Company: CMA
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-297173
Chunk: 332

Company: COMERICA INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 332
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 of business consistent with past practice or (z) as a result of the payment of incentive compensation for
completed performance periods based upon corporate performance, the performance of such employee and, if applicable, such employee’s business, where performance is determined in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practice
(iii) accelerate the vesting of any equity-based awards or other compensation or benefits, (iv) enter into any new, or amend any existing, employment, severance, change in control, retention, collective bargaining agreement or similar
agreement or arrangement; provided that Comerica may enter into offer letters with new hires in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice that do not provide for severance, (v) fund any rabbi trust or similar
arrangement or in any other way secure the payment of compensation or benefits under any Comerica Benefit Plan or (vi) hire any Comerica Insider (other than as a replacement hire receiving substantially similar terms of employment);

(h) settle any material claim, suit, action or proceeding (other than any claim, suit, action or proceeding with respect to Taxes, which shall
be governed by clause (o)), except involving solely monetary remedies in an amount, individually and in the aggregate, that is not material to Comerica, and that would not impose any material restriction on, or create any adverse precedent that
would be material to, the business of it or its Subsidiaries or Fifth Third or the Surviving Entity;

(i) take any action or knowingly
fail to take any action where such action or failure to act could reasonably be expected to prevent (i) each of the Merger and the Bank Mergers from qualifying as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the
Code or (ii) the Second Step Merger from qualifying as a “liquidation” as described in Section 332 of the Code;

(j)
amend its articles of incorporation, its bylaws or comparable governing documents of its Subsidiaries that are “significant subsidiaries” within the meaning of Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X of the SEC (“”);

(k) other than in prior consultation
with Fifth Third, materially restructure or materially change its investment securities or derivatives portfolio or its interest rate exposure, through purchases, sales or otherwise, or the manner in which the portfolio is classified or reported;

(l) implement or adopt any change in its financial accounting principles or methods, other than as may be required by GAAP;