Company: CMA
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-297173
Chunk: 214

Company: COMERICA INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 214
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 of voting securities and calculations of the proportion of a class of voting securities that is controlled by an investor are made by the Federal Reserve pursuant to applicable law, applicable regulations and its practices. The foregoing discussion is not intended to describe all laws, regulations and regulatory practices relevant to federal bank regulatory approval requirements. Merger Moratorium Statute Under the Ohio General Corporation Law The Ohio Revised Code prohibits an issuing public corporation, such as Fifth Third, from engaging in certain transactions with an interested stockholder for a period of three years following the date on which the person became an interested stockholder unless, prior to such date, the directors of the corporation approve either the transaction or the acquisition of shares pursuant to which such person became an interested stockholder. An interested stockholder is any person who is the beneficial owner of a sufficient number of shares to allow such person, directly or indirectly, alone or with others, including affiliates and associates, to exercise or direct the exercise of 10% of the voting power of the corporation in the election of directors. The transactions covered include:

| • |     | any merger, consolidation, combination or majority share acquisition between or involving the corporation or a 
 subsidiary and an interested stockholder or an affiliate or associate of an interested stockholder;            |

| • |     | certain transfers of property, dividends and issuance or transfers of shares, from or by the corporation or a                                                                                                                                       
 subsidiary to, with or for the benefit of an interested stockholder or an affiliate or associate of an interested stockholder, unless the transaction is in the ordinary course of the corporation’s business and on terms no more favorable to the 
 interested stockholder than those acceptable to third parties as demonstrated by contemporaneous transactions; and                                                                                                                                  |

| • |     | certain transactions which: |

| • |     | increase the proportionate share ownership of an interested stockholder; |

| • |     | result in the adoption of a plan, proposed by or on behalf of the interested stockholder, providing for the 
 dissolution, winding-up of the affairs, or liquidation of the corporation; or                               |

| • |     | pledge or extend the credit or financial resources of the corporation to or for the benefit of the interested 
 stockholder.                                                                                                  |

After the initial three-year moratorium has expired, the corporation may engage in a covered transaction if:

| • |     | the acquisition of shares pursuant to which the relevant person became an interested stockholder received the 
 prior approval of the board of directors;                                                                     |

| • |     | the