Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-043815
Chunk: 379

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 379
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. Steinour                    |
|                              |     | Title: President and Chief Executive Officer |

[ Signature Page to Agreement and Plan of Merger] A-65

TABLE OF CONTENTS

| CADENCE BANK |     |                            |
| By:          |     | /s/ James D. Rollins III   |
|              |     | Name: James D. Rollins III |
|              |     | Title: Chairman & CEO      |

[ Signature Page to Agreement and Plan of Merger] A-66

#### TABLE OF CONTENTS

### EXHIBIT A

### FORM OF ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY
<div align='center'>A-67</div>

#### TABLE OF CONTENTS

### FORM OF ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY

### DESIGNATING THE RIGHTS AND PREFERENCES

#### OF
<div align='center'>**5.50% SERIES [L] NON-CUMULATIVE PERPETUAL PREFERRED STOCK,**</div>

#### PAR VALUE $0.01 PER SHARE

#### OF

### HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INCORPORATED
HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INCORPORATED, a Maryland corporation (hereinafter called the “

#### Corporation
”), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland that:

FIRST: Under a power contained in Article Fifth of the charter of the Corporation (the “

#### Charter
”), the board of directors of the Corporation (the “

#### Board of Directors
”) [and a duly authorized committee thereof (the “

#### Committee
”)], by duly adopted resolutions, classified and designated 6,900 shares of the authorized but unissued serial preferred stock of the Corporation, par value $0.01 per share (the “

#### Preferred Stock
”), as 5.50% Series [L] Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share, with the following preferences and rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends and other distributions, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption, which, upon any restatement of the Charter, shall become part of Article Fifth of the Charter, with any necessary or appropriate renumbering or relettering of the sections or subsections hereof.

(a) Designation . The designation of the Preferred Stock shall be “5.50% Series [L] Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock” (the “

#### Series [L] Preferred Stock