Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-234729
Chunk: 112

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: 425
Chunk 112
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iders who, immediately following the Merger, will be officers or directors of Fifth Third subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, in each
case pursuant to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, to be exempt from liability pursuant to Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

7.20. . Fifth Third shall cause the shares of Fifth Third Common Stock and the depositary shares in respect of
the New Fifth Third Preferred Stock to be issued in the Merger to be approved for listing on NASDAQ, subject to official notice of issuance, prior to the Effective Time.

ARTICLE VIII

CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT

8.1. . The respective obligations
of the parties to effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions:

(a) . The Stock Issuance shall have been approved by the shareholders of Fifth Third by the Requisite Fifth Third
Vote and this Agreement shall have been adopted by the stockholders of Comerica by the Requisite Comerica Vote.

(b) . The shares of Fifth Third Common Stock and the depositary shares in respect of the New Fifth Third Preferred Stock that shall be issuable pursuant to this Agreement shall have been authorized for listing on NASDAQ, subject to official
notice of issuance.

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(c) . (i) All regulatory authorizations, consents, orders or
approvals (x) from the Federal Reserve Board, the OCC and the Texas Department of Banking and (y) set forth in and which are necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, including the Mergers and the Bank Merger, or those the failure of which to be obtained would reasonably be likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Fifth Third or the Surviving Entity, shall have
been obtained and shall remain in full force and effect and all statutory waiting periods in respect thereof shall have expired or been terminated (such approvals and the expiration of such waiting periods being referred to herein as the
“”) and (ii) no such Requisite Regulatory Approval shall have resulted in the imposition of any Materially Burdensome Regulatory Condition.

(d) . The S-4 shall have become effective under the
Securities Act and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the S-4 shall have been issued, and no proceedings for such purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the SEC and not