Company: FR
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000921825-25-000095
Chunk: 90

Company: FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form: 424B5
Chunk 90
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 amount of any deduction taken for deficiency dividends.

To the extent that we do not distribute (and are not deemed to have distributed) all of our net capital gain or distribute at least 90%, but less than 100%, of our REIT taxable income, as adjusted, we are subject to tax on these retained amounts at regular corporate tax rates.

We will be subject to a 4% excise tax on the excess of the required distribution over the sum of amounts actually distributed and amounts retained for which U.S. federal income tax was paid, if we fail to distribute during each calendar year at least the sum of:

1. 85% of our REIT ordinary income for the year;

2. 95% of our REIT capital gain net income for the year; and

3. any undistributed taxable income from prior taxable years.

A REIT may elect to retain rather than distribute all or a portion of its net capital gains and pay the tax on the gains. In that case, a REIT may elect to have its stockholders include their proportionate share of the undistributed net capital gains in income as long-term capital gains and receive a credit for their share of the tax paid by the REIT. For purposes of the 4% excise tax described above, any retained amounts would be treated as having been distributed.

#### Elective Cash/Stock Dividends
We may also satisfy the 90% distribution test with taxable distributions of our capital stock. The IRS has issued Revenue Procedure 2017-45, authorizing elective cash/stock dividends to be made by Publicly Offered REITs. Pursuant to this revenue procedure, the IRS will treat the distribution of stock pursuant to an elective cash/stock dividend as a distribution of property under Section 301 of the Code (i.e., as a dividend to the extent of our earnings and profits), as long as at least 20% of the total dividend is available in cash and certain other

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requirements outlined in the revenue procedure are met. In the case of a taxable stock dividend, stockholders would be required to include the dividend as income and would be required to satisfy the tax liability associated with the distribution with cash from other sources including sales of our common stock. Both a taxable stock distribution and sale of common stock resulting from such distribution could adversely affect the price of our common stock.

#### Prohibited Transactions
Net income derived from prohibited transactions is subject to 100% tax. The term “prohibited