Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-186443
Chunk: 215

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 215
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idiaries to, furnish promptly to Parent: (a) to the extent not publicly available, a copy of
each report, schedule, registration statement and other document filed by it during such period pursuant to the requirements of federal or state securities laws and (b) all other information concerning its business, properties and personnel as
the Parent Parties may reasonably request,

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including Tax Returns filed and those in preparation and the work papers of its auditors (in each case, in a manner so as to not interfere with the normal business operations of the Company or
any of the Company’s Subsidiaries); , , that the foregoing shall not require the Company to disclose any information to the extent such disclosure would contravene applicable Law. Except as expressly permitted by
this Agreement, all confidential information of the Parties shall be held confidential in accordance with the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement between Morning Calm Management, LLC and the Company dated as of July 25, 2024, as amended on
the date hereof (the “”); , , that the Company and its Representatives may, subject to the terms of Section 5.2, disclose such information to any Person that has a
reasonable need to know such information in connection with the marketing of any Potential Transfer Properties and negotiating the potential sale thereof, so long as each such Person (i) is informed of the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement
and agrees in writing to be bound by the Confidentiality Agreement as if a party thereto or (ii) enters into a confidentiality agreement with the Company in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and Parent.

Section 5.5 .

(a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, each of the parties agrees to 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 this Agreement, including
using commercially reasonable efforts to accomplish the following: (i) 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, (ii) 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