First Horizon National Corporation 23,809,524 Shares Common Stock ($0.625 par value per Share) Underwriting AgreementUnderwriting Agreement • December 20th, 2010 • First Horizon National Corp • National commercial banks • New York
Goldman, Sachs & Co. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and the several Underwriters listed in Schedule A hereto
LETTERHEAD OF FIRST HORIZON]First Horizon National Corp • December 20th, 2010 • National commercial banks
In connection with the issuance and sale of 26,316,249 shares of common stock, par value $0.625 per share, of First Horizon National Corporation, a Tennessee corporation (the “Company”) pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, dated December 13, 2010, between the Company and Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and the several underwriters listed therein, I (or counsel acting under my supervision) have examined such corporate records, certificates and other documents, and such questions of law, as I (or counsel acting under my supervision) have considered necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion. Upon the basis of such examination, it is my opinion that:
