Company: CIMO
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001193125-25-226772
Chunk: 11

Company: CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 11
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lassify Shares of Our Stock

Our charter
authorizes our board of directors to classify and reclassify any unissued shares of stock into other classes or series of stock, including preferred stock. Before issuance of shares of each class or series, our board of directors is required by the
MGCL and by our charter to set, subject to our charter restrictions on the transfer and ownership of our stock, the terms, preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications and terms
and conditions of redemption for each class or series. Thus, our board of directors could authorize the issuance of shares of common stock or preferred stock with terms and conditions which could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing
a transaction or a change in control that might involve a premium price for holders of our common stock or otherwise be in their best interests.

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Power to Issue Additional Shares of Common Stock

We believe that the power of our board of directors to amend the charter without stockholder approval to increase the total number of authorized shares of our
stock or any class or series of our stock, to issue additional authorized but unissued shares of our common stock or preferred stock and to classify or reclassify unissued shares of our common stock or preferred stock and thereafter to cause us to
issue such classified or reclassified shares of stock will provide us with increased flexibility in structuring possible future financings and acquisitions and in meeting other needs that might arise. The additional classes or series, as well as our
common stock, will be available for issuance without further action by our stockholders, unless stockholder action is required by applicable law or the rules of any stock exchange or automated quotation system on which our securities may be listed
or traded. Although our board of directors has no intention at the present time of doing so, it could authorize us to issue a class or series that could, depending upon the terms of such class or series, delay, defer or prevent a transaction or a
change in control of us that might involve a premium price for holders of our common stock or otherwise be in their best interests.

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RESTRICTIONS ON OWNERSHIP AND TRANSFER

To qualify as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), our shares of capital stock must be beneficially owned by
100 or more persons during at least 335 days of a taxable year of 12 months or during a proportionate part of a shorter taxable year. Also, no more