Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-267273
Chunk: 331

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: S-4
Chunk 331
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 the terms of any Comerica Benefit Plan existing as of the date hereof or adopted thereafter not in violation of this Agreement, (i) enter into, establish, adopt, materially amend or terminate any material Comerica Benefit
Plan, or any arrangement that would be a material Comerica Benefit Plan if in effect on the date hereof, other than with respect to broad-base welfare benefit plans (other than severance) in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice and as would not reasonably be expected to materially increase the cost of benefits under any Comerica Benefit Plan, (ii) increase the compensation or benefits payable to any current or former employee, officer, director or
individual consultant,

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other than increases to current employees and officers who are not Comerica Insiders (x) in connection with a promotion or change in responsibilities and to a level consistent with the
compensation and benefits provided to similarly situated employees in the ordinary course of business or (y) in the ordinary course 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)