Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 291

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 291
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 an “interested stockholder” (a holder of more than 15% of the corporation’s outstanding shares), unless prior to the date the person becomes an interested stockholder, the board of directors approves either the business combination or the transaction which resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder or the business combination is approved by the board of directors and by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the outstanding voting stock that is not owned by the interested stockholder, or other specified exceptions are met. The DGCL allows a corporation’s certificate of incorporation to contain a provision expressly electing not to be governed by Section 203 of the DGCL. 
 Anywhere’s seventh amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that Anywhere elects not to be governed by Section 203 of the DGCL.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| Stockholder Rights Plan       |     | Compass does not have a shareholder rights plan currently in effect.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |     | Anywhere does not have a stockholder rights plan currently in effect.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |

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### VALIDITY OF COMMON SHARES
The validity of the shares of Compass Class A common stock offered hereby will be passed upon for Compass by Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

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### EXPERTS

#### Compass
The financial statements and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting (which is included in Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting) of Compass, Inc. incorporated in this joint proxy statement/prospectus by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 have been so incorporated in reliance on the report of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

The audited historical financial statements of At World Properties Holdings, LLC as of and for the year ended December 31, 2024 included in this joint proxy statement/prospectus and the audited historical financial statements of At World Properties Holdings, LLC as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023 included as Exhibit 99.1 of Compass, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated March 28, 2025 and incorporated by reference in this joint proxy statement/prospectus have been so included and incorporated in reliance on the reports of P