Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-332292
Chunk: 273

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 273
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, contract or arrangement that would reasonably be expected to result, separately or in the aggregate, in the payment of any “excess parachute payments” within the
meaning of Section 280G of the Code.

(g) The Company has no obligation to gross-up,
indemnify or otherwise reimburse any current or former employee, director, consultant or other individual service provider for any Tax incurred by such individual, including under Section 409A or 4999 of the Code.

(h) No Company Benefit Plan provides any benefits, including death or medical benefits (whether or not insured), with respect to current or
former employees or directors of the Company or any Company

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Subsidiary beyond their retirement or other termination of service, other than (i) health continuation coverage pursuant to Section 4980B of the Code, (ii) coverage mandated solely
by applicable Law or (iii) benefits the full costs of which are borne by the current or former employee or director or his or her beneficiary.

(i) Each Company Benefit Plan that is in any part a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” subject to Section 409A of the
Code complies and has complied, both in form and operation, in all material respects, with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code and the final regulations and other applicable guidance thereunder.

Section 3.11 .

(a) (i) To the Knowledge of the Company, since January 1, 2023, no labor union, labor organization, employee association, or works
council (each, a “”) has attempted to organize employees at the Company or any Company Subsidiary or filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to be certified as the bargaining representative of any
employees of the Company or any Company Subsidiary (“”), (ii) since January 1, 2023, there have been no actual or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened (A) work stoppages, lock-outs or strikes,
(B) slowdowns, boycotts, handbilling, picketing, walkouts, demonstrations, leafleting, sit-ins or sick-outs by Company Employees, causing significant disruption to the operations of a Company facility, or
(C) other form of Union disruption at the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iii) except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect, there is no unfair labor practice,
labor dispute, or labor arbitration