Company: CMA
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-297173
Chunk: 198

Company: COMERICA INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 198
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 aggregate, constitute twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the consolidated assets of the party or (iii) a merger, consolidation, share exchange, business combination, reorganization, recapitalization,
liquidation, dissolution or other similar transaction involving a party or its subsidiaries whose assets, individually or in the aggregate, constitute twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the consolidated assets of the party.

However, in the event that after the date of the merger agreement and prior to the receipt of the requisite Fifth Third vote, in the case of Fifth Third, or
the requisite Comerica vote, in the case of Comerica, a party receives an unsolicited bona fide written acquisition proposal, it may, and may permit its subsidiaries and its and its subsidiaries’ officers, directors, agents, advisors and
representatives to, furnish or cause to be furnished confidential or nonpublic information or data (provided that no such information or data relates to the other party) and participate in negotiations or discussions with the person making the
acquisition proposal if the Fifth Third or Comerica board of directors, as applicable, concludes in good faith (after receiving the advice of its outside counsel, and with respect to financial matters, its financial advisors) that failure to take
such actions would be more likely than not to result in a violation of its fiduciary duties under applicable law, provided that, prior to furnishing any confidential or nonpublic information, such party provides such information to the other party
to the merger agreement and enters into a confidentiality agreement with the person making such acquisition proposal on terms no less favorable to it than the confidentiality agreement between Fifth Third and Comerica, and which confidentiality
agreement does not provide such person with any exclusive right to negotiate with such party.

Each of Fifth Third and Comerica has also agreed to, and to
cause its officers, directors, agents, advisors and representatives to, immediately cease and terminate any activities, discussions or negotiations conducted before the date of the merger agreement with any person other than Fifth Third or Comerica,
with respect to any acquisition proposal. In addition, each party has agreed to (1) promptly (and within twenty-four (24) hours) advise the other party following receipt of any acquisition proposal or any inquiry which could reasonably be
expected to lead to an acquisition proposal, and the substance thereof (including the terms and conditions of and

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the identity of the person making such inquiry or acquisition proposal), to provide the other party with an unredacted copy