| FORM 4 | UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 |
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
(Street)
| 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Parkway, Inc. [ PKY ] | 5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable)
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| 3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 10/11/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year) | 6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
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| Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned | ||||||||||
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| 1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) | 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) | 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) | 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) | 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) | 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) | 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) | 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4) | |||
| Code | V | Amount | (A) or (D) | Price | ||||||
| Common Stock | 10/11/2017 | A(1) | 17,023 | A | $0 | 87,018 | D | |||
| Common Stock | 10/11/2017 | D | 65,012(2) | D | (2) | 22,006 | D | |||
| Common Stock | 10/12/2017 | D | 22,006 | D | (3) | 0 | D | |||
| Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) | |||||||||||||||
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| 1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) | 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security | 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) | 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) | 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) | 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) | 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) | 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) | 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) | 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) | 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) | 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4) | ||||
| Code | V | (A) | (D) | Date Exercisable | Expiration Date | Title | Amount or Number of Shares | ||||||||
| OP Units | (4) | 10/12/2017 | D | 5,306 | (4) | (4) | Common Stock | 5,306 | (4) | 0 | D | ||||
| Explanation of Responses: |
| 1. Represents performance-based RSUs that were previously issued at the "target" performance level, and which vested on October 11, 2017 at the "stretch" performance level pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 29 2017, (the "Merger Agreement") by and among Parkway, Inc. (the "Company"), a Maryland corporation, Parkway Properties LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the "Partnership"), Real Estate Houston US Trust ("Parent"), a Delaware statutory trust and wholly-owned subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a Canadian Crown corporation ("CPPIB"), Real Estate Houston US LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent, and Real Estate Houston US LP, a Delaware limited partnership and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent ("Merger Partnership"). |
| 2. Represents 18,378 time-based RSUs and 46,634 performance-based RSUs, which fully vested and were disposed of pursuant to the Merger Agreement in exchange for $23.05 in cash per share, without interest, less any applicable tax withholding. |
| 3. Disposed of pursuant to Merger Agreement in exchange for $19.05 in cash per share, without interest, less any applicable tax withholding. |
| 4. Disposed of pursuant to the Merger Agreement in exchange for the right to receive a new partnership preferred unit of the surviving partnership following the merger of Merger Partnership with and into the Partnership, with the Partnership as the surviving entity. OP Units were derivative securities of the Company, which were redeemable for cash or, at the Company's election, shares of the Company's common stock on a one-for-one basis beginning 12 months following the date of the initial issuance of the OP unit, or at such other time as were set forth in the agreement pursuant to which the applicable OP units were issued. |
| Remarks: |
| /s/ A. Noni Holmes-Kidd, on behalf of Scott E. Francis, as Attorney-in-Fact | 10/13/2017 | |
| ** Signature of Reporting Person | Date | |
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