Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 309

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 309
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 of its Subsidiaries, and provided to any prospective Franchisee in connection with the offer or sale of Franchises.

“ Financing Entities ” means the Financing Sources, together with their Affiliates, their and their Affiliates’ current or future officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, stockholders, limited partners, managers, members or partners and their successors and permitted assigns.

“ Financing Sources ” means the debt financing providers (including each agent and arranger) that have committed to provide or arrange or have otherwise entered into agreements in connection with all or any part of the Financing consisting of debt financing, including any lenders, financial institutions, arrangers or bookrunners and the parties to any commitment letters, joinder agreements, indentures or credit agreements entered into pursuant thereto or relating thereto; provided , that neither Parent nor any Affiliate thereof shall be a Financing Source.

“ Franchise ” means any commercial business arrangement of any of the Franchise Systems that are defined as a “franchise” under the FTC Rule or any applicable Laws and that is owned or operated pursuant to a Franchise Agreement.

“ Franchise Agreement ” means any contract pursuant to which one Person grants or has granted any Person the right or option (whether or not subject to certain qualifications or conditions) to develop, establish, license, acquire or operate any Franchise Business, including franchise agreements, license agreements, area development agreements, multi-unit license or franchise agreements, participating broker agreements, master license or franchise agreements,

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area representative agreements, or any other form of agreement granting the right or option to develop, operate or acquire a Franchise in any location, area or territory.

“ Franchise Business ” means a business to which a Person has been granted the right to operate pursuant to a Franchise Agreement with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to one or more of the Franchise Systems.

“ Franchise Laws ” means the FTC Rule and any other Laws (including the Laws of any state in the United States and any national, state, provincial, or local Governmental Entity) governing the Company’s and any of its Subsidiaries’ offer and sale of Franchises, business opportunities, seller-assisted marketing plans or similar arrangements, or governing the relationship of the parties to a Franchise arrangement, including in the areas of terminating, failing to renew, and transferring that arrangement or agreement.

“ Franchise System ” means each of the franchise systems developed and currently or