The Three Leading Independent Proxy Advisory Firms Agree the MPG Office Trust Merger With Brookfield Is in the Best Interest of Stockholders

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MPG Office Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MPG), a Southern California-focused real estate investment trust (the “Company”), announced that the nation’s leading independent proxy advisory firms, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”), Glass Lewis & Co. and Egan-Jones Proxy Services, have concluded that its proposed merger with Brookfield DTLA Holdings LLC and affiliates thereof (“Brookfield”) is in the best interest of MPG stockholders and recommended that MPG’s common stockholders vote for the transaction. The Special Meeting of Stockholders to vote on the merger is scheduled for Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 8:00 A.M., local time, at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel, 251 South Olive Street, Los Angeles, California. Common stockholders of record as of the close of business on May 24, 2013 are entitled to vote at the Special Meeting.