Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-198418
Chunk: 2

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 2
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 a proxy to vote your shares or to vote at the Special Meeting, or fail to instruct your broker, bank or other nominee on how to vote, it will have the same effect as a vote “AGAINST” approval of the Merger. On behalf of the Board, thank you for your continued support.

| Sincerely,                                  
 James Farrar Chief Executive                
 Officer and Director City Office REIT, Inc. |

This proxy statement is dated September 8, 2025 and, together with the enclosed proxy card, is first being mailed to stockholders of the Company on or about September 8, 2025.

666 Burrard Street, Suite 3210 Vancouver, BC V6C 2X8 NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON OCTOBER 16, 2025 To the Stockholders of City Office REIT, Inc.: You are cordially invited to attend a special meeting of stockholders (including any adjournments or postponements thereof, the “Special Meeting”) of City Office REIT, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company,” “City Office” or “CIO”), on October 16, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, at the Company’s corporate office at 666 Burrard Street, Suite 3210, Vancouver, BC V6C 2X8. The Special Meeting is being held for the purpose of acting on the following matters:

| 2. | To consider and vote on a proposal to approve, on a non-binding,                                                                                                                                    
 advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers that is based on or otherwise relates to the merger (the “Advisory Compensation Proposal”); and |

| 3. | To consider and vote on a proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting to a later date, if                                                                                                                                
 necessary, for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger Proposal (the “Adjournment Proposal”). In addition, the Company’s bylaws permit the chair of 
 the Special Meeting to adjourn the Special Meeting to a later date and time.                                                                                                                                                            |

The foregoing items of business are more fully described in the attached proxy statement, which forms a part of this notice and is incorporated herein by reference. Pursuant to our bylaws, only the matters set forth in this notice of special meeting may be brought before the Special Meeting.