Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-234729
Chunk: 129

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: 425
Chunk 129
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 in, applicable law (including 12 U.S.C.
§ 215a-1, 12 U.S.C. § 1831u , 12 U.S.C. § 1828(c) and Texas Fin. Code § 32.501). At each Effective Time, the separate existence of Comerica Bank and Comerica Bank & Trust, National Association, as applicable, shall
cease, and Fifth Third Bank, National Association, as the surviving entity in each Bank Merger (the “”), shall continue its existence under the laws of the United States as a national banking association.

Section 1.02 .

(a) The Surviving Bank shall be responsible for all of the liabilities of every kind and description, including liabilities arising from the
operation of any trust department, of each of Comerica Bank, Comerica Bank & Trust, National Association, and Fifth Third Bank, National Association existing as of the applicable Effective Time.

(b) All assets and all rights, franchises and interests of each of Comerica Bank and Comerica Bank & Trust, National Association in
and to every type of property (including intellectual, real, personal and mixed), tangible and intangible, and choses in action, in each case, as they exist immediately prior to the applicable Effective Time, shall be transferred to and vested in
the Surviving Bank by virtue of each Bank Merger without any deed, conveyance or other transfer.

(c) Immediately following the applicable
Effective Time, the Surviving Bank shall continue to operate the main office and each of the branches of Comerica Bank and Comerica Bank & Trust, National Association, as applicable, existing as of the Effective Times as branches of the
Surviving Bank at the officially designated address of each such office or branch and shall continue to operate each of the branches of the Surviving Bank existing at the Effective Times, in each case without limiting the authority under applicable
law of Fifth Third Bank, National Association or of the Surviving Bank (as applicable) to close, relocate or otherwise make any change regarding any such branch.

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Section 1.03 . Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and
applicable law, the closing of the Bank Mergers will take place remotely by electronic exchange of documents at such date and time as shall be determined by the Fifth Third Bank, National Association, but in no case prior to the date and time on
which all of the conditions precedent to the consummation of the Bank