Company: FR
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000921825-25-000095
Chunk: 56

Company: FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form: 424B5
Chunk 56
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 prospectus or the applicable prospectus supplement, book-entry debt securities will not be issuable in certificated form.

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Certificated Debt Securities . You may transfer or exchange certificated debt securities at any office we maintain for this purpose in accordance with the terms of the indenture. No service charge will be made for any transfer or exchange of certificated debt securities, but we may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection with a transfer or exchange.

You may effect the transfer of certificated debt securities and the right to receive the principal of, and any premium and interest on, certificated debt securities only by surrendering the certificate representing those certificated debt securities and either reissuance by us or the trustee of the certificate to the new holder or the issuance by us or the trustee of a new certificate to the new holder.

Global Debt Securities and Book-Entry System . Each global debt security representing book-entry debt securities will be deposited with, or on behalf of, the Depositary, and registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary.

#### No Protection in the Event of a Change of Control
Unless we state otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, the debt securities will not contain any provisions that may afford holders of the debt securities protection in the event we have a change in control or in the event of a highly leveraged transaction (whether or not such transaction results in a change in control) that could adversely affect holders of debt securities.

#### Covenants
We will set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement any restrictive covenants applicable to any issue of debt securities.

#### Merger, Consolidation or Sale
The Operating Partnership and the Company may not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its respective properties and assets to, any person (such person, a “successor person”), unless:

(1) the Operating Partnership or the Company, as the case may be, is the surviving entity or the successor person (if other than the Operating Partnership or the Company, as the case may be) is a corporation, partnership, trust or other entity organized and validly existing under the laws of any U.S. domestic jurisdiction and expressly assumes in the case of the Operating Partnership, payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest and any redemption price due on all of the debt securities and the due and punct