Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-267273
Chunk: 188

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: S-4
Chunk 188
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 certain material contracts or make any change in any instrument or agreement governing the terms of any of its securities, other than normal renewals of contracts without material adverse changes of terms with respect to 
 Comerica or enter into certain material contracts;                                                                                                                                                                                                      |

| • |     | except as required under applicable law or the terms of any Comerica benefit plan existing as of the date of the                                                                                                                                      
 merger agreement or adopted thereafter not in violation of the merger 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 of the merger agreement, 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, 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);                                                                                                                |

| • |     | settle any material claim, suit, action or proceeding, except involving solely monetary remedies in an amount,                                                                                                                                    
 individually and in the aggregate, that is not material to Com