Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-234729
Chunk: 103

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: 425
Chunk 103
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 amend, or modify any Fifth Third Benefit Plan, Comerica Benefit Plan or any other benefit or employment plan, program, agreement or arrangement, or (ii) alter or limit the ability of the Surviving Entity or any of its
Subsidiaries or affiliates to amend, modify or terminate any particular Fifth Third Benefit Plan, Comerica Benefit Plan or any other benefit or employment plan, program, agreement or arrangement after the Effective Time. Without limiting the
generality of , nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended to or shall confer upon any person, including, any current or former employee, officer, director or consultant of Fifth Third, Comerica
or any of their respective Subsidiaries or affiliates or any beneficiary or dependent thereof, any right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement.

7.6. .

(a) Neither Fifth Third nor Comerica shall, nor shall they permit their respective Subsidiaries to, take any action that would prevent or
impede, or could reasonably be expected to prevent or impede, (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, and each of Fifth Third and Comerica shall, and shall cause their respective Subsidiaries to, use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Mergers
and the Bank Mergers to so qualify.

(b) Fifth Third shall use reasonable best efforts to obtain the Fifth Third Tax Opinion, and Comerica
shall use reasonable best efforts to obtain the Comerica Tax Opinion (and, if the SEC requires any opinion regarding the U.S. federal income tax treatment of the Merger to be submitted in connection with the declaration of the effectiveness of the S-4, such opinions). In connection with the foregoing, each party shall deliver duly executed certificates (dated as of the necessary date and signed by an officer of Fifth Third, Fifth Third Intermediary or
Comerica, as applicable) containing such representations and warranties as shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Fifth Third’s counsel and Comerica’s counsel and reasonably necessary or appropriate to enable such
counsel to render such opinions (but only to the extent Fifth Third and Comerica in good faith believe they are able to make such