Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 294

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 294
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Transactions, including the Merger, subject, in the case of the Merger, to the Parent Stockholder Approval. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions
have been duly and validly authorized by the Parent Board and the board of directors of Merger Sub and by Parent, as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub, and, except for the Parent Stockholder Approval, no other corporate proceedings on the part of
Parent or Merger Sub are necessary to authorize the Merger, the Parent Common Stock Issuance or the consummation of the Transactions. The Parent Board, at a meeting duly called and held, by the affirmative vote of all directors present, adopted
resolutions (i) determining that the Transactions, including the Merger and the issuance of shares of Parent Common Stock in connection with the Merger (the “”), are advisable, fair to and in the
best interests of Parent and its stockholders, (ii) approving, adopting and declaring advisable this Agreement and the Transactions, including the Merger and the Parent Common Stock Issuance, (iii) directing that the Parent Common Stock
Issuance be submitted to Parent’s stockholders for approval and (iv) recommending that Parent’s stockholders approve the Parent Common Stock Issuance (the “”) at a duly held meeting of
Parent’s stockholders for such purpose (the “”), and such resolutions have not been subsequently rescinded, modified or withdrawn in any way. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and
delivered by Parent and Merger Sub, and, assuming this Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company, this Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of each of Parent and Merger Sub, enforceable
against Parent and Merger Sub in accordance with its terms; that such enforcement may be subject to the Bankruptcy and Equity Exceptions.

(b) Except for (i) such Consents or Filings as may be required under (A) the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law,
(B) the Exchange Act, (C) the Securities Act, (D) the rules and regulations of the NYSE, (E) the HSR Act and (F) the rules and regulations of the Applicable PSCs (such Consents or Filings referred to in clause (F),
collectively, the “”), and (ii) pre-approvals of license transfers by the FCC, and, subject to the accuracy of the representations and