Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-052437
Chunk: 8

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 abstentions and broker non-votestreated? A “broker non-vote”occurs when a bank, broker or other holder of record holding shares of our common stock for a beneficial owner does not vote on a particular proposal, because that holder does not have discretionary voting power for that particular item and has not received instructions from the beneficial owner. Pursuant to Maryland law, abstentions and broker non-votesare counted as present for purposes of determining the presence of a quorum. Under the rules of the NYSE, brokerage firms may have the discretionary authority to vote their customers’ shares of our common stock on certain routine matters for which they do not receive voting instructions, including the ratification of independent auditors, and thus brokers may vote at their discretion on Proposal 2 if they do not receive voting instructions from you on Proposal 2. Under the rules of the NYSE, Proposals 1, 3 and 4 are not considered “routine” matters for purposes of broker discretionary voting and therefore, brokers may not vote on Proposals 1, 3 or 4 if they do not receive voting instructions from you on Proposals 1, 3 or 4, respectively. What if I return my proxy card but do not provide voting instructions? If you return a signed proxy card but do not provide voting instructions, your shares will be voted by the proxies identified in the proxy card as follows:

| Proposal 1 — |     | For all of the Board of Directors’ six nominees for election as director. |

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| Proposal 2 — 
 Proposal 3 — |     | For the proposal to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.                                                 
 For the proposal to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Named Executive Officers for 2024 as disclosed in this Proxy Statement.                                                        |
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| Proposal 4 — |     | For the proposal to approve an amendment to our Equity Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares of our common stock available for awards made thereunder and certain other administrative changes. |

**What happens if additional matters are presented at the Annual Meeting? We know of no other matters other than the items of business described in this Proxy Statement that can be considered at the meeting. If other matters requiring a vote do arise, the persons named as proxies will have the discretion to vote on those matters for