Company: FR
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000921825-25-000032
Chunk: 48

Company: FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 48
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 as disclosed in this Proxy Statement, we will consider those stockholders’ concerns, and the Compensation Committee will evaluate whether any actions are necessary to address those concerns.

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Proposal 3 concerns ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. This proposal will be approved if the votes cast “For” the proposal exceed the votes cast “Against” the proposal. Neither abstentions nor broker non-votes, if any, will have any legal effect on whether this proposal is approved. If the proposal is not approved, the Audit Committee will reconsider whether to retain PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP but may still retain them, as our Charter and Bylaws do not require stockholders to ratify the appointment of our independent registered certified public accounting firm.

### BROKER NON-VOTES
Under the rules of the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”), brokers generally may vote on routine matters, such as the ratification of an independent public accounting firm, but may not vote on non-routine matters, such as the election of directors, unless they have received voting instructions from the person for whom they are holding shares. If there is a non-routine matter presented to stockholders at a meeting and the stockholder’s bank, broker or other nominee does not receive instructions from the stockholder on how to vote on that matter, the bank, broker or other nominee will return the Proxy Card to the Company, indicating that he or she does not have the authority to vote on that matter. This is generally referred to as a “broker non-vote” and may affect the outcome of the voting on those matters, as discussed below.

The proposal described in this Proxy Statement for the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 is considered a routine matter under the NYSE rules. Each of the other proposals is considered a non-routine matter under NYSE rules and could result in broker non-votes. Broker non-votes will not be counted as votes cast and, accordingly, will have no effect on the result of the vote for these non-routine matters. However, broker non-votes will be counted for quorum purposes. We therefore encourage stockholders to provide directions to their broker as to how the stockholder wants their shares voted on all matters to be brought before the