Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-267273
Chunk: 196

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: S-4
Chunk 196
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 Fifth Third preferred stock to be issued in the first merger on NASDAQ, access to information of the other company, confidentiality, advice of changes, exemption from takeover laws, shareholder litigation relating to the
transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, the coordination of dividend declarations, the assumption by Fifth Third of Comerica indebtedness and public announcements with respect to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement.

Combined Company Governance

The merger agreement provides that Fifth Third will take all actions necessary so that, as of the effective time, the Fifth Third board of directors will be
increased by three (3), and three (3) directors from Comerica’s board of directors immediately prior to the effective time determined by mutual agreement of Comerica and Fifth Third will be appointed to the Fifth Third board of directors.
For a more detailed description of the governance matters relating to the combined company, see the section entitled “The Mergers —Governance of Fifth Third After the Mergers” beginning on page 115.

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Shareholder and Stockholder Meetings and Recommendation of Comerica’s and Fifth Third’s Boards of Directors

Each of Comerica and Fifth Third has agreed to call a meeting of its shareholders or stockholders, as
applicable, for the purpose of voting upon the adoption of the merger agreement, in the case of Comerica, or the Fifth Third stock issuance proposal, in the case of Fifth Third, and to use reasonable best efforts to cause the meetings to occur as
promptly as reasonably practicable and on the same date. Each of the boards of directors of each of Comerica and Fifth Third has agreed to use its reasonable best efforts to obtain from its shareholders or stockholders, as applicable, the vote
required to adoption the merger agreement, in the case of Comerica stockholders, and the Fifth Third stock issuance proposal, in the case of Fifth Third voting shareholders, including by communicating to its shareholders or stockholders, as
applicable, the Comerica board recommendation and the Fifth Third board recommendation, as applicable. Each of Fifth Third and Comerica has agreed that each of Comerica and Fifth Third and their respective boards of directors will not
(i) withhold, withdraw, modify or qualify in a manner adverse to the other party the Comerica board recommendation, in the case of Comerica, or the Fifth Third board recommendation, in the case of Fifth Third, (ii) fail to make the
Comerica board recommendation, in the case of Comerica