Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-186443
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Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: PREM14A
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 and does not have the discretion to direct the voting of the shares on a particular proposal but has discretionary voting power on other proposals at such meeting. Accordingly, if you own Common Stock through a broker, bank or other nominee (i.e., in “street name”), you must provide voting instructions in accordance with the instructions on the voting instruction card that your broker, bank or other nominee provides to you, as brokers, banks and other nominees do not have discretionary voting authority with respect to any of the three proposals described in this proxy statement. You should instruct your broker, bank or other nominee as to how to vote your shares following the directions contained in such voting instruction card. If you have not received such voting instructions or require further information regarding such voting instructions, contact your broker, bank or other nominee who can give you directions on how to vote your shares. If you hold your shares through a broker, bank or other nominee, and wish to vote at the Special Meeting, you must obtain a “legal proxy,” executed in your favor, from the broker, bank or other nominee (which may take several days). Because the Merger Proposal requires the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of our Common Stock entitled to vote on the matter at the Special Meeting, the failure to provide your bank, 25

broker or other nominee with voting instructions will have the same effect as a vote “AGAINST” the Merger Proposal. Because the approval of the Advisory Compensation Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal each requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on such proposal, and because your bank, broker or other nominee does not have discretionary authority to vote on either proposal, the failure to provide your bank, broker or other nominee with voting instructions will have no effect on approval of either proposal, assuming a quorum is present. Proxies and Revocation If you authorize a proxy, your shares will be voted at the Special Meeting as you indicate on your proxy. If no instructions are indicated when you authorize your proxy, your shares will be voted in accordance with the recommendations of the Board. The Board recommends that you vote “FOR” the Merger Proposal, “FOR” the Advisory Compensation Proposal and “FOR” the Adjournment Proposal. You may revoke your proxy at any time, but only before the proxy is voted at the Special Meeting, in any of three ways:

| • |     | by delivering, prior to the date of the Special Meeting, a written revocation of your proxy dated after the date                                                    
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