Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-198418
Chunk: 112

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 112
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 cash to which such
holder (or transferee) is entitled pursuant to the Merger Agreement. Exchange of book-entry shares or book-entry units representing shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock will be effected in accordance with the paying agent’s customary
procedures with respect to securities represented by book entry.

If any certificate has been lost, stolen or destroyed, then, upon the making of an
affidavit of that fact by the person claiming such certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed, to the reasonable satisfaction of Parent and the paying agent and the taking of such actions as may be reasonably requested by the paying agent,
including, if required by the Surviving Entity or the paying agent, the posting by such person of a bond in customary amount as indemnity against any claim that may be made with respect to such certificates, the Common Stock Merger Consideration or
Preferred Stock Merger Consideration, as applicable, payable in respect thereof pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the paying agent will pay in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate the cash amount payable in respect thereof
pursuant to the Merger Agreement.

Each of Parent, the Company, Merger Sub and the paying agent will be entitled to deduct and withhold, or cause to be
deducted and withheld, from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to the Merger Agreement to any person such amount as it is required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under the Code, and the rules and Treasury
Regulations promulgated thereunder, or any provision of state, local or foreign tax law, and such amounts so deducted and withheld will be treated as having been paid to the person in respect of which such deduction and withholding was made.

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As of the Effective Time, our stock transfer books will be closed and thereafter there will be no further registration of transfers of any shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time on our records. If, after the Effective Time, certificates representing such shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock are presented to the Surviving Entity for transfer, they will be cancelled and exchanged as provided in the Merger Agreement. On or after the first anniversary of the Effective Time, the Surviving Entity will be entitled to cause the paying agent to deliver to the Surviving Entity any funds made available by Parent to the paying agent which have not been disbursed to holders of certificates or book-entry shares, and thereafter such holders will be entitled to look to the Surviving Entity as general creditors therefore for payment