SELECT INCOME REIT (NASDAQ:SIR) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
On December20, 2018, we held a special meeting of our shareholders at which our shareholders were asked to consider and vote upon the following proposals:
1. Approval of the merger, or the Merger, of us with and into GOV MS REIT, a Maryland real estate investment trust that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Government Properties Income Trust, with GOV MS REIT as the surviving entity in the Merger, to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of September14, 2018, as it may be amended from time to time, or the Merger Agreement, by and among Government Properties Income Trust, GOV MS REIT and us and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement to which we are a party (which we refer to as the Merger Proposal); and
2. Approval of the adjournment of our special meeting of shareholders from time to time, if necessary or appropriate, including to solicit additional proxies in favor of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement to which we are a party if there are insufficient votes at the time of such adjournment to approve such proposal (which we refer to as the Adjournment Proposal).
Each of the foregoing proposals is described in detail in the definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November16, 2018.
For each of the proposals, a quorum was present. According to the report of the Inspector of Elections, the Merger Proposal was approved by the requisite vote of the holders of our common shares. The voting results for the Merger Proposal is as follows:
Merger Proposal
|
For |
Against |
Abstain |
|
61,467,331 |
8,100,906 |
796,088 |
The results reported above are final voting results.
We did not call the vote on the Adjournment Proposal as there were sufficient votes to approve the Merger Proposal.
About SELECT INCOME REIT (NASDAQ:SIR)
Select Income REIT is a real estate investment trust. The Company primarily owns single tenant, net leased properties. The Company’s segment is the ownership of properties that include buildings and leased industrial lands that are primarily net leased to single tenants. The Company owns approximately 120 properties with over 44.7 million rentable square feet. The Company’s properties include approximately 110 office and industrial properties with over 26.9 million square feet located in approximately 30 states across the mainland United States (Mainland Properties), and over 10 properties located on the island of Oahu, Hawaii (Hawaii Properties), with approximately 17.8 million rentable square feet that are primarily leased to industrial and commercial tenants. The Company’s properties’ locations include Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Kansas, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.
