Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-039949
Chunk: 359

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 359
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 an acknowledgement or representation to any third party not a party hereto that such items are material, to establish any standard of materiality or to define further the meaning of such terms for purposes of this Agreement or otherwise. Any matter set forth in any section of the Company Disclosure Schedule or Purchaser Disclosure Schedule shall be deemed to be referred to and incorporated in any section to which it is specifically referenced or cross-referenced, and also in all other sections of the Company Disclosure Schedule or the Purchaser Disclosure Schedule, respectively, to which such matter’s application or relevance is reasonably apparent on its face. Any capitalized terms used in the Company Disclosure Schedule or Purchaser Disclosure Schedule or any Exhibit, but not otherwise defined therein, shall be defined as set forth in this Agreement.

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(b) Any reference in this Agreement to gender shall include all genders and the neuter.

(c) The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement and, in the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as jointly drafted by the parties hereto, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provision of this Agreement.

(d) For all actions or measurements contemplated by this Agreement to take place or be measured as of “immediately prior to the Effective Time” or “immediately prior to the Closing,” (i) any Company Equity Awards that vest immediately prior to the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (after giving effect to any accelerated vesting or performance targets achieved in connection with such transactions) shall be deemed vested as of such time and (ii) any Warrants that are deemed exercised immediately prior to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in accordance with their terms shall be considered to have been exercised and cancelled and forfeited as of such time (and any Warrants that are not deemed exercised shall be cancelled and forfeited as of such time).

## ARTICLE II

### THE MERGER
Section 2.01 Merger. At the Effective Time, in accordance with this Agreement and the DGCL, Merger Sub shall be merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), the separate existence of Merger Sub shall cease and the Company shall continue as the surviving corporation (the “Surviving Corporation”). The Merger shall have the effects set forth in Section 259 of the DG