Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 43

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 43
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 terminate any Company Benefit Plans.

(e) There are no material pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened Claims against, by or on behalf of, or any Liens filed
against or with respect to, any of the Company Benefit Plans or otherwise involving any Company Benefit Plan.

(f) Neither the Company nor
any Company Subsidiary is a party to any agreement, contract or arrangement that would reasonably be expected to result, separately or in the aggregate, in the payment of any “excess parachute payments” within the meaning of
Section 280G of the Code.

(g) The Company has no obligation to gross-up, indemnify or
otherwise reimburse any current or former employee, director, consultant or other individual service provider for any Tax incurred by such individual, including under Section 409A or 4999 of the Code.

(h) No Company Benefit Plan provides any benefits, including death or medical benefits (whether or not insured), with respect to current or
former employees or directors of the Company or any Company Subsidiary beyond their retirement or other termination of service, other than (i) health continuation coverage pursuant to Section 4980B of the Code, (ii) coverage mandated
solely by applicable Law or (iii) benefits the full costs of which are borne by the current or former employee or director or his or her beneficiary.

(i) Each Company Benefit Plan that is in any part a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” subject to Section 409A of the
Code complies and has complied, both in form and operation, in all material respects, with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code and the final regulations and other applicable guidance thereunder.

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Section 3.11 .

(a) (i) To the Knowledge of the Company, since January 1, 2023, no labor union, labor organization, employee association, or works
council (each, a “”) has attempted to organize employees at the Company or any Company Subsidiary or filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to be certified as the bargaining representative of any
employees of the Company or any Company Subsidiary (“”), (ii) since January 1, 2023, there have been no actual or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened (A) work stoppages, lock-outs or strikes,
(B) slowdowns, boycotts, handbilling, picketing, walkouts, demonstrations, leafleting, sit-ins or sick-outs by Company