Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-198418
Chunk: 126

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 126
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Consents and Filings Subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, the parties to the Merger Agreement will use commercially reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions that are necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective, in the most expeditious manner practicable, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including using commercially reasonable efforts to accomplish the following:

| • |     | obtain all required consents, approvals or waivers from, or participation in other discussions or negotiations 
 with, third parties, including as required under any material contract;                                        |

| • |     | obtain all necessary actions or nonactions, waivers, consents, approvals, orders and authorizations from                                                                                                                     
 governmental entities, make all necessary registrations, declarations and filings and make all commercially reasonable efforts to obtain an approval or waiver from, or to avoid any action by, any governmental entity; and |

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| • |     | execute and deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated under the 
 Merger Agreement and fully to carry out the purposes of the Merger Agreement.                                  |

The Merger Agreement provides that we, Parent and Merger Sub will furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing under the rules and regulations of any applicable law in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; provided, however Parent has the sole right to control and direct all antitrust strategy in connection with review of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement by any governmental entity, or any litigation by, or negotiations with, any antitrust authority or other person relating to any antitrust law and will take the lead in all meetings, discussions, and communications with any governmental entity relating to obtaining antitrust approval from the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; provided that Parent will consult with and consider in good faith the comments of the Company in connection with any filing, communication, defense, litigation, negotiation, or strategy. The Merger Agreement further provides that, without limiting the generality of anything described in this section, each party to the Merger Agreement will:

| • |     | give the other parties prompt notice of the making or commencement of any proceeding by a governmental authority 
 with respect to the transactions;                                                                                |

| • |     | keep the other parties reasonably informed as to the status of any such proceeding described in the immediately 
 preceding bullet;                                                                                               |

| • |     | each have the right to review in advance, and to the