Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-267273
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Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: S-4
Chunk 212
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 have voting rights and are entitled to one (1) vote for each share of Fifth Third common stock on all matters voted upon by Fifth Third shareholders. Holders of Fifth Third common stock do not have the right to cumulate their voting power
in the election of directors.

Change of Control Under the Ohio General Corporation Law

Articles of Incorporation and Code of Regulations. The Fifth Third articles of incorporation and Fifth Third code of regulations contain various provisions
that may be deemed to have anti-takeover effects, including:

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(i) authorizing the Fifth Third board of directors to fix its size between 10 and 30 directors; (ii) allowing the removal of directors only for cause and by a vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of capital stock of Fifth Third entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class; and (iii) authorizing directors to fill vacancies on the Fifth Third board of directors that occur between annual shareholder meetings, except for vacancies caused by a director’s removal by a shareholder vote. In order to amend the Fifth Third articles of incorporation, the affirmative vote of the holders of shares entitling them to exercise the majority of the voting power of Fifth Third is required. In order to amend the Fifth Third code of regulations, the affirmative vote of the holders of shares entitling them to exercise a majority of the voting power of Fifth Third is required at a meeting of shareholders, or by written consent of the holders of shares entitling them to exercise two thirds (2/3) of the voting power of Fifth Third without a meeting. The Fifth Third code of regulations may also be altered and amended, from time to time, by the Fifth Third board of directors to the extent permitted by the OGCL. Control Share Acquisition Act Under the Ohio General Corporation Law The Ohio Control Acquisition Act provides that any “control share acquisition” of an Ohio issuing public corporation may be made only with the prior authorization of the stockholders of the corporation in accordance with the provisions of the Control Share Acquisition Act, unless the corporation’s articles of incorporation or code of regulations provide that the Control Share Acquisition Act does not apply to control share acquisition of its shares. The Fifth Third articles of incorporation and Fifth Third code of regulations do not so provide, and accordingly Fifth Third is subject to the Control Share Acquisition Act. Subject to certain exceptions, a “control share acquisition” means the acquisition, directly or indirectly, by any person of shares of the corporation that, when