Exhibit 5.2
[Letterhead of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz]
February 2, 2024
Huntington Bancshares
Incorporated
41 South High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43287
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special
counsel to Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, a Maryland corporation (the Company) in connection with the offering and sale by the Company of $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.709%
Fixed-to-Floating Rate Senior Notes due February 2, 2035 (the Notes) in an underwritten registered public offering, pursuant to the underwriting
agreement (the Underwriting Agreement), dated January 26, 2024 by and among the Company and, on behalf of themselves and the several underwriters named therein, BofA Securities, Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Huntington
Securities, Inc. and RBC Capital Markets, LLC. The Notes are to be issued under that a Senior Debt Indenture (the Base Indenture), dated as of December 29, 2005, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust
Company, N.A. (successor to The Bank of New York Mellon and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.) (the Trustee), as amended and supplemented by a Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 21, 2023, between the Company and the
Trustee (the Fifth Supplemental Indenture) and by a Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 2, 2024, between the Company and the Trustee (the Seventh Supplemental Indenture and, together with the
Fifth Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture, the Indenture).
In connection with the opinion set forth herein,
we have examined and relied on originals or copies, certified or otherwise, identified to our satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records, agreements, certificates, and other instruments and such matters of law, in each case, as we have
deemed necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion, including the Base Indenture and forms of the Notes and the Supplemental Indenture, which we refer to herein as the Transaction Documents. We have also conducted
such investigations of fact and law as we have deemed necessary or advisable for purposes of this opinion. In such examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the
conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies and the legal capacity of all individuals executing such documents. We have also assumed the valid authorization, execution and delivery of each of the Transaction
Documents by each party thereto other than the Company, and we have assumed that each such other party (in the case of parties which are not natural persons) has been duly organized and is validly existing and in good standing under its jurisdiction
of organization, that each such other party has the legal capacity, power and authority to perform its obligations thereunder and that each of the Transaction Documents constitutes the valid and binding obligation of all such other parties,
enforceable against them in accordance with its terms.
We are members of the Bar of the State of New York, and this opinion is limited to
the federal securities laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of New York, in each case as in effect on the date hereof. We have not considered, and we express no opinion or belief as to matters of the laws of any other
jurisdiction or as to any matters arising thereunder or relating thereto.
Based upon the foregoing and subject to the qualifications,
assumptions and limitations stated herein, we are of the opinion that the Notes, when authenticated and issued in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and delivered against payment therefor as set forth in the Underwriting Agreement, will
constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.
The
opinion set forth above is subject to the effects of (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors rights generally,
(b) general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), and (c) an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. We express no opinion as to whether, or the extent to which, the laws of any particular
jurisdiction apply to the subject matter hereof, including, without limitation, the enforceability of the governing law provision contained in the Notes or their governing documents or in any other agreement.