Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 176

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 176
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 Governance of the Surviving Corporation
At the effective time, the certificate of incorporation of Anywhere in effect immediately prior to the effective time will be amended and restated in its entirety as of the effective time to be in the form set forth in Annex C to the merger agreement, and as so amended will be the certificate of incorporation of the surviving corporation, until duly amended, subject to the provisions of the merger agreement and as provided therein or by applicable law.

Compass and Anywhere have agreed to take all actions necessary so that the bylaws of Merger Sub in effect immediately prior to the effective time will be the bylaws of the surviving corporation, until duly amended, subject to the provisions of the merger agreement and as provided therein or by applicable law.

Compass and Anywhere have agreed to take all necessary action such that from and after the effective time, the directors of Merger Sub will be the directors of the surviving corporation and the officers of Merger Sub will be the officers of the surviving corporation, and such directors and officers will serve until their successors have been duly elected or appointed and qualified or until their death, resignation or removal in accordance with the organizational documents of the surviving corporation.

#### Withholding Taxes
Compass, Merger Sub, Anywhere, the surviving corporation, the exchange agent and any other applicable withholding agent are entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to the merger agreement any amount required to be deducted and withheld with respect to the making of such payment under applicable law and will pay the amount deducted or withheld to the appropriate taxing authority in accordance with applicable law. Parent, Merger Sub, Anywhere and the exchange agent, as the case may be, shall cooperate in good faith to minimize any such deduction or withholding. To the extent such amounts are so deducted or withheld and paid over to the appropriate taxing authority by Compass, Merger Sub, Anywhere or the exchange agent, as the case may be, such deducted or withheld amounts will be treated for all purposes of the merger agreement as having been paid to the person in respect of which such deduction or withholding was made.

#### No Appraisal Rights
In accordance with the DGCL, no appraisal rights are available with respect to the transactions.

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Representations and Warranties; Material Adverse Effect.

#### Representations and Warranties
The merger agreement contains customary and, in certain cases, reciprocal, representations and warranties by Anywhere and Compass that are subject, in some cases, to specified exceptions and