Good afternoon. Thank you for joining Equity Commonwealth Annual Shareholder Meeting. The host for today's meeting is David Helfand, Chair of the Board of Trustees, President, and CEO. Now, I'll turn the call over to David. Thank you. I'd also like to welcome you to EQC's 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting, which is being held virtually. I'd like to introduce the officers and other trustees of the company standing for re-election. In addition to myself, our board of trustee candidates include Ellen-Blair Chube, Martin Edelman, Peter Linneman, Mary Jane Robertson, Gerald Spector, and James Star. My fellow executive officers, David Weinberg, our Chief Operating Officer, Bill Griffiths, our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, and Orrin Shifrin, our General Counsel and Secretary. Also attending the meeting today are representatives of Ernst & Young, our independent auditor. For our meeting today, we'll consider three proposals up for a vote. Once the formal business has been completed, we'll answer questions from shareholders submitted on the web portal. To begin the formal meeting, I now call to order the 2024 Equity Commonwealth Annual Meeting of Shareholders. I'll act as Chair for this meeting. Orrin will act as secretary for this meeting. Charles Zade is our Inspector of Election from Broadridge, and Charles has already taken his oath as Inspector of Election, which will be filed with the minutes of the meeting. Orrin has indicated to me that the holders of majority of the outstanding common shares are represented by shareholders participating virtually or by proxy at this meeting, and therefore, a quorum is present and the meeting may proceed. Orrin, for the record, can you identify what materials will be included as part of the minutes of this meeting? Thanks, David. The following documents will be incorporated in the company's records as part of the minutes of this meeting: A copy of the notice of meeting, a copy of the proxy statement for this meeting, an affidavit showing that each shareholder of record on the record date, April 12, 2024, was mailed the notice of Internet availability of the notice of meeting and the proxy statement, and/or the documents themselves, and a certified list of the shareholders of the company as of the record date. The certified list shows that there were 107,223,284 common shares issued and outstanding on the record date. Thanks, Orrin. We'll now consider the proposals to be voted on. Orrin, will you please walk us through the three proposals that are being voted on today? The first proposal is the election of seven trustees for one-year terms, expiring at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, as detailed in Proposal One in the proxy statement. The candidates nominated for election are David Helfand, Ellen-Blair Chube, Martin Edelman, Peter Linneman, Mary Jane Robertson, Gerald Spector, and James Star. The trustee election is uncontested. Accordingly, the affirmative vote of a majority of votes cast is required to elect each trustee nominee. The board unanimously recommends that shareholders vote for each of the nominees. The second proposal is the approval on an advisory basis of the compensation of our named executive officers, as detailed in Proposal Two of the proxy statement. The affirmative vote of a majority of votes cast is required to adopt a resolution approving, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers. The board unanimously recommends the shareholder vote for this proposal. The third proposal is the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, as detailed in Proposal Three in the proxy statement. Representatives of E&Y are present at this meeting. The affirmative vote of a majority of votes cast is required to approve the ratification of E&Y as our independent auditor, and the board has unanimously recommended that shareholders vote for this proposal. Thank you. If any shareholder would like to comment or ask a question specifically related to any of the three proposals to be voted on, you may do so now in writing on the web portal. As a reminder, there will be a general question- and- answer session after the formal meeting. With none, I will now open the voting on these three proposals. Any shareholder who hasn't yet voted or wishes to change their vote may do so now by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions. Shareholders who have sent in proxies or previously voted and do not wish to change their vote, do not need to take further action. We'll pause for voting. Seeing none, we'll call the voting on these three proposals closed. At this point, Orrin, would you provide a preliminary report of the voting results? Based on the preliminary count conducted by our Inspector of Elections and reported to me, each nominee has been elected to serve as a trustee of the company for a one-year term, expiring at the 2025 Annual Shareholder Meeting. The compensation of the company's named executive officers has been approved on an advisory basis, and the selection of Ernst & Young as an independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, has been ratified. As there are no other matters to be considered as part of the formal part of the meeting, I hereby declare the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Equity Commonwealth is now adjourned. As a final matter, we'll be happy to address shareholder questions submitted in writing on the web portal. There are none, so on behalf of our board, the EQC management team, and our employees, we thank you for participating in the Equity Commonwealth shareholders meeting today. Thank you. Goodbye. This now concludes the meeting. Thank you for joining, and have a pleasant day.
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