Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-267273
Chunk: 261

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: S-4
Chunk 261
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 immediately following the Effective Time, at the Second Step Effective Time,
Comerica Holdings shall be merged with and into the Surviving Corporation (the “,” and together with the Merger, the “”) in accordance with the OGCL and the DGCL. The Surviving
Corporation shall be the surviving corporation in the Second Step Merger and shall continue its corporate existence under the laws of the State of Ohio. Upon consummation of the Second Step Merger, the separate corporate existence of Comerica
Holdings will cease. At and after the Second Step Effective Time, the Second Step Merger shall have the effects set forth in the applicable provisions of the DGCL and OGCL.

(b) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, on or before the Closing Date, the parties will cause a certificate of merger with
respect to the Second Step Merger to be filed with the Delaware Secretary and a certificate of merger to be filed with the Ohio Secretary (collectively, the “”) to effect the Second Step Merger.
The Second Step Merger shall take place at the time specified in the Second Step Certificates of Merger (the “”).

(c) At the Second Step Effective Time, by virtue of the Second Step Merger and without any action on the part of Fifth Third, Fifth Third
Intermediary, Comerica, Comerica Holdings or the holder of any securities of Fifth Third, Fifth Third Intermediary, Comerica or Comerica Holdings, each share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Comerica Holdings that is issued and
outstanding immediately prior to the Second Step Effective Time, shall automatically be cancelled and retired for no consideration and shall cease to exist.

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(d) The shares of Fifth Third Intermediary stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to
the Second Step Effective Time shall not be affected by the Second Step Merger, and, accordingly, each share of Fifth Third Intermediary stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Second Step Effective Time shall, at and after the Second
Step Effective Time, remain issued and outstanding; it being understood that upon the Second Step Effective Time, the common stock of the Surviving Corporation shall be the common stock of the Surviving Entity.

(e) At the Second Step Effective Time, the Fifth Third Intermediary Articles, as in effect immediately prior to the Second Step Effective
Time, shall be the Articles of Incorporation of the Surviving Entity until thereafter amended in