Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-038514
Chunk: 370

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 370
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 Holder shall provide Purchaser with an IRS Form W-9 and (ii) the Company shall provide Purchaser a certificate and a notice addressed to the IRS, in accordance with the requirements of Treasury Regulation Sections 1.897-2(h) and 1.1445-2(c)(3), certifying that the Company is not a “United States real property holding corporation” within the meaning of Section 897(c)(2) of the Code. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if such IRS Form W-9 or certification is not delivered prior to Closing, Purchaser’s sole recourse shall be to make the appropriate withholding under Section 1445 of the Code.

(g) Withholding . Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Purchaser, Merger Sub, the Surviving Corporation and the Subsidiaries and any other applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amount otherwise payable to or for the benefit of any Person pursuant to this Agreement such amounts as it is required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under any provision of federal, state, local or foreign Tax Law; provided , however , that the Person intending to withhold will use reasonable best efforts to notify such Persons of any amounts otherwise payable to such Persons that it intends to deduct and withhold at least three (3) Business Days prior to the due date for any relevant payment and shall provide reasonable details regarding the provisions of Law that requires such deduction or withholding, other than required compensatory withholdings or backup withholding or withholding resulting from the failure of any Person to provide the documentation described in Section 2.05 . Any amounts withheld in accordance with this Section 2.05(g) shall be (i) timely paid to the appropriate Governmental Authority and (ii) treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the Equityholder in respect of which such deduction and withholding was made.

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## ARTICLE III

### CLOSING
Section 3.01 Closing . The closing of the transactions contemplated hereby (the “Closing”) shall take place electronically through the execution and exchange, via pdf copies of electronically or originally signed documents, on (a) the last Business Day of the month in which all of the conditions precedent set forth in Article VIII (other than those conditions that by their terms are to be satisfied at the Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of those conditions at the Closing) (the