Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-267273
Chunk: 226

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: S-4
Chunk 226
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 capital stock into any shares of capital stock, ranking senior to the Fifth Third voting preferred stock with respect to payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of Fifth Third, or issue any obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such shares of senior

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stock; or (3) consummate a binding share exchange, a reclassification involving the Fifth Third voting preferred stock or a merger or consolidation of Fifth Third with or into another
entity, unless (i) the Fifth Third voting preferred stock remains outstanding or, in the case of any such merger or consolidation with respect to which Fifth Third is not the surviving or resulting entity, is converted into or exchanged for
preferred securities of the surviving or resulting entity (or its ultimate parent), and (ii) Fifth Third voting preferred stock remaining outstanding or the new preferred securities, as the case may be, have such powers, preferences and special
rights that will not be materially less favorable to the holders thereof than the powers, preferences and special rights of the Fifth Third voting preferred stock taken as a whole.

If and whenever dividends payable on the shares of Fifth Third voting preferred stock shall have not been paid in an aggregate amount equal to full dividends
for six or more dividend periods (whether or not consecutive), referred to as a nonpayment event, the authorized number of directors then constituting the Fifth Third board of directors shall be automatically increased by two and the holders of
shares of the Fifth Third voting preferred stock, together with the holders of any other class or series of outstanding shares of Fifth Third preferred stock upon which similar voting rights as described in this section have been conferred and are
exercisable with respect to such matter, voting together as a single class in proportion to their respective liquidation preferences, shall be entitled to elect, by a plurality of the votes cast, the two additional directors. When dividends have
been paid in full on Fifth Third voting preferred stock for at least four consecutive dividend periods, then the right of the holders of shares of the Fifth Third voting preferred stock to elect the two additional directors will terminate.

The holders of shares of the Fifth Third voting preferred stock have exclusive rights on any amendment to the Fifth Third articles of incorporation that would
only alter the contract rights of the shares of the Fifth Third voting preferred stock. Except as set forth above, the shares of the Fifth Third voting preferred stock will not have any voting rights except as required by Ohio law.

The shares of the Fifth Third voting preferred stock are deposited with Equ