Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-332292
Chunk: 355

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 355
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 cause their respective Subsidiaries and Affiliates to) report and
treat the Merger for U.S. federal, state and other applicable income tax purposes in accordance with the Intended Tax Treatment (and comply with all reporting and recordkeeping requirements applicable to the Merger that are prescribed by the Code,
the Treasury Regulations or forms, instructions or other publications of the Internal Revenue Service, including the recordkeeping and information-filing requirements prescribed by Treasury Regulations
Section 1.368-3) and take no tax position inconsistent with reporting and treating the Merger for U.S. federal, state and other applicable income tax purposes in accordance with the Intended Tax
Treatment.

(e) Any liability arising out of any real estate transfer Tax with respect to interests in real property owned directly or
indirectly by the Company or any Company Subsidiary immediately prior to the Merger, if applicable and due with respect to the Merger, shall be borne by the Surviving Corporation and expressly shall not be a direct liability of shareholders of the
Company.

Section 5.16 . Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the shares of Parent
Common Stock to be issued as Merger Consideration to be listed on the NYSE, subject to official notice

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of issuance, prior to the Effective Time. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cooperate with Parent in connection with the foregoing, including by providing information
reasonably requested by Parent in connection therewith.

Section 5.17 . Prior to the
Effective Time, the Parties shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to facilitate the commencement of the delisting of the Company and of the Company Common Stock from the NYSE and the deregistration of such Company Common Stock under the
Exchange Act as promptly as practicable after the Effective Time. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall not voluntarily delist the Company Common Stock from the NYSE.

Section 5.18 . Each of the Company and Parent and shall promptly notify the other Party of any litigation
commenced after the date of this Agreement of which it has received notice relating to this Agreement, the Merger or the other Transactions that is brought against the Company or Parent or members of the Company Board or the Parent Board
(“”). Each of the Company and Parent shall reasonably consult with the other Party with respect to the defense or settlement of any Transaction Litigation and shall provide such other Party the opportunity to
participate in (but not control) such defense and settlement