Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001398987-25-000042
Chunk: 36

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 36
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Approved Related Person Transactions . During 2024, the Audit Committee reviewed and approved the transactions described under the heading “Determination of Director Independence,” although no Director was determined to have a direct or indirect material interest in any such transaction.

During the third quarter of 2024, the Audit Committee reviewed and approved the Company's repurchase of $24 million of its Senior Notes due 2029 and Senior Notes due 2030 held by funds managed by Angelo, Gordon & Co., L.P. (“Angelo Gordon”), a Delaware limited partnership, at an aggregate purchase price of $17 million (plus accrued interest) pursuant to a note purchase agreement, dated August 22, 2024, by and among the Company and Angelo Gordon (the “Note Repurchase”). The Audit Committee determined that the Note Repurchase was in, or not inconsistent with, the best interests of the Company and its stockholders.

In early 2024, the Audit Committee reviewed and approved a Cooperation Agreement (the “Cooperation Agreement”) with Angelo Gordon and certain affiliated investors (together with Angelo Gordon, the “Investor Parties”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to appoint Joe Lenz to the Board as an independent director, which was effective as of February 13, 2024. The Company also agreed to include, subject to the Board's good faith exercise of their fiduciary duties, Mr. Lenz on the Company’s slate of director nominees for election at the Company’s 2024 and 2025 annual meeting of stockholders. The term of the Cooperation Agreement ends on the date that is the later of (x) the earlier of (A) 30 days prior to the director nomination deadline for the 2025 Annual Meeting pursuant to our Bylaws and (B) the date that is 120 days prior to the first anniversary of the 2024 Annual Meeting, and (y) ten days after the date on which Mr. Lenz ceases to serve on the Board (the “Cooperation Period”). Under the terms of the Cooperation Agreement and during the Cooperation Period,