Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-039949
Chunk: 212

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 212
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 Tiptree will be entitled to participate in the defense of any such Relevant Consolidated Return Tax Contest and Purchaser will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any compromise or settlement with respect to any such Relevant Consolidated Return Tax Contest without the prior written consent of Tiptree, which will not be unreasonably conditioned, withheld or

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delayed. Each party to the Merger Agreement will provide such assistance as may be reasonably requested by the other party in connection with any Relevant Consolidated Return Contest and will retain and provide the other party with any records or other information that may be relevant to any such Relevant Consolidated Return Contest. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Tiptree will retain all applicable tax returns, books and records and workpapers for Relevant Consolidated Return Periods for a period of at least seven years following the closing date.

#### Expenses
Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Merger Agreement, whether or not the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement are consummated, all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby will be borne by the party incurring such expenses.

#### Amendments and Waivers
Any provision of the Merger Agreement may be amended or waived if, and only if, such amendment or waiver is in writing and signed, in the case of an amendment, by Purchaser, on the one hand, and Fortegra (prior to closing) or the Equityholders’ Representatives (after closing), or in the case of a waiver, by the party providing the waiver is to be effective; provided, that the Equityholders’ Representatives are authorized to duly sign a waiver on behalf of all Equityholders following the closing. Except as specifically provided otherwise in the Merger Agreement, no failure or delay by any party in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder will operate as a waiver thereof nor will any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. Further, no waiver of any of the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement will be deemed to or will constitute a waiver of any other term or condition of the Merger Agreement (whether or not similar). Except as specifically provided otherwise in the Merger Agreement, the rights and remedies therein provided are cumulative and none is exclusive of any other, or of any rights or remedies that any party may otherwise have at law or in equity.

#### Assignment