Company: CMA
Filing Date: 2025-12-18
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001193125-25-323437
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Company: COMERICA INC
Filing Date: 2025-12-18
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 8.01
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ITEM 8.01 OTHER EVENTS.

As previously disclosed, on October 5, 2025, Comerica Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (“ Comerica”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ Merger Agreement”) with Fifth Third Bancorp, an Ohio corporation (“ Fifth Third”), Fifth Third Financial Corporation, an Ohio corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Fifth Third (“ Fifth Third Intermediary”), and Comerica Holdings Incorporated, a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Comerica (“ Comerica Holdings”).

The Merger Agreement provides that, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, (i) Comerica will merge with and into Fifth Third Intermediary (the “ Merger”), with Fifth Third Intermediary continuing as the surviving corporation in the Merger, and (ii) immediately thereafter, Comerica Holdings will merge with and into Fifth Third Intermediary, with Fifth Third Intermediary continuing as the surviving corporation (the “ Second Step Merger”, and together with the Merger, the “ Mergers”). Following the completion of the Mergers, at a time determined by Fifth Third, each of Comerica Bank, a Texas banking association and wholly owned subsidiary of Comerica, and Comerica Bank & Trust, National Association, a national bank and wholly owned subsidiary of Comerica Holdings, will each merge with and into Fifth Third Bank, National Association, a national banking association and a wholly owned subsidiary of Fifth Third Intermediary (each, a “ Bank Merger” and collectively, the “ Bank Mergers”), with Fifth Third Bank, National Association continuing as the surviving bank in each of the Bank Mergers.

Comerica has filed with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC”) a definitive proxy statement (the “definitive proxy statement”) for the solicitation of proxies in connection with Comerica’s special meeting of stockholders, to be held on January 6, 2026, to vote upon, among other things, the adoption of the Merger Agreement.

Litigation Related to the Merger

As of the date hereof, Comerica has received several demand letters from purported stockholders (the “ Demand Letters”) of Comerica and, to Comerica’s knowledge, two complaints have been filed with respect to the Merger. The complaints are captioned: Holdco Opportunities Fund V, L. P. v. Comerica