Company: KBSR
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001482430-25-000025
Chunk: 7

Company: KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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otes will have the effect of a vote AGAINST the election of each nominee for director. Because brokers have discretionary authority to vote for the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm, in the event they do not receive voting instructions from the beneficial owner of the shares, there will not be any broker non-votes with respect to that proposal.

Your broker will send you information to instruct it on how to vote on your behalf. If you do not receive a voting instruction card from your broker, please contact your broker promptly to obtain a voting instruction card. Your vote is important to the success of the proposals. We encourage all of our stockholders whose shares are held by a broker to provide their brokers with instructions on how to vote.

Q: How will voting on any other business be conducted?

A: Although we do not know of any business to be considered at the annual meeting other than the election of directors and the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025, if any other business is properly presented at the annual meeting, your submitted proxy gives authority to Messrs. Schreiber and Waldvogel and Ms. Yamane, and each of them, to vote on such matters in accordance with the recommendation of the board of directors or, in the absence of such a recommendation, in their discretion.

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Q: When are the director nominations and stockholder proposals for the next annual meeting of stockholders due?

A: Any proposals by stockholders for inclusion in our proxy solicitation material for the next annual meeting of stockholders must be received by our Secretary, Jeffrey K. Waldvogel, at our executive offices no later than December 29, 2025. However, if we hold the next annual meeting before June 23 , 2026 or after August 22, 2026, stoc kholders must submit proposals for inclusion in our proxy statement within a reasonable time before we begin to print our proxy materials. The mailing address of our executive offices is 800 Newport Center Drive, Suite 700, Newport Beach, California 92660. If a stockholder wishes to present a proposal at the next annual meeting, whether or not the proposal is intended to be included in our proxy materials, our bylaws require that the stockholder give advance written notice to our Secretary by January 28, 2026. In addition to satisfying the foregoing