Company: FR
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000921825-25-000095
Chunk: 70

Company: FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form: 424B5
Chunk 70
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 under the laws of descent and distribution;

• under the satisfaction of a pledge of other security interest created in good faith and not for the purpose of circumventing the control share acquisition statute;

• under a merger, consolidation or share exchange if the corporation is a party to the transaction;

• within one-tenth or more but less than one-fifth of all voting power of outstanding shares of the corporation before June 1, 2000;

• at a time when the corporation is not subject to the control share acquisition statute; or

• in accordance with a contract entered into at a time when the corporation is not subject to the control share acquisition statute.

Our bylaws contain a provision exempting any and all acquisitions of our shares of capital stock from the control share provisions of the MGCL. There can be no assurance that this bylaw provision will not be amended or eliminated in the future.

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#### Title 3, Subtitle 8 of the MGCL
Subtitle 8 of Title 3 of the MGCL allows Maryland corporations with a class of equity securities registered under the Exchange Act to elect to be governed by all or any part of certain Maryland law provisions relating to extraordinary actions and unsolicited takeovers. The election to be governed by one or more of these provisions can be made by a Maryland corporation in its charter or bylaws or by resolution adopted by the board of directors so long as the corporation has at least three directors who, at the time of electing to be subject to the provisions, are not:

• officers or employees of the corporation;

• persons seeking to acquire control of the corporation;

• directors, officers, affiliates or associates of any person seeking to acquire control; or

• nominated or designated as directors by a person seeking to acquire control.

Subtitle 8 provides that a Maryland corporation can elect to be subject to all or any portion of the following provisions notwithstanding any contrary provisions contained in its existing charter or bylaws:

• a classified board;

• a two-thirds stockholder vote requirement for removing a director;

• a requirement that the number of directors be fixed only by vote of the directors;

• a requirement that a vacancy on the board be filled only by the majority vote of the remaining directors, even if the remaining directors do not constitute a quorum, and any such director elected to fill a vacancy shall hold office for the remainder of the full term of the directorship in which the vacancy occurred and until a successor is elected and qualifies; or

• a majority stockholder vote