First Industrial Realty Trust (FR) S-8 POSRegistration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 1, 2024

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

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FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST, INC.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

On May 20, 2020, First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (the “Registrant”) filed a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration Statement No. 333-238538) (the “Registration Statement”) registering 2,750,000 shares of the common stock of the Registrant, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”) reserved for issuance under the Registrant’s 2014 Stock Incentive Plan, amended and restated as of December 1, 2018 (“2014 Plan”).

On April 30, 2024, shareholders of the Registrant approved the Registrant’s 2024 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2024 Plan”) and, in connection therewith, no further awards will be made under the 2014 Plan. As of April 30, 2024, there were 2,884,180 Common Shares registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that were authorized to be awarded by the Company under the 2014 Plan that were not issued or subject to outstanding awards granted under the 2014 Plan. Accordingly, as a result of the approval of the 2024 Plan, these 2,884,180 Common Shares are no longer available for new awards under the 2014 Plan and will not be issued under the 2014 Plan. Under the terms of the 2024 Plan, the Registrant may issue up to 4,900,000 Common Shares, which includes the 2,884,180 Common Shares that were previously registered pursuant to the Registration Statement and are no longer available for new awards under the 2014 Plan (the “Carryover Shares”).

Accordingly, pursuant to the undertaking in Item 512(a)(1)(iii) of Regulation S-K and Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 126.43, the Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to register the offer of the Carryover Shares under the 2024 Plan and reflect that the Carryover Shares available for issuance under the Registration Statement may be issued and sold under the 2024 Plan (as such shares are no longer be issuable under the 2014 Plan as of the effective date of the 2024 Plan).

Contemporaneously with the filing of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement, the Registrant is filing a Registration Statement on Form S-8 to register the 2,015,820 Common Shares authorized for issuance pursuant to the 2024 Plan, which amount excludes the Carryover Shares. No additional Common Shares are being registered by this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement.

Except to the extent specified herein, the Registration Statement as previously filed is not amended or otherwise affected by this Post-Effective Amendment thereto.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents previously or concurrently filed (file no. 1-13102) by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission are hereby incorporated by reference into this registration statement:

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this registration statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents, except that any documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this registration statement in accordance with SEC rules.

Any statement contained in the documents incorporated, or deemed to be incorporated, by reference herein or therein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this registration statement and the prospectus which is a part hereof (the “Prospectus”) to the extent that a statement contained herein or therein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by reference herein or therein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this registration statement and the Prospectus.

The following is a complete list of exhibits filed or incorporated by reference as part of this registration statement:

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, on May 1, 2024.

POWERS OF ATTORNEY

Know all persons by these presents, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Peter E. Baccile and Scott A. Musil, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or his or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.