Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 127

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 127
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 and the other Transactions, regarding each Party’s and its Subsidiaries’ credit agreements, indentures or other documents
governing or relating to Indebtedness of the Parties and their Subsidiaries, including arrangements by way of amendments, consents, redemption, payoff, new financing or

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otherwise, with respect to refinancing or retaining a Party’s or its Subsidiaries’ credit agreements or notes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and without limiting
, in the event that a Specified Debt Amendment has not been obtained in respect of the Specified Debt Agreement prior to the date that is thirty (30) days prior to the anticipated Closing Date, the Company
shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver (or cause to be delivered) to Parent, on or prior to the Closing Date (with drafts delivered at least five (5) Business Days prior to the anticipated Closing Date), a fully executed copy of a
customary payoff letter with respect to the obligations under the Specified Debt Agreement.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, and
without limiting , as soon as reasonably practicable, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) (A) commence offers to prepay (including change in control offers) all of the
notes issued pursuant to the 2016 Note Purchase Agreement on such terms and conditions that are set forth in Section 8.7 thereof and (B) cause the Company Subsidiaries, and direct its and their respective
non-legal Representatives, to provide all cooperation reasonably requested by Parent in connection with any such prepayment or (ii) obtain a waiver of, or an amendment or modification to the 2016 Note
Purchase Agreement such that the consummation of the Merger shall not constitute a “Change in Control” or a “Control Event” (each term as defined in the 2016 Note Purchase Agreement); that, in the case of
clauses (i) and (ii), any such prepayment, waiver, amendment or modification must be conditioned on the occurrence of the Closing and consummated or executed and delivered on or prior to the Closing Date.

Section 5.23 . Prior to the Closing, each Party shall use its commercially reasonable efforts, subject to and
in accordance with applicable Law, to obtain, and to cooperate in obtaining, all Consents from third parties (other than Governmental Entities) necessary to consummate and make effective the Transactions; that any material amendment,
waiver or other modification to the Specified