Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 59

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 59
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 newly formed entity for purposes of consummating the Transactions and has not conducted any
business prior to the date hereof and has, and prior to the Effective Time will have, no assets, liabilities or obligations of any nature other than those incident to its formation and pursuant to this Agreement and the Transactions.

Section 4.3 .

(a) Each of Parent and Merger Sub has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its
covenants and agreements hereunder and, assuming that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in are true and correct, to consummate the Transactions, including the Merger, subject, in the
case of the Merger, to the Parent Stockholder Approval. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions have been duly and validly authorized by the Parent Board and the board of directors of Merger Sub and by
Parent, as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub, and, except for the Parent Stockholder Approval, no other corporate proceedings on the part of Parent or Merger Sub are necessary to authorize the Merger, the Parent Common Stock Issuance or the
consummation of the Transactions. The Parent Board, at a meeting duly called and held, by the affirmative vote of all directors present, adopted resolutions (i) determining that the Transactions, including the Merger and the issuance of shares
of Parent Common Stock in connection with the Merger (the “”), are advisable, fair to and in the best interests of Parent and its stockholders, (ii) approving, adopting and declaring advisable this
Agreement and the Transactions, including the Merger and the Parent Common Stock Issuance, (iii) directing that the Parent Common Stock Issuance be submitted to Parent’s stockholders for approval and (iv) recommending that
Parent’s stockholders approve the Parent Common Stock Issuance (the “”) at a duly held meeting of Parent’s stockholders for such purpose (the “”),
and such resolutions have not been subsequently rescinded, modified or withdrawn in any way. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by Parent and Merger Sub, and, assuming this Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and
binding agreement of the Company, this Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of each of Parent and Merger Sub, enforceable against Parent and Merger Sub in accordance with its terms; that such enforcement may
be subject to the Bankruptcy and Equity Exceptions.

(b