Company: FR
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000921825-25-000095
Chunk: 82

Company: FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form: 424B5
Chunk 82
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 its taxable income, adjusted for certain items of income, gain, deduction or loss. See “Distribution Requirements.” While not certain, this provision may limit the ability of our taxable REIT subsidiaries to deduct interest, which could increase their taxable income.

#### Subsidiary REIT
We have previously invested and may in the future invest in real estate through one or more subsidiary entities that are each intended to qualify for taxation as a REIT (each, a “Subsidiary REIT”). Provided that each of our Subsidiary REITs qualifies as a REIT, our interest in any such Subsidiary REIT will be treated as a qualifying real estate asset for purposes of the REIT asset tests and any dividend income or gains derived by us from such Subsidiary REIT will generally be treated as income that qualifies for purposes of the REIT gross income tests. To qualify as a REIT, each of our Subsidiary REITs must independently satisfy the various REIT qualification requirements described in this summary. If any of our Subsidiary REITs were to fail to qualify as a REIT, and certain relief provisions did not apply, such Subsidiary REIT would be treated as a taxable C corporation and its income would be subject to U.S. federal income tax. In addition, a failure of any of our Subsidiary REITs to qualify as a REIT could have an adverse effect on our ability to comply with the REIT income and asset tests, and thus could impair our ability to qualify as a REIT.

From August 2017 through December 2019, we invested in real estate through a subsidiary that was intended to qualify for taxation as a REIT. Accordingly, the above discussion regarding our Subsidiary REITs was generally applicable with respect to this Subsidiary REIT during that time period. We believe that our former Subsidiary REIT was organized and operated in a manner that permitted it to qualify for taxation as a REIT from and after the effective date of its REIT election and through the date of its liquidation for U.S. federal income tax purposes. In addition, to limit the possibility of a cascading REIT failure in the event that our former Subsidiary REIT had somehow failed to qualify for taxation as a REIT, we made a protective taxable REIT subsidiary election with respect to this subsidiary that presumably would be effective to the extent our subsidiary had failed to qualify for taxation