Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-038514
Chunk: 465

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 465
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 covenants and obligations required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by Purchaser or Merger Sub, as the case may be, on or prior to the Closing Date.

(c) Merger Sub Formation and Joinder . The Merger Sub shall have been formed, and the Merger Sub Joinder shall remain in full force and effect.

(d) Officer’s Certificate . Purchaser and Merger Sub shall have delivered to the Company a certificate, dated as of the Closing Date, executed by a duly authorized officer of each of Purchaser and Merger Sub, certifying to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.03(a) and ( b ).

(e) Payments . Purchaser or Merger Sub shall have made the payments set forth in Section 3.04 .

Section 8.04 Frustration of Closing Conditions . No party may rely on the failure of any condition set forth in this Article VIII to be satisfied if such failure resulted from such party’s failure to use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Closing to occur, as required by Section 7.02(a), or to satisfy its obligations under Section 7.03 or Section 7.04.

## ARTICLE IX

### TAX MATTERS
Section 9.01 Transfer Taxes . All transfer, documentary, sales, use, stamp, registration and other similar Taxes and fees (including any associated penalties and interest, but excluding any Taxes or fees (and associated penalties and interest) based in whole or in part upon income, profits or gains) (“ Transfer Taxes ”) incurred in connection with the Merger, if any, shall be paid fifty percent (50%) by the Eligible Holders and fifty percent (50%) by the Purchaser when due, whether levied on Purchaser, the Company, the Surviving Corporation, any Subsidiary or any Eligible Holder. The party required under applicable Law to do so shall file all necessary Tax Returns and other documentation with respect to any such Transfer Taxes.

Section 9.02 Tax Elections . The parties agree that no election pursuant to Section 338 or Section 336 of the Code (or any similar elections under applicable Law) shall be made by Purchaser or its Affiliates, the Company or the Surviving Corporation or any of the Subsidiaries with respect to the Company, the Surviving Corporation or any of the Subsidiaries with respect to the transactions contemplated under this Agreement, which election