Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-186443
Chunk: 25

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 25
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ger Agreement, and an approximately 39.0% premium to the volume weighted average share price on the NYSE over the previous 30 days 
 prior to the announcement of the Merger Agreement.                                                                                                                                                                                              |

| Q: | How does the Board recommend that I vote? |

| A: | The Board recommends that you vote “FOR” the Merger Proposal, “FOR” the Advisory 
 Compensation Proposal and “FOR” the Adjournment Proposal.                        |

| Q: | Why am I being asked to consider and cast a vote on the Advisory Compensation Proposal? |

| A: | The SEC has adopted rules that require companies to seek a nonbinding, advisory vote to approve certain                                                               
 compensation that may be paid or become payable to their named executive officers that is based on or otherwise relates to corporate transactions such as the Merger. |

| Q: | What will happen if stockholders do not approve the Advisory Compensation Proposal? |

| A: | The vote to approve the Advisory Compensation Proposal is a vote separate and apart from the vote to approve 
 the Merger Proposal. Approval of this proposal is not a condition to completion of the Merger. The           |

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| vote on this proposal is an advisory vote only, and it is not binding on the Company or the Board. Further, the underlying arrangements are contractual in nature and not, by their terms, subject                                                  
 to stockholder approval. Accordingly, regardless of the outcome of the vote on the Advisory Compensation Proposal, if the Merger is completed, our named executive officers will be eligible to receive the compensation that may be paid or become 
 payable to them that is based on or otherwise relates to the Merger.                                                                                                                                                                                |

| Q: | Do any of the Company’s directors and executive officers have any interest in the Merger that is 
 different than mine?                                                                             |

| A: | Our directors and executive officers have certain interests in the Merger that are different from, or in                                                                                                                                  
 addition to, those interests of our stockholders generally. See “The Merger-Interests of Our Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger” for information about interests that our directors and executive officers have in the merger 
 that are different than yours.                                                                                                                                                                                                            |

| Q: | What do I need to do now? |

| A: | After carefully reading and considering the information contained in this proxy statement and the annexes                                                                                                                                                
 attached to this proxy statement, please vote your shares or authorize a proxy to vote your shares in one of the ways