Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-198418
Chunk: 262

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 262
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 as a waste, pollutant or
contaminant or as hazardous, toxic, radioactive or dangerous or any other term of similar import under any Environmental Law, including but not limited to petroleum.

(s) “” means, with respect to any Person, (i) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, or with
respect to unearned advances of any kind to such Person, (ii) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (iii) all capitalized lease obligations of such Person, (iv) all obligations of
such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding current accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business, fees paid under advisory agreements and other reasonable fees paid to affiliates) and
(v) all guarantees and arrangements having the economic effect of a guarantee of such Person of any Indebtedness of any other Person.

(t) “” means all intellectual property rights that are protected by Law throughout the world,
including all U.S. and non-U.S.: (i) patents, patent applications, invention disclosures, and all related continuation,
continuations-in-part, divisionals, reissues, reexaminations, substitutions and extensions thereof, (ii) trademarks, service marks, trade dress, logos, trade names,
corporate names, Internet domain names, design rights and other source identifiers, together with the goodwill symbolized by any of the foregoing, (iii) registered and unregistered copyrights, copyrightable works and database rights,
(iv) confidential and proprietary information, including trade secrets, know-how, ideas, formulae, models, algorithms and methodologies, and (v) all applications and registrations for the foregoing.

(u) “” means any circumstance, effect or change that materially affects the business, assets or
operations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) is unknown (or if known, the probability or magnitude of consequences of which were not known) to the Company Board as of the date hereof or not reasonably foreseeable by the Company
Board, and (B) does not relate to any Acquisition Proposal; , that in no event will any of the following constitute or be taken into account in determining whether an “Intervening Event” has occurred: (1) the
receipt, terms or existence of any Acquisition Proposal or other inquiry, offer or proposal that would reasonably be expected to lead to an Acquisition Proposal, (2) the fact that, in and of itself, the market price or trading