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
Chunk 217
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 all relevant legal, financial, regulatory and other terms, conditions, and aspects of the proposal as determined by the Board of Directors in good faith to be relevant and the
Person making the proposal, and the certainty of their financing, is (A) more favorable to the Common Shareholders of the Company from a financial point of view than the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement
(including any adjustment to the terms and conditions proposed by Parent in response to such proposal) and (B) reasonably likely of being completed on the terms proposed on a timely basis.

Section 5.3 .

(a) As promptly as practicable after the date of this Agreement (and in any event within 30 calendar days after the date hereof), the Company
shall prepare and file a Proxy Statement with the SEC in preliminary form as required by the Exchange Act. As promptly as practicable after the date of this Agreement, the Company shall, in consultation with Parent, set a preliminary record date for
the Company Stockholders Meeting and commence a broker search pursuant to Section 14a-13 of the Exchange Act in connection therewith. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to have the
Proxy Statement cleared by the SEC as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof. The Company shall obtain and, as promptly as practicable, furnish the information required to be included in the Proxy Statement, shall provide the Parent
Parties with any comments that may be received from the SEC or its staff with respect thereto, shall, as promptly as practicable, respond to any such comments made by the SEC or its staff with respect to the Proxy Statement, and shall, as promptly
as practicable, cause the Proxy Statement in definitive form to be mailed to the Company’s Common Shareholders. Prior to filing or mailing the Proxy Statement (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or responding to any comments of the SEC
with respect thereto, the Company shall give the Parent Parties and their counsel a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on such document or response and shall give due consideration to all reasonable additions, deletions or changes
suggested thereto by the Parent Parties and their counsel.

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(b) As promptly as practicable after the Proxy Statement is cleared by the SEC for mailing
to the Company’s Common Shareholders, the Company shall duly call, give notice of, convene and hold a special meeting of its Common Shareholders (the “”) solely for the purpose of obtaining
the Company Stockholder Approval and, if applicable