, as the case may be, or any of their respective Subsidiaries, from any third party or any Governmental Entity
with respect to such transactions. The Company and Parent shall permit counsel for the other Party reasonable opportunity to review in advance, and consider in good faith the views of the other Party in connection with any proposed written
communication to any Governmental Entity. Each of the Company and Parent agrees not to participate in any substantive meeting or discussion, either in person, by telephone or other telecommunication, with any Governmental Entity in connection with
the proposed transactions unless it consults with the other Party in advance and, to the extent not prohibited by such Governmental Entity