Company: FR
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000921825-25-000032
Chunk: 49

Company: FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 49
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 Annual Meeting. The stockholder should do this by carefully following the instructions the broker gives the stockholder concerning its procedures. This ensures that the stockholder’s shares will be voted at the meeting.

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### OTHER MATTERS

### SOLICITATION OF PROXIES
The cost of solicitation of proxies for the virtual Annual Meeting in the form enclosed herewith will be borne by the Company. In addition to the solicitation of proxies by mail, the directors, officers and employees of the Company may also solicit proxies personally or by telephone without additional compensation for such activities. The Company will also request persons, firms and corporations holding shares in their names or in the names of their nominees, which are beneficially owned by others, to send proxy materials to and obtain proxies from such beneficial owners. The Company will reimburse such holders for their reasonable expenses.

Georgeson Shareholder Services, Inc. acts as the Company’s proxy solicitor at a cost of $9,500, plus reasonable out-of-pocket expenses.

### STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS
Under applicable SEC rules, stockholder proposals intended to be presented at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders must be received by the Secretary of the Company no later than December 5, 2025 in order to be considered for inclusion in the proxy statement and on the Proxy Card that will be solicited by the Board of Directors in connection with such meeting. Additionally, under our Bylaws, stockholder proposals intended to be presented at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders must be received by the Secretary of the Company no later than December 5, 2025, and no earlier than November 5, 2025, in order to be considered timely and must comply with certain additional requirements contained in our Bylaws in order to be proper.

### INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Appendix B to this Proxy Statement is the Company’s 2024 Annual Report, which includes its consolidated financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations, as well as certain other financial and other information required by the rules and regulations of the SEC. Information contained in Appendix B to this Proxy Statement shall not be deemed to be “filed” or “soliciting material,” or subject to liability for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act to the maximum extent permitted under the Exchange Act.

### AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS
This Proxy Statement, Notice of Annual Meeting, Proxy Card and the Company’s