Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-234729
Chunk: 90

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: 425
Chunk 90
---
 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);

(h) settle any material claim, suit, action or
proceeding (other than any claim, suit, action or proceeding with respect to Taxes, which shall be governed by clause (o)), except involving solely monetary remedies in an amount, individually and in the aggregate, that is not material to Comerica,
and that would not impose any material restriction on, or create any adverse precedent that would be material to, the business of it or its Subsidiaries or Fifth Third or the Surviving Entity;

(i) take any action or knowingly fail to take any action where such action or failure to act could reasonably be expected to prevent
(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;

(j) amend its articles of incorporation, its bylaws or comparable governing documents of its
Subsidiaries that are “significant subsidiaries” within the meaning of Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X of the SEC (“”);

-52-

(k) other than in prior consultation with Fifth Third, materially restructure or materially
change its investment securities or derivatives portfolio or its interest rate exposure, through purchases, sales or otherwise, or the manner in which the portfolio is classified or reported;

(l) implement or adopt any change in its financial accounting principles or methods, other than as may be required by GAAP;

(m) enter into any new line of business or, other than in the ordinary course of business (which may include partnering with third parties in
origination, flow, servicing and other capacities) consistent