Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-234729
Chunk: 68

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: 425
Chunk 68
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 not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on Fifth Third,
Fifth Third owns, directly or indirectly, all the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity ownership interests of each of the Fifth Third Subsidiaries, free and clear of any Liens, and all of such shares or equity ownership
interests are duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid, nonassessable (except, with respect to Subsidiaries that are depository institutions, as provided under 12 U.S.C. § 55 or any comparable provision of state law) and
free of preemptive rights, with no personal liability attaching to the ownership thereof. As of the date of this Agreement, no Fifth Third Subsidiary has or is bound by any outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, calls, rights, commitments or
agreements of any character calling for the purchase or issuance of any shares of capital stock or any other equity security of such Subsidiary or any securities representing the right to purchase or otherwise receive any shares of capital stock or
any other equity security of such Subsidiary.

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5.3. .

(a) Each of Fifth Third and Fifth Third Intermediary has full corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and, subject
to the shareholder and other actions described below, to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (including the Mergers) have been
duly and validly approved by the Boards of Directors of Fifth Third and Fifth Third Intermediary. The Board of Directors of Fifth Third has determined that the transactions contemplated hereby (including the Mergers and the issuance of shares of
Fifth Third Common Stock in the Merger (the “”)), on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, are advisable and in the best interests of Fifth Third and its shareholders, has adopted and approved this
Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby (including the Mergers and the Stock Issuance), and has directed that the Stock Issuance be submitted to Fifth Third’s shareholders for approval at a meeting of such shareholders and has
adopted a resolution to the foregoing effect. Except for (i) the approval of the Stock Issuance by the affirmative vote of the majority of the voting power of Fifth Third (the “”), (ii) the
approval and adoption of the Bank Merger Agreement