Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-198418
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Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: DEFM14A
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 14A Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Filed by the Registrant ☒ Filed by a Party other than the Registrant ☐ Check the appropriate box:

| ☐ | Preliminary Proxy Statement |

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 14a-6(e)(2))                                                       |

| ☒ | Definitive Proxy Statement |

| ☐ | Definitive Additional Materials |

| ☐ | Soliciting Material under §240.14a-12 |

CITY OFFICE REIT, INC. (Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter) (Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant) Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box):

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 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11                                                           |

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666 Burrard Street, Suite 3210 Vancouver, BC V6C 2X8 Dear Stockholder, 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,” “CIO,” “we,” “us” or “our”), 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. At the Special Meeting, you will be asked to consider and approve the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 23, 2025 (as it may be amended from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, MCME Carell Holdings, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Parent”), and MCME Carell Merger Sub, LLC, a Maryland limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”) (such proposal, the “Merger Proposal”). Pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, upon the closing of