Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-267273
Chunk: 352

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: S-4
Chunk 352
---
 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

A-51

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 Comerica Bank & Trust, Fifth Third, Fifth Third Intermediary or Fifth Third Bank, as applicable, shall, to the extent permitted thereunder and required thereby, assume the due and punctual performance and
observance of the covenants to be performed by Comerica, Comerica Bank or Comerica Bank & Trust pursuant to the definitive documents governing the short-term and long-term borrowings set forth on of
the Comerica Disclosure Schedule, and the due and punctual payment of the principal of such borrowings (and premium, if any) and interest thereon. In connection therewith, (i) Fifth Third and Comerica shall, and shall cause Fifth Third Bank, in
the case of Fifth Third, and Comerica Bank and Comerica Bank & Trust, in the case of Comerica, to, cooperate and use reasonable best efforts to execute and deliver any supplemental indentures, if applicable, and (ii) Comerica shall,
and shall cause Comerica Bank and Comerica Bank & Trust to, use reasonable best efforts to execute and deliver any officer’s certificates or other documents, and to provide any opinions of counsel to the trustee thereof, in each case,
required to make such assumption effective as of the Effective Time or the effective time of the Bank Merger, as applicable.

7.19.
. Comerica and Fifth Third agree that, in order to most effectively compensate and retain the Comerica Insiders, both