Company: NREF
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001437749-25-007770
Chunk: 77

Company: NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: 424B5
Chunk 77
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5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the date of the proxy statement for our preceding year’s annual meeting. In the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced or delayed by more than 30 days from the first anniversary of the date of the preceding year’s annual meeting, to be timely, a stockholder’s notice must be delivered not earlier than the 150th day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the later of the 120th day prior to the date of such annual meeting or the tenth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made.

REIT Qualification

Our charter provides that the Board may authorize us to revoke or otherwise terminate our REIT election, without approval of our stockholders, if it determines that it is no longer in our best interest to continue to qualify as a REIT.

Forum Selection Clause

Our bylaws provide that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Maryland (or, if and only if the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Maryland lacks subject matter jurisdiction, any state court located within the State of Maryland or, if and only if all such state courts lack subject matter jurisdiction, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland) will be the sole and exclusive forum for (a) any internal corporate claim, as such term is defined in the Maryland General Corporation Law, or any successor provision thereof, (b) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (c) any action asserting a claim of breach of any duty owed by any of our directors or officers or other employees to us or to our stockholders, (d) any action asserting a claim against us or any of our directors or officers or other employees arising pursuant to any provision of the Maryland General Corporation Law or our charter or bylaws, (e) any action or proceeding to interpret, apply, enforce or determine the validity of our charter or bylaws (including any right, obligation, or remedy thereunder), (f) any action or proceeding as to which the Maryland General Corporation Law confers jurisdiction on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Maryland, or (g) any action asserting a claim against us or any of our directors or officers or other employees that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine, in all cases to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the