Company: CIMO
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001193125-25-226772
Chunk: 80

Company: CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 80
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| 5.1*    |     | Opinion of Venable LLP (including consent of such firm)                                                                                                                                            |
| 8.1*    |     | Tax Opinion of Hunton Andrews Kurth (including consent of such firm)                                                                                                                               |
| 23.1*   |     | Consent of Ernst & Young LLP                                                                                                                                                                       |
| 23.2*   |     | Consent of Venable LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)                                                                                                                                                   |
| 23.3*   |     | Consent of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (included in Exhibit 8.1)                                                                                                                                      |
| 24.1*   |     | Powers of Attorney (included on the signature page of the Registration Statement)                                                                                                                  |
| 107*    |     | Filing Fee Table                                                                                                                                                                                   |

| * | Filed here within. |

II-2

Item 17. Undertakings.

(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration
statement:

(A) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

(B) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the
most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of
securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with
the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in
the effective registration statement; and

(C) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution
not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

provided, however, that
paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained