Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-10-07
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001193125-25-233641
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Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-07
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 8.01
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Item 8.01      Other Events.  

As previously disclosed, on July 23, 2025, City Office REIT, Inc. (NYSE: CIO) (the “ Company”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (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”). Pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, upon the closing of the transaction, the Company will merge with and into Merger Sub (the “ Merger”), with Merger Sub surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

The Company filed a definitive proxy statement (the “ Proxy Statement”) with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC”) on September 8, 2025, for the solicitation of proxies in connection with the special meeting of the Company’s stockholders to be held on October 16, 2025, seeking the requisite vote of the Company’s stockholders on matters necessary to complete the Merger. The Company commenced mailing of the Proxy Statement to its stockholders on or about September 8, 2025.

Since entering into the Merger Agreement, the Company has received, to its knowledge, thirteen demand letters from purported stockholders of the Company (the “ Demand Letters”). Further, two complaints have been filed by purported stockholders of the Company in the New York Supreme Court (the “ Complaints”). The Complaints are captioned as Eric Johnson vs. City Office REIT, Inc., et. al(Case No. 655681/2025) andAndrew Thompson v. City Office REIT, Inc., et. al(Case No. 655671/2025). The Complaints each name the Company and the members of its board of directors as defendants. The Demand Letters and Complaints assert that purportedly material information is omitted from the Proxy Statement. It is possible that additional or similar demand letters may be received by the Company, or that complaints making similar allegations may be filed naming the Company, the members of its board of directors and/or any other parties to the Merger as defendants. Absent new or different allegations that are material or a disclosure obligation under the U. S. federal securities laws, the Company will not necessarily