Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-169837
Chunk: 3

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 3
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 or those pertaining to expectations regarding the Company’s financial performance, expectations as to the likelihood and timing of closing of acquisitions, dispositions, or other transactions, the expected operating performance of the Company’s current properties, and changes in local, regional, national and international economic conditions, including as a result of the systemic and structural changes in the demand for commercial office space. Forward-looking statements presented in this Current Report are based on management’s beliefs and assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. The forward-looking statements contained in this Current Report are based on historical performance and management’s current plans, estimates and expectations in light of information currently available to the Company and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting the Company will be those that it has anticipated. Many factors, including the following, could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements set forth in this Current Report: the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement or the Phoenix Sale Agreement; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the Company and others following announcement of the Merger Agreement; the inability to complete the proposed Merger due to the failure to satisfy the conditions to the Merger, including obtaining the approval of the Company’s shareholders and other closing conditions more fully described in the Merger Agreement; risks that the proposed Merger disrupts current plans and operations of the Company; potential difficulties in employee retention as a result of the proposed Merger; legislative, regulatory and economic developments; risks related

to disruption of management’s attention from the Company’s ongoing business operations due to the proposed Merger; the effect of the announcement of the proposed Merger and the Phoenix Portfolio Sale Transaction on the Company’s relationships with tenants, operating results and business generally, changes in global, regional or local political, economic, business, competitive, market, regulatory and other factors described in the Company’s news releases and filings with the SEC, including but not limited to those described in the Form 10-Kunder the heading “Risk Factors” and in the Company’s subsequent reports filed with the SEC, many of which are beyond the Company’s control. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove to be incorrect, the Company’s actual results may vary in material respects from what it may have expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The Company cautions that you should not place undue reliance on any of its forward-looking statements