Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 206

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 206
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 pre-existing conditions and/or waiting periods, active employment requirements and requirements to show evidence of good health under the applicable Compass benefit plan to the extent such continuing employee and his or her eligible dependents are covered under an Anywhere benefit plan immediately prior to the effective time of the merger, and such conditions, periods or requirements were satisfied or waived under such Anywhere benefit plan and (iii) give each continuing employee credit for the plan year in which the closing date occurs towards applicable deductibles, coinsurance and annual out-of-pocket limits for expenses incurred prior to the closing date for which payment has been made under the applicable group health Anywhere benefit plan for purposes of satisfying the corresponding deductibles, coinsurance and annual out-of-pocket limits applicable to such continuing employee and his or her eligible dependents under the corresponding group health Compass benefit plan for the applicable plan year as if such amounts had been paid in accordance with such Compass benefit plan; and

• upon a severance qualifying termination of a continuing employee’s employment with Compass or any of its affiliates (including, following the effective time, the surviving corporation and its subsidiaries) on or after the closing date, Compass will (or will cause its applicable affiliate to) pay the continuing employee a bonus for the year in which the closing occurs, subject to the continuing employee’s execution and non-revocation of a customary general release of claims satisfactory to Compass, equal to the product of (i) the continuing employee’s full-year bonus entitlements under any of Anywhere’s annual bonus plans in which the continuing employee participates at the time of the qualifying termination, based on actual performance determined at a level no less favorable than for similarly situated continuing employees, and (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which shall equal the number of days in the year in which the closing date occurs through the date of such qualifying termination and the denominator of which is 365, with such prorated bonus payable when bonuses are paid to continuing employees in the ordinary course, other than to the extent it would result in a duplication of payments under any other incentive, severance or similar arrangement.

#### Dividends
To the extent any dividends are declared and paid, Anywhere and Compass have agreed to coordinate to match the record and payment dates for any quarterly dividends of Anywhere (for any quarter in which Anywhere intends to pay a dividend) to the corresponding dates for any quarterly dividends of Compass for the applicable quarter (to the extent Compass intends to pay a dividend in such quarter).

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