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EX-4.(aa)

 Exhibit 4(aa) 

 
  

 
 AMENDED AND RESTATED
DECLARATION OF TRUST 
 among 
 FIFTH THIRD BANCORP 
 as Sponsor 

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, 
 as Property Trustee 
 WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, 

and Delaware Trustee 
 and 
 THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN 

 
  

Dated as of •, 20• 
  

 
 FIFTH THIRD
CAPITAL TRUST • 
  
  

 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

							
		
	 ARTICLE I DEFINED TERMS
	  	 	1	  
			
	 Section 1.1.
	  	Definitions	  	 	1	  
		
	 ARTICLE II CONTINUATION OF THE ISSUER TRUST
	  	 	8	  
			
	 Section 2.1.
	  	Name.	  	 	8	  
	 Section 2.2.
	  	Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business	  	 	8	  
	 Section 2.3.
	  	Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses	  	 	9	  
	 Section 2.4.
	  	Issuance of the Preferred Securities	  	 	9	  
	 Section 2.5.
	  	Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Series • Preferred Shares	  	 	9	  
	 Section 2.6.
	  	Continuation of Trust	  	 	10	  
	 Section 2.7.
	  	Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions	  	 	10	  
	 Section 2.8.
	  	Assets of Trust	  	 	13	  
	 Section 2.9.
	  	Title to Trust Property	  	 	13	  
		
	 ARTICLE III PAYMENT ACCOUNT
	  	 	14	  
			
	 Section 3.1.
	  	Payment Account	  	 	14	  
		
	 ARTICLE IV DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
	  	 	14	  
			
	 Section 4.1.
	  	Distributions	  	 	14	  
	 Section 4.2.
	  	Redemption	  	 	15	  
	 Section 4.3.
	  	Subordination of Common Securities	  	 	17	  
	 Section 4.4.
	  	Payment Procedures	  	 	17	  
	 Section 4.5.
	  	Tax Returns and Reports	  	 	18	  
	 Section 4.6.
	  	Payments Pursuant to Direct Actions	  	 	18	  
	 Section 4.7.
	  	Exchanges by the Sponsor	  	 	18	  
		
	 ARTICLE V TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
	  	 	19	  
			
	 Section 5.1.
	  	Initial Ownership	  	 	19	  
	 Section 5.2.
	  	The Trust Securities Certificates	  	 	19	  
	 Section 5.3.
	  	Execution, Delivery and Authentication of Trust Securities Certificates	  	 	20	  
	 Section 5.4.
	  	Book-Entry Preferred Securities	  	 	20	  
	 Section 5.5.
	  	Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates	  	 	22	  
	 Section 5.6.
	  	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates	  	 	23	  
	 Section 5.7.
	  	Persons Deemed Holders	  	 	23	  
	 Section 5.8.
	  	Access to List of Holders’ Names and Addresses	  	 	23	  
	 Section 5.9.
	  	Maintenance of Office or Agency	  	 	24	  
	 Section 5.10.
	  	Appointment of Paying Agent	  	 	24	  

  
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	 Section 5.11.
	  	Ownership of Common Securities by Sponsor	  	 	25	  
	 Section 5.12.
	  	Notices to Clearing Agency	  	 	25	  
	 Section 5.13.
	  	Rights of Holders; Waivers of Past Defaults	  	 	25	  
		
	 ARTICLE VI ACTS OF HOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
	  	 	26	  
			
	 Section 6.1.
	  	Limitations on Voting Rights	  	 	26	  
	 Section 6.2.
	  	Notice of Meetings	  	 	26	  
	 Section 6.3.
	  	Meetings of Holders of the Preferred Securities	  	 	27	  
	 Section 6.4.
	  	Voting Rights	  	 	27	  
	 Section 6.5.
	  	Proxies, etc	  	 	27	  
	 Section 6.6.
	  	Holder Action by Written Consent	  	 	27	  
	 Section 6.7.
	  	Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes	  	 	28	  
	 Section 6.8.
	  	Acts of Holders	  	 	28	  
	 Section 6.9.
	  	Inspection of Records	  	 	29	  
		
	 ARTICLE VII REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
	  	 	29	  
			
	 Section 7.1.
	  	Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee	  	 	29	  
	 Section 7.2.
	  	Representations and Warranties of Sponsor	  	 	30	  
		
	 ARTICLE VIII THE ISSUER TRUSTEES
	  	 	30	  
			
	 Section 8.1.
	  	Certain Duties and Responsibilities	  	 	30	  
	 Section 8.2.
	  	Reserved	  	 	32	  
	 Section 8.3.
	  	Certain Rights of Property Trustee	  	 	32	  
	 Section 8.4.
	  	Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities	  	 	34	  
	 Section 8.5.
	  	May Hold Securities	  	 	34	  
	 Section 8.6.
	  	Compensation; Indemnity; Fees	  	 	35	  
	 Section 8.7.
	  	Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Issuer Trustees	  	 	36	  
	 Section 8.8.
	  	Conflicting Interests	  	 	36	  
	 Section 8.9.
	  	Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee	  	 	36	  
	 Section 8.10.
	  	Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor	  	 	37	  
	 Section 8.11.
	  	Acceptance of Appointment by Successor	  	 	39	  
	 Section 8.12.
	  	Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business	  	 	39	  
	 Section 8.13.
	  	Preferential Collection of Claims Against Sponsor or Issuer Trust	  	 	39	  
	 Section 8.14.
	  	Property Trustee May File Proofs of Claim	  	 	39	  
	 Section 8.15.
	  	Reports by Property Trustee	  	 	40	  
	 Section 8.16.
	  	Reports to the Property Trustee	  	 	41	  
	 Section 8.17.
	  	Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent	  	 	41	  
	 Section 8.18.
	  	Number of Issuer Trustees	  	 	41	  
	 Section 8.19.
	  	Delegation of Power	  	 	41	  

  
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	 ARTICLE IX TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
	  	 	42	  
			
	 Section 9.1.
	  	Reserved	  	 	42	  
	 Section 9.2.
	  	Termination	  	 	42	  
	 Section 9.3.
	  	Termination of Obligations	  	 	42	  
	 Section 9.4.
	  	Liquidation	  	 	42	  
	 Section 9.5.
	  	Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of Issuer Trust	  	 	44	  
		
	 ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
	  	 	45	  
			
	 Section 10.1.
	  	Limitation of Rights of Holders	  	 	45	  
	 Section 10.2.
	  	Amendment	  	 	45	  
	 Section 10.3.
	  	Separability	  	 	47	  
	 Section 10.4.
	  	Governing Law	  	 	47	  
	 Section 10.5.
	  	Payments Due on Non-Business Day	  	 	47	  
	 Section 10.6.
	  	Successors	  	 	47	  
	 Section 10.7.
	  	Headings	  	 	47	  
	 Section 10.8.
	  	Reports, Notices and Demands	  	 	47	  
	 Section 10.9.
	  	Agreement Not to Petition	  	 	48	  
	 Section 10.10.
	  	Reserved	  	 	48	  
	 Section 10.11.
	  	Acceptance of Terms of Amended Declaration and Guarantee Agreement	  	 	48	  

  

					
	 Exhibit A
	  	Certificate of Trust	  	
	 Exhibit B
	  	Form of Common Securities Certificate	  	
	 Exhibit C
	  	Form of Preferred Securities Certificate	  	

  
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 AMENDED AND RESTATED
DECLARATION OF TRUST, dated as of •, 20•, among FIFTH THIRD BANCORP, an Ohio corporation (including any
successors or assigns, the “Sponsor”), WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as property trustee (in such capacity, the “Property Trustee”),
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Delaware trustee (in such capacity, the “Delaware Trustee”), •, an individual, and •, an individual, each of whose address is Fifth Third
Bancorp, 38 Fountain Square Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio 45263 (each an “Administrative Trustee” and collectively the “Administrative Trustees”) (the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees
being referred to collectively as the “Issuer Trustees”), and the several Holders, as hereinafter defined. 

WITNESSETH 
 WHEREAS, the Sponsor and the Delaware Trustee have heretofore duly declared and established a statutory trust under the name “Fifth Third Capital Trust •“ (the
“Issuer Trust”) pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act by entering into the Declaration of Trust, dated as of December 17, 2001 (the “Original Declaration”), and by the execution and filing by the
Delaware Trustee with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, filed on December 17, 2001 attached as Exhibit A; 
 WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend and restate the Original Declaration in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among other things, (i) the issuance of the Common
Securities by the Issuer Trust to the Sponsor, (ii) the issuance and sale of the Perpetual Preferred Trust Certificates by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement and (iii) the acquisition by the Issuer Trust from the
Sponsor of all of the right, title and interest in the Series • Preferred Shares; 
 NOW
THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the other
parties and for the benefit of the Holders, hereby amends and restates the Original Declaration in its entirety and agrees as follows: 
 ARTICLE I 
 DEFINED TERMS 

Section 1.1. Definitions. 
 For all purposes of this Amended Declaration, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: 

(a) The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well
as the singular; 
 (b) The words “include”, “includes” and “including” are deemed
to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”; 
 (c) All accounting terms not otherwise defined
herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such
accounting principles that are generally accepted in the United States at the date or time of such 

 computation; provided that when two or more principles are so generally accepted, it
shall mean that set of principles consistent with those in use by the Sponsor; 
 (d) Unless the context
otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article”, a “Section” or an “Exhibit” refers to an Article, a Section or an Exhibit, as the case may be, of or to this Amended Declaration; and 

(e) The words “hereby”, “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of
similar import refer to this Amended Declaration as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. 
 “Act” has the meaning specified in Section 6.8. 

“Administrative Trustee” means each of the individuals identified as an “Administrative Trustee” in the
preamble to this Amended Declaration solely in such individual’s capacity as Administrative Trustee of the Issuer Trust and not in such individual’s individual capacity, or such Administrative Trustee’s successor in interest in such
capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as herein provided. 
 “Affiliate” of any specified Person means
any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means
the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings
correlative to the foregoing. 
 “Amended Declaration” means this Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, as
the same may be modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the applicable provisions hereof, including all exhibits. 

“Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Book-Entry Preferred Security,
the rules and procedures of the Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Preferred Security, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time. 

“Authorized Officer” of any Person means any officer of such Person or any Person authorized by or pursuant to a
resolution of the Board of Directors of such Person. 
 “Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person:

 (a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises judging such Person a bankrupt or
insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjudication or composition of or in respect of such Person under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law,
or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such
decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or 
 (b) the institution by such Person of
proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any
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bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator (or similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they
become due and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of corporate action by such Person in furtherance of any such action. 
 “Bankruptcy Laws” has the meaning specified in Section 10.9. 

“Board of Directors” means either the board of directors of the Sponsor or any committee of that board duly authorized
to act hereunder. 
 “Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate” means a Preferred Securities Certificate
evidencing ownership of Book-Entry Preferred Securities. 
 “Book-Entry Preferred Security” means a Preferred
Security, the ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 5.4. 
 “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or any other day on which banking institutions and trust companies in New York, New York, Cincinnati, Ohio, or Wilmington,
Delaware are permitted or required by any applicable law to close. 
 “Certificate Depository Agreement” means
the Issuer Letter of Representations between the Issuer Trust and DTC, as the initial Clearing Agency, dated as of the Closing Date. 
 “Clearing Agency” means an organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act. DTC will be the initial Clearing Agency. 

“Clearing Agency Participant” means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or other Person for whom from
time to time a Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing Agency. 

“Closing Date” means the Time of Delivery, which date is also the date of execution and delivery of this Amended
Declaration. 
 “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 

“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange
Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time. 

“Common Securities Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Common Securities, substantially in the form
attached as Exhibit B. 
 “Common Security” means a common undivided beneficial interest in assets
of the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $• and having the rights provided therefor in this Amended Declaration, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution to the extent provided herein. 

  
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 “Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Property Trustee at which,
at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100 N. Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890, Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration. 
 “Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates” means either or both (as the
context requires) of (i) Preferred Securities Certificates issued as Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates as provided in Section 5.2 or 5.4, and (ii) Preferred Securities Certificates issued in certificated, fully registered
form as provided in Section 5.2, 5.4 or 5.5. 
 “Delaware Statutory Trust Act” means Chapter 38 of Title
12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code § 3801 et seq., as it may be amended from time to time. 

“Delaware Trustee” means the Person identified as the “Delaware Trustee” in the preamble to this
Amended Declaration, solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Issuer Trust and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor Delaware Trustee appointed as herein provided. 

“Distribution Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a). 

“Distributions” means amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided in Section 4.1. 

“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company. 
 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time. 

“Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as from time to time constituted, or
if at any time after the execution of this Amended Declaration the Federal Reserve is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it, then the bodies performing such duties at such time, or the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, or any
successor Federal reserve bank having primary jurisdiction over the Sponsor. 
 “Guarantee Agreement” means the
Guarantee Agreement executed and delivered by the Sponsor and Wilmington Trust Company, as guarantee trustee, contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Amended Declaration, for the benefit of the holders of the Preferred Securities,
as amended from time to time. 
 “Holder” means a Person in whose name a Trust Security or Trust Securities are
registered in the Securities Register; any such Person shall be a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act. 
 “Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, or any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time. 

“Issuer Trust” means the Delaware statutory trust known as “Fifth Third Capital Trust •”, which was
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Declaration and the filing of the Certificate of Trust, and continued pursuant to this Amended Declaration. 
 “Issuer Trustees” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Amended Declaration. 
 “Lien” means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of trust, adverse ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest or preference, priority or other
security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever. 
 “Like Amount” means
(a) with respect to a redemption of any Trust Securities, Trust Securities having a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal amount of Series • Preferred Shares to be contemporaneously redeemed or repaid in accordance with the terms of
such shares as set forth in the Sponsor’s Articles of Incorporation, the proceeds of which will be used to pay the Redemption Price of such Trust Securities, and (b) with respect to a distribution of Series • Preferred Shares to
Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution or liquidation of the Issuer Trust, Series • Preferred Shares having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such Series
• Preferred Shares are distributed. 
 “Liquidation Amount” means the stated amount of $• per Trust
Security. 
 “Liquidation Date” means the date of the dissolution of the Issuer Trust pursuant to
Section 9.4. 
 “Liquidation Distribution” has the meaning specified in Section 9.4(d). 

“Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities” or “Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common
Securities” means Preferred Securities or Common Securities, as the case may be, representing more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of all then Outstanding Preferred Securities or Common Securities, as the case may be.

 “Officers’ Certificate” means, with respect to any person, a certificate signed by any two Authorized
Officers of such Person. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Amended Declaration shall include: 

(a) a statement by each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate that such officer has read the covenant or condition and the
definitions relating thereto; 
 (b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation
undertaken by such officer in rendering the Officers’ Certificate; 
 (c) a statement that such officer has made such
examination or investigation as, in such officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and 

(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with. 

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for or an employee of the Sponsor or an
Affiliate of the Sponsor, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Property Trustee. 

  
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 “Original Declaration” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this
Amended Declaration. 
 “Outstanding”, when used with respect to Trust Securities, means, as of the date of
determination, all Trust Securities theretofore executed and delivered under this Amended Declaration, except: 

(a) Trust Securities theretofore cancelled by the Property Trustee or delivered to the Property Trustee for cancellation; 

(b) Trust Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Property
Trustee or any Paying Agent; provided that, if such Trust Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Amended Declaration; and 

(c) Trust Securities that have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Trust Securities have been executed and delivered
pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and 5.11; 
 provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Liquidation
Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Preferred Securities beneficially owned by the Sponsor, any Issuer Trustee or any Affiliate of the Sponsor
or of any Issuer Trustee shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that (a) in determining whether any Issuer Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver, only Preferred Securities that such Issuer Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded, and (b) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of the outstanding Preferred Securities are beneficially owned by the Sponsor,
one or more of the Issuer Trustees and/or any such Affiliate. Preferred Securities so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Administrative Trustees the
pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Preferred Securities and that the pledgee is not the Sponsor or any Affiliate of the Sponsor. 
 “Owner” means each Person who is the beneficial owner of Book-Entry Preferred Securities as reflected in the records of the Clearing Agency or, if a Clearing Agency Participant is not the
Owner, then as reflected in the records of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly or indirectly, in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency). 

“Paying Agent” means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to Section 5.10 and shall initially be
Wilmington Trust Company. 
 “Payment Account” means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust account
maintained by or on behalf of the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Holders in which all amounts paid in respect of the Series • Preferred Shares will be held and from which the Property Trustee, through the Paying Agent, shall make
payments to the Holders in accordance with Sections 4.1 and 4.2. 
 “Payment Amount” has the meaning specified
in Section 4.1(a). 
 “Person” means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, company, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated association, or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature. 

  
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 “Preferred Securities Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership
of Preferred Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C. 
 “Preferred Security”
means a Perpetual Preferred Trust Certificate which is a preferred undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $• and having the rights provided therefor in this Amended Declaration, including
the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution to the extent provided herein. 
 “Property
Trustee” means the Person identified as the “Property Trustee” in the preamble to this Amended Declaration, solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of the Trust and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in
interest in such capacity, or any successor Property Trustee appointed as herein provided. 
 “Prospectus”
means the prospectus, dated •, 20•, of the Sponsor and the Issuer Trust relating to the offering of the Preferred Securities, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement, dated •, 20•. 

“Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Trust Security to be redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or
pursuant to this Amended Declaration; provided that each Redemption Date for Series • Preferred Shares shall be a Redemption Date for a Like Amount of Trust Securities. 

“Redemption Price” means, with respect to any Trust Security, the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security, plus
accumulated and unpaid Distributions to the Redemption Date plus the related amount of the premium, if any, paid by the Sponsor upon the concurrent redemption of a Like Amount of Series • Preferred Shares or Series • Preferred Shares
having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security. 
 “Relevant Trustee” has the
meaning specified in Section 8.10. 
 “Responsible Officer” means, with respect to the Property Trustee,
any officer of the Property Trustee assigned to its corporate trust services department, or with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge and familiarity
with the particular subject. 
 “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, and any successor statute
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time. 
 “Securities Register” and “Securities
Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 5.5. 
 “Series • Preferred
Shares” means shares of the Sponsor’s Series • Preferred Stock issued pursuant to the Sponsor Articles of Incorporation (or depositary shares issued in lieu thereof). 

“Sponsor” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Amended Declaration. 

“Sponsor Affiliated Holder” has the meaning specified in Section 4.7(a). 

  
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 “Sponsor Articles of Incorporation” means the Articles of Incorporation of
the Sponsor as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Ohio, as the same has been and may in the future be amended, modified or restated from time to time in accordance with the Ohio General Corporation Laws. 

“Termination Event” has the meaning specified in Section 9.2. 

“Time of Delivery” has the meaning specified in the Underwriting Agreement. 

“Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was
executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.

 “Trust Property” means (a) the Series • Preferred Shares, (b) any cash on deposit in, or
owing to, the Payment Account, and (c) all proceeds and rights in respect of the foregoing and any other property and assets for the time being held or deemed to be held by the Property Trustee pursuant to this Amended Declaration. 

“Trust Securities Certificate” means any one of the Common Securities Certificates or the Preferred Securities
Certificates. 
 “Trust Security” means any one of the Common Securities or the Preferred Securities.

 “Underwriting Agreement” means the Underwriting Agreement, dated as of •, 20•, among the Issuer
Trust, the Sponsor and the Underwriters named therein, as the same may be amended from time to time. 
 “U.S.
Person” means a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. 
 ARTICLE II 

CONTINUATION OF THE ISSUER TRUST 

Section 2.1. Name. 
 The trust established under the Original Declaration and continued hereby shall be known as “Fifth Third Capital Trust •”, as such name may be modified from time to time by the
Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Holders of Trust Securities and the other Issuer Trustees, in which name the Issuer Trustees may conduct the business of the Issuer Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on
behalf of the Issuer Trust and sue and be sued. 
 Section 2.2. Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of
Business. 
 The address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is Rodney Square North, 1100 N. Market Street,
Wilmington, Delaware 19890, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or such other address in the State of Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Holders, the Sponsor, the Property Trustee and the Administrative
Trustees. The principal executive office of the Issuer Trust is Fifth Third Center, 38 Fountain Square Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio 45263. 

  
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 Section 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses.

 The Sponsor deposited the sum of $10 in connection with the Original Declaration, which constituted the initial Trust
Property. The Sponsor shall pay organizational expenses of the Issuer Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of any Issuer Trustee, promptly reimburse such Issuer Trustee for any such expenses paid by such Issuer Trustee. The Sponsor shall make
no claim upon the Trust Property for the payment of such expenses. 
 Section 2.4. Issuance of the Preferred
Securities. 
 On •, 20•, the Sponsor, both on its own behalf and on behalf of the Issuer Trust pursuant to the
Original Declaration, executed and delivered the Underwriting Agreement, which action is hereby authorized, approved, ratified and confirmed in all respects. Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Amended Declaration, an
Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall execute in accordance with Sections 5.2, 5.3 and 8.9(a) and deliver to the Property Trustee for authentication and the Property Trustee shall deliver to the Underwriters, a Preferred
Securities Certificate, registered in the name as set forth in Section 5.2(b), evidencing an aggregate of • Preferred Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $•, against receipt of the aggregate purchase price of such
Preferred Securities of $•, by the Property Trustee. On any one or more dates after the execution and delivery of this Amended Declaration additional Preferred Securities Certificates representing Preferred Securities may be issued in
accordance with Section 5.3, registered in the name of the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, against receipt by the Property Trustee of the purchase price that is determined by the Sponsor. 

Section 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Series • Preferred Shares. 

Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Amended Declaration, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust,
shall execute in accordance with Sections 5.2, 5.3 and 8.9(a) and the Property Trustee shall deliver to the Sponsor, Common Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the Sponsor, evidencing an aggregate of • Common Securities
having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $•, against receipt of the aggregate purchase price of such Common Securities of $• by the Property Trustee. Contemporaneously therewith, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust,
shall subscribe for and purchase from the Sponsor the Series • Preferred Shares, registered in the name of the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust and having an aggregate principal amount equal to $• and, in satisfaction of the
purchase price for such Series • Preferred Shares, the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall deliver to the Sponsor the sum of $• (being the sum of the amounts delivered to the Property Trustee pursuant to (i) the
second sentence of Section 2.4 and (ii) the first sentence of this Section 2.5). In connection with any subsequent issuance of Preferred Securities as set forth in the last sentence of Section 2.4, an Administrative Trustee, on
behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall contemporaneously with any such additional issuance, subscribe to and purchase from the Sponsor Series • Preferred Shares, registered in the name of the Issuer Trust, having an aggregate principal amount equal
to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities being issued by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the last sentence of Section 2.4 against payment of a purchase price equal to the aggregate purchase prices of the Preferred Securities
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 Section 2.6. Continuation of Trust. 

The exclusive purposes and functions of the Issuer Trust are (a) to issue and sell Trust Securities and use the proceeds from such
sale to acquire the Series • Preferred Shares, and (b) to engage in those activities convenient, necessary or incidental thereto. The Sponsor hereby reaffirms the appointment of the Delaware Trustee, the Property Trustee and the
Administrative Trustees as trustees of the Issuer Trust, to have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth herein, and the respective Issuer Trustees hereby accept such appointment. The Property Trustee hereby declares that it will
hold the Trust Property in trust upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and the Holders. The Administrative Trustees shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in accordance with
applicable law with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Issuer Trust. The Delaware Trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee have any of the duties and responsibilities, of the Property Trustee or
the Administrative Trustees, or any of the duties and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees generally, set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be one of the trustees of the Issuer Trust for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the
requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and for taking such actions as are required to be taken by a Delaware trustee under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act. 

Section 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions. 

(a) The Issuer Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust in accordance with the terms of this Amended
Declaration. Subject to the limitations set forth in paragraph (b) of this Section, and in accordance with the following provisions (i) and (ii), the Issuer Trustees shall have the authority to enter into all transactions and agreements
determined by the Issuer Trustees to be appropriate in exercising the authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the Issuer Trustees, as the case may be, under this Amended Declaration, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof,
including, without limitation, the following: 
 (i) As among the Issuer Trustees, each Administrative Trustee,
acting singly or collectively, shall have the power and authority to act on behalf of the Issuer Trust with respect to the following matters: 
 (A) the preparation and filing by the Issuer Trust with the Commission and the execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of a registration statement on the appropriate form in relation to the Preferred
Securities, including any amendments thereto and the taking of any action necessary or desirable to sell the Preferred Securities in a transaction or a series of transactions pursuant thereto; 

(B) the issuance and sale of the Trust Securities; 

(C) causing the Issuer Trust to perform the transactions contemplated by and its obligations under the Underwriting
Agreement and causing the Issuer Trust to enter into, and to execute, deliver and perform the Certificate Depository Agreement and such other agreements as may be necessary or desirable in connection with the purposes and function of the Issuer
Trust; 
 (D) assisting in the registration of the Preferred Securities under the Securities Act and under
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qualification of this Amended Declaration as a trust indenture under the Trust Indenture Act; 
 (E) assisting in the listing of the Preferred Securities upon such securities exchange or exchanges as shall be determined by the Sponsor, with the registration of the Preferred Securities under the
Exchange Act and with the preparation and filing of all periodic and other reports and other documents pursuant to the foregoing, as applicable; 
 (F) assisting in the sending of notices and other information regarding the Trust Securities and the Series • Preferred Shares to the Holders in accordance with this Amended Declaration; 

(G) the consent to the appointment of a Paying Agent, authenticating agent and Securities Registrar in accordance with
this Amended Declaration (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld); 
 (H) the execution of the Trust
Securities on behalf of the Issuer Trust in accordance with this Amended Declaration; 
 (I) the execution and
delivery of closing certificates, if any, pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement and application for a taxpayer identification number for the Issuer Trust; 
 (J) unless otherwise required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act or the Trust Indenture Act, executing on behalf of the Issuer Trust (either acting alone or together with the other Administrative
Trustee) any documents that the Administrative Trustees have the power to execute pursuant to this Amended Declaration; and 
 (K) the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the Issuer Trustees may from time to time determine to be necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this Amended Declaration.

 (ii) As among the Issuer Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have the power, duty and authority to act on
behalf of the Issuer Trust with respect to the following matters: 
 (A) the establishment of the Payment
Account; 
 (B) the receipt of the Series • Preferred Shares; 

(C) the collection of dividends and any other payments made in respect of the Series • Preferred Shares and the
holding of such amounts in the Payment Account; 
 (D) the distribution through the Paying Agent of amounts
distributable to the Holders in respect of the Trust Securities; 
 (E) the exercise of all of the rights,
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 (F) the sending of notices and other information regarding the Trust
Securities and the Series • Preferred Shares to the Holders in accordance with this Amended Declaration; 

(G) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with the terms of this Amended Declaration; 

(H) to the extent provided in this Amended Declaration, the winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Issuer
Trust and the preparation, execution and filing of the certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware; and 
 (I) performing the duties of the Property Trustee set forth in this Amended Declaration. 
 Except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.7(a)(ii), the Property Trustee shall have none of the duties, liabilities, powers or the authority of the Administrative Trustees set forth in
Section 2.7(a)(i). 
 (b) So long as this Amended Declaration remains in effect, the Issuer Trust (or the
Issuer Trustees acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust) shall not undertake any business, activities or transaction except as expressly provided herein or contemplated hereby. In particular, the Issuer Trustees (acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust)
shall not (i) acquire any investments or engage in any activities not authorized by this Amended Declaration, (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge, set off or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests
therein, including to Holders, except as expressly provided herein, (iii) take any action that would cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as other than a grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (iv) incur any indebtedness
for borrowed money or issue any other debt, (v) take or consent to any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on any of the Trust Property, (vi) apply any of the Trust Property or its proceeds other than as provided herein,
(vii) acquire any assets other than the Trust Property, (viii) possess any power or otherwise act in such a way as to vary the Trust Property, except as expressly provided herein, (ix) possess any power or otherwise act in such a way
as to vary the terms of the Trust Securities in any way whatsoever (except to the extent expressly authorized in this Amended Declaration or by the terms of the Trust Securities) or (x) issue any securities or other evidences of beneficial
ownership of, or beneficial interest in, the Issuer Trust other than the Trust Securities. The Administrative Trustees shall defend all claims and demands of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the Trust Property adverse to the
interest of the Issuer Trust or the Holders in their capacity as Holders. 
 (c) In connection with the issue and
sale of the Preferred Securities, the Sponsor shall have the right and responsibility to assist the Issuer Trust with respect to, or effect on behalf of the Issuer Trust, the following (and any actions taken by the Sponsor in furtherance of the
following prior to the date of this Amended Declaration are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects): 

(i) the preparation and filing by the Issuer Trust with the Commission and the execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of
a registration statement on the appropriate form in relation to the Preferred Securities, including any amendments thereto and the taking of any action necessary or desirable to sell the Preferred Securities in a transaction or a series of
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 (ii) the determination of the states in which to take appropriate action to
qualify or register for sale all or part of the Preferred Securities and the taking of any and all such acts, other than actions that must be taken by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, and advice to the Issuer Trust of actions that must be taken by
or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, and the preparation for execution and filing of any documents to be executed and filed by the Issuer Trust or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, as the Sponsor deems necessary or advisable in order to comply with the
applicable laws of any such States in connection with the sale of the Preferred Securities; 
 (iii) the
preparation for filing by the Issuer Trust and execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of an application to the New York Stock Exchange or any other national stock exchange or the Nasdaq National Market for listing upon notice of issuance of any
Preferred Securities; 
 (iv) the preparation for filing by the Issuer Trust with the Commission and the
execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of a registration statement on Form 8-A relating to the registration of the Preferred Securities under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, including any amendments thereto; 

(v) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and delivery of, the Underwriting Agreement providing for the sale
of the Preferred Securities; and 
 (vi) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to carry out any
of the foregoing activities. 
 (d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Trustees
are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust and to operate the Issuer Trust so that the Issuer Trust will not be deemed to be an “investment company” required to be registered under the Investment Company Act,
and will not be classified as other than a grantor trust for U.S. federal, state and local income tax purposes and so that the Series • Preferred Shares will be treated as Tier 1 capital (or its equivalent) for purposes of the capital adequacy
guidelines or regulations of the appropriate federal banking agency, as then in effect and applicable. In this connection, the Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees are authorized to take any action, not inconsistent with applicable law, the
Certificate of Trust or this Amended Declaration, that they determine in their discretion to be necessary or desirable for such purposes, as long as such action does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Holders of the
Outstanding Preferred Securities. In no event shall the Sponsor or the Issuer Trustees be liable to the Issuer Trust or the Holders for any failure to comply with this Section that results from a change in law or regulation or in the interpretation
thereof. 
 Section 2.8. Assets of Trust. 
 The assets of the Issuer Trust shall consist solely of the Trust Property. 

Section 2.9. Title to Trust Property. 
 Legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) and shall be held and administered by the Property Trustee in trust for the benefit of the
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 ARTICLE III 
 PAYMENT ACCOUNT 
 Section 3.1. Payment
Account. 
 (a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall establish the Payment Account
with the Paying Agent. The Property Trustee and its agents shall have exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits in and withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance
with this Amended Declaration. All monies and other property deposited or held from time to time in the Payment Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the Payment Account for the exclusive benefit of the Holders and for distribution as
herein provided, including (and subject to) any priority of payments provided for herein. 
 (b) The Property
Trustee shall deposit (or cause to be deposited) in the Payment Account, promptly upon receipt, all payments of dividends and any other payments or proceeds with respect to the Series • Preferred Shares. Amounts held in the Payment Account
shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending distribution thereof. 
 ARTICLE IV 

DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION 
 Section 4.1. Distributions. 
 (a) The Trust Securities
represent undivided beneficial interests in the Trust Property, and Distributions will be made on the Trust Securities at the rate and on the dates that payments are made on the Series • Preferred Shares. Accordingly: 

(i) If and to the extent that the Sponsor declares and pays dividends on the Series • Preferred Shares held by the
Property Trustee for the benefit of the Holders and whenever the Property Trustee shall receive any cash upon redemption or liquidation of any Series • Preferred Shares (the amount of any such payment being a “Payment Amount”),
the Property Trustee shall and is directed to make a distribution (a “Distribution”) of the Payment Amount to Holders pursuant to the terms of the Trust Securities. In case the Sponsor, the Property Trustee or the Issuer Trust shall
be required by law to and shall withhold from any cash dividend or other cash distribution in respect of the Series • Preferred Shares otherwise distributable hereunder to a Holder of Trust Securities on account of taxes or as otherwise
required by law, regulation or court process, the amount made available for distribution or distributed in respect of the Trust Securities of such Holder subject to such withholding shall be reduced accordingly. The Issuer Trust, however, shall
distribute or make available for distribution, as the case may be, only such amount as can be distributed without attributing to any Holder a fraction of one cent. Fractions of cents will be rounded to the nearest cent on a Holder-by-Holder basis,
with one-half cent or greater being rounded upward. If any date on which a Distribution is otherwise payable on the Trust Securities prior to •, 20• is not a Business Day, then the payment of such Distribution shall be made on the next
succeeding day that is a Business Day (without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), with the same force and effect as if made on the date on which such payment was originally payable. Each date on which Distributions are
payable in accordance with this Section 4.1(a), a “Distribution Date”. 

  
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 (ii) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made by the Paying Agent
on behalf of the Property Trustee from the Payment Account and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that the Issuer Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Distributions.

 (b) Distributions on the Trust Securities with respect to a Distribution Date shall be payable to the Holders
thereof as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities at the close of business on the relevant record date, which shall be the Business Day prior to the relevant Distribution Date; provided that if the Trust Securities are not
in book-entry form, the relevant record date shall be the date 15 days prior to the relevant Distribution Date. Distributions payable on any Trust Securities that are not punctually paid on an applicable Distribution Date will cease to be payable to
the Person in whose name such Trust Securities are registered on the relevant record date, and such defaulted Distribution will instead be payable to the Person in whose name such Trust Securities are registered on the special record date or other
specified date for determining Holders entitled to such defaulted Distributions. 
 Section 4.2. Redemption.

 (a) On each date on which the Sponsor redeems Series • Preferred Shares, the Issuer Trust will be
required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust Securities at the Redemption Price. The Sponsor is not required to redeem the Series • Preferred Shares at any time, but the Series • Preferred Shares may be redeemed in whole or in part at the
Sponsor’s option at any time on or •, 20• , or at any time prior to •, 20• upon the occurrence of a Regulatory Capital Event. A “Regulatory Capital Event” means the Sponsor’s reasonable determination
that as a result of any (i) amendment to, clarification of, or change (including any announced prospective change) in, the laws or regulations of the United States or any political subdivision of or in the United States that is enacted or
becomes effective on or after the date hereof, (ii) proposed change in those laws or regulations that is announced or becomes effective on or after the date hereof, or (iii) official administrative decision or judicial decision or
administrative action or other official pronouncement interpreting or applying those laws or regulations that is announced on or after the date hereof, there is more than an insubstantial risk that we will not be entitled to treat the full
liquidation preference amount of all shares of Series • Preferred Shares then outstanding as Tier 1 capital (or its equivalent) for purposes of the capital adequacy guidelines or regulations of the appropriate federal banking agency, as
then in effect and applicable, for as long as any share of Series • Preferred Shares is outstanding. 

(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than
30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed, at such Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register. All notices of redemption shall state: 

(i) the Redemption Date; 
 (ii) the Redemption Price or if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated prior to the time the notice is required to be sent, an estimate of the Redemption Price together with a statement that it is an
estimate and that the actual Redemption Price will be calculated on the third Business Day prior to the Redemption Date (and if an estimate is provided, a further notice shall be sent of the actual Redemption Price on the date that such Redemption
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 (iii) the CUSIP number or CUSIP numbers of the Preferred Securities affected
(if applicable); 
 (iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed, the identification
and the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the particular Trust Securities to be redeemed; 
 (v) that on the
Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Trust Security to be redeemed and that Distributions thereon will cease to accumulate on and after said date, except as provided in Section 4.2(d); and 

(vi) if the Preferred Securities Certificates are not Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates on the Redemption Date,
the place or places where the Preferred Securities Certificates are to be surrendered for the payment of the Redemption Price. 

The Issuer Trust in issuing the Trust Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Property
Trustee shall indicate the “CUSIP” numbers of the Trust Securities in notices of redemption and related materials as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Trust Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and related materials. 
 (c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be redeemed at the Redemption Price. Redemptions of the Trust Securities shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each
Redemption Date only to the extent that the Issuer Trust has the Redemption Price then on hand and available for the payment of such Redemption Price, including, in the case of a cash redemption, funds then on hand and available in the Payment
Account for the payment of such Redemption Price and, in the case of a Redemption using Series • Preferred Shares, funds on hand and available to redeem or repay such Series • Preferred Shares. 

(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of any Preferred Securities, then, by 12:00 noon, New
York City time, on the Redemption Date, subject to Section 4.2(c), the Property Trustee will, with respect to Book-Entry Preferred Securities, irrevocably deposit with the Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Preferred Securities, to the extent
available therefor, the applicable Redemption Price and will give such Clearing Agency irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Preferred Securities. With respect to Preferred Securities that are not
Book-Entry Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee, subject to Section 4.2(c), will irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent, to the extent available therefor, the applicable Redemption Price and will give the Paying Agent irrevocable
instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Preferred Securities upon surrender of their Preferred Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions payable on or prior to the Redemption Date for
any Trust Securities called for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust Securities as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record dates for the related Distribution Dates. If notice of
redemption shall have been given and the Redemption Price deposited as required, then upon the date of such deposit, all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities so called for redemption will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive the
Redemption Price and any Distribution payable in respect of the Trust Securities on or prior to the Redemption Date, but without interest, and such Trust Securities will cease to be outstanding. In the event that any date on which any Redemption
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 succeeding day that is a Business Day (without any interest or other payment in respect of
any such delay), with the same force and effect as if made on such date. In the event that payment of the Redemption Price in respect of any Trust Securities called for redemption is improperly withheld or refused and not paid either by the Issuer
Trust or by the Sponsor pursuant to the Guarantee Agreement, Distributions on such Trust Securities will continue to accumulate, as set forth in Section 4.1, from the Redemption Date originally established by the Issuer Trust for such Trust
Securities to the date such Redemption Price is actually paid, in which case the actual payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price. 

(e) Subject to Section 4.3, if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption
Date, the Property Trustee will select the particular Trust Securities to be redeemed on a pro rata basis not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date from the Outstanding Preferred Securities not previously called for redemption by any method
the Property Trustee deems fair and appropriate, provided that so long as the Preferred Securities are in book-entry-only form, such selection shall be made in accordance with the customary procedures for the Clearing Agency for the Preferred
Securities. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the Securities Registrar in writing of the Preferred Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Preferred Securities selected for partial redemption, the Liquidation Amount
thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Amended Declaration, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Preferred Securities shall relate, in the case of any Preferred Securities redeemed or to be
redeemed only in part, to the portion of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities that has been or is to be redeemed. The Property Trustee shall also have the right in such a case to distribute the Series • Preferred Shares
intended to be redeemed to the Holders in redemption of their Preferred Securities. 
 Section 4.3. Subordination of
Common Securities. 
 Payment of Distributions on, the Redemption Price of, and the Liquidation Distribution in respect of
the Trust Securities, as applicable, shall be made, subject to Section 4.2(e), pro rata among the Common Securities and the Preferred Securities based on the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities; provided, however, that no
payment on account of the redemption, liquidation or other acquisition of Common Securities, shall be made unless payment in full in cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions on all Outstanding Preferred Securities for all Distribution
periods terminating on or prior thereto, or in the case of payment of the Redemption Price the full amount of such Redemption Price on all Outstanding Preferred Securities then called for redemption, or in the case of payment of the Liquidation
Distribution the full amount of such Liquidation Distribution on all Outstanding Preferred Securities, shall have been made or provided for, and all funds immediately available to the Property Trustee shall first be applied to the payment in full in
cash of all Distributions on, or the Redemption Price of, the Preferred Securities then due and payable. 
 Section 4.4.
Payment Procedures. 
 Payments of Distributions in respect of the Preferred Securities, subject to the next succeeding
sentence, shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Securities Register or, if the Preferred Securities are held by a Clearing Agency, such Distributions shall be made to the
Clearing Agency in immediately available funds. A Holder of $1,000,000 or more in aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities may receive payments of cash Distributions by wire transfer of immediately available funds upon written request to
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Distribution Date. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall be made in such manner as shall be mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the Holders of the Common Securities.

 Section 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports. 
 The Administrative Trustees shall prepare (or cause to be prepared), at the Sponsor’s expense, and file all United States federal, state and local tax and information returns and reports required to
be filed by or in respect of the Issuer Trust. In this regard, the Administrative Trustees shall (a) prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and filed) all Internal Revenue Service forms required to be filed in respect of the Issuer Trust in
each taxable year of the Issuer Trust, and (b) prepare and furnish (or cause to be prepared and furnished) to each Holder all Internal Revenue Service forms required to be provided by the Issuer Trust. The Administrative Trustees shall provide
the Sponsor and the Property Trustee with a copy of all such returns and reports promptly after such filing or furnishing. The Issuer Trustees shall comply with United States federal withholding and backup withholding tax laws and information
reporting requirements with respect to any payments to Holders under the Trust Securities. Such withholding or backup withholding (if any) shall be deducted from any payment and shall be considered as duly paid under the terms of this Amended and
Restated Declaration of Trust and the Trust Securities. 
 Section 4.6. Payments Pursuant to Direct Actions.

 Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Preferred Securities (or any Owner with respect thereto) shall be reduced by
the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder (or Owner) has directly received pursuant to Section 5.13 of this Amended Declaration. 
 Section 4.7. Exchanges by the Sponsor. 
 (a) If at any time, or from
time to time, the Sponsor or any of its Affiliates (in either case, a “Sponsor Affiliated Holder”) is the Holder of any Preferred Securities, such Sponsor Affiliated Holder shall have the right to deliver to the Property Trustee all
or such portion of its Preferred Securities as it elects and receive, in exchange therefor, Series • Preferred Shares in an aggregate liquidation amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of such Preferred Securities. Such election (i) shall
be exercisable by such Sponsor Affiliated Holder delivering to the Property Trustee a written notice of such election (A) specifying the Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities with respect to which such election is being made and
(B) the date on which such exchange shall occur, which date shall not be less than three Business Days after the receipt by the Property Trustee of such election notice, and which may be any date other than the record date for any Distribution
or a date from such record date to and including the Distribution Date for such Distribution and (ii) shall be conditioned upon such Sponsor Affiliated Holder having delivered or caused to be delivered to the Property Trustee or its designee
the Preferred Securities which are the subject of such election by 10:00 A.M. New York City time, on the date on which such exchange is to occur. After the exchange, such Preferred Securities will be cancelled and will no longer be deemed to be
outstanding and all rights of the Sponsor or its Affiliate(s) with respect to such Preferred Securities will cease, including accrued and unpaid Distributions thereon. In the event such Preferred Securities are Book-Entry Preferred Securities, upon
such exchange the Securities Registrar shall cause an annotation to be made on the related global certificate or certificates evidencing such Book-Entry Preferred Securities to evidence the reduction in the aggregate Liquidation Amount thereof
resulting from such cancellation. In the event of any exchange of Preferred Securities contemplated in this subsection (a) that would leave no Preferred Securities outstanding, the Sponsor shall have the right to require the Property Trustee to
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 (b) Notwithstanding anything else in this Amended Declaration to the contrary, in order to
effectuate the exchanges contemplated in (a) above, the Trust is hereby authorized to execute, deliver and perform, and the Sponsor, the Property Trustee, any Administrative Trustee or the Securities Registrar, on behalf of the Trust, acting
singly or collectively, is hereby authorized to execute and deliver on behalf of the Trust, an exchange agreement, cancellation letter, and any and all other documents, agreements, or certificates contemplated by or related to the exchanges made
pursuant to (a) above, in each case without further vote or approval of any other Person. For the avoidance of doubt, the exchanges contemplated in (a) above shall not be deemed “redemptions” for any purposes of this Amended
Declaration or the terms of the Preferred Securities. 
  

ARTICLE V 

TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES 

Section 5.1. Initial Ownership. 
 Upon the formation of the Issuer Trust and the contribution by the Sponsor pursuant to Section 2.3 and until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at any time during which no Trust Securities are
outstanding, the Sponsor shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Issuer Trust. 
 Section 5.2. The Trust Securities
Certificates. 
 (a) The Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of
$• Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $• in excess thereof, and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of $• Liquidation Amount and integral multiples thereof. The Trust Securities
Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust by manual signature of at least one Administrative Trustee. Trust Securities Certificates bearing the manual signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have
been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefits of this Amended Declaration, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the
delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates. A transferee of a Trust Securities Certificate shall become a Holder, and shall be entitled to the rights and
subject to the obligations of a Holder hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust Securities Certificate in such transferee’s name pursuant to Section 5.5. 

(b) Upon their original issuance, Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in the form of one or more Book-Entry
Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the name of DTC, as Clearing Agency, or its nominee and deposited with DTC or the Securities Registrar as custodian for DTC for credit by DTC to the respective accounts of the Owners thereof (or such
other accounts as they may direct). 
 (c) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common
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 Section 5.3. Execution, Delivery and Authentication of Trust Securities
Certificates. 
 At the Time of Delivery, one or more of the Administrative Trustees shall cause Trust Securities
Certificates, in the aggregate Liquidation Amounts as provided in Sections 2.4 and 2.5 with respect to Preferred Securities and Common Securities, respectively, to be executed manually or by facsimile on behalf of the Issuer Trust or upon the
written order of the Sponsor, executed by one Authorized Officer thereof, and shall cause the Preferred Securities Certificates to be delivered to the Property Trustee and upon such delivery the Property Trustee shall authenticate such Preferred
Securities Certificates, in each case without further corporate action by the Sponsor, in authorized denominations. After the Time of Delivery, subject to the next sentence, the Administrative Trustees may cause additional Preferred Securities to be
executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust and delivered to or upon the written order of the Sponsor, such written order executed by one authorized officer thereof, without further corporate action by the Sponsor, in authorized denominations;
provided, however, that no such additional Preferred Securities shall be issued unless the Administrative Trustees shall have receive an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such issuance will not cause the Issuer
Trust to be taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes or affect the Issuer Trust’s exemption from status as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act or affect the treatment of the Series •
Preferred Shares as equity of the Depositor for United States federal income tax purposes. At no time will the aggregate Liquidation Amount of all Outstanding Preferred Securities (including additional Preferred Securities) exceed $•.

 Each Preferred Securities Certificate shall be dated the date of its authentication. 

No Preferred Securities Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under this Amended Declaration or be valid or obligatory for any
purpose, unless there appears on such Preferred Securities Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for in the form attached as Exhibit C executed by the Property Trustee by the manual signature of one of
its Authorized Officers, and such certificate upon any Preferred Securities Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Preferred Securities Certificate has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. 

Section 5.4. Book-Entry Preferred Securities. 

(a) Each Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate issued under this Amended Declaration shall be registered in the
name of the Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof or custodian therefore, and each such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate shall constitute a single Preferred Securities Certificate
for all purposes of this Amended Declaration. 
 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Amended
Declaration, no Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate may be exchanged in whole or in part for Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates registered, and no transfer of a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate in whole or in part may be
registered, in the name of any Person other than the Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Clearing Agency (i) has notified the Issuer Trust that it is unwilling or unable
to continue as Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate and no successor Clearing Agency has been appointed within 90 days of this notice or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act
at a time when the Clearing Agency is required to be so registered to act as clearing agent and no successor Clearing Agency has been appointed within 90 days after the Issuer Trust has learned that the Clearing Agency has ceased to be so
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 determines that such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate will be so exchangeable or
transferable, or (C) Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities advise the Property Trustee in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best
interest of the Owners of Preferred Securities Certificates. Upon the occurrence of any event specified in clause (A), (B) or (C) above, the Property Trustee shall notify the Clearing Agency and instruct the Clearing Agency to notify all
Owners of Book-Entry Preferred Securities and the Administrative Trustees of the occurrence of such event and of the availability of the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates to Owners of such class or classes, as applicable, requesting the
same. 
 (c) If any Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate is to be exchanged for other Preferred Securities
Certificates or cancelled in part, or if any other Preferred Securities Certificate is to be exchanged in whole or in part for Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented by a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate, then either (i) such
Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate shall be so surrendered for exchange or cancellation as provided in this Article V or (ii) the aggregate Liquidation Amount represented by such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate shall be
reduced, subject to Section 5.2, or increased by an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount represented by that portion of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate to be so exchanged or cancelled, or equal to the Liquidation Amount
represented by such other Preferred Securities Certificates to be so exchanged for Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented thereby, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Securities Registrar,
whereupon the Property Trustee, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Clearing Agency or its authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records. Upon surrender to the Administrative Trustees or the
Securities Registrar of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, shall execute the Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificates in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. None of the Securities Registrar or the Issuer Trustees shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be
protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates, the Issuer Trustees shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates as Holders. The Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Trustees, as evidenced by the execution thereof by the Administrative Trustees or any one of
them. 
 (d) Every Preferred Securities Certificate executed and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or
in exchange for or in lieu of, a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Article V or Article IV or otherwise, shall be executed and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Book-Entry Preferred
Securities Certificate, unless such Preferred Securities Certificate is registered in the name of a Person other than the Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate or a nominee thereof. 

(e) The Clearing Agency or its nominee, as registered owner of a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate, shall be the
Holder of such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate for all purposes under this Agreement and the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate, and Owners with respect to a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate shall hold such interests
pursuant to the Applicable Procedures. The Securities Registrar and the Issuer Trustees shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Amended Declaration relating to the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates
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Distributions on the Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented thereby and the giving of instructions or directions by Owners of Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented thereby) as the sole
Holder of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented thereby and shall have no obligations to the Owners thereof. None of the Issuer Trustees or the Securities Registrar shall have any liability in respect of any transfers effected by the
Clearing Agency. 
 The rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities shall be exercised only through the Clearing
Agency and shall be limited to those established by law, the Applicable Procedures and agreements between such Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants. Pursuant to the Certificate Depository Agreement, unless and until
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates are issued pursuant to Section 5.4(b), the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments on the Preferred Securities
to such Clearing Agency Participants, and none of the Sponsor or the Issuer Trustees shall have any responsibility or obligation with respect thereto. 
 Section 5.5. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates. 
 The Property Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.9, a register or registers for the purpose of registering Trust Securities Certificates
and transfers and exchanges of Trust Securities Certificates (the “Securities Register”) in which the registrar and transfer agent with respect to the Trust Securities (the “Securities Registrar”), subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall provide for the registration of Preferred Securities Certificates and Common Securities Certificates (subject to Section 5.11 in the case of the Common Securities Certificates) and registration
of transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates as herein provided. The Person acting as the Property Trustee shall at all times also be the Securities Registrar. 

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred Securities Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 5.9, the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute and deliver to the Property Trustee, and the Property Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new
Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount dated the date of execution by such Administrative Trustee or Trustees. 
 The Securities Registrar shall not be required, (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Preferred Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day
of selection for redemption of such Preferred Securities pursuant to Article IV and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of the notice of redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Preferred Security so
selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any such Preferred Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed. 
 Every Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to an Administrative
Trustee and the Securities Registrar duly executed by the Holder or its attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Preferred Securities Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of
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 No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Preferred
Securities Certificates, but the Securities Registrar [may][will] require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates.

 A Preferred Securities Certificate that is not a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate may be transferred, in whole or
in part, to a Person who takes delivery in the form of another Preferred Securities Certificate that is not a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate as provided in this Section 5.5. 

Section 5.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates. 

If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate shall be surrendered to the Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar
shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Securities Certificate, and (b) there shall be delivered to the Securities Registrar and the Administrative Trustees such security or indemnity as may be
required by them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the Issuer Trust
shall execute and make available for delivery, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust Securities Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the
issuance of any new Trust Securities Certificate under this Section 5.6, the Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust corresponding to that evidenced by the
lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate shall be found at any time. 

Section 5.7. Persons Deemed Holders. 
 The Issuer Trustees and the Securities Registrar shall each treat the Person in whose name any Trust Securities Certificate shall be registered in the Securities Register as the owner of such Trust
Securities Certificate for the purpose of receiving Distributions and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Issuer Trustees and the Securities Registrar shall be bound by any notice to the contrary. 

Section 5.8. Access to List of Holders’ Names and Addresses. 

Each of the Sponsor and any one of the Administrative Trustees will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Property Trustee: 

(i) quarterly, not more than 15 days after each regular record date in each year, a list, in such form as the Property
Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Trust Securities as of such regular record date, and 
 (ii) at such other times as the Property Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees of any such request, a list of similar form and
content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished, 
 excluding from any such list names and addresses
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 The Property Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the
names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Property Trustee as provided in this Section 5.8 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Property Trustee at any time that is acting as Securities
Registrar. The Property Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in this Section 5.8 upon receipt of a new list so furnished. 
 Each Holder and each Owner shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold the Sponsor, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar accountable by reason
of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived. 

Section 5.9. Maintenance of Office or Agency. 
 The Property Trustee shall designate, with the consent of the Administrative Trustees, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, an office or offices or agency or agencies where Preferred
Securities Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities Certificates may be served. The Administrative Trustees initially
designate the Property Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, as its office and agency for such purposes. The Property Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Sponsor, the Administrative Trustees and to
the Holders of any change in the location of the Securities Register or any such office or agency. 
 Section 5.10.
Appointment of Paying Agent. 
 The Paying Agent shall make Distributions to Holders from the Payment Account and shall
report the amounts of such Distributions to the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account solely for the purpose of making the Distributions referred
to above. The Administrative Trustees may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent in their sole discretion. The Paying Agent shall initially be Wilmington Trust Company. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as Paying
Agent upon 30 days’ written notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee. If Wilmington Trust Company shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign or its authority to act be revoked, the
Administrative Trustees shall appoint a successor (which shall be a bank or trust company) to act as Paying Agent. Such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Administrative Trustees shall execute and deliver to the
Issuer Trustees an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Issuer Trustees that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it
for payment to the Holders in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Holders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Property Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such
Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The provisions of Sections 8.1 (other than (c), (d), (e)(i), (e)(iii) and (e)(vii) thereof), 8.3 (except (g) and (j) thereof) and 8.6 herein shall apply to
Wilmington Trust Company also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as Wilmington Trust Company shall act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Amended Declaration to
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 Section 5.11. Ownership of Common Securities by Sponsor. 

At the Time of Delivery, the Sponsor shall acquire, and thereafter shall retain, beneficial and record ownership of the Common
Securities. The Sponsor may not transfer the Common Securities except (i) in connection with a consolidation or merger of the Sponsor into another Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Sponsor of its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, or (ii) to an Affiliate of the Sponsor in compliance with applicable law (including the Securities Act and applicable state securities and blue sky laws). To the fullest extent permitted by law, any
attempted transfer of the Common Securities other than as set forth in the next proceeding sentence shall be void. The Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Sponsor to contain a legend stating
substantially “THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST.” 
 Section 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency. 
 To the extent that a
notice or other communication to the Holders is required under this Amended Declaration, for so long as Preferred Securities are represented by a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate, the Administrative Trustees shall give all such notices
and communications specified herein to be given to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligations to the Owners. 

Section 5.13. Rights of Holders; Waivers of Past Defaults. 

(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) in
accordance with Section 2.9, and the Holders shall not have any right or title therein other than the undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust conferred by their Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for
any partition or division of property, profits or rights of the Issuer Trust except as described below. The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving only the rights specifically set forth therein and in this Amended Declaration. The Trust
Securities shall have no preemptive or similar rights and when issued and delivered to Holders against payment of the purchase price therefor will be fully paid and nonassessable by the Issuer Trust. The Holders of the Trust Securities, in their
capacities as such, shall be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. 

(b) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the
terms of this Amended Declaration, any Holder of Preferred Securities shall have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Sponsor for enforcement of payment to such Holder of any amounts payable in respect of Series • Preferred
Shares having an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities of such Holder (a “Direct Action”). Except as set forth in this Section 5.13(b), the Holders of Preferred
Securities shall have no right to exercise directly any right or remedy available to the holders of, or in respect of, the Series • Preferred Shares. 

  
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 ARTICLE VI 
 ACTS OF HOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING 
 Section 6.1. Limitations on Voting Rights. 
 (a)
Except as expressly provided in this Amended Declaration and as otherwise required by law, no Holder of Preferred Securities shall have any right to vote or in any manner otherwise control the administration, operation and management of the Issuer
Trust or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth, or contained in the terms of the Trust Securities Certificates, be construed so as to constitute the Holders from time to time as partners or members of an
association. 
 (b) So long as any Series • Preferred Shares are held by the Property Trustee on behalf of
the Issuer Trust, the other Issuer Trustees shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Property Trustee, or execute any trust or power conferred on the Property Trustee with
respect to the Series • Preferred Shares, or (ii) consent to any amendment, modification or termination of the Series • Preferred Shares, where such consent shall be required, without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, provided, however, that where a consent would require the consent of each Holder of Series • Preferred Shares affected thereby, no such consent shall be
given by the Property Trustee without the prior written consent of each Holder of Preferred Securities. The Issuer Trustees shall not revoke any action previously authorized or approved by a vote of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, except by
a subsequent vote of the Holders of the Preferred Securities. The Property Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Preferred Securities of any notice of default received with respect to the Series • Preferred Shares. In addition to obtaining
the foregoing approvals of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Issuer Trustees shall, at the expense of the Sponsor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that
such action shall not cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as other than a grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes. 
 (c) If any proposed amendment to the Amended Declaration provides for, or the Issuer Trustees otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that would adversely affect in any material respect the
powers, preferences or special rights of the Preferred Securities, whether by way of amendment to this Amended Declaration or otherwise, or (ii) the dissolution of the Issuer Trust, other than pursuant to the terms of this Amended Declaration,
then the Holders of Outstanding Preferred Securities as a class will be entitled to vote on such amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective except with the approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Amended Declaration, no amendment to this Amended Declaration may be made if, as a result of such amendment, it would cause the Issuer Trust to be classified
as other than a grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes. 
 Section 6.2. Notice of Meetings. 

Notice of all meetings of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, stating the time, place and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by
the Administrative Trustees or, at the written request of the Administrative Trustees, by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 10.8 to each Holder of Preferred Securities, at such Holder’s registered address, at least 15 days and not
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meeting. At any such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be so considered whether or not stated in the notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned
without further notice. 
 Section 6.3. Meetings of Holders of the Preferred Securities. 

No annual meeting of Holders is required to be held. The Administrative Trustees, however, shall call a meeting of the Holders of the
Preferred Securities to vote on any matter upon the written request of the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities and the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee may, at any time in
their discretion, call a meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities to vote on any matters as to which such Holders are entitled to vote. 
 The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.

 If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the Holders present, in person or by proxy, holding Preferred
Securities representing at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities held by the Holders present, either in person or by proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the action of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, unless
this Amended Declaration requires a greater number of affirmative votes. 
 Section 6.4. Voting Rights. 

Holders shall be entitled to one vote for each $• of Liquidation Amount represented by their Outstanding Trust Securities in respect
of any matter as to which such Holders are entitled to vote. 
 Section 6.5. Proxies, etc. 

At any meeting of Holders, any Holder entitled to vote thereat may vote by proxy, provided that no proxy shall be voted at any
meeting unless it shall have been placed on file with the Administrative Trustees, or with such other officer or agent of the Issuer Trust as the Administrative Trustees may direct, for verification prior to the time at which such vote shall be
taken. Pursuant to a resolution of the Property Trustee, proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property Trustee or one or more officers of the Property Trustee. Only Holders of record shall be entitled to vote. When Trust Securities are held
jointly by several persons, any one of them may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such Trust Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their
proxies so present disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received in respect of such Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a Holder shall be deemed valid unless challenged at or prior to its
exercise, and the burden of proving invalidity shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than three years after its date of execution. 
 Section 6.6. Holder Action by Written Consent. 
 Any action that may
be taken by Holders at a meeting may be taken without a meeting and without prior notice if Holders holding at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of all Preferred Securities entitled to vote in respect of such action (or such larger proportion
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 Section 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes. 

For the purposes of determining the Holders who are entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting or by written consent, or to
participate in any distribution on the Trust Securities in respect of which a record date is not otherwise provided for in this Amended Declaration, or for the purpose of any other action, the Administrative Trustees or Property Trustee may from
time to time fix a date, not more than 90 days prior to the date of any meeting of Holders or the payment of a distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the determination of the identity of the Holders of record for such
purposes. 
 Section 6.8. Acts of Holders. 
 Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Amended Declaration to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in and
evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, such action shall become effective when such
instrument or instruments are delivered to an Administrative Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such
instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Amended Declaration and (subject to Section 8.1) conclusive in favor of the Issuer
Trustees, if made in the manner provided in this Section. 
 The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or
writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date
of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner that any Issuer Trustee receiving the same deems sufficient. 

The ownership of Trust Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register. 

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Trust Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Trust Security and the Holder of every Trust Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Issuer
Trustees or the Issuer Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security. 

Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Trust Security may
do so with regard to all or any part of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such Liquidation Amount. 

If any dispute shall arise among the Holders or the Issuer Trustees with respect to the authenticity, validity or binding nature of any
request, demand, authorization, direction, consent, waiver or other Act of such Holder or Issuer Trustee under this Article VI, then the determination of such matter by the Property Trustee shall be conclusive with respect to such matter.

  
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 Section 6.9. Inspection of Records. 

Upon reasonable notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee, the records of the Issuer Trust shall be open to
inspection by Holders during normal business hours for any purpose reasonably related to such Holder’s interest as a Holder. 
 ARTICLE VII 
 REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES 
 Section 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware
Trustee. 
 The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, each severally on behalf of and as to itself, hereby represents
and warrants for the benefit of the Sponsor and the Holders that: 
 (a) the Property Trustee is a national
banking association, duly organized, validly existing under the laws of the United States or any state thereof, and is a U.S. Person; 
 (b) the Property Trustee has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Amended Declaration and has taken all necessary action to authorize
the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Amended Declaration; 
 (c) the Delaware Trustee is a
national banking association, duly organized, validly existing under the laws of the United States or any state thereof, and is a U.S. Person; 
 (d) the Delaware Trustee has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Amended Declaration and has taken all necessary action to authorize
the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Amended Declaration; 
 (e) this Amended Declaration has
been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and constitutes the valid and legally binding agreement of each of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee enforceable against each of them in
accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; 

(f) the execution, delivery and performance of this Amended Declaration have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate or other action on the part of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and do not require any approval of stockholders of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee and such execution, delivery and performance will not
(i) violate the Articles of Association or By-laws of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, (ii) violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or
imposition of, any Lien on any properties included in the Trust Property pursuant to the provisions of, any indenture, mortgage, credit agreement, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee is a
party or by which it is bound, or (iii) violate any law, governmental rule or regulation of the United States of America governing the banking, trust or general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (as appropriate in context)
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 (g) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the Property Trustee
or the Delaware Trustee of this Amended Declaration nor the consummation of any of the transactions by the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (as appropriate in context) contemplated herein requires the consent or approval of, the giving of
notice to, the registration with or the taking of any other action with respect to any governmental authority or agency under any existing law of the United States of America governing the banking, trust or general powers of the Property Trustee or
the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be; and 
 (h) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of each of
the Property Trustee’s and the Delaware Trustee’s knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee in any court or before any governmental authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal that,
individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect the Issuer Trust or would question the right, power and authority of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, to enter into or perform its obligations
as one of the Issuer Trustees under this Amended Declaration. 
 Section 7.2. Representations and Warranties of
Sponsor. 
 The Sponsor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Holders that: 

(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued at the Time of Delivery on behalf of the Issuer Trust have been duly
authorized and will have been duly and validly executed, issued and delivered by the Issuer Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions of, and in accordance with the requirements of, this Amended Declaration and the Holders will be, as of each
such date, entitled to the benefits of this Amended Declaration; and 
 (b) there are no taxes, fees or other
governmental charges payable by the Issuer Trust (or the Issuer Trustees on behalf of the Issuer Trust) under the laws of the State of Delaware or any political subdivision thereof in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the
Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, of this Amended Declaration. 
 ARTICLE VIII 

THE ISSUER TRUSTEES 
 Section 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. 
 (a) The duties and
responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees shall be as provided by this Amended Declaration. Notwithstanding the foregoing, but subject to Section 8.1(c), no provision of this Amended Declaration shall require any of the Issuer Trustees to expend
or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it or they shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such
funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Amended Declaration relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording
protection to the Issuer Trustees shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 8.1. Nothing in this Amended Declaration shall be construed to release an Administrative Trustee from liability for his or her own negligent action, his or her
own negligent failure to act, or his or her own willful misconduct. To the extent that, at law or in equity, an Issuer Trustee has duties and liabilities relating to the Issuer Trust or to the Holders, such 

  
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 Issuer Trustee shall not be liable to the Issuer Trust or to any Holder for
such Issuer Trustee’s good faith reliance on the provisions of this Amended Declaration. The provisions of this Amended Declaration, to the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees otherwise existing at law or
in equity, are agreed by the Sponsor and the Holders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees. 
 (b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in respect of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property and only to the extent that
there shall be sufficient revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Each Holder, by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it will look
solely to the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally available for distribution to it as herein provided and that the Issuer Trustees are not personally liable to it for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust
Security or for any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This Section 8.1(b) does not limit the liability of the Issuer Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in this Amended Declaration. 

(c) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall enforce this Amended Declaration and
the Transaction Agreements for the benefit of the Holders. 
 (d) The Property Trustee, before the occurrence of
any Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Amended Declaration (including pursuant to Section 10.10), and no
implied covenants shall be read into this Amended Declaration against the Property Trustee. If an Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 5.13), the Property Trustee shall exercise such of the rights
and powers vested in it by this Amended Declaration, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs. 

(e) No provision of this Amended Declaration shall be construed to relieve the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee
from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that: 
 (i) 
 (A) the duties and obligations of the Property Trustee shall
be determined solely by the express provisions of this Amended Declaration (including pursuant to Section 10.10), and the Property Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set
forth in this Amended Declaration (including pursuant to Section 10.10); and 
 (B) in the absence of bad
faith on the part of the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Property Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Amended Declaration; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall be under a
duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform on their face to the requirements of this Amended Declaration; 

  
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 (ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made
in good faith by an Authorized Officer of the Property Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Property Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; 

(iii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith
in accordance with the direction of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Property Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Amended Declaration; 
 (iv) the
Property Trustee’s sole duty with respect to the custody, safe keeping and physical preservation of the Series • Preferred Shares and the Payment Account shall be to deal with such property in a similar manner as the Property Trustee deals
with similar property for its own account, subject to the protections and limitations on liability afforded to the Property Trustee under this Amended Declaration and the Trust Indenture Act; 

(v) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any money received by it except as it may otherwise agree
with the Sponsor; and money held by the Property Trustee need not be segregated from other funds held by it except in relation to the Payment Account maintained by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1 and except to the extent otherwise
required by law; 
 (vi) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the
Administrative Trustees, the Sponsor or any other Person with their respective duties under this Amended Declaration, nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Issuer Trustee, or the Sponsor or any other
Person; and 
 (vii) subject to Section 8.1(c), no provision of this Amended Declaration shall require the
Property Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the Property Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that the repayment of such funds or liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Amended Declaration or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. 

(f) The Administrative Trustees shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the other Issuer Trustees or the
Sponsor with their respective duties under this Amended Declaration, nor shall any Administrative Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Administrative Trustee, the other Issuer Trustees or the Sponsor. 

Section 8.2. Reserved. 
 Section 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee. 
 Subject to the
provisions of Section 8.1: 
 (a) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel, certificate, written representation of a Holder or transferee, certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
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 other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the proper party or parties; 
 (b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Amended Declaration the
Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action, (ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Amended Declaration the Property Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with any other provisions contained
herein, or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the application of any provision of this Amended Declaration, then, except as to any matter as to which the Holders of the Preferred Securities are entitled to vote under the terms of this
Amended Declaration, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice to the Sponsor requesting the Sponsor’s opinion as to the course of action to be taken, and the Property Trustee shall be fully protected in taking such action, or refraining from
taking such action, as the Property Trustee shall be instructed in writing to take, or to refrain from taking, by the Sponsor; provided, however, that if the Property Trustee does not receive such instructions of the Sponsor within ten
Business Days after it has delivered such notice, or such reasonably shorter period of time set forth in such notice (which to the extent practicable shall not be less than two Business Days), it may take or refrain from taking such action not
inconsistent with this Amended Declaration as it shall deem advisable and in the best interests of the Holders, in which event the Property Trustee shall have no liability except for its own bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct; 

(c) any direction or act of the Sponsor contemplated by this Amended Declaration shall be sufficiently evidenced by an
Officers’ Certificate; 
 (d) any direction or act of an Administrative Trustee contemplated by this Amended
Declaration shall be sufficiently evidenced by a certificate executed by such Administrative Trustee and setting forth such direction or act; 
 (e) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording, filing or registration of any instrument (including any financing or continuation statement or any filing under tax or securities laws)
or any rerecording, refiling or re-registration thereof; 
 (f) the Property Trustee may (at the expense of the
Sponsor) consult with counsel of its own selection (which counsel may be counsel to the Sponsor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees) and the advice of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and in accordance with such advice; the Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of
this Amended Declaration from any court of competent jurisdiction; 
 (g) the Property Trustee shall be under no
obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Amended Declaration at the request or direction of any of the Holders or the Sponsor pursuant to this Amended Declaration, unless such Holders or Sponsor shall have offered to
the Property Trustee reasonable security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction; 

(h) the Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so by one or more Holders, but the
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make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit at the expense of the Sponsor and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or
investigation; 
 (i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any
duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys, provided that the Property Trustee shall be responsible for its own negligence or willful misconduct with respect to selection of any agent or attorney appointed by it
hereunder and shall not be liable for any act or omission of such agent or attorney selected with due care or for monitoring the actions of such agent or attorney; 

(j) whenever in the administration of this Amended Declaration the Property Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive
instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Property Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders (which instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same proportion in
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the Property Trustee under the terms of the Trust Securities in respect of such remedy, right or action), (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking
such other action until such instructions are received, and (iii) shall be protected in acting in accordance with such instructions; and 
 (k) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Amended Declaration, the Property Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any action that is discretionary under the provisions of this Amended
Declaration. 
 No provision of this Amended Declaration shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on any Issuer Trustee
to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which such Person shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law,
to perform any such act or acts, or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority available to any Issuer Trustee shall be construed to be a duty. 

Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Amended Declaration relating to the conduct or affecting the
liability of or affording protection to the Property Trustee shall extend to each of the Security Registrar, the Paying Agent and the Delaware Trustee and shall be subject to the provisions of this Article VIII. 

Section 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities. 

The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer Trust and the
Sponsor, and the Issuer Trustees do not assume any responsibility for their correctness. The Issuer Trustees shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Sponsor of the proceeds of the Series • Preferred Shares. 

The Property Trustee may conclusively assume that any funds held by it hereunder are legally available unless an officer of the Property
Trustee assigned to its institutional trust services department shall have actual knowledge that such funds are not legally available. 
 Section 8.5. May Hold Securities. 
 Any Issuer Trustee or any
other agent of any Issuer Trustee or the Issuer Trust, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Securities and, subject to Sections 8.8 and 

  
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 8.13, and except as provided in the definition of the term “Outstanding” in Article I, may
otherwise deal with the Issuer Trust with the same rights it would have if it were not an Issuer Trustee or such other agent. 

Section 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees. 
 The Sponsor agrees: 
 (a) to pay to the Issuer Trustees from time
to time such reasonable compensation for all services rendered by them hereunder as may be agreed by the Sponsor and the Issuer Trustees from time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation
of a trustee of an express trust); 
 (b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Issuer
Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Issuer Trustees in accordance with any provision of this Amended Declaration (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of their agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall be determined to have been caused by their own negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct; and 

(c) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify and hold harmless (i) each Issuer Trustee,
(ii) any Affiliate of any Issuer Trustee, (iii) any officer, director, shareholder, employee, representative or agent of any Issuer Trustee, and (iv) any employee or agent of the Issuer Trust (referred to herein as an
“Indemnified Person”) from and against any loss, damage, liability, action, suit, tax, penalty, expense or claim of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of the creation, operation or
dissolution of the Issuer Trust or any act or omission performed or omitted by such Indemnified Person in good faith on behalf of the Issuer Trust and in a manner such Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be within the scope of authority
conferred on such Indemnified Person by this Amended Declaration, except that no Indemnified Person shall be entitled to be indemnified in respect of any loss, damage, or claim incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of negligence, bad faith
or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions. 
 The provisions of this Section 8.6 shall survive the
termination of this Amended Declaration and the removal or resignation of any Issuer Trustee. 
 No Issuer Trustee may claim any
Lien on any Trust Property as a result of any amount due pursuant to this Section 8.6. 
 Notwithstanding any provision of
law or equity, the Sponsor and any Issuer Trustee may engage in or possess an interest in other business ventures of any nature or description, independently or with others, similar or dissimilar to the business of the Issuer Trust, and the Issuer
Trust and the Holders of Trust Securities shall have no rights by virtue of this Amended Declaration in and to such independent ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and the pursuit of any such venture, even if competitive with the
business of the Issuer Trust, shall not be deemed wrongful or improper. Notwithstanding any provision of law or equity, neither the Sponsor nor any Issuer Trustee shall be obligated to present any particular investment or other opportunity to the
Issuer Trust even if such opportunity is of a character that, if presented to the Issuer Trust, could be taken by the Issuer Trust, and the Sponsor and any Issuer Trustee shall have the right to take for its own account (individually or as a

  
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 partner or fiduciary) or to recommend to others any such particular investment or other opportunity.
Notwithstanding any provision of law or equity, any Issuer Trustee may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Sponsor or any Affiliate of the Sponsor, or may act as depositary for, trustee or agent for, or act on any
committee or body of holders of, securities or other obligations of the Sponsor or its Affiliates. 
 Section 8.7.
Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Issuer Trustees. 
 (a) There shall at all times be a
Property Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that is a national or state chartered bank and eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such, has a combined capital and surplus of
at least $50,000,000, and is a U.S. Person. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 8.7 and to
the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Property
Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 8.7, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article VIII. At the time
of appointment, the Property Trustee must have securities rated in one of the three highest rating categories by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization. 

(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. Each
Administrative Trustee shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that entity, and, in either case, shall be a U.S. Person. 

(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee. The Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a natural person who is
at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of Delaware, or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware and that otherwise meets the requirements of applicable Delaware law and that shall act
through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity, and, in either case, shall be a U.S. Person. 
 Section 8.8.
Conflicting Interests. 
 If the Property Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the
Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Amended Declaration. 

Section 8.9. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee. 
 At any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Property may at the time be located, the Holder of Common Securities and the
Administrative Trustees shall have the power to appoint one or more eligible Persons either to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any part of such Trust Property, or to the extent required by law to act as separate
trustee of any such property, in either case with such powers as may be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person or Persons in the capacity aforesaid, any property, title, right or power deemed necessary or desirable,
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 person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the United States, or (ii) a legal entity with
its principal place of business in the United States that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity, and, in either case, shall be a U.S. Person. Should any written instrument from the Sponsor be required by any co-trustee
or separate trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to such co-trustee or separate trustee such property, title, right, or power, any and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by the Sponsor.

 Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to
the following terms, namely: 
 (a) The Trust Securities Certificates shall be executed by one or more
Administrative Trustees, and the Trust Securities Certificates shall be delivered by the Property Trustee, and all rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereunder in respect of the custody of securities, cash and other personal property held by,
or required to be deposited or pledged with, the Property Trustee specified hereunder shall be exercised solely by the Property Trustee and not by such co-trustee or separate trustee. 

(b) The rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereby conferred or imposed upon the Property Trustee in respect of any
property covered by such appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Property Trustee or by the Property Trustee and such co-trustee or separate trustee jointly, as shall be provided in the instrument appointing
such co-trustee or separate trustee, except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be performed, the Property Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act, in which event such
rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be exercised and performed by such co-trustee or separate trustee. 

(c) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing executed by it, with the written concurrence of the
Sponsor, may accept the resignation of or remove any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed under this Section. Upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Sponsor shall join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery and
performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to effectuate such resignation or removal. A successor to any co-trustee or separate trustee so resigning or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this Section.

 (d) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of
the Property Trustee or any other trustee hereunder. 
 (e) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of
any act of a co-trustee or separate trustee. 
 (f) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee shall be
deemed to have been delivered to each such co-trustee and separate trustee. 
 Section 8.10. Resignation and Removal;
Appointment of Successor. 
 No resignation or removal of any Issuer Trustee (the “Relevant Trustee”) and
no appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Issuer Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. 

  
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 Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant Trustee may resign at any time
by giving written notice thereof to the Holders and by appointing a successor Relevant Trustee. The Relevant Trustee shall appoint a successor by requesting from at least three Persons meeting the eligibility requirements its expenses and charges to
serve as the Relevant Trustee on a form provided by the Administrative Trustees, and selecting the Person who agrees to the lowest expenses and charges. If the instrument of acceptance by the successor Issuer Trustee required by Section 8.11
shall not have been delivered to the Relevant Trustee within 60 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Sponsor, in the case of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee. 
 The Administrative Trustees, or any of
them, may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of Common Securities delivered to the Relevant Trustee. 
 The Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed by Act of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its individual capacity and, in the case of the
Property Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust) for cause. The Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of the Common Securities. 

If a resigning Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee shall fail to appoint a successor, or if the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee
shall be removed or become incapable of acting as Issuer Trustee, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee for any cause, the Holders of the Common Securities by Act of such Holders delivered to the
Relevant Trustee or the Holders of the Preferred Securities, by Act of the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities then Outstanding delivered to such Relevant Trustee, may appoint a successor Relevant
Trustee or Issuer Trustees, and such successor Issuer Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If no successor Relevant Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Holders of the Common Securities or Preferred
Securities, as the case may be, and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.11, any Holder, on behalf of such Holder and all others similarly situated, or any other Issuer Trustee, may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee. 
 The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation
and each removal of an Issuer Trustee and each appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee to all Holders in the manner provided in Section 10.8 and shall give notice to the Sponsor and to the Administrative Trustees. Each notice shall include
the name of the successor Relevant Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office if it is the Property Trustee. 

Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Amended Declaration, if any Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or
becomes, in the opinion of the Holders of the Common Securities, incompetent or incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may be filled by the Property Trustee following the procedures regarding expenses and
charges set forth above (with the successor being a Person who satisfies the eligibility requirement for the Delaware Trustee set forth in Section 8.7). 
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 Section 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. 

In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant Trustee, the retiring Relevant Trustee (if requested by the Sponsor) and
each successor Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall execute and deliver an amendment hereto wherein each successor Relevant Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (a) shall contain such provisions as shall be
necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Relevant Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust, and
(b) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Amended Declaration as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the Issuer Trust by more than one Relevant Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or
in such amendment shall constitute such Relevant Trustees co-trustees and upon the execution and delivery of such amendment the resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each
such successor Relevant Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee, other than the filing of an amendment to the Certificate of Trust to
the extent required under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act; but, on request of the Issuer Trust or any successor Relevant Trustee such retiring Relevant Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Relevant Trustee all Trust
Property, all proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Relevant Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust. 
 Upon request of any such successor Relevant Trustee, the Issuer Trust shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Relevant Trustee all
such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the preceding paragraph. 
 No successor Relevant Trustee shall accept its
appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Relevant Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article VIII. 
 Section 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business. 
 Any Person into which the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee or any Administrative Trustee that is not a natural Person may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be a party, or any Person, succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of such
Relevant Trustee hereunder, provided that such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VIII, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, other than the
filing of an amendment to the Certificate of Trust to the extent required under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act. 

Section 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Sponsor or Issuer Trust. 

If and when the Property Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Sponsor or the Issuer Trust (or any other obligor upon the
Preferred Securities), the Property Trustee shall act in accordance with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Sponsor or the Issuer Trust (or any such other obligor). 

Section 8.14. Property Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. 

In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other similar
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obligor upon the Trust Securities or the property of the Issuer Trust or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions on the Trust
Securities shall then be due and payable and irrespective of whether the Property Trustee shall have made any demand on the Issuer Trust for the payment of any past due Distributions) shall be entitled and empowered, to the fullest extent permitted
by law, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise: 
 (a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
any Distributions owing and unpaid in respect of the Trust Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Property Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and 
 (b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; 
 and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Property
Trustee and, in the event the Property Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Property Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Property Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Property Trustee. 
 Nothing herein contained shall be
deemed to authorize the Property Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement adjustment or compensation affecting the Trust Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or
to authorize the Property Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding. 
 Section 8.15.
Reports by Property Trustee. 
 (a) Within 60 days after • 15 of each year commencing with •
15, 20•, the Property Trustee shall transmit to all Holders in accordance with Section 10.8, and to the Sponsor, a brief report dated as of the immediately preceding • 15 with respect to: 

(i) its eligibility under Section 8.7 or, in lieu thereof, if to the best of its knowledge it has continued to be
eligible under said Section, a written statement to such effect; 
 (ii) a statement that the Property Trustee
has complied with all of its obligations under this Amended Declaration during the twelve-month period (or, in the case of the initial report, the period since the Closing Date) ending with such • 15 or, if the Property Trustee has not complied
in any material respect with such obligations, a description of such noncompliance; and 
 (iii) any change in
the property and funds in its possession as Property Trustee since the date of its last report and any action taken by the Property Trustee in the performance of its duties hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its opinion
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 (b) In addition, the Property Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports
concerning the Property Trustee and its actions under this Amended Declaration as would be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto. 

(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by or on behalf of the
Property Trustee with each national stock exchange or interdealer quotation system or self-regulatory organization upon which the Preferred Securities are listed or quoted, if any, and with the Commission, the Sponsor and the relevant stock exchange
or self-regulatory organization. 
 Section 8.16. Reports to the Property Trustee. 

Each of the Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees shall provide to the Property Trustee such documents, reports and information as
would be required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act (if any) and the compliance certificate as would be required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314
of the Trust Indenture Act. The Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees shall annually file with the Property Trustee a certificate specifying whether such Person is in compliance with all of the terms and covenants applicable to such Person
hereunder. 
 Section 8.17. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent. 

Each of the Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees shall provide to the Property Trustee such evidence of compliance with any conditions
precedent, if any, provided for in this Amended Declaration that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion that would be required to be given by an officer pursuant to
Section 314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate. 

Section 8.18. Number of Issuer Trustees. 

(a) The number of Issuer Trustees shall be four, unless the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee is the same Person,
in which case the number of Issuer Trustees shall be three. 
 (b) If an Issuer Trustee ceases to hold office for
any reason, a vacancy shall occur. The vacancy shall be filled with an Issuer Trustee appointed in accordance with Section 8.10. 
 (c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy, incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of an Issuer Trustee shall not operate to annul, dissolve or terminate the Issuer Trust.

 Section 8.19. Delegation of Power. 

(a) Any Administrative Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent with applicable law, delegate to any other natural
person over the age of 21 (provided that such person is a U.S. Person) his or her power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in Section 2.7(a), including any registration statement or amendment thereto filed with the
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 (b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to delegate from time to
time to such of their number or to the Sponsor (provided that, in either case, such person is a U.S. Person) the doing of such things and the execution of such instruments either in the name of the Issuer Trust or the names of the Administrative
Trustees or otherwise as the Administrative Trustees may deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is not prohibited by applicable law or contrary to the provisions of this Amended Declaration. 

ARTICLE IX 

TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER 

Section 9.1. Reserved. 
 Section 9.2. Termination. 
 The first to occur of any of the following
events is a “Termination Event”, upon the occurrence of which the Issuer Trust shall dissolve: 
 (a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the dissolution or liquidation of, the Sponsor, in its capacity as the Holder of the Common Securities, unless the Common Securities shall be
transferred as provided by Section 5.11, in which case this provision shall refer instead to any such successor Holder of the Common Securities; 
 (b) the written direction to the Property Trustee from all of the Holders of the Common Securities at any time to dissolve the Issuer Trust and to distribute the Series • Preferred Shares to Holders
in exchange for the Preferred Securities (which direction is optional and wholly within the discretion of the Holders of the Common Securities); 
 (c) the redemption of all of the Preferred Securities in accordance with the provisions of this Amended Declaration; and 

(d) the entry of an order for dissolution of the Sponsor or the Issuer Trust by a court of competent jurisdiction.

 If a Termination Event occurs, Section 9.4 shall apply. 

Section 9.3. Termination of Obligations. 
 The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees and the Issuer Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the latest to occur of the following: (a) the
distribution by the Property Trustee to Holders of all amounts required to be distributed hereunder upon the liquidation of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to
Section 4.2; (b) the payment of any expenses owed by the Issuer Trust; and (c) the discharge of all administrative duties of the Administrative Trustees, including the performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the
Issuer Trust or the Holders. 
 Section 9.4. Liquidation. 

(a) If a Termination Event specified in clause (a), (b) or (d) of Section 9.2 occurs, the Issuer Trust
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possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, including Section 3808(e) of the Act to each Holder a Like Amount
of Series • Preferred Shares, subject to Section 9.4(d). Notice of liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each
Holder of Trust Securities at such Holder’s address appearing in the Securities Register. All such notices of liquidation shall: 
 (i) state the CUSIP number of the Trust Securities; 
 (ii) state
the Liquidation Date; 
 (iii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust Securities will no
longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any Trust Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Series • Preferred Shares, or if Section 9.4(d) applies, a right to receive a Liquidation
Distribution; and 
 (iv) provide such information with respect to the procedures by which Holders may exchange
Trust Securities Certificates for Series • Preferred Shares, or if Section 9.4(d) applies receive a Liquidation Distribution, as the Administrative Trustees shall deem appropriate. 

(b) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect the liquidation of the Issuer Trust and
distribution of the Series • Preferred Shares to Holders, the Property Trustee, either itself acting as exchange agent or through the appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall establish a record date for such distribution (which shall be
not more than 30 days prior to the Liquidation Date) and, establish such procedures as it shall deem appropriate to effect the distribution of Series • Preferred Shares in exchange for the Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates. 

(c) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after the Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no
longer be deemed to be Outstanding, (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of Series • Preferred Shares will be issued to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates, upon surrender of such certificates to the exchange agent for
exchange, (iii) any Trust Securities Certificates not so surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Series • Preferred Shares bearing accrued and unpaid dividends in an amount equal to the accumulated and unpaid
Distributions on such Trust Securities Certificates until such certificates are so surrendered (and until such certificates are so surrendered, no payments of dividends or other Distributions will be made to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates
with respect to such Series • Preferred Shares) and (iv) all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive Series • Preferred Shares upon surrender of Trust Securities Certificates.

 (d) If, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 9.4, whether because of an order for
dissolution entered by a court of competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the Series • Preferred Shares in the manner provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees not to be possible, or if a
Termination Event specified in clause (c) of Section 9.2 occurs, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Issuer Trust’s affairs shall be wound up by the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees in such manner as the
Administrative Trustees determine. In such event, upon the winding-up of the Issuer Trust except with respect to a Termination Event specified in clause (b) of Section 9.2, Holders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the
Issuer Trust available for distribution to Holders, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the 

  
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Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount being the “Liquidation Distribution”). If, upon any
such winding up, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because the Issuer Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the amounts
payable by the Issuer Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). The Holders of the Common Securities will be entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such dissolution
pro rata (determined as aforesaid) with Holders of Preferred Securities, except that the Preferred Securities shall have a priority over the Common Securities under the circumstances provided in Section 4.3. 

Section 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of Issuer Trust. 

The Issuer Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and
assets substantially as an entirety to any corporation or other body, except pursuant to this Section 9.5 or Section 9.4. At the request of the Holders of the Common Securities, with the consent of the Administrative Trustees, the Issuer
Trust may merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such under the laws of any state; provided that (i) such
successor entity either (a) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Issuer Trust with respect to the Preferred Securities, or (b) substitutes for the Preferred Securities other securities having substantially the same terms as the
Preferred Securities (the “Successor Securities”) so long as the Successor Securities have the same priority as the Preferred Securities with respect to distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise,
(ii) a trustee of such successor entity possessing the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee is appointed to hold the Series • Preferred Shares, (iii) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance,
transfer or lease does not cause the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) to be downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization which assigns ratings to the Preferred Securities, (iv) such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect,
(v) such successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the Issuer Trust, (vi) prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Sponsor has received an Opinion of Counsel
to the effect that (a) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor
Securities) in any material respect, and (b) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Issuer Trust nor such successor entity will be required to register as an “investment
company” under the Investment Company Act, and (vii) the Sponsor or its permitted transferee owns all of the common securities of such successor entity and guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the Successor Securities
at least to the extent provided by the Guarantee Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuer Trust shall not, except with the consent of Holders of all of the Preferred Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced
by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any other entity or permit any other entity to consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it if such consolidation, amalgamation, merger,
replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would cause the Issuer Trust or the successor entity to be classified as other than a grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes. 

  
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 ARTICLE X 
 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
 Section 10.1.
Limitation of Rights of Holders. 
 Except as set forth in Section 9.2, the death, termination, dissolution,
bankruptcy or incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall not operate to terminate this Amended Declaration, nor dissolve, terminate or annul the Issuer Trust, nor entitle the legal
representatives, successors or heirs of such Person or any Holder for such person, to claim an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of the arrangements contemplated hereby, nor otherwise
affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them. 
 All parties to this Amended Declaration
agree, and each Holder of any Trust Securities by his or her acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit against any Issuer Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Issuer
Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such
suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any suit instituted by any Issuer Trustee or to any suit instituted by any Holder or
group of Holders of more than 10% in aggregate number of the outstanding Trust Securities. 
 Section 10.2.
Amendment. 
 (a) This Amended Declaration may be amended from time to time by the Administrative
Trustees and the Holders of all of the Common Securities, without the consent of any Holder of the Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (i) to cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein that may
be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Amended Declaration, which shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this Amended Declaration,
(ii) modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be classified as other than a grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes at all times
that any Trust Securities are outstanding, to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act or to ensure the treatment of the Preferred Securities as Tier 1
regulatory capital under the prevailing Federal Reserve Board rules and regulations, (iii) to require that Holders that are not U.S. persons for U.S. federal income tax purposes irrevocably appoint a U.S. person to exercise any voting rights to
ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be treated as a foreign trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes, or (iv) to conform the terms of this Amended Declaration to the description of this Amended Declaration and the Trust Securities in the
Prospectus; provided, however, that in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), such action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holder, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or impose any
additional duty or obligation on the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee; provided, further, that in the case of clause (iv), the Sponsor shall deliver to the Property Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel (who may be counsel to the Sponsor or the Issuer Trust), in each case confirming that such amendment has the effect of conforming the terms of this Amended Declaration to the descriptions of this Amended Declaration and the Trust Securities
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become effective when notice is given to the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Holders of the Preferred Securities. 

(b) Except as provided in Section 10.2(c), any provision of this Amended Declaration may be amended by the
Administrative Trustees and the Holders of all of the Common Securities with the consent of Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities; provided that the Issuer Trustees have received an Opinion of
Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Issuer Trustees or Administrative Trustees in accordance with such amendment will not cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as other
than a grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes or affect the Issuer Trust’s exemption from status as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act. 

(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this Amended Declaration, without the consent of each
affected Holder, this Amended Declaration may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust
Securities as of a specified date, or (ii) restrict the right of a Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date; and notwithstanding any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of the
Holders, this Section 10.2(c) may not be amended. 
 (d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
Amended Declaration, no Issuer Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Amended Declaration that would cause the Issuer Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the exemption from status as an “investment company” under
the Investment Company Act or to be classified as other than a grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes. In particular, no Issuer Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Amended Declaration that would cause the Issuer
Trust to be classified as other than a grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes. 
 (e) Notwithstanding
anything in this Amended Declaration to the contrary, without the consent of the Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees, this Amended Declaration may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Sponsor or the
Administrative Trustees. 
 (f) Notwithstanding anything in this Amended Declaration to the contrary, without the
consent of the Property Trustee, this Amended Declaration may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Property Trustee or that adversely affects the Property Trustee. 

(g) Notwithstanding anything in this Amended Declaration to the contrary, without the consent of the Delaware Trustee,
this Amended Declaration may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Delaware Trustee or that adversely affects the Delaware Trustee. 

(h) Notwithstanding anything in this Amended Declaration to the contrary, without the consent of the Securities Registrar
and the Paying Agent, this Amended Declaration may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Securities Registrar or the Paying Agent or that adversely affects the Securities Registrar or the Paying Agent. 

  
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 (i) In the event that any amendment to this Amended Declaration is made, the
Administrative Trustees shall promptly provide to the Sponsor, the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee a copy of such amendment. 
 (j) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be required to enter into any amendment to this Amended Declaration that affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Amended
Declaration. The Property Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate stating that any amendment to this Amended Declaration is in compliance with this Amended Declaration. 

Section 10.3. Separability. 
 In case any provision in this Amended Declaration or in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions
shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. 
 Section 10.4. Governing Law. 

THIS AMENDED DECLARATION AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE HOLDERS, THE ISSUER TRUST, THE SPONSOR AND THE ISSUER TRUSTEES
WITH RESPECT TO THIS AMENDED DECLARATION AND THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICTS OF LAWS PROVISIONS. 

Section 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day. 
 If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security shall be a day that is not a Business Day, then such payment need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding day that is a
Business Day, with the same force and effect as though made on the date fixed for such payment, and no Distributions shall accumulate on such unpaid amount for the period after such date. 

Section 10.6. Successors. 
 This Amended Declaration shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of any successor to the Sponsor, the Issuer Trust and any Issuer Trustee, including any successor by operation of law. Except
in connection with a consolidation, merger or sale involving the Sponsor and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the Sponsor’s obligations hereunder, the Sponsor shall not assign its obligations hereunder. 

Section 10.7. Headings. 
 The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction of this Amended Declaration. 
 Section 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands. 
 Any report, notice,
demand or other communication that by any provision of this Amended Declaration is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon any Holder, the Sponsor or the Administrative Trustees may be given or served in writing by deposit thereof,
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 in the United States mail, hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (a) in the
case of a Holder of Preferred Securities, to such Holder as such Holder’s name and address may appear on the Securities Register; and (b) in the case of the Holder of the Common Securities or the Sponsor, to Fifth Third Bancorp, 38
Fountain Square Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio 45263, Attention: Treasurer, or to such other address as may be specified in a written notice by the Sponsor to the Property Trustee. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon a Holder shall be
deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon hand delivery, mailing or transmission. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the Sponsor or the Holder of the Common Securities shall be deemed to have been
sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing by the Sponsor or the Holder of the Common Securities, as the case may be. 
 Any notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this Amended Declaration is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee, the Delaware
Trustee, the Administrative Trustees or the Issuer Trust shall be given in writing addressed to such Person as follows: (a) with respect to the Property Trustee, to Wilmington Trust Company, •, Attention: [Corporate Trust Services
Division]; (b) with respect to the Delaware Trustee, to Wilmington Trust Company, •, Attention: [Corporate Trust Services Division]; (c) with respect to the Administrative Trustees, to them at the address above for notices to the
Sponsor, marked “Attention: Administrative Trustees of Fifth Third Capital Trust •”; and (d) with respect to the Issuer Trust, to its principal office specified in Section 2.2, with a copy to the Property Trustee. Such
notice, demand or other communication to or upon the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing by the Issuer Trust, the Property
Trustee or such Administrative Trustee. 
 Section 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition. 

Each of the Issuer Trustees and the Sponsor agree for the benefit of the Holders that, until at least one year and one day after the
Issuer Trust has been terminated in accordance with Article IX, they shall not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the Issuer Trust under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law (including the United States
Bankruptcy Code) (collectively, “Bankruptcy Laws”) or otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding against the Issuer Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. If the Sponsor takes action in violation of this Section 10.9, the
Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Holders, that at the expense of the Sponsor, it shall file an answer with the bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by the Sponsor against the Issuer Trust or the
commencement of such action and raise the defense that the Sponsor has agreed in writing not to take such action and should be estopped and precluded therefrom and such other defenses, if any, as counsel for the Issuer Trustees or the Issuer Trust
may assert. 
 Section 10.10. Reserved. 
 Section 10.11. Acceptance of Terms of Amended Declaration and Guarantee Agreement. 
 THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY OR ON BEHALF OF A HOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY SIGNATURE OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE
UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE BY THE HOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS AMENDED DECLARATION, THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT, AND AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER
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 AGREEMENT, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT OF THE ISSUER TRUST, SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE
TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS AMENDED DECLARATION SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE AS BETWEEN THE ISSUER TRUST AND SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS. 
 * * * * 
 This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
parties hereto have executed this Amended and Restated Amended Declaration. 
  

			
	 FIFTH THIRD BANCORP, 

as Sponsor

		
	By:	 	 
		 	 Name:

Title:

  

			
	 WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, 

as Property Trustee and Delaware Trustee

		
	By:	 	 
		 	 Name:

Title:

		 	
		 	 Name:
         as Administrative Trustee

		
		 	
		 	 Name:
         as Administrative Trustee

 Exhibit B 
 [FORM OF COMMON SECURITIES CERTIFICATE] 
 THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN
COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST 
  

			
	 Certificate Number
  

                CI-
	  	Number of Common Securities

 Certificate Evidencing Common Securities 

of 
 Fifth Third
Capital Trust • 
 •% Common Securities 
 (liquidation amount $1,000 per Common Security) 
 Fifth Third Capital Trust
•, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Issuer Trust”), hereby certifies that Fifth Third Bancorp (the “Holder”) is the registered owner of • common securities of the Issuer Trust
representing common undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust and designated the •% Common Securities (liquidation amount $• per Common Security) (the “Common Securities”). Except in accordance with
Section 5.11 of the Declaration of Trust (as defined below), the Common Securities are not transferable and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer hereof other than in accordance therewith shall be void. The
designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Common Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Common Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject
to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Issuer Trust, dated as of •, 20•, as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Declaration of Trust”), among Fifth Third Bancorp, as
Sponsor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees named therein, and the holders, from time to time, of undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust
including the designation of the terms of the Common Securities as set forth therein. The Issuer Trust will furnish a copy of the Declaration of Trust to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Issuer Trust at its principal place of
business or registered office. 
 Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Declaration of Trust and is
entitled to the benefits thereunder. 
 Terms used but not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Declaration of
Trust. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one
of the Administrative Trustees of the Issuer Trust has executed this certificate on behalf of the Issuer Trust this [ ]th day of [ ], [ ]. 
  

			
	FIFTH THIRD CAPITAL TRUST •
		
	By:	 	 
		 	Name:
		 	Administrative Trustee

  
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 Exhibit C 
 [FORM OF PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE] 
 THIS PREFERRED SECURITIES
CERTIFICATE IS A BOOK-ENTRY PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE OF A CLEARING AGENCY. THIS PREFERRED SECURITIES
CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE CLEARING AGENCY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE DECLARATION OF TRUST AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED
EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE CLEARING AGENCY TO A NOMINEE OF THE CLEARING AGENCY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE CLEARING AGENCY TO THE CLEARING AGENCY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE CLEARING AGENCY, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE DECLARATION OF
TRUST. 
 UNLESS THIS PREFERRED SECURITY CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FIFTH THIRD CAPITAL TRUST • OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY PREFERRED SECURITY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR
OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO A PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. 

  
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	Certificate Number	 	Number of Preferred Securities            

 CAI- 
 CUSIP NO. 
 Certificate Evidencing Perpetual Preferred Trust Certificates

 of 
 Fifth Third Capital Trust • 
 •% Perpetual Preferred
Trust Certificates 
 (liquidation amount $• per Perpetual Preferred Trust Certificates) 

Fifth Third Capital Trust •, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Issuer Trust”),
hereby certifies that Cede & Co. (the “Holder”) is the registered owner of • Preferred Securities of the Issuer Trust representing an undivided preferred beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust and designated
the Fifth Third Capital Trust • •% Perpetual Preferred Trust Certificates (liquidation amount $• per Preferred Security) (the “Preferred Securities”). The Preferred Securities are transferable on the books and records of the
Issuer Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.5 of the Declaration of Trust (as defined below). The designations, rights,
privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Preferred Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Preferred Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and
provisions of, the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Issuer Trust, dated as of •, 20• as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Declaration of Trust”), among Fifth Third Bancorp, as Sponsor, Wilmington
Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees named therein, and the holders, from time to time of undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust including the
designation of the terms of the Preferred Securities as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by Fifth Third Bancorp, an Ohio corporation, and Wilmington Trust Company, as guarantee
trustee, dated as of •, 20•, as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Guarantee Agreement”), to the extent provided therein. The Issuer Trust will furnish a copy of the Declaration of Trust and the Guarantee Agreement
to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Issuer Trust at its principal place of business or registered office. 

Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Declaration of Trust and is entitled to the benefits thereunder. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one
of the Administrative Trustees of the Issuer Trust has executed this certificate on behalf of the Issuer Trust this ] day of [ ], [ ]. 
  

			
	FIFTH THIRD CAPITAL TRUST •
		
	By:	 	 
		 	Name:
		 	Title: Administrative Trustee

 This is one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Declaration of Trust.

  

			
	 WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,

as Property Trustee

		
	By:	 	 
		 	Name:
		 	Title: Authorized Officer

  
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 ASSIGNMENT 
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Preferred Security to: 

 

	
	(Insert assignee’s social security or tax identification number)
	
	 
	
	
	
	 
	(Insert address and zip code of assignee)

  

			
	and irrevocably appoints	  	 

  
  

agent to transfer this Preferred Securities Certificate on the books of the Issuer Trust. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her.

 Date:
                             

 

			
	Signature:	  	 
		  	(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Preferred Securities Certificate)

 The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan
associations and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to S.E.C. Rule 17Ad-15. 

  
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 Exhibit 4(ee) 

 
  

 
 GUARANTEE AGREEMENT

 by and between 
 FIFTH THIRD BANCORP 
 as Guarantor 

and 
 WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY 
 as Guarantee Trustee 
 relating to 
 FIFTH THIRD CAPITAL TRUST • 

 
  

Dated as of •, 20• 
  

 
  

 
  

 CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE* 

 

			
	 Section of

Trust Indenture Act
 of 1939, as amended
	  	 Section of

Guarantee Agreement

	 310(a)
	  	4.1(a)
	 310(b)
	  	4.1(c), 2.8
	 310(c)
	  	Inapplicable
	 311(a)
	  	2.2(b)
	 311(b)
	  	2.2(b)
	 311(c)
	  	Inapplicable
	 312(a)
	  	2.2(a)
	 312(b)
	  	2.2(b)
	 313
	  	2.3
	 314(a)
	  	2.4
	 314(b)
	  	Inapplicable
	 314(c)
	  	2.5
	 314(d)
	  	Inapplicable
	 314(e)
	  	1.1, 2.5, 3.2
	 314(f)
	  	2.1, 3.2
	 315(a)
	  	3.1(d)
	 315(b)
	  	2.7
	 315(c)
	  	3.1
	 315(d)
	  	3.1(d)
	 316(a)
	  	1.1, 2.6, 5.4
	 316(b)
	  	5.3
	 316(c)
	  	8.2
	 317(a)
	  	Inapplicable
	 317(b)
	  	Inapplicable
	 318(a)
	  	2.1
	 318(b)
	  	2.1
	 318(c)
	  	2.1

  

	*	This Cross-Reference Table does not constitute part of the Guarantee Agreement and shall not affect the interpretation of any of its terms or provisions.

  
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

							
	ARTICLE I	  
	
	DEFINITIONS	  
			
	 Section 1.1.
	 	Definitions	  	 	1	  
	
	ARTICLE II	  
	
	TRUST INDENTURE ACT	  
			
	 Section 2.1.
	 	Trust Indenture Act; Application	  	 	4	  
	 Section 2.2.
	 	List of Holders	  	 	4	  
	 Section 2.3.
	 	Reports by the Guarantee Trustee	  	 	5	  
	 Section 2.4.
	 	Periodic Reports to the Guarantee Trustee	  	 	5	  
	 Section 2.5.
	 	Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent	  	 	5	  
	 Section 2.6.
	 	Events of Default; Waiver	  	 	5	  
	 Section 2.7.
	 	Event of Default; Notice	  	 	5	  
	 Section 2.8.
	 	Conflicting Interests	  	 	6	  
	
	ARTICLE III	  
	
	POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF THE GUARANTEE
TRUSTEE	  
			
	 Section 3.1.
	 	Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee	  	 	6	  
	 Section 3.2.
	 	Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee	  	 	7	  
	 Section 3.3.
	 	Compensation; Indemnity; Fees	  	 	9	  
	
	ARTICLE IV	  
	
	GUARANTEE TRUSTEE	  
			
	 Section 4.1.
	 	Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility	  	 	9	  
	 Section 4.2.
	 	Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Guarantee Trustee	  	 	10	  
	
	ARTICLE V	  
	
	GUARANTEE	  
	 Section 5.1.
	 	Guarantee	  	 	11	  
	 Section 5.2.
	 	Waiver of Notice and Demand	  	 	11	  
	 Section 5.3.
	 	Obligations Not Affected	  	 	11	  
	 Section 5.4.
	 	Rights of Holders	  	 	12	  
	 Section 5.5.
	 	Guarantee of Payment	  	 	12	  
	 Section 5.6.
	 	Subrogation	  	 	12	  
	 Section 5.7.
	 	Independent Obligations	  	 	12	  

							
	ARTICLE VI	  
	
	COVENANTS AND SUBORDINATION	  
			
	 Section 6.1.
	 	Subordination	  	 	13	  
	 Section 6.2.
	 	Pari Passu Guarantees	  	 	13	  
	
	ARTICLE VII	  
	
	TERMINATION	  
			
	 Section 7.1.
	 	Termination	  	 	13	  
	
	ARTICLE VIII	  
	
	MISCELLANEOUS	  
			
	 Section 8.1.
	 	Successors and Assigns	  	 	14	  
	 Section 8.2.
	 	Amendments	  	 	14	  
	 Section 8.3.
	 	Notices	  	 	14	  
	 Section 8.4.
	 	Benefit	  	 	15	  
	 Section 8.5.
	 	Governing Law	  	 	15	  
	 Section 8.6.
	 	Counterparts	  	 	15	  

 GUARANTEE AGREEMENT, dated as of •,
20• between FIFTH THIRD BANCORP, an Ohio corporation (the “Guarantor”), having its principal office at 38 Fountain Square Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio 45263 and
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as trustee (the “Guarantee Trustee”), for the benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) from time to time of the Preferred Securities (as
defined herein) of FIFTH THIRD CAPITAL TRUST •, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuer Trust”). 

RECITALS OF THE GUARANTOR 

WHEREAS, pursuant to an Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated the date hereof (the “Amended
Declaration”), among Fifth Third Bancorp, as Sponsor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein, the Issuer Trust is issuing up to $•
aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of its •% Trust Preferred Securities (liquidation amount $• per Preferred Security) (the “Preferred Securities”), representing preferred undivided
beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust and having the terms set forth in the Amended Declaration; and 

WHEREAS, the Preferred Securities will be issued by the Issuer Trust and the proceeds thereof, together with the proceeds
from the issuance of the Issuer Trust’s Common Securities (as defined herein), will be used to purchase the Debentures (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of the Guarantor, which Debentures will be deposited with Wilmington Trust Company,
as Property Trustee under the Amended Declaration, as trust assets; and 
 WHEREAS, as an incentive for the
Holders to purchase Preferred Securities, the Guarantor desires irrevocably and unconditionally to agree, to the extent set forth herein, to pay to the Holders of the Preferred Securities the Guarantee Payments (as defined herein) and to make
certain other payments on the terms and conditions set forth herein. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the purchase of Preferred Securities by each Holder, which purchase the Guarantor hereby acknowledges shall benefit the Guarantor, the Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the Holders from time
to time. 
 ARTICLE I 
 DEFINITIONS 
 Section 1.1. Definitions. 

For all purposes of this Guarantee Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

 (a) The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as
the singular; 
 (b) All other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act (as defined herein), either
directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein; 
 (c) The words “include”,
“includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the 

 
phrase “without limitation”; 
 (d) All accounting terms not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted
hereunder shall mean such accounting principles that are generally accepted in the United States at the date or time of such computation; provided that when two or more principles are so generally accepted, it shall mean that set of
principles consistent with those in use by the Guarantor; 
 (e) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
“Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Guarantee Agreement; and 
 (f) The words “hereby”, “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Guarantee Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision. 
 “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control”, when used with respect to any specified Person, means the
power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have
meanings correlative to the foregoing. 
 “Amended Declaration” means the Amended and Restated Declaration of
Trust of the Issuer Trust referred to in the recitals to this Guarantee Agreement, as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time. 
 “Authorized Officer” of any Person means any officer of such Person or any person authorized by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors (or equivalent body) of such Person.

 “Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Guarantor or any committee of that board duly
authorized to act hereunder. 
 “Common Securities” means the securities representing common undivided
beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust. 
 “Distributions” has the meaning specified in the
Amended Declaration. 
 “Event of Default” means (i) a default by the Guarantor in any of its payment
obligations under this Guarantee Agreement or (ii) a default by the Guarantor in any other obligation hereunder that remains unremedied for 30 days. 
 “Guarantee Agreement” means this Guarantee Agreement, as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time. 
 “Guarantee Payments” means the following payments or distributions, without duplication, with respect to the Preferred Securities, to the extent not paid or made by or on behalf of the
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 Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand available therefor at such time; (ii) the Redemption Price (as
defined in the Amended Declaration) with respect to any Preferred Securities called for redemption by the Issuer Trust, to the extent the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand available therefor at such time; and (iii) upon a voluntary or
involuntary termination, winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer Trust, unless Debentures are distributed to the Holders, the lesser of (a) the Liquidation Distribution (as defined in the Amended Declaration) with respect to the Preferred
Securities, to the extent that the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand available therefor at such time, and (b) the amount of assets of the Issuer Trust remaining available for distribution to Holders on liquidation of the Issuer Trust.

 “Guarantee Trustee” means Wilmington Trust Company, solely in its capacity as Guarantee Trustee and not in
its individual capacity, until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement, and thereafter means each such Successor Guarantee Trustee. 

“Guarantor” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Guarantee Agreement. 

“Holder” means any Holder (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of any Preferred Securities; provided, however,
that in determining whether the holders of the requisite percentage of Preferred Securities have given any request, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, “Holder” shall not include the Guarantor, the Guarantee Trustee, or any
Affiliate of the Guarantor or the Guarantee Trustee. 
 “Indemnified Person” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.3(c). 
 “Indenture” means the Indenture, dated as of March 20, 1997, between Fifth Third
Bancorp and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee, as the same may be modified, amended or supplemented from time to time, including by the Second Supplemental Indenture thereto. 

“Issuer Trust” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Guarantee Agreement. 

“Liquidation Distribution” has the meaning specified in the Amended Declaration. 

“List of Holders” has the meaning specified in Section 2.2(a). 

“Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities” means, except as provided by the Trust Indenture Act,
Preferred Securities representing more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of all Preferred Securities then Outstanding (as defined in the Amended Declaration). 

“Officers’ Certificate” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by any two Authorized Officers of
such person. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Guarantee Agreement shall include: 
 (a) a statement by each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate that such officer has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto; 

(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken by such officer in rendering the
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 (c) a statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in such
officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and 
 (d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with. 
 “Person” means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, company, limited liability company, trust,
business trust, statutory trust, unincorporated association, or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature. 
 “Preferred Securities” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Guarantee Agreement. 
 “Successor Guarantee Trustee” means a successor Guarantee Trustee possessing the qualifications to act as Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.1. 

“Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this Guarantee Agreement
was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so
amended. 
 ARTICLE II 
 TRUST INDENTURE ACT 

Section 2.1. Trust Indenture Act; Application. 
 (a) This Guarantee Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Guarantee Agreement and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such
provisions. 
 (b) If and to the extent that any provision of this Guarantee Agreement limits, qualifies or conflicts with the
duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act through operation of Section 318(c) thereof, such imposed duties shall control. If any provision of this Guarantee Agreement modifies or excludes any provision of the
Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Guarantee Agreement as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be. 

Section 2.2. List of Holders. 
 (a) The Guarantor shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Guarantee Trustee (i) semiannually, on or before • of each year, a list, in such form as the Guarantee Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Holders (a “List of Holders”) as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the delivery thereof, and (ii) at such other times as the Guarantee Trustee may request in writing, within 30
days after the receipt by the Guarantor of any such request, a List of Holders as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished, in each case to the extent such 

  
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information is in the possession or control of the Guarantor and has not otherwise been received by the Guarantee Trustee in its capacity as such. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the
Guarantor shall not be obligated to provide such List of Holders at any time the List of Holders does not differ from the most recent List of Holders given to the Guarantee Trustee by the Guarantor. The Guarantee Trustee may destroy any List of
Holders previously given to it on receipt of a new List of Holders. 
 (b) The Guarantee Trustee shall comply with the
requirements of Section 311(a), Section 311(b) and Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. 

Section 2.3. Reports by the Guarantee Trustee. 
 Within 60 days after • of each year, commencing •, 20•, the Guarantee Trustee shall provide to the Holders such reports as are required by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, if
any, in the form and in the manner provided by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Guarantee Trustee shall also comply with the requirements of Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act. 

Section 2.4. Periodic Reports to the Guarantee Trustee. 

The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Holders such documents, reports and
information, if any, as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and the compliance certificate required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act, in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the
Trust Indenture Act. 
 Section 2.5. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent. 

The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee such evidence of compliance with such conditions precedent, if any, provided for in
this Guarantee Agreement that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer of the Guarantor pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) may be given in
the form of an Officers’ Certificate. 
 Section 2.6. Events of Default; Waiver. 

The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities may, by vote, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Preferred Securities, waive any past default or Event of Default and its consequences. Upon such waiver, any such default or Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any default or Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been
cured, for every purpose of this Guarantee Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. 

Section 2.7. Event of Default; Notice. 
 (a) The Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of an Event of Default, transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the Holders, notice of any such Event of Default known to the
Guarantee Trustee, unless such Event of Default has been cured before the giving of such notice, provided that, except in the case of a default in the payment of a Guarantee Payment, the Guarantee Trustee shall be protected in withholding
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that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders. 

(b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default unless the Guarantee Trustee shall have received
written notice, or an officer of the Guarantee Trustee charged with the administration of this Guarantee Agreement shall have obtained actual knowledge, of such Event of Default. 

Section 2.8. Conflicting Interests. 
 The Amended Declaration and the Indenture shall be deemed to be specifically described in this Guarantee Agreement for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in Section 310(b)
of the Trust Indenture Act. 
 ARTICLE III 
 POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF THE GUARANTEE TRUSTEE 

Section 3.1. Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee. 

(a) This Guarantee Agreement shall be held by the Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the Holders, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not
transfer this Guarantee Agreement to any Person except to a Successor Guarantee Trustee on acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment to act as Guarantee Trustee hereunder. The right, title and interest of the Guarantee
Trustee, as such, hereunder shall automatically vest in any Successor Guarantee Trustee, upon acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment hereunder, and such vesting of title shall be effective whether or not conveyancing
documents have been executed and delivered pursuant to the appointment of such Successor Guarantee Trustee. 
 (b) If an Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing of which the Guarantee Trustee is deemed to have knowledge pursuant to Section 2.7(b), the Guarantee Trustee shall enforce this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the Holders. 

(c) The Guarantee Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default, and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have
occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Guarantee Agreement, and no implied covenants shall be read into this Guarantee Agreement against the Guarantee Trustee. The Guarantee Trustee shall, during
the existence of any Event of Default of which the Guarantee Trustee is deemed to have knowledge pursuant to Section 2.7(b) and which has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 2.6, exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it
by this Guarantee Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs. 

(d) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Guarantee Trustee from liability for its own negligent
action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that: 
 (i) Prior to the
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such Events of Default that may have occurred: 
 (A) the
duties and obligations of the Guarantee Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Guarantee Agreement (including pursuant to Section 2.1), and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of
such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Guarantee Agreement; and 
 (B) in the absence
of bad faith on the part of the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Guarantee
Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Guarantee Agreement; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof or of the Trust Indenture Act are specifically required to be furnished to the Guarantee
Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Guarantee Agreement. 

(ii) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by an officer of the Guarantee
Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Guarantee Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts upon which such judgment was made. 
 (iii) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a Majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this
Guarantee Agreement. 
 (iv) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall require the Guarantee Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the Guarantee Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that the
repayment of such funds or liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Guarantee Agreement or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. 

Section 3.2. Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee. 
 (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1: 
 (i) The
Guarantee Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence
of indebtedness or other paper or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or presented by the proper party or parties. 
 (ii) Any direction or act of the Guarantor contemplated by this Guarantee Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate unless otherwise prescribed herein. 

(iii) Whenever, in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement, the Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable that a
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omitting to take any action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and rely upon an
Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such request from the Guarantee Trustee, shall be promptly delivered by the Guarantor. 
 (iv) The Guarantee Trustee may consult with legal counsel, and the written advice or opinion of such legal counsel with respect to legal matters shall be full and complete authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or opinion. Such legal counsel may be legal counsel to the Guarantor or any of its Affiliates and may be one of its
employees. The Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Guarantee Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction. 

(v) The Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this
Guarantee Agreement at the request or direction of any Holder unless such Holder shall have provided to the Guarantee Trustee such adequate security and indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees and
expenses) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying with such request or direction, including such reasonable advances as may be requested by the Guarantee Trustee; provided that nothing contained in this
Section 3.2(a)(v) shall be taken to relieve the Guarantee Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its obligation to otherwise exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement. 

(vi) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Guarantee Trustee, in its discretion, may make
such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit at the expense of the Guarantor and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation. 

(vii) The Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either
directly or by or through its agents or attorneys, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney appointed by it with due care hereunder. 

(viii) Whenever in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement the Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive
instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (A) may request instructions from the Holders, (B) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other
action until such instructions are received, and (C) shall be protected in acting in accordance with such instructions. 

(b) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Guarantee Trustee to perform any act
or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Guarantee Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform
any such act or acts or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the Guarantee Trustee shall be construed to be a duty to act in accordance with such power and

  
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authority. 
 Section 3.3. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.

 The Guarantor agrees: 
 (a) to pay to the Guarantee Trustee from time to time such reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder as may be agreed by the Guarantor and the Guarantee Trustee from time to time
(which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust); 
 (b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Guarantee Trustee upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Guarantee Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Guarantee Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence
or willful misconduct; and 
 (c) to indemnify the Guarantee Trustee, any Affiliate of the Guarantee Trustee and any officer,
director, shareholder, employee, representative or agent of the Guarantee Trustee (each, an “Indemnified Person”) for, and to hold each Indemnified Person harmless against, any loss, liability, claim, action, suit, cost, damage or
expense of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on the part of the Indemnified Person, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Guarantee Agreement, including
the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. 
 The Guarantee Trustee will not claim or exact any lien or charge on any Guarantee Payments as a result of any amount due to it under this Guarantee Agreement. 

The provisions of this Section 3.3 shall survive the termination of this Guarantee Agreement or the resignation or removal of the
Guarantee Trustee. 
 ARTICLE IV 
 GUARANTEE TRUSTEE 
 Section 4.1. Guarantee
Trustee; Eligibility. 
 (a) There shall at all times be a Guarantee Trustee that shall: 

(i) not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor; and 

(ii) be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and
surplus of at least $50,000,000, and shall be a corporation meeting the requirements of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of
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Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.

 (b) If at any time the Guarantee Trustee shall cease to be eligible to so act under Section 4.1(a), the Guarantee
Trustee shall immediately resign in the manner and with the effect set out in Section 4.2. 
 (c) If the Guarantee Trustee
has or shall acquire any “conflicting interest” within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Guarantee Trustee and Guarantor shall in all respects comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act. 
 Section 4.2. Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Guarantee Trustee. 

(a) Subject to Section 4.2(c), the Guarantee Trustee may be appointed or removed at any time by the action of the Holders of a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities delivered to the Guarantee Trustee and the Guarantor (i) for cause or (ii) if a Debenture Event of Default (as defined in the Amended Declaration) shall have occurred and be
continuing at any time. 
 (b) Subject to Section 4.2(c), the Guarantee Trustee may resign from office (without need for
prior or subsequent accounting) by giving written notice thereof to the Holders and the Guarantor and by appointing a successor Guarantee Trustee. The Guarantee Trustee shall appoint a successor by requesting from at least three Persons meeting the
requirements of Section 4.1(a) their expenses and charges to serve as the Guarantee Trustee, and selecting the Person who agrees to the lowest expenses and charges. 
 (c) The Guarantee Trustee appointed hereunder shall hold office until a Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed and shall have accepted such appointment. No removal or resignation of a
Guarantee Trustee shall be effective until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by such Successor Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor and, in the case of any
resignation, the resigning Guarantee Trustee. 
 (d) If no Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed and accepted
appointment as provided in this Section 4.2 within 60 days after delivery to the Holders and the Guarantor of a notice of resignation, the resigning Guarantee Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Guarantor, any court of competent
jurisdiction for appointment of a Successor Guarantee Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after prescribing such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, appoint a Successor Guarantee Trustee. 

(e) If a resigning Guarantee Trustee shall fail to appoint a successor, or if a Guarantee Trustee shall be removed or become incapable of
acting as Guarantee Trustee and a replacement shall not be appointed prior to such resignation or removal, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Guarantee Trustee for any cause, the Holders of the Preferred Securities, by the action of the
Holders of record of not less than 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of the Preferred Securities then Outstanding (as defined in the Amended Declaration) delivered to such Guarantee Trustee, may appoint a
Successor Guarantee Trustee or Trustees. If no successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Holders of the Preferred Securities and accepted appointment, any Holder, on behalf of such Holder and all others similarly situated, or
any other Guarantee Trustee, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Guarantee Trustee. 

  
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 ARTICLE V 
 GUARANTEE 
 Section 5.1. Guarantee. 

The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to pay in full to the Holders the Guarantee Payments (subject to the limitations
contained in the definition of that term) (without duplication of amounts theretofore paid by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust), as and when due, regardless of any defense, right of set-off or counterclaim that the Issuer Trust may have or assert,
except the defense of payment. The Guarantor’s obligation to make a Guarantee Payment may be satisfied by direct payment of the required amounts by the Guarantor to the Holders or by causing the Issuer Trust to pay such amounts to the Holders.

 Section 5.2. Waiver of Notice and Demand. 

The Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Guarantee Agreement and of any liability to which it applies or may apply,
presentment, demand for payment, any right to require a proceeding first against the Guarantee Trustee, the Issuer Trust or any other Person before proceeding against the Guarantor, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of
redemption and all other notices and demands. 
 Section 5.3. Obligations Not Affected. 

The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement shall in no way be affected or impaired
by reason of the happening from time to time of any of the following: 
 (a) the release or waiver, by operation
of law or otherwise, of the performance or observance by the Issuer Trust of any express or implied agreement, covenant, term or condition relating to the Preferred Securities to be performed or observed by the Issuer Trust; 

(b) the extension of time for the payment by the Issuer Trust of all or any portion of the Distributions (other than an
extension of time for payment of Distributions that results from the extension of any interest payment period on the Debentures as provided in the Indenture), Redemption Price, Liquidation Distribution or any other sums payable under the terms of
the Preferred Securities or the extension of time for the performance of any other obligation under, arising out of, or in connection with, the Preferred Securities; 

(c) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of the Holders to enforce, assert or exercise any right,
privilege, power or remedy conferred on the Holders pursuant to the terms of the Preferred Securities, or any action on the part of the Issuer Trust granting indulgence or extension of any kind; 

(d) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the
benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the Issuer Trust or any of the assets of the Issuer Trust; 

  
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 (e) any invalidity of, or defect or deficiency in, the Preferred Securities;

 (f) the settlement or compromise of any obligation guaranteed hereby or hereby incurred; or 

(g) any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a
guarantor (other than payment of the underlying obligation), it being the intent of this Section 5.3 that the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances. 

There shall be no obligation of the Holders to give notice to, or obtain the consent of, the Guarantor with respect to the happening of any of the
foregoing. 
 Section 5.4. Rights of Holders. 

The Guarantor expressly acknowledges that: (i) this Guarantee Agreement will be deposited with the Guarantee Trustee to be held for
the benefit of the Holders; (ii) the Guarantee Trustee has the right to enforce this Guarantee Agreement on behalf of the Holders; (iii) the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities have the right to direct
the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of this Guarantee Agreement or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee Agreement;
and (iv) any Holder may institute a legal proceeding directly against the Guarantor to enforce its rights under this Guarantee Agreement without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Guarantee Trustee, the Issuer Trust or any other
Person. 
 Section 5.5. Guarantee of Payment. 

This Guarantee Agreement creates a guarantee of payment and not of collection. This Guarantee Agreement will not be discharged except by
payment of the Guarantee Payments in full (without duplication of amounts theretofore paid by the Issuer Trust) or upon the distribution of Debentures to Holders as provided in the Amended Declaration. 

Section 5.6. Subrogation. 
 The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights (if any) of the Holders against the Issuer Trust in respect of any amounts paid to the Holders by the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement; provided,
however, that the Guarantor shall not (except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law) be entitled to enforce or exercise any rights which it may acquire by way of subrogation or any indemnity, reimbursement or other agreement, in
all cases as a result of payment under this Guarantee Agreement, if, at the time of any such payment, any amounts are due and unpaid under this Guarantee Agreement. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence,
the Guarantor agrees to hold such amount in trust for the Holders and to pay over such amount to the Holders. 

Section 5.7. Independent Obligations. 
 The Guarantor acknowledges that its obligations hereunder are independent of the obligations of the Issuer Trust with respect to the Preferred Securities and that the Guarantor shall be liable as
principal and as debtor hereunder to make Guarantee Payments pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement 

  
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notwithstanding the occurrence of any event referred to in subsections (a) through (g), inclusive, of Section 5.3. 

ARTICLE VI 

COVENANTS AND SUBORDINATION 

Section 6.1. Subordination. 
 The obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement will constitute unsecured obligations of the Guarantor and will rank subordinate and junior in right of payment and upon liquidation to all
Senior Debt (as defined in the Indenture) of the Guarantor to the extent and in the manner set forth in the Indenture with respect to the Debentures, and the provisions of Article XIII of the Indenture will apply, mutatis mutandis, to the
obligations of the Guarantor hereunder. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder do not constitute Senior Debt of the Guarantor. 
 Section 6.2. Pari Passu Guarantees. 
 The obligations of the Guarantor
under this Guarantee Agreement shall rank pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under (i) any similar guarantee agreements issued by the Guarantor on behalf of the holders of preferred or capital securities issued by any
statutory trust the assets of which consist of debt securities that are pari passu to the Debentures and the proceeds thereof, (ii) the Indenture and the Debt Securities (as defined therein) issued thereunder; (iii) any expense
agreements entered into by the Guarantor in connection with the offering of preferred or capital securities by any statutory trust the assets of which consists of debt securities that are pari passu to the Debentures and the proceeds thereof,
and (iv) any other security, guarantee or other agreement or obligation that is expressly stated to rank pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement or with any obligation that ranks pari passu
with the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement. 
 ARTICLE VII 

TERMINATION 
 Section 7.1. Termination. 
 This Guarantee Agreement shall terminate
and be of no further force and effect upon (i) full payment of the Redemption Price (as defined in the Amended Declaration) of all Preferred Securities, (ii) the distribution of Debentures to the Holders in exchange for all of the
Preferred Securities or (iii) full payment of the amounts payable in accordance with Article IX of the Amended Declaration upon liquidation of the Issuer Trust. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Guarantee Agreement will continue to be
effective or will be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any Holder is required to repay any sums paid with respect to Preferred Securities or this Guarantee Agreement. 

  
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 ARTICLE VIII 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
 Section 8.1. Successors and Assigns.

 All guarantees and agreements contained in this Guarantee Agreement shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees
and representatives of the Guarantor and shall inure to the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities then outstanding. Except in connection with a consolidation, merger or sale involving the Guarantor that is permitted under Article VIII
of the Indenture and pursuant to which the successor or assignee agrees in writing to perform the Guarantor’s obligations hereunder, the Guarantor shall not assign its obligations hereunder, and any purported assignment other than in accordance
with this provision shall be void. 
 Section 8.2. Amendments. 

Except with respect to any changes that do not adversely affect the rights of the Holders in any material respect (in which case no
consent of the Holders will be required), this Guarantee Agreement may only be amended with the prior approval of the Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities. The provisions of Article VI of the Amended
Declaration concerning meetings of the Holders shall apply to the giving of such approval. 
 Section 8.3. Notices.

 Any notice, request or other communication required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing, duly signed by
the party giving such notice, and delivered, telecopied or mailed by first class mail as follows: 
 (a) if given to the
Guarantor, to the address or facsimile number set forth below or such other address or facsimile number as the Guarantor may give notice to the Guarantee Trustee and the Holders: 

Fifth Third Bancorp 
 38 Fountain Square Plaza 
 Cincinnati, Ohio 45263 

Tel: 
 Fax: 
 Attention: 

(b) if given to the Guarantee Trustee, at the address or facsimile number set forth below or such other address or facsimile number as
the Guarantee Trustee may give notice to the Guarantor and the Holders: 

  
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 Wilmington Trust Company 

Rodney Square North, 1100 N. Market Street, 

Wilmington, Delaware 19890 
 Tel: 
 Fax: 

Attention: 
 (c) if given to any Holder, at the address set forth on the books and records of the Issuer Trust. 
 All notices hereunder shall be deemed to have been given when received in person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, except that if a notice or other
document is refused delivery or cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no notice was given, such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date of such refusal or inability to deliver. 

Section 8.4. Benefit. 
 This Guarantee Agreement is solely for the benefit of the Holders and is not separately transferable from the Preferred Securities. 

Section 8.5. Governing Law. 
 THIS GUARANTEE AGREEMENT sHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 

Section 8.6. Counterparts. 
 This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same
instrument. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
parties hereto have executed this Guarantee Agreement as of the day and year first above written. 
  

			
	FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
		
	By:	 	 
		 	Name:
		 	Title:

  

			
	WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
	as Guarantee Trustee
		
	By:	 	 
		 	Name:
		 	Title:

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