Company: CIMO
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001193125-25-226772
Chunk: 13

Company: CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 13
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 IRS or an opinion of counsel to determine or ensure our status as a REIT. Our charter states that an underwriter or a placement agent that participates in a public offering or a private placement of our
common stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for our common stock may beneficially or constructively own shares of our common stock in excess of the ownership restrictions, but only to the extent necessary to facilitate such public
offering or private placement and provided that the restrictions described above would not be violated following the distribution of the common stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for our common stock to such persons.

Any attempted transfer of our securities that, if effective, would result in a violation of the foregoing restrictions will cause the number of securities
causing the violation (rounded to the nearest whole share) to be automatically transferred to a trust for the exclusive benefit of one or more charitable beneficiaries, and the proposed transferee will not acquire any rights in such securities. The
automatic transfer will be deemed to be effective as of the close of business on the business day (as defined in our charter) before the date of the transfer. If, for any reason, the transfer to the trust is ineffective to prevent the violation of
the ownership limit, our charter provides that the purported transfer in violation of the restrictions will be void ab initio. Shares of our stock held in the trust will be issued and outstanding shares. The proposed transferee will not
benefit economically from ownership of any securities held in the trust, will have no rights to dividends and no rights to vote or other rights attributable to the shares of stock held in the trust. The trustee of the trust, who will be appointed by
us and will be a person unaffiliated with us or the proposed transferee, will have all voting rights and rights to dividends or other distributions with respect to shares held in the trust. These rights will be exercised for the exclusive benefit of
the charitable beneficiary. Any dividend or other distribution paid before our discovery that shares of stock have

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been transferred to the trust will be paid by the recipient to the trustee upon demand. Any dividend or other distribution authorized but unpaid will be paid when due to the trustee. Any dividend
or distribution paid to the trustee will be held in trust for the charitable beneficiary. Subject to the MGCL, the trustee will have the authority (i) to rescind as void any vote cast by the proposed transferee before our discovery that the
shares have been transferred to the trust and (ii) to recast