Company: NREF
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001437749-25-007770
Chunk: 75

Company: NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: 424B5
Chunk 75
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 for the election of directors and the transaction of any business will be held annually on a date and at the time and place set by the Board. The chairman of the Board, our chief executive officer, our president or the Board may call a special meeting of our stockholders. Subject to the provisions of our bylaws and the terms of any class or series of preferred stock, a special meeting of our stockholders to act on any matter that may properly be brought before a meeting of our stockholders must also be called by our secretary upon the written request of the stockholders entitled to cast a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast on such matter at the meeting and containing the information required by our bylaws. Our secretary will inform the requesting stockholders of the reasonably estimated cost of preparing and delivering the notice of meeting (including our proxy materials), and the requesting stockholder must pay such estimated cost before our secretary is required to prepare and deliver the notice of the special meeting.

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Amendments to Our Charter and Bylaws

Except for those amendments permitted to be made without stockholder approval under the MGCL or our charter and subject to the terms of any class or series of preferred stock, our charter generally may be amended only if the amendment is first declared advisable by the Board and thereafter approved by the affirmative vote of stockholders entitled to cast a majority of all of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter. However, amendments to the provisions in our charter relating to the removal of directors and to the sentence in our charter relating to the vote required to approve such amendments must first be declared advisable by our Board and thereafter be approved by the affirmative vote of stockholders entitled to cast at least two-thirds of all of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter.

Our bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed, in whole or in part, and new bylaws may be adopted by (1) our Board or (2) our stockholders with the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter by stockholders entitled to vote generally in the election of directors.

Transactions Outside the Ordinary Course of Business

Under the MGCL, a Maryland corporation generally may not dissolve, merge or consolidate with, or convert into, another entity, sell all or substantially all of its assets or engage in a statutory share exchange unless the action is declared advisable by the Board and approved by the affirmative vote of stockholders entitled to cast at least two-thirds of the votes entitled to be cast on the