Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 190

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 190
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 of their respective representatives may, in response to an inquiry or proposal from a third party, inform a third party or its representatives of the restrictions imposed by the non-solicitation provisions set forth in the merger agreement (without conveying, requesting or attempting to gather any other information except as otherwise permitted under the merger agreement); and

• During the period commencing with the execution and delivery of the merger agreement and continuing until the earlier of the effective date of the merger and termination of the merger agreement, Compass and Anywhere, as applicable, will not (and will cause their respective subsidiaries not to) terminate, amend, modify or waive any provision of any confidentiality, “standstill” or similar agreement to which it or any of its subsidiaries is a party; provided, that, notwithstanding any other restrictions in the non-solicitation provisions of the merger agreement, prior to, but not after, the receipt of the Compass stockholder approval or Anywhere stockholder approval, as applicable, if, in response to an unsolicited request from a third party to waive any “standstill” or similar provision, the Compass Board or Anywhere Board, as applicable, determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside legal counsel that the failure to take such action would be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties owed to the stockholders of Compass or Anywhere, as applicable, it may waive any such “standstill” or similar provision solely to the extent necessary to permit a third party to make a competing proposal, on a confidential basis, to the Compass Board or Anywhere Board and communicate such waiver to the applicable third party; provided, however, that Compass or Anywhere, as applicable, will advise the other party at least two business days prior to taking such action.

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Additionally, under the terms of the merger agreement, subject to certain exceptions described below, the Compass Board and Anywhere Board, including any committees thereof, have each agreed not to:

• withhold, withdraw, qualify or modify, or publicly propose or announce any intention to withhold, withdraw, qualify or modify, in a manner adverse to the other party the Compass or Anywhere Board recommendation, as applicable;

• fail to include in this joint proxy statement/prospectus the Compass or Anywhere Board recommendation, as applicable;

• authorize, adopt, approve, endorse or recommend, or publicly propose or announce any intention to authorize, adopt, approve, endorse or recommend, any competing proposal;

• publicly declare advisable or publicly propose to enter into, any letter of