Company: CMA
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-297173
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Company: COMERICA INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form: DEFM14A
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, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Fifth Third.

(b) Since
December 31, 2024, through the date of this Agreement, Fifth Third and its Subsidiaries have carried on their respective businesses in all material respects in the ordinary course.

5.9. .

(a) Except as would not reasonably be expected to, either individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on Fifth Third,
none of Fifth Third or any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any, and there are no outstanding or pending or, to the knowledge of Fifth Third, threatened, legal, administrative, arbitral or other proceedings, claims, actions or governmental or
regulatory investigations of any nature against Fifth Third or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their current or former directors or executive officers or challenging the validity or propriety of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

(b) There is no material injunction, order, judgment, decree, or regulatory restriction imposed upon Fifth Third or any of its
Subsidiaries or the assets of Fifth Third or any of its Subsidiaries (or that, upon consummation of the Mergers, would apply to the Surviving Entity or any of its affiliates).

5.10. . Except as would not reasonably be expected to, either individually or in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect on Fifth Third: Fifth Third and each of its Subsidiaries have duly and timely filed (including all applicable extensions) all Tax Returns required to be filed by it, and all such Tax Returns are true, correct, and complete; all Taxes
of Fifth Third and its Subsidiaries (whether or not shown on any Tax Returns) that are due have been fully and timely paid; each of Fifth Third and its Subsidiaries has withheld and paid all Taxes required to have been withheld and paid in
connection with amounts paid or owing to any employee, creditor, shareholder, independent contractor or other third party.

5.11.
.

(a) Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse
Effect on Fifth Third, each Fifth Third Benefit Plan has been established, operated and administered in accordance with its terms and the requirements of all applicable laws, including ERISA and the Code. For purposes of this Agreement, the term
“” means all employee benefit plans (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA), whether or not