Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-198418
Chunk: 220

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 220
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 papers of its auditors (in each case, in a manner so as to not interfere with the normal business operations of the Company or
any of the Company’s Subsidiaries); , , that the foregoing shall not require the Company to disclose any information to the extent such disclosure would contravene applicable Law. Except as expressly permitted by
this Agreement, all confidential information of the Parties shall be held confidential in accordance with the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement between Morning Calm Management, LLC and the Company dated as of July 25, 2024, as amended on
the date hereof (the “”); , , that the Company and its Representatives may, subject to the terms of Section 5.2, disclose such information to any Person that has a
reasonable need to know such information in connection with the marketing of any Potential Transfer Properties and negotiating the potential sale thereof, so long as each such Person (i) is informed of the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement
and agrees in writing to be bound by the Confidentiality Agreement as if a party thereto or (ii) enters into a confidentiality agreement with the Company in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and Parent.

Section 5.5 .

(a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, each of the parties agrees to use commercially reasonable
efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions that are necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective, in the most expeditious manner practicable, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including
using commercially reasonable efforts to accomplish the following: (i) obtain all required consents, approvals or waivers from, or participation in other discussions or negotiations with, third parties, including as required under any Material
Contract, (ii) obtain all necessary actions or nonactions, waivers, consents, approvals, orders and authorizations from Governmental Entities, make all necessary registrations, declarations and filings and make all commercially reasonable
efforts to obtain an approval or waiver from, or to avoid any Action by, any Governmental Entity and (iii) execute and deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and fully to carry out the
purposes of this Agreement; , , that neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall commit to the payment of any fee, penalty or other consideration or make any other concession, waiver or amendment under any
Contract in connection with obtaining any consent without the prior written