Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities Announce Shareholder Approvals for Merger to Create Vivmark Residential
Merger expected to close on August 17, 2026
AvalonBay Communities, Inc. (“AvalonBay”) (NYSE: AVB) and Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) today announced that at their respective special meetings, AvalonBay stockholders and Equity Residential shareholders overwhelmingly approved all of the proposals necessary to close the pending merger of equals between AvalonBay and Equity Residential (the “merger”). More than 99% of the votes cast at the AvalonBay special meeting voted to approve the merger, which represented approximately 90% of the outstanding shares of AvalonBay common stock, as of the record date, and more than 99% of the votes cast at Equity Residential’s special meeting voted to approve the issuance of Equity Residential common shares to AvalonBay stockholders as consideration in the merger, which represented approximately 90% of the outstanding Equity Residential common shares, as of the record date.
The final voting results on the proposals voted on at the special meetings will be set forth on Form 8-Ks to be filed by each company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
