Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 110

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 110
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 with respect to, or any request from the SEC for amendments or supplements to, the Joint Proxy Statement and shall provide the other Party with copies of all correspondence between it and its Affiliates and
Representatives, on the one hand, and the SEC, on the other hand. Each of Parent and the Company shall:

(i) use its
reasonable best efforts to (A) respond as promptly as reasonably practicable to any comment from the SEC with respect to, or any request from the SEC for amendments or supplements to, the Joint Proxy Statement and (B) have the SEC advise
Parent and the Company as promptly as reasonably practicable that the SEC has no further comments on the Joint Proxy Statement;

(ii) file the Joint Proxy Statement in definitive form with the SEC and cause such definitive Joint Proxy Statement to be sent
to the stockholders of Parent and the shareholders of the Company as promptly as reasonably practicable after the SEC advises Parent and the Company that the SEC has no further comments on the Joint Proxy Statement; and

(iii) subject to and , include the Parent
Board Recommendation and the Company Board Recommendation in the preliminary and definitive Joint Proxy Statements.

Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary herein, prior to filing the Form S-4 or the Joint Proxy Statement in preliminary form with the SEC, responding to any comment from the SEC with respect to, or any request from the SEC for amendments
or supplements to, the Joint Proxy Statement or mailing the Joint Proxy Statement in definitive form to the stockholders of Parent or to the shareholders of the Company, each of Parent and the Company shall provide the other Party with a reasonable
opportunity to review and comment on such document or response and consider in good faith any of the other Party’s comments thereon.

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(d) If, prior to the Effective Time, any event occurs with respect to the Company or any
Company Subsidiary, or any change occurs with respect to other information supplied by the Company for inclusion in the Joint Proxy Statement, that is required to be described in an amendment of, or a supplement to, the Joint Proxy Statement, the
Company shall promptly notify Parent of such event, and the Company and Parent shall cooperate in the prompt filing with the SEC of any necessary amendment or supplement to the Joint Proxy Statement so that such document would not include any
misstatement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made,