Company: NREF
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-010694
Chunk: 63

Company: NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 63
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 long-term incentive plan, our Manager may also receive reputational benefits from our future growth through capital-raising transactions and acquisitions. Our Manager will also have an incentive to raise capital and cause us to acquire additional assets, which would then contribute to the Annual Fee. The reputational benefit to our Manager from our future growth could assist our Manager and its affiliates in pursuing other real estate investments. These investments could be made through other entities managed by our Manager or its affiliates, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to participate in all such investment opportunities.

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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL HOLDERS AND MANAGEMENT</div>

The tables below set forth the beneficial ownership information of our common stock, Series A Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock as of February 25, 2025 for:

• each person known to us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our shares of common stock, Series A Preferred Stock or Series B Preferred Stock;

• each of our named executive officers;

• each of our directors; and

• all of our executive officers and directors as a group.

Unless otherwise noted below, the address of the persons and entities listed on the table is the address of our Manager’s office, 300 Crescent Court, Suite 700, Dallas, Texas 75201. We have determined beneficial ownership in accordance with the rules of the SEC. Except as indicated by the footnotes below, we believe, based on the information furnished to us, that the persons and entities named in the table below have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock or Series A Preferred Stock reflected as beneficially owned, subject to applicable community property laws. No director or named executive officer owns any of the Company’s Series B Preferred Stock.

Beneficial ownership and percentage of beneficial ownership is based on 17,461,129 shares of our common stock, 1,645,000 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock and 7,848,590 shares of our Series B Preferred Stock outstanding on February 25, 2025. Shares of common stock that a person has the right to acquire within 60 days of February 25, 2025 upon the vesting of restricted stock units are deemed to be outstanding and beneficially owned by the person for the purpose of computing the percentage of beneficial ownership of that person and any group of which that person is a member, but are not deemed outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage of beneficial ownership for any other