Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-234729
Chunk: 98

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: 425
Chunk 98
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 days (or such fewer number of days as remains prior to the Fifth Third Meeting or the
Comerica Meeting, as applicable) after an Acquisition Proposal is made public or any request by the other party to do so, or (v) publicly propose to do any of the foregoing (any of the foregoing a “”).
However, subject to and , if the Board of Directors of Fifth Third or Comerica, after receiving the advice of its outside counsel and, with respect to financial matters, its
financial advisors, determines in good faith that it would more likely than not result in a violation of its fiduciary duties under applicable law to make or continue to make the Fifth Third Board Recommendation or the Comerica Board Recommendation,
as applicable, such Board of Directors may, in the case of Fifth Third, prior to the receipt of the Requisite Fifth Third Vote, and in the case of Comerica, prior to the receipt of the Requisite Comerica Vote, submit this Agreement to its
shareholders or stockholders, as applicable, without recommendation (although the resolutions approving this Agreement as of the date hereof may not be rescinded or amended), in which event such Board of Directors may communicate the basis for its
lack of a recommendation to its shareholders or stockholders, as applicable, in the Joint Proxy Statement or an appropriate amendment or supplement thereto to the extent required by law; that such Board of Directors may not take any
actions under this sentence unless it (A) gives the other party at least three (3) business days’ prior written notice of its intention to take such action and a reasonable description of the event or circumstances giving rise to its
determination to take such action (including, in the event such action is taken in response to an Acquisition Proposal, the latest material terms and conditions of, and the identity of the third party making, any such Acquisition Proposal, or any
amendment or modification thereof, or describe in reasonable detail such other event or circumstances) and (B) at the end of such notice period, takes into account any amendment or modification to this Agreement proposed by the other party and,
after receiving the advice of its outside counsel and, with respect to financial matters, its financial advisors, determines in good faith that it would nevertheless more likely than not result in a violation of its fiduciary duties under applicable
law to make or continue to make the Fifth Third Board Recommendation or Comerica Board Recommendation, as the case may be. Any material amendment to any Acquisition