Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 347

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 347
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Shareholder Meeting and shall not change such record date (whether in connection with the Company Shareholder Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof) without the prior written consent of Parent (such consent not to be unreasonably
withheld, conditioned or delayed). The Company shall, as soon as practicable after the Form S-4 is declared effective under the Securities Act, duly call, give notice of, convene and hold the Company
Shareholder Meeting in accordance with the Pennsylvania Entity Laws and the rules of the NYSE for the purpose of obtaining the Company Shareholder Approval and, subject to , through the Company Board,
recommend to its shareholders and solicit in favor of adoption of the this Agreement. Except with Parent’s prior written consent, the Company may only postpone or adjourn the Company Shareholder Meeting (i) to solicit additional proxies
for the purpose of obtaining the Company Shareholder Approval, (ii) for the absence of a quorum and (iii) to allow reasonable additional time for the filing or mailing of any supplemental or amended disclosure that the Company has determined
after consultation with outside legal counsel is reasonably likely to be required under applicable Law and for such supplemental or amended disclosure to be disseminated and reviewed by shareholders of the Company prior to the Company Shareholder
Meeting; that the Company shall postpone or adjourn the Company Shareholder Meeting once for up to thirty (30) days upon the reasonable request of Parent.

(h) Each of the Company and Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to hold the Company Shareholder Meeting and the Parent Stockholder
Meeting, respectively, at the same time and on the same date as the other Party and as soon as reasonably practicable after the date of this Agreement.

(i) Without the prior written consent of Parent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), the only matters
to be voted upon at the Company Shareholder Meeting are (i) the Merger, (ii) any adjournment of the Company Shareholder Meeting, (iii) any other matters of a purely administrative nature and as mutually agreed by Parent and the
Company and (iv) any other matters that are required by applicable Law.

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(j) Unless this Agreement has been terminated in accordance with
, the Company’s obligation to call, give notice of and hold the Company Shareholder Meeting in accordance with shall not be limited or otherwise affected by the
commencement, disclosure, announcement or submission of any Company Superior Proposal or Company Competing Proposal, or by any