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 8
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 to vote your shares or vote at the Special Meeting, or fail to instruct your broker, bank or other nominee on how to vote, it will not have any effect on the outcome of either proposal. Abstentions are not considered votes cast and therefore will have no effect on the outcome of either proposal. Holders of our Preferred Stock are not entitled to vote on either the Advisory Compensation Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal. As of the Record Date, our directors and executive officers owned and were entitled to vote an aggregate of approximately 1,747,822 shares of our Common Stock, entitling them to exercise approximately 4.3% of the total combined voting power of our Common Stock at the Special Meeting. Our directors and executive officers have informed us that they intend to vote the shares that they own in favor of the Merger Proposal, in favor of the Advisory Compensation Proposal and in favor of the Adjournment Proposal, although they have no obligation to do so. Proxies; Revocation Any of our stockholders of record entitled to vote may authorize a proxy to vote his, her or its shares of Common Stock by returning the enclosed proxy card, authorizing a proxy or voting instructions by telephone or through the Internet, or by attending the Special Meeting and voting in person. If the shares of Common Stock that you own are held in “street name” by your broker, bank or other nominee, you should instruct your broker, bank or other nominee on how to vote your shares using the instructions provided by your broker. Any proxy may be revoked at any time prior to its exercise by your delivery of a properly executed, later-dated proxy card, by authorizing your proxy by telephone or through the Internet at a later date than your previously authorized proxy, by your filing a written revocation of your proxy with our Corporate Secretary or by your voting at the Special Meeting. Attendance at the Special Meeting alone will not be sufficient to revoke a previously authorized proxy. If you own Common Stock in “street name,” you may revoke or change previously granted voting instructions by following the instructions provided by the broker, bank or other nominee that is the registered owner of the shares The Merger (page 28) Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, on the closing date, the Company will merge with and into Merger Sub and the separate existence of the Company will cease, and Merger Sub will be the Surviving Entity. The Surviving Entity will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent following the Effective Time. The Merger will become effective upon the