Company: CMA
Filing Date: 2025-12-18
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-323441
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Company: COMERICA INC
Filing Date: 2025-12-18
Form: 425
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 of Fifth Third’s shareholders in the calendar year following the year in which the effective date occurs and the first anniversary of the effective date (the “employment period”).
During the employment period, Mr. Farmer will serve as Vice Chairman of Fifth Third and Fifth Third Bank, reporting directly to Fifth Third’s Chief Executive Officer. he will receive annual
compensation of $8,750,000 and will be eligible for employee benefits, perquisites, and fringe benefits on terms no less favorable than those provided to Fifth Third’s executive officers, including the use of corporate or company-paid aircraft
for personal purposes, with a value not exceeding $200,000 per year For the period prior to the effective date, he will receive a prorated bonus for the portion of the fiscal year prior to the
effective date pursuant to the terms of the Comerica Management Incentive Plan (as described below).

On the effective date, Fifth Third
will credit $10,625,000 (the “DC Amount”) to a deferred compensation plan account established for Mr. Farmer, which amount is fully vested and will be paid in a lump sum following his termination of employment with Fifth Third. This
amount represents the change-in-control severance benefits (other than the Welfare Benefits and the modified make-whole payment) he would have been entitled to
under the CIC Agreement in the event of a termination without cause or for good reason within 30 months following a change in control (as described in the
“Change-in-ControlAgreements” section above). Additionally, he will receive a $5,000,000 cash-based completion award, payable at
the effective time, and a $5,000,000 cash-based integration award, payable on the first anniversary of the effective date, subject to his continued employment through such date, except as provided below.

If Mr. Farmer’s employment is terminated by Fifth Third without cause or by Mr. Farmer for good reason during the employment period, he will be entitled to the following severance benefits (subject to his timely execution and non-revocation ofa release of claims):

| • |     | a lump sum cash payment equal to (i) the total annual compensation Mr. Farmer would have received had                                                         
 he remained employed through the full employment period and (ii) the advisory fees that would have been paid during the advisory period (as described below); |

| • |     | immediate vesting and lump sum cash payment of the integration award; |

| • |     | immediate vesting of all