Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-267273
Chunk: 253

Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: S-4
Chunk 253
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 Financial Corporation, an Ohio corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Fifth Third (“ Fifth Third Intermediary”), Comerica Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (“ Comerica”) and Comerica Holdings Incorporated, a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Comerica (“ Comerica Holdings”) (each of Fifth Third, Fifth Third Intermediary, Comerica and Comerica Holdings, a “ party”, or collectively, the “ parties”). RECITALS

| A. | Approvals. The Boards of Directors of Fifth Third, Fifth Third Intermediary, Comerica and Comerica                                                                                                                                                   
 Holdings have determined that the transactions described herein are consistent with, and will further, their respective business strategies and goals, and are in the best interests of Fifth Third, Fifth Third Intermediary, Comerica and Comerica 
 Holdings, respectively, and their respective shareholders or stockholders, as applicable.                                                                                                                                                            |

| B. | The Mergers. This Agreement provides for a strategic business combination through (i) the merger of                                                                                                                              
 Comerica with and into Fifth Third Intermediary, with Fifth Third Intermediary as the surviving corporation (hereinafter sometimes referred to in such capacity as the “Surviving Corporation”) and (ii) immediately thereafter, 
 the merger of Comerica Holdings with and into the Surviving Corporation, with the Surviving Corporation as the surviving corporation (hereinafter sometimes referred to in such capacity as the “Surviving Entity”).             |

| C. | Intention of the Parties. It is the intention of the parties that (i) each of the Merger and the                                                                                                     
 Bank Mergers shall qualify as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), (ii) this Agreement shall constitute a “plan of 
 reorganization” for purposes of Sections 354 and 361 of the Code, and (iii) the Second Step Merger shall qualify as a “liquidation” as described in Section 332 of the Code.                         |

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the above and the mutual warranties, representations, covenants, and agreements set forth herein, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties agree as follows: ARTICLE I THE MERGERS 1.1. Merger. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, at the Effective Time, Comerica shall be merged with and into