Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-234729
Chunk: 110

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: 425
Chunk 110
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 this Agreement executed by the parties in accordance
with .

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7.16. . If either Comerica or Fifth Third shall have failed to
obtain the Requisite Comerica Vote or the Requisite Fifth Third Vote at the duly convened Comerica Meeting or Fifth Third Meeting, as applicable, or any adjournment or postponement thereof, each of the parties shall in good faith use its reasonable
best efforts to negotiate a restructuring of the transactions provided for herein (it being understood that neither party shall have any obligation to alter or change any material terms, including the amount or kind of the consideration to be issued
to holders of the capital stock of Comerica or Fifth Third as provided for in this Agreement, in a manner adverse to such party or its shareholders or stockholders, as applicable) and/or resubmit this Agreement and the transactions contemplated
hereby (or as restructured pursuant to this ) to its respective shareholders or stockholders, as applicable, for approval.

7.17. . None of Comerica, Comerica Holdings, Fifth Third, Fifth Third Intermediary or their respective Boards of
Directors shall take any action that would cause any Takeover Statute to become applicable to this Agreement, the Mergers, the Bank Mergers or any of the other transactions contemplated hereby, and each shall take all necessary steps to exempt (or
ensure the continued exemption of) the Mergers, the Bank Mergers and the other transactions contemplated hereby from any applicable Takeover Statute now or hereafter in effect. If any Takeover Statute may become, or may purport to be, applicable to
the transactions contemplated hereby, each party and the members of their respective Boards of Directors will grant such approvals and take such actions as are necessary so that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement may be consummated as
promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated hereby and otherwise act to eliminate or minimize the effects of any Takeover Statute on any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, if necessary, challenging the validity or
applicability of any such Takeover Statute.

7.18. . Upon the Effective Time (or at the
effective time of the Bank Mergers for any debt of Comerica Bank and Comerica Bank & Trust, Fifth Third, Fifth Third Intermediary or Fifth Third Bank, as applicable, shall, to the extent permitted thereunder and required thereby,
assume the due and punctual performance and