Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 125

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 125
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 case, that is required or specifically contemplated by any other provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a breach of this .

(d) Except as prohibited by applicable Law, the Parties shall (and shall cause their respective Subsidiaries and Affiliates to) report and
treat the Merger for U.S. federal, state and other applicable income tax purposes in accordance with the Intended Tax Treatment (and comply with all reporting and recordkeeping requirements applicable to the Merger that are prescribed by the Code,
the Treasury Regulations or forms, instructions or other publications of the Internal Revenue Service, including the recordkeeping and information-filing requirements prescribed by Treasury Regulations
Section 1.368-3) and take no tax position inconsistent with reporting and treating the Merger for U.S. federal, state and other applicable income tax purposes in accordance with the Intended Tax
Treatment.

(e) Any liability arising out of any real estate transfer Tax with respect to interests in real property owned directly or
indirectly by the Company or any Company Subsidiary immediately prior to the Merger, if applicable and due with respect to the Merger, shall be borne by the Surviving Corporation and expressly shall not be a direct liability of shareholders of the
Company.

Section 5.16 . Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the shares of Parent
Common Stock to be issued as Merger Consideration to be listed on the NYSE, subject to official notice of issuance, prior to the Effective Time. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cooperate with Parent in connection with the
foregoing, including by providing information reasonably requested by Parent in connection therewith.

Section 5.17 . Prior to the Effective Time, the Parties shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to facilitate the commencement of the delisting of the Company and of the Company Common Stock from the NYSE and the
deregistration of such Company Common Stock under the Exchange Act as promptly as practicable after the Effective Time. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall not voluntarily delist the Company Common Stock from the NYSE.

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Section 5.18 . Each of the Company and Parent and shall
promptly notify the other Party of any litigation commenced after the date of this Agreement of which it has received notice relating to this Agreement, the Merger or the other Transactions that is brought against the Company or Parent or members of
the Company Board or the Parent Board (“”). Each of the Company and Parent shall reasonably consult with the other Party with