Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-234729
Chunk: 4

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: 425
Chunk 4
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 including the approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Texas Department of Banking, (iv) the effectiveness of the registration statement on Form S-4 for the shares of Fifth Third Common Stock
and depositary shares in respect of the New Fifth Third Preferred Stock to be issued in the Merger, and (v) the absence of any order, injunction, decree or other legal restraint preventing the completion of the Mergers, the Bank Mergers or any
of the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement or making the completion of the Mergers, the Bank Mergers or any of the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement illegal. Each party’s obligation to complete the
Merger is also subject to certain additional customary conditions, including (a) subject to certain exceptions, the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the other party, (b) performance in all material respects by the other
party of its obligations under the Merger Agreement and (c) receipt by such party of an opinion from its counsel to the effect that the Merger will qualify as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

The Merger Agreement provides certain termination rights for both Comerica and Fifth Third and further
provides that a termination fee of $500,000,000 will be payable by either Comerica or Fifth Third, as applicable, in the event of a termination of the Merger Agreement under certain circumstances.

The representations, warranties and covenants of each party set forth in the Merger Agreement have been made only for purposes of, and were and are solely for
the benefit of the parties to, the Merger Agreement, may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties
to the Merger Agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts, and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Accordingly, the representations and
warranties may not describe the actual state of affairs at the date they were made or at any other time, and investors should not rely on them as statements of fact. In addition, such representations and warranties (i) will not survive
consummation of the Mergers and (ii) were made only as of the date of the Merger