Exhibit 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
Shelf Registration on Form S-3
(Trust Preferred Securities)
Each of the undersigned directors and/or officers of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
(the “Corporation”), a Pennsylvania corporation, hereby names, constitutes and appoints Richard J.
Johnson, Randall C. King and George P. Long, III, or any of them, each acting alone, as such
person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities
in connection with the Registration Statement (the “Registration Statement”) on Form S-3 or other
appropriate form (including the Prospectus and any and all exhibits, supplements and documents
relating thereto) for the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“Securities Act”), and pursuant to Rule 415 thereunder of: (i) guarantees by the Corporation
(“Guarantees”) with respect to Capital Securities of one or more Delaware business trusts (the
“Trusts”), existing or to be formed, for the purpose of issuing and selling capital securities
(“Capital Securities”), which Registration Statement shall also relate to such Capital Securities,
and (ii) junior subordinated debentures and any other securities of the Corporation issued in
connection with the Capital Securities (“Corporate Securities”) with a proposed maximum aggregate
offering price for such Capital Securities, of up to $2,000,000,000 (“Maximum Aggregate Offering
Price”), and in connection with any and all amendments to the Registration Statement and all
instruments necessary or in connection therewith, including to sign the Registration Statement and
any and all amendments and supplements relating thereto (including stickers and post-effective
amendments), in the name and on behalf of Corporation, and in the name and on behalf of such
officer or director of the Corporation or the Trusts; to sign any and all additional registration
statements relating to the same offering of securities as the Registration Statement that are filed
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act; to attest to the seal of the Corporation thereon;
and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, any state securities commission and any applicable
securities exchange or securities self-regulatory organization; hereby granting to said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them acting alone, the full power and authority to do and
perform every act and thing requisite, necessary or advisable to be done in and about the premises,
as fully and to all intents and purposes as any such officer or director might or could do in
person; and said persons are authorized to take or cause to be taken any and all such further
actions in connection therewith in the name and on behalf of the Corporation as they, in their sole
discretion, deem necessary or appropriate;
And each of the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that any said attorney-in-fact
and agent, or any substitute, lawfully does or causes to be done by virtue hereof.