Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-052437
Chunk: 23

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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 applicable meeting of stockholders may nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors if such stockholder complies with the notice procedures set forth in the Bylaws and summarized in “Stockholder Proposals and Nominations” elsewhere in this Proxy Statement. Nominees recommended by stockholders will be evaluated in the same manner as those recommended by our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Our Board of Directors adopted a written charter for the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, which is available on our corporate website at http://www.cioreit.com. Investment Committee Our Investment Committee consists of John McLernon, Mark Murski and John Sweet, and John McLernon serves as the chair of the Investment Committee. Our Investment Committee is composed only of directors who are independent in compliance with NYSE rules. The Investment Committee establishes guidelines for acquisitions and dispositions to be presented to the Board of Directors and leads the Board of Directors in its review of potential acquisitions and dispositions presented by management. The Investment Committee evaluates and approves acquisitions and dispositions with an individual purchase or sales price of less than $100 million and leads the Board of Directors in its review of acquisitions and dispositions with a purchase or sales price above $100 million. The Investment Committee makes recommendations to the Board of Directors and senior management regarding potential acquisitions and dispositions and reviews due diligence reports prepared by management conducted on all potential acquisitions. Our Board of Directors adopted a written charter for the Investment Committee, which is available on our corporate website at http://www.cioreit.com. Audit Committee Report In connection with the preparation and filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-Kfor the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024:

| • |     | Prior to the commencement of the audit, the Audit Committee discussed with the Company’s management and independent registered public accounting firm the overall scope and plans for the audit. Subsequent to the audit and each quarterly review, the Audit Committee discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm, with and without management present, the results of their examinations or reviews, including a discussion of the quality, not just the acceptability, of the accounting principles, the reasonableness of specific judgments and the clarity of disclosures in the consolidated financial statements; |

| • |     | The Audit Committee has discussed with CIO’s independent registered public accounting firm, KPMG LLP, the matters required to be discussed by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”); |

| • |     | The Audit Committee has received the written disclosures