Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 94

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 94
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 Kirkland with a draft form of merger agreement. Such draft merger agreement also contemplated that Mr. Reffkin would enter into a voting and support agreement (“Compass voting and support agreement”) simultaneously with the parties’ entry into the merger agreement. Thereafter, through September 22, 2025, members of Anywhere’s and Compass’ respective management teams, with the assistance of Wachtell Lipton and Kirkland, negotiated the terms of the merger agreement and related documentation, which involved exchanging drafts of, and having multiple conference calls to discuss and resolve the open items in, the merger agreement, the support agreements and related documentation.

During recurring weekly calls on September 3, 10 and 18, 2025, Mr. Schneider and Ms. Wasser met via videoconference with Messrs. Reffkin and Serwin, as well as representatives of both parties’ financial and legal advisors, to discuss updates on progress to date on the potential transaction, including ongoing due diligence and reverse due diligence efforts, as well as a potential timeline for completing diligence and negotiations and announcing a transaction.

On September 5, 2025, Wachtell Lipton provided to Kirkland the form of voting and support agreement proposed to be entered into by Mr. Reffkin with Compass and Anywhere simultaneously with entry into the merger agreement.

During the weeks of September 7, 14 and 21, the Anywhere and Compass management teams held various legal and business due diligence phone calls and the parties continued to exchange legal and business due diligence information in response to the other party’s requests.

On September 11, 2025, in a responsive markup of the merger agreement, Kirkland proposed that TPG/AG also enter into a voting and support agreement (“Anywhere voting and support agreement”), in form mirroring the Compass voting and support agreement, simultaneously with entry into the merger agreement. On September 17, 2025, Wachtell Lipton provided to Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (“Sullivan & Cromwell”), legal counsel to TPG/AG, a draft of the Anywhere voting and support agreement.

On September 19, 2025, Mr. Schneider and Mr. Reffkin spoke telephonically to discuss ongoing negotiations for the potential transaction, and to finalize the consideration proposed to be paid to Anywhere’s stockholders in such potential transaction, consisting of a fixed ratio of 1.436 shares of Compass Class A common stock per share of Anywhere common stock, implying a value of approximately $