Company: NREF
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-010694
Chunk: 15

Company: NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 15
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      197,000 |
| All Other Fees     |     |   |            - |     |   |            - |
| Total              |     | $ |    1,449,430 |     | $ |    1,054,500 |

| (1) | Includes fees for audits of our annual financial statements, reviews of the related quarterly financial statements, and services that are normally provided by the independent accountants in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements, including comfort letters and consents issued in connection with SEC filings and reviews of documents filed with the SEC. |
| (2) | Includes fees billed for professional services rendered for tax compliance, tax advice, and tax planning.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |

Pursuant to the charter of the audit committee, the audit committee is responsible for the oversight of our accounting, reporting and financial practices. The audit committee has the responsibility to select, appoint, engage, oversee, retain, evaluate and terminate our external auditors; pre-approve all audit and non-audit services to be provided, consistent with all applicable laws, to us by our external auditors; and establish the fees and other compensation to be paid to our external auditors.

The audit committee has adopted a policy to pre-approve all audit and permitted non-audit services provided by our principal independent accountants. All audit and non-audit services for 2024 were pre-approved by the audit committee.

<div align='center'>The Board unanimously recommends a vote FOR the ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2025.

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THE BOARD, ITS COMMITTEES AND ITS COMPENSATION</div>

Board of Directors

The Board presently consists of seven members, six of whom are non-management directors and five of whom are considered independent in accordance with NYSE rules. Each director serves a one-year term expiring at each annual meeting of stockholders and lasting until his or her respective successor is duly elected and qualified.

Director Compensation

Directors who are officers of the Company do not receive compensation for their service as directors.

We provide the following compensation for non-management directors:

• each non-management director receives an annual director’s fee payable in cash equal to $20,000 and an annual grant of restricted stock units;

• the chair of our audit committee receives an additional annual fee payable in cash equal to $15,000;

• the chair of our compensation committee receives an additional annual fee payable in cash equal to $7,500;

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