Company: CMA
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-297173
Chunk: 352

Company: COMERICA INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 352
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 (iv) materially
impede or delay the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in a timely manner. Fifth Third and Comerica agree to reflect any such change in an appropriate amendment to this Agreement executed by the parties in accordance
with .

7.16. . If either Comerica or Fifth Third shall have failed to
obtain the Requisite Comerica Vote or the Requisite Fifth Third Vote at the duly convened Comerica Meeting or Fifth Third Meeting, as applicable, or any adjournment or postponement thereof, each of the parties shall in good faith use its reasonable
best efforts to negotiate a restructuring of the transactions provided for herein (it being understood that neither party shall have any obligation to alter or change any material terms, including the amount or kind of the consideration to be issued
to holders of the capital stock of Comerica or Fifth Third as provided for in this Agreement, in a manner adverse to such party or its shareholders or stockholders, as applicable) and/or resubmit this Agreement and the transactions contemplated
hereby (or as restructured pursuant to this ) to its respective shareholders or stockholders, as applicable, for approval.

7.17. . None of Comerica, Comerica Holdings, Fifth Third, Fifth Third Intermediary or their respective Boards of
Directors shall take any action that would cause any Takeover Statute to become applicable to this Agreement, the Mergers, the Bank Mergers or any of the other transactions contemplated hereby, and each shall take all necessary steps to exempt (or
ensure the continued exemption of) the Mergers, the Bank Mergers and the other transactions contemplated hereby from any applicable Takeover Statute now or

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hereafter in effect. If any Takeover Statute may become, or may purport to be, applicable to the transactions contemplated hereby, each party and the members of their respective Boards of
Directors will grant such approvals and take such actions as are necessary so that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated hereby and otherwise act to eliminate or
minimize the effects of any Takeover Statute on any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, if necessary, challenging the validity or applicability of any such Takeover Statute.

7.18. . Upon the Effective Time (or at the effective time of the Bank Mergers for any debt of
Comerica Bank and