Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 97

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 97
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 Agreement (which permits amendment by mutual written agreement), to amend the
Confidentiality Agreement such that its term shall be extended until the earlier of (i) the Effective Time and (ii) twenty-four (24) months after the termination of this Agreement pursuant to .

Section 5.4 .

(a) The Company shall not, and shall cause the Company Subsidiaries not to, and shall use reasonable best efforts to cause its and their
respective Representatives engaged in connection with the Transactions not to, directly or indirectly during the Interim Period: (i) solicit, initiate or knowingly encourage (including by way of furnishing nonpublic information) or knowingly
facilitate any Company Competing Proposal or any inquiry regarding, or the making

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of, a proposal that is or would reasonably be expected to lead to a Company Competing Proposal or (ii) participate in any discussions or negotiations with any Person (except for the
Company’s Affiliates and their respective Representatives or Parent and Parent’s Affiliates and its and their respective Representatives) regarding, or furnish to any such Person, any nonpublic information with respect to, or knowingly
cooperate in any way with any such Person with respect to, any Company Competing Proposal or any inquiry or proposal that would reasonably be expected to lead to a Company Competing Proposal (other than informing such Person of the existence of the
provisions contained in this ). The Company shall, and shall cause the Company Subsidiaries and its and their respective Representatives to, promptly cease and cause to be terminated all existing discussions or
negotiations with any Person (except for the Company’s Affiliates and their respective Representatives or Parent and Parent’s Affiliates and its and their respective Representatives) with respect to any Company Competing Proposal,
request the prompt return or destruction of all confidential information previously furnished to any such Person with respect to any such Company Competing Proposal, and terminate all physical and electronic data room access previously granted to
any such Person with respect to any such Company Competing Proposal. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, at any time prior to obtaining the Company Shareholder Approval, in response to the receipt of a bona fide written Company
Competing Proposal made after the date of this Agreement that does not result from a material breach of this and that the Company Board determines in good faith (after consultation with outside legal counsel and
a financial advisor) constitutes or would reasonably be expected to lead to a Company Superior Proposal, the Company and its Representatives may