Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 185

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 185
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 (1); or (C) optionally prepay, optionally redeem or repurchase (including via open market purchases or negotiated transactions) indebtedness under any of the existing 5.250% senior notes indenture, the existing 5.750% senior notes indenture, the existing 7.000% senior secured second lien notes indenture or the existing 9.750% senior secured second lien notes indenture; provided, further, that Anywhere shall comply with the covenant with respect to indebtedness disclosed in Anywhere’s disclosure letter to Compass.

• other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, (i) enter into any contract that would be an Anywhere material contract if it were in effect on the date of the merger agreement or (ii) materially modify, materially amend, terminate or assign, or waive, release or assign any rights, claims or benefits under, any Anywhere material contract;

• waive, release, assign, settle or compromise or offer or propose to waive, release, assign, settle or compromise, any proceeding (excluding any audit, claim or other proceeding in respect of taxes) other than the settlement of such proceedings that (A) involve only the payment of monetary damages by Anywhere or any of its subsidiaries not exceeding $2.5 million individually or $10,000,000 in the aggregate in any calendar year (but excluding any amounts paid on behalf of Anywhere or any of its subsidiaries by any applicable insurance policy maintained by Anywhere or any of its subsidiaries), (B) do not impose any material restrictions or limitations upon the assets, operations, business or conduct of Anywhere or any of its subsidiaries (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, releases of claims, confidentiality and other immaterial obligations customarily included in monetary settlements) and (C) do not involve the admission

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of any criminal wrongdoing by Anywhere or any of its subsidiaries; provided , that Anywhere shall be permitted to settle any transaction litigation in accordance with the merger agreement;

• make or commit to make any capital expenditures that, together with all other capital expenditures of Anywhere and its subsidiaries, exceed by more than 5% the budgeted amounts disclosed in Anywhere’s disclosure letter to Compass;

• take any action, cause any action to be taken, knowingly fail to take any action or knowingly fail to cause any action to be taken, which action or failure to act would prevent or impede, or would be reasonably likely to prevent or impede, the merger