CommonWealth REIT announced that on March 18, 2014, Related Fund Management, LLC and Corvex Management LP (together, 'Related/Corvex') delivered to the company correspondence which included written consents from holders of the company's outstanding common shares as of the February 18, 2014 record date consenting to the proposal by Related/Corvex to remove, without cause, Ronald J. Artinian, William A. Lamkin, Ann Logan, Joseph L. Morea, Adam D. Portnoy, Barry M. Portnoy and Frederick N. Zeytoonjian as Trustees of the company and any other person or persons elected or appointed to the Board of Trustees of the company prior to the effective time of such proposal. The company has inspected the documentation provided by Related/Corvex and determined that holders of more than 2/3 of the company's outstanding common shares as of the February 18, 2014 record date consented to this proposal. Accordingly, on March 25, 2014, Ronald J. Artinian, William A. Lamkin, Ann Logan, Joseph L. Morea, Adam D. Portnoy, Barry M. Portnoy and Frederick N. Zeytoonjian certified their removal from their positions as Trustees of the company.