Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-267273
Chunk: 402

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: S-4
Chunk 402
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 defense of any claim, issue, or matter in the action, suit, or proceeding, the person shall be indemnified against expenses,
including attorney’s fees, actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the action, suit, or proceeding.

(4) Any
indemnification under division (E)(1) or (2) of this section, unless ordered by a court, shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case, upon a determination that indemnification of the director, trustee, officer,
employee, member, manager, or agent is proper in the circumstances because the person has met

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the applicable standard of conduct set forth in division (E)(1) or (2) of this section. Such determination shall be made as follows:

(a) By a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors of the indemnifying corporation who were not and are not parties to or threatened
with the action, suit, or proceeding referred to in division (E)(1) or (2) of this section;

(b) If the quorum described in division
(E)(4)(a) of this section is not obtainable or if a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, in a written opinion by independent legal counsel other than an attorney, or a firm having associated with it an attorney, who has
been retained by or who has performed services for the corporation or any person to be indemnified within the past five years;

(c) By the
shareholders;

(d) By the court of common pleas or the court in which the action, suit, or proceeding referred to in division (E)(1) or
(2) of this section was brought.

Any determination made by the disinterested directors under division (E)(4)(a) or by independent legal counsel
under division (E)(4)(b) of this section shall be promptly communicated to the person who threatened or brought the action or suit by or in the right of the corporation under division (E)(2) of this section, and, within ten days after receipt of
that notification, the person shall have the right to petition the court of common pleas or the court in which the action or suit was brought to review the reasonableness of that determination.

(5)

(a) Unless at the time of a director’s
act or omission that is the subject of an action, suit, or proceeding referred to in division (E)(1) or (2) of this section