Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-186443
Chunk: 114

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 114
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 |     | real property owned and leased by us and our subsidiaries; |

| • |     | our and our subsidiaries’ leases; |

| • |     | ownership of or rights with respect to the intellectual property of us and our subsidiaries; |

| • |     | the inapplicability of restrictions on business combinations, control share acquisition, fair price, moratorium 
 or other similar antitakeover statutes or regulations;                                                          |

| • |     | the absence of any stockholder rights plan, “poison pill” anti-takeover plan or other similar device 
 in effect to which we are a party;                                                                   |

| • |     | the conduct by us and our subsidiaries of our and our subsidiaries’ businesses in compliance with                           
 applicable laws; including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder; |

| • |     | except for JLL Securities and Raymond James, the absence of any financial advisor, investment banker, broker,                                                                                      
 finder agent or other person who would be entitled to any finders’ fee or agents’ commission from the acquired companies in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; |

| • |     | the receipt by the Board of an opinion from each of JLL Securities and Raymond James; |

| • |     | our and our subsidiaries’ status under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; and |

| • |     | our and our subsidiaries’ compliance relating to privacy and the collection, processing, storage, transfer, 
 and/or use of personal information and security measures.                                                   |

Many of our representations and warranties are qualified by the concept of a “Material Adverse Effect.” Under the Merger Agreement, a “Material Adverse Effect” means any event, change, circumstance, occurrence, 73

development, effect or state of facts that (A) is or would reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the business, assets, liabilities, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole or (B) materially impairs the ability of the Company to consummate, or prevents or materially delays, the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement before the Outside Date or would reasonably be expected to do so; provided, however, that in the case of clause (A) only, Material Adverse Effect shall not include any event, change, circumstance, occurrence, development, effect or state of