Company: CIMO
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001193125-25-226835
Chunk: 5

Company: CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form: S-8
Chunk 5
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 Report on Form 8-K filed on May 21, 2024 and incorporated herein by reference).                                                                                                                  
 Amended and Restated Bylaws of Chimera Investment Corporation (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 10, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference). |
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| 4.3     |     | Specimen Common Stock Certificate of Chimera Investment Corporation (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Amendment                                                   
 No. 1 to Form S-11 (File No. 333-145525) filed on September 27, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference).                                                                                      |
| 5.1*    |     | Opinion of Venable LLP (US) regarding legality.                                                                                                                                                  |
| 23.1*   |     | Consent of Ernst & Young, LLP.                                                                                                                                                                   |
| 23.2*   |     | Consent of Venable (included in Exhibit 5.1).                                                                                                                                                    |
| 24.1*   |     | Power of Attorney (included on signature page).                                                                                                                                                  |
| 107*    |     | Filing Fee Table.                                                                                                                                                                                |
| 99.1*   |     | Chimera Investment Corporation Inducement Award Plan.                                                                                                                                            |
| 99.2*   |     | Form of Restricted Stock Unit pursuant to the Chimera Investment Corporation Inducement Award Plan.                                                                                              |

| * | Filed here within. |

Item 9. 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:                                                                                |

| i. | To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act; |

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| ii. | 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