Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-267273
Chunk: 2

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: S-4
Chunk 2
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 (“Fifth Third”) and Comerica Incorporated (“Comerica”), we are pleased to enclose this joint proxy statement/prospectus relating to the proposed acquisition of Comerica by Fifth Third. We are requesting that you take certain actions as shareholders or stockholders, as applicable, of Fifth Third and Comerica. The boards of directors of Fifth Third and Comerica have each unanimously approved a merger agreement (as defined below) pursuant to which Fifth Third will acquire Comerica. This acquisition brings together two long-tenuredbanking franchises to create one of the nation’s leading banks and is expected to be immediately accretive to shareholders and generate sustainable long-term growth. On October 5, 2025, Fifth Third and Comerica entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms, the “merger agreement”) with Fifth Third Financial Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fifth Third (“Fifth Third Intermediary”) and Comerica Holdings Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comerica (“Comerica Holdings”). The merger agreement provides that, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, Comerica will merge with and into Fifth Third Intermediary (the “first merger”), with Fifth Third Intermediary as the surviving corporation, and immediately thereafter, Comerica Holdings will merge with and into Fifth Third Intermediary (the “second merger,” and together with the first merger, collectively, the “mergers”), with Fifth Third Intermediary continuing as the surviving corporation. Following the completion of the mergers, at a time determined by Fifth Third, Comerica Bank, a Texas banking association and a wholly owned subsidiary of Comerica (“Comerica Bank”), and Comerica Bank & Trust, National Association, a national banking association and wholly owned subsidiary of Comerica Holdings (“Comerica Bank & Trust”), will each merge with and into Fifth Third Bank, National Association, a national banking association and a wholly owned subsidiary of Fifth Third Intermediary (“Fifth Third Bank”) (collectively, the “bank mergers”), with Fifth Third Bank continuing as the surviving bank. In the first merger, holders of Comerica common stock, par value of $5.00 per share (“Comerica common stock”), will receive 1.8663 shares of Fifth Third common stock, without par value, (“Fifth Third common stock”) for each share of