Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 216

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 216
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 of the merger agreement will deny any party to the merger agreement the right to seek damages for any willful and material breach of the merger agreement or fraud (including allowing such party to seek the loss to its stockholders of the benefits of the merger, including the loss of the premium offered to Anywhere stockholders) prior to termination of the merger agreement and other than when a Compass termination fee, Anywhere termination fee or regulatory termination fee is paid, and (iii) the confidentiality agreement and the clean team agreement between Compass and Anywhere will survive the termination of the merger agreement.

#### Termination Payments and Expenses

#### Termination Fee Payable by Compass
The merger agreement provides for payment of a termination fee by Compass to Anywhere of $200 million in connection with a termination of the merger agreement under the following circumstances:

• Anywhere terminates the merger agreement due to a “Compass change of recommendation” (as defined in the section entitled “The Merger Agreement—Covenants and Agreements—Changes in Board Recommendations”); or

• (i) (A) Compass or Anywhere validly terminates the merger agreement due to the Compass stockholder approval not being obtained, and on or before the date of any such termination a Compass competing proposal was publicly announced or publicly disclosed and had not been publicly withdrawn without qualification at least seven business days prior to the Compass stockholders meeting or (B) Anywhere terminates the merger agreement due to a breach by Compass of its representations and warranties under the merger agreement and following the execution of the merger agreement and on or before the date of any such termination a Compass competing proposal was announced, disclosed or otherwise communicated to

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the Compass Board and not withdrawn without qualification at least seven business days prior to the date of such termination and (ii) within 12 months after the date of such termination, Compass enters into a definitive agreement with respect to a Compass competing proposal (or publicly approves or recommends to Compass stockholders or otherwise does not oppose, in the case of a tender or exchange offer, a Compass competing proposal) or consummates a Compass competing proposal (with any reference in the definition of Compass competing proposal to “30%” deemed to be a reference to “50%”).

In no event will Compass be required to pay the termination fee on more than one occasion.

#### Termination Fee Payable by Anywhere
The merger agreement provides for payment of a termination fee by Anywhere to Compass of $200 million in connection with a termination of the merger agreement