Company: CIMO
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001193125-25-226772
Chunk: 21

Company: CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 21
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 directors and approved by the affirmative vote of our stockholders entitled to cast a majority of all of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter. Our bylaws may be amended by our board of directors or by the affirmative vote of our stockholders entitled to cast two-thirdsof all of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter. Extraordinary Transactions Under the MGCL, a Maryland corporation generally cannot dissolve, merge, convert, sell all or substantially all of its assets, engage in a statutory share exchange or engage in similar transactions outside the ordinary course of business unless it is declared advisable by the board of directors and approved by the affirmative vote of stockholders entitled to cast at least two-thirdsof the votes entitled to be cast on the matter unless a lesser percentage (but not less than a majority of all of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter) is set forth in the corporation’s charter. As permitted by the MGCL, our charter provides that any of these actions will be effective and valid if declared advisable by our board of directors and approved by the affirmative vote of stockholders entitled to cast a majority of all of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter. The MGCL also permits a Maryland corporation to transfer all or substantially all of its assets without the approval of its stockholders to an entity owned, directly or indirectly, by the corporation. Subtitle 8 Subtitle 8 of Title 3 of the MGCL permits a Maryland corporation with a class of equity securities registered under the Exchange Act and at least three independent directors to elect, by provision in its charter or bylaws or a resolution of its board of directors and notwithstanding any contrary provision in the charter or bylaws, to be subject to any or all of the following five provisions:

| • |     | a classified board; |

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

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

| • |     | a requirement that a vacancy on the board be filled only by a vote of the remaining directors (whether or not                                                           
 they constitute a quorum) for the remainder of the full term of the class of directors in which the vacancy occurred and until a successor is elected and qualifies; or |

| • |     | a majority requirement for the calling of a special meeting of stockholders. |

Through provisions in our charter and bylaws unrelated to Subtitle 8, we already (a) require, unless called by