Company: NREF
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001437749-25-007770
Chunk: 70

Company: NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: 424B5
Chunk 70
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 • | provisions affecting conversion or exchange in the event of our redemption of such debt securities. |

This prospectus is part of a registration statement that provides that we may issue debt securities from time to time in one or more series under the indenture as it may be amended or supplemented, in each case with the same or various maturities, at par or at a discount. Unless indicated in a prospectus supplement, we may issue additional debt securities of a particular series without the consent of the holders of the debt securities of such series outstanding at the time of the issuance. Any such additional debt securities, together with all other outstanding debt securities of that series, will constitute a single series of debt securities under the indenture.

We intend to disclose any restrictive covenants for any issuance or series of debt securities in the applicable prospectus supplement.

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CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF MARYLAND LAW AND OUR CHARTER AND BYLAWS</div>

The following is a summary of certain provisions of Maryland law and provisions of our charter and bylaws. While we believe that the following description covers the material aspects of these provisions, the description may not contain all of the information that is important to you. We encourage you to read carefully the prospectus, our charter and bylaws and the relevant provisions of the MGCL, for a more complete understanding of these provisions. Copies of our charter and bylaws are filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part and the following summary, to the extent it relates to those documents, is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, our charter and bylaws and applicable law. See“Where You Can Find More Information.”

The Board

Subject to the terms of any class or series of preferred stock, our charter provides that the number of directors on the Board is to be fixed exclusively by the Board pursuant to our bylaws, but may not be fewer than the minimum required by the MGCL, which is one. Our bylaws provide that the Board is to consist of not less than one and not more than 15 directors. The Board currently consists of seven directors.

Subject to the terms of any class or series of preferred stock, vacancies on the Board may be filled only by a majority of the remaining directors, even if the remaining directors do not constitute a quorum, and any director elected to fill a vacancy will hold office for the remainder of the full term of the directorship in which the vacancy occurred and until his or