UNITED STATES

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PRELIMINARY PROXY STATEMENT—SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED JUNE 16, 2022

7135 S. Decatur Boulevard

Las Vegas, Nevada 89118

[            ], 2022

Dear Fellow Stockholder,

You are cordially invited to attend a special meeting (the “Special Meeting”) of stockholders of Switch, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“Switch”), to be held on [            ], 2022, at [     ] a.m., Pacific Time, at The Citadel Campus, 1 Superloop Circle, McCarran, Nevada 89434. At the Special Meeting, you will be asked to consider and vote on the merger of Sunshine Parent Merger Sub Inc., a Nevada corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (as defined below) (“Parent Merger Sub”), with and into Switch (the “Merger”) and the merger of Sunshine Merger Sub, Ltd., a Nevada limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Switch (“Company Merger Sub”) with and into Switch, Ltd., a Nevada limited liability company (“Company Ltd.”) (the “LLC Merger,” and together with the Merger, the “Mergers”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 11, 2022, by and among Switch, Company Ltd., Company Merger Sub, Sunshine Bidco Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”) and Parent Merger Sub (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms, the “Merger Agreement”). If the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement are completed, you, as a holder of shares of Class A common stock of Switch and/or units of limited liability company interests in Company Ltd. (“Company Ltd. Common Units”), will be entitled to receive $34.25 in cash, without interest, in exchange for each share of Class A common stock of Switch and each Company Ltd. Common Unit you own as of immediately prior to the effective time of the Mergers, as applicable, as more fully described in the enclosed proxy statement.

Our board of directors, acting upon the recommendation of a special transaction committee of the board of directors comprised only of independent directors (the “special committee”), has (1) duly authorized and approved the execution, delivery and performance by Switch, Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub of the Merger Agreement and the consummation by Switch, Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, (2) determined the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the LLC Merger and the Merger, to be advisable and in the best interests of Switch, Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub, respectively, and their respective stockholders or equity holders, as applicable, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, (3) directed that the Merger be submitted for consideration at a special meeting of Switch’s stockholders and (4) recommended that Switch’s stockholders approve the Merger. Our board of directors and the special committee recommend that you vote “FOR” the approval of the Merger.

The Merger must be approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock entitled to be cast on the matter, each voting separately. The Notice of Special Meeting and proxy statement accompanying this letter provide you with more specific information concerning the Special Meeting, the Merger, the Merger Agreement and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. We encourage you to read carefully the enclosed proxy statement, including the annexes. You may also obtain more information about Switch from us or from documents we have filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Please note that as part of our precautions regarding the coronavirus or COVID-19, we may determine that the Special Meeting be held solely by means of remote communication rather than in person. If we take this step, we will announce the decision to do so in advance and provide details on how record holders of our common stock may attend virtually and participate in the Special Meeting via a press release issued by Switch and made available on our website, www.switch.com. We will also file the press release with the SEC as definitive additional solicitation material.

Your vote is very important regardless of the number of shares of Switch common stock that you own. Whether or not you plan to attend the Special Meeting in person, or in the event the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, we request that you authorize a proxy to vote your shares by either completing and returning the enclosed proxy card as promptly as possible or authorizing your proxy or voting instructions by telephone or through the Internet. The enclosed proxy card contains instructions regarding voting. If you attend the Special Meeting, you may continue to have your shares voted as instructed in your proxy, or you may withdraw your proxy at the Special Meeting and vote your shares in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually. If you fail to vote by proxy or in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or fail to instruct your broker on how to vote, it will have the same effect as a vote “AGAINST” approval of the Merger.

On behalf of the board of directors, thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Rob Roy Chair of the Board of Directors and CEO	Thomas Morton President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

This proxy statement is dated [            ], 2022, and is first being mailed to our stockholders on or about [             ], 2022.

7135 S. Decatur Boulevard

Las Vegas, Nevada 89118

[            ], 2022

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

To the Stockholders of Switch, Inc.:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the special meeting of stockholders (the “Special Meeting”) of Switch, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“Switch”), will be held on [            ], [            ], 2022, at [            ] a.m., Pacific Time, at The Citadel Campus, 1 Superloop Circle, McCarran, Nevada 89434, for the following purposes:

1. To consider and vote on a proposal to approve the merger (the “Merger”) of Sunshine Parent Merger Sub Inc., a Nevada corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (as defined below) (“Parent Merger Sub”) with and into Switch pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 11, 2022, (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms, the “Merger Agreement”), among Switch, Switch, Ltd., a Nevada limited liability company (“Company Ltd.”), Sunshine Merger Sub, Ltd., a Nevada limited liability company and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Switch (“Company Merger Sub”), Parent Merger Sub and Sunshine Bidco Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”);

2. To consider and vote on a proposal to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Merger and the merger of Company Merger Sub with and into Company Ltd. (together with the Merger, the “Mergers”); and

3. To consider and vote on a proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

The foregoing items of business are more fully described in the attached proxy statement, which forms a part of this notice and is incorporated herein by reference. Pursuant to our bylaws, only the matters set forth in this Notice of Special Meeting may be brought before the Special Meeting. Our board of directors has fixed the close of business on [            ], 2022 as the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the Special Meeting or any postponement or adjournment thereof. We know of no other matters to come before the Special Meeting. Only stockholders of record of our Class A common stock and Class B common stock at the close of business on [            ], 2022, are entitled to notice of and to vote at the Special Meeting or at any postponements or adjournments thereof. On or around [            ], 2022, we intend to make the proxy statement available on the Internet and to commence mailing of this Notice to all stockholders entitled to vote at the Special Meeting.

We currently intend to hold the Special Meeting in person. However, we are actively monitoring the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic and are sensitive to the public health and travel concerns that our stockholders may have, as well as protocols that federal, state, and local governments may impose. If it is not possible or advisable to hold the Special Meeting in person, we may determine that the Special Meeting be held solely by means of remote communication rather than in person. If so, we will announce alternative arrangements for the meeting as promptly as practicable, which may include changing the time, date or location of the Special Meeting or switching to a virtual meeting format. Any such change will be announced via press release and the filing of additional proxy materials with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Our board of directors and the special committee have approved the Merger Agreement and determined the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the Mergers, to be advisable and in the best interests of Switch and our stockholders. Our board of directors and the special committee recommends that you vote “FOR” the proposal to approve the Merger, “FOR” the proposal to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers, and “FOR” the proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

The Merger must be approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock entitled to be cast on the matter, each voting separately. Accordingly, your vote is very important regardless of the number of shares of Switch common stock that you own. Whether or not you plan to attend the Special Meeting in person, or in the event the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, we request that you authorize a proxy to vote your shares by either marking, signing, dating and promptly returning the enclosed proxy card in the postage-paid envelope or authorizing your proxy or voting instructions by telephone or through the Internet. If you attend the Special Meeting, you may continue to have your shares voted as instructed in your proxy, or you may withdraw your proxy at the Special Meeting and vote your shares in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, by following the procedures outlined in the attached proxy statement or, if the Special Meeting is held virtually, in the press release issued by Switch. If you fail to vote by proxy or in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or fail to instruct your broker, bank or other nominee on how to vote, the effect will be that the shares of common stock that you own will not be counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at the Special Meeting and will have the same effect as a vote “AGAINST” the proposal to approve the Merger. The approval of the proposal regarding the non-binding, advisory vote on the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers, and the approval of the proposal regarding any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger, each requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on the proposal. If you fail to vote by proxy or in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or fail to instruct your broker on how to vote, it will have no effect on the outcome of such proposals. Abstentions, while present for purposes of determining presence of a quorum, are not considered votes cast and therefore will have no other effect on the outcome of these proposals.

Any proxy may be revoked at any time prior to its exercise by voting again over the Internet or by telephone prior to 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on [                ], signing and returning another proxy card with a later date, provided we receive the updated proxy card before the date of the Special Meeting, or voting in person at the Special Meeting, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually. Attendance alone will not be sufficient to revoke a previously authorized proxy.

We encourage you to read the accompanying proxy statement in its entirety and to submit a proxy or voting instructions so that your shares of common stock will be represented and voted even if you do not attend the Special Meeting. If you have any questions or need assistance in submitting a proxy or your voting instructions, please call our proxy solicitor, MacKenzie Partners, Inc., toll-free at (800) 322-2885.

Regardless of the number of shares of Switch common stock you hold, as a stockholder your role is very important, and the board of directors strongly encourages you to exercise your right to vote.

By order of the Board of Directors

Thomas Morton

President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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SUMMARY		1
The Parties to the Mergers		1
The Special Meeting		3
The Mergers		5
Recommendation of Our Board of Directors and the Special Committee		5
Opinion of the Special Committee’s Financial Advisor		5
Treatment of Common Stock		6
Treatment of Equity Awards		6
Treatment of Interests in Company Ltd.		7
Treatment of Interests in Company Merger Sub		7
Financing		7
Amendment to the Tax Receivable Agreement		8
Rollover Agreements		9
Voting and Support Agreements		9
Purchase and Sale Agreement		9
Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Mergers		10
Restriction on Solicitation of Company Takeover Proposals		10
Conditions to the Mergers		10
Termination of the Merger Agreement		11
Termination Fees		12
Guarantees and Remedies		14
Regulatory Matters		14
Dissenters’ Rights		16
Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences		16
Delisting and Deregistration of Our Class A Common Stock		16
Market Price of Our Class A Common Stock		17
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE SPECIAL MEETING AND THE MERGERS		18
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS		26
PROPOSAL 1: PROPOSAL TO APPROVE THE MERGER		28
PROPOSAL 2: PROPOSAL TO APPROVE THE MERGER-RELATED COMPENSATION		29
PROPOSAL 3: PROPOSAL TO APPROVE ADJOURNMENT OF THE MEETING		30
THE PARTIES TO THE MERGERS		31
THE SPECIAL MEETING		33
Date, Time and Purpose of the Special Meeting		33
Record Date, Notice and Quorum		33
Required Vote		34
Solicitation of Proxies		35
Voting of Shares		35
Proxies and Revocation		36
Availability of Proxy Materials for the Special Meeting		37
Adjournments and Postponements		37
Voting in Person, Attendance at the Special Meeting		38
Stockholder List		38
The Mergers		39
General Description of the Mergers		39
Background of the Mergers		39
Reasons for the Mergers		47
Recommendation of the Board of Directors and the Special Committee		52
Certain Unaudited Financial Projections		52

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Opinion of the Special Committee’s Financial Advisor	54
Financing	61
Amendment to the Tax Receivable Agreement	64
Rollover Agreements	65
Voting and Support Agreements	66
Purchase and Sale Agreements	67
Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Mergers	67
Certain Assumptions	67
Treatment of Outstanding Equity Awards	69
Treatment of Company Ltd. Common Units	70
Severance Benefits	71
Treatment of Annual Bonus	72
Potential Employment Arrangements with Parent	72
Employee Benefits	72
Indemnification and Insurance	72
Quantification of Potential Payments and Benefits to Our Named Executive Officers in Connection with the Mergers	73
Regulatory Matters	74
Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences	76
Delisting and Deregistration of Our Class A Common Stock	79
Guarantees and Remedies	80
Certain Effects of the Mergers	81
Effects on the Company if the Mergers Are Not Consummated	81
Legal Proceedings Regarding the Mergers and the Transactions Contemplated Thereby	82
Dissenters’ Rights	82
Dividends	83
THE MERGER AGREEMENT	84
Structure	84
Effective Times; Closing Date	85
Organizational Documents	85
Directors and Officers	86
Treatment of Common Stock and Equity Awards	86
Treatment of Interests in Company Ltd.	87
Certain Dividends	87
No Further Ownership Rights	88
Exchange and Payment Procedures	88
Representations and Warranties	89
Conduct of Our Business Pending the Mergers	94
Special Meeting	98
Agreement to Take Certain Actions	98
Restriction on Solicitation of Company Takeover Proposals	100
Obligation of the Board of Directors with Respect to Its Recommendation	102
Employee Matters	104
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification and Insurance	105
Financing Cooperation	107
Certain Other Covenants	109
Conditions to the Mergers	110
Termination of the Merger Agreement	111
Termination Fees	113
Guarantees and Remedies	114
Expenses	115
Amendment and Waiver	115

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MARKET PRICE OF OUR CLASS A COMMON STOCK	116
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS	117
DISSENTERS’ RIGHTS	121
STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS	123
HOUSEHOLDING	124
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION	125
Available Information	125
Other Matters	126
ANNEX A: Agreement and Plan of Merger	A-1
ANNEX B: Opinion of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC	B-1
ANNEX C: Nevada Dissenters’ Rights Statute	C-1

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SUMMARY

This summary highlights only selected information from this proxy statement relating to (1) the merger of Sunshine Parent Merger Sub Inc. (“Parent Merger Sub”) with and into Switch, Inc. (the “Company”) (the “Merger”), (2) the merger of Sunshine Merger Sub, Ltd. (“Company Merger Sub”) with and into Switch, Ltd. (“Company Ltd.”) (the “LLC Merger”), and (3) certain related transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. References to the Mergers refer to both the Merger and the LLC Merger. This summary does not contain all of the information about the Mergers and related transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement that may be important to you. As a result, to understand the Mergers and the related transactions fully and for a more complete description of the terms of the Mergers and related transactions, you should read carefully this proxy statement in its entirety, including the annexes and the other documents to which we have referred you, including the Merger Agreement attached as Annex A. Each item in this summary includes a page reference directing you to a more complete description of that item. This proxy statement is first being mailed to our stockholders on or about [              ], 2022.

The Parties to the Mergers (page 31)

Switch, Inc.

7135 S. Decatur Boulevard

Las Vegas, NV 89118

(702) 444-4111

Switch, Inc. (“Switch,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a Nevada corporation and is the independent leader in exascale data center ecosystems, edge data center designs, industry-leading telecommunications solutions and next-generation technology innovation. Switch Founder and CEO Rob Roy has developed more than 700 issued and pending patent claims covering data center designs that have manifested into the Company’s world-renowned data centers and technology solutions. Switch’s website is www.switch.com. The information found on, or otherwise accessible through, our website is not incorporated into, and does not form a part of, this proxy statement or any other report or document we file with or furnish to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Our shares of common stock are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “SWCH.” For additional information about the Company and our business, please refer to “Where You Can Find Additional Information.”

Switch, Ltd.

7135 S. Decatur Boulevard

Las Vegas, NV 89118

(702) 444-4111

Switch, Ltd. (“Company Ltd.”) is a Nevada limited liability company. Switch is the sole manager voting member of Company Ltd., and includes the accounts of Company Ltd. in its consolidated financial statements. In addition to differences in their respective ownership, the primary difference between Switch and Company Ltd. is that Switch issues publicly traded common stock to investors (including employees and board members). Switch’s principal asset is its interest in Company Ltd.

Sunshine Merger Sub, Ltd.

7135 S. Decatur Boulevard

Las Vegas, NV 89118

(702) 444-4111

Sunshine Merger Sub, Ltd. (“Company Merger Sub”) is a Nevada limited liability company. Switch is the sole member of Company Merger Sub. Company Merger Sub was formed solely for purposes of facilitating the

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acquisition of Company Ltd. and has not carried on any activities to date, except for activities incidental to its formation and activities undertaken in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, at the LLC Merger Effective Time (as defined below), Company Merger Sub will merge with and into Company Ltd., and Company Ltd. will continue as the surviving entity.

Sunshine Bidco Inc.

c/o DigitalBridge Investments, LLC

750 Park of Commerce Drive, Suite 210

Boca Raton, FL 33487

(561) 570-4644

and

c/o IFM Investors (US) LLC

114 West 47th Street, 19th Floor

New York, NY 10036

(212) 784-2260

Sunshine Bidco Inc. (“Parent”) is a Delaware corporation that is controlled by funds affiliated with DigitalBridge (as defined below) and IFM GIF (as defined below) that was formed solely for the purposes of entering into the Merger Agreement and related agreements and consummating the transactions contemplated thereby. Parent has not engaged in any business activities other than in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and arranging of the equity financing and debt financing in connection with the Mergers. Upon the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and related agreements, the Company will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

Sunshine Parent Merger Sub Inc.

c/o DigitalBridge Investments, LLC

750 Park of Commerce Drive, Suite 210

Boca Raton, FL 33487

(561) 570-4644

and

c/o IFM Investors (US) LLC

114 West 47th Street, 19th Floor

New York, NY 10036

(212) 784-2260

Sunshine Parent Merger Sub Inc. (“Parent Merger Sub”) is a Nevada corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent that was formed solely for the purposes of entering into the Merger Agreement and related agreements and consummating the transactions contemplated thereby. Parent Merger Sub has not engaged in any business activities other than in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and arranging of the equity financing and debt financing in connection with the Mergers. Upon completion of the Merger, Parent Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, and will cease to exist.

Parent and Parent Merger Sub are each affiliated with (1) investment funds controlled by DigitalBridge Partners II, LP (“DigitalBridge”) and (2) IFM Global Infrastructure Fund (“IFM GIF”).

DigitalBridge is an affiliate of DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (NYSE: DBRG), a leading global digital infrastructure firm managing an approximately $47 billion portfolio of digital infrastructure assets on behalf of its limited partners and shareholders.

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IFM GIF is an open-ended global infrastructure fund invested in core infrastructure assets predominantly in Europe and North America and selectively in other regions. IFM GIF is a Cayman Island unit trust. The trustee of IFM GIF is Conyers Trust Company (Cayman) Limited. IFM GIF is advised by IFM Investors Pty Ltd, a global institutional funds manager with approximately US $133 billion under management (as at December 31, 2021) on behalf of more than 550 institutional investors (IFM Investors Pty Ltd, together with its affiliates and funds managed or advised by it or its affiliates, “IFM”).

The Special Meeting (page 33)

The Proposals

The special meeting of our stockholders (the “Special Meeting”) will be held on [              ], 2022, at [     ] a.m., Pacific Time, at 1 Superloop Circle, McCarran, Nevada 89434. At the Special Meeting, holders of our shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class A common stock”) and Class B common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class B common stock,” and together with the Class A common stock, the “common stock”), as of the record date, which was the close of business on [ ], 2022 (the “Record Date”), will be asked to consider and vote on (1) a proposal to approve the Merger, (2) a proposal to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers, and (3) a proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

Pursuant to our bylaws and in accordance with Nevada law, only the matters set forth in the Notice of Special Meeting may be brought before the Special Meeting.

As part of our precautions regarding the coronavirus or COVID-19, we may determine that the Special Meeting be held solely by means of remote communication rather than in person. If we take this step, we will announce the decision to do so in advance and provide details on how to participate in the meeting, via a press release issued by Switch and made available on our website, www.switch.com. We will also file the press release with the SEC as definitive additional solicitation material. Holders of shares of common stock in “street name” who desire to attend the meeting are encouraged to contact their brokers and other nominees for instructions on how they may attend.

Record Date, Notice and Quorum

All holders of record of our Class A common stock and Class B common stock as of the Record Date, which was the close of business on [              ], 2022, are entitled to receive notice of and attend and vote at the Special Meeting or any postponement or adjournment of the Special Meeting. Each stockholder will be entitled to cast one vote on each matter presented at the Special Meeting for each share of Class A common stock and each share of Class B common stock that such holder owned as of the Record Date. On the Record Date, there were [ ] shares of Class A common stock and [ ] shares of Class B common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Special Meeting.

The presence in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or by proxy of our holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock entitled to be cast at the Special Meeting, each voting separately, will constitute a quorum for purposes of the Special Meeting. A quorum is necessary to transact business at the Special Meeting. Abstentions will be counted as shares present for the purposes of determining the presence of a quorum. If a quorum is not present at the Special Meeting, we expect that the Special Meeting will be adjourned to a later date. Pursuant to our bylaws, if a quorum is not present, the stockholders entitled to vote at the Special Meeting, present in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or by proxy, will have the power to

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adjourn the meeting without notice other than announcement at the meeting. The Special Meeting may also be adjourned for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

Required Vote

Completion of the Mergers requires approval of the Merger by the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock entitled to be cast on the matter, each voting separately. Each stockholder is entitled to cast one vote on each matter presented at the Special Meeting for each share of Class A common stock and each share of Class B common stock owned by such stockholder on the Record Date. Because the required vote for this proposal is based on the number of votes our holders of common stock are entitled to cast rather than on the number of votes cast, if you fail to vote by proxy or in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually (including by abstaining), or fail to instruct your broker on how to vote, such failure will have the same effect as voting against the proposal to approve the Merger.

The approval of the proposal regarding the non-binding, advisory vote on the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers, and the approval of the proposal regarding any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger, each requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on the proposal. Approval of these proposals is not a condition to completion of the Mergers. For the purpose of each of these proposals, if you fail to vote by proxy or in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or fail to instruct your broker on how to vote, it will not have any effect on the outcome of such proposals, assuming a quorum is otherwise present at the Special Meeting. Abstentions, while present for purposes of determining presence of a quorum, are not considered votes cast and therefore will have no other effect on the outcome of these proposals.

As of the Record Date, our directors and executive officers owned and are entitled to vote an aggregate of approximately [                ] shares of Class A common stock and [                  ] shares of Class B common stock, entitling them to exercise approximately [     ]% of the voting power of Class A common stock, [     ]% of the voting power of Class B common stock and [     ]% of the voting power of our common stock entitled to vote at the Special Meeting. Our directors and executive officers have informed us that they intend to vote the common stock that they own in favor of the proposal to approve the Merger, in favor of the proposal regarding the non-binding, advisory vote on the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers and in favor of the proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

Proxies; Revocation

Any of our stockholders of record entitled to vote may authorize a proxy to vote his, her or its common stock by returning the enclosed proxy card, authorizing a proxy or voting instructions by telephone or through the Internet, or by appearing and voting at the Special Meeting in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually. If the shares of common stock that you own are held in “street name” by your broker, you should instruct your broker on how to vote your shares using the instructions provided by your broker.

Any proxy may be revoked at any time prior to its exercise by voting again over the Internet or by telephone prior to 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on [              ], 2022, signing and returning another proxy card with a later date,

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provided we receive the updated proxy card before the date of the Special Meeting, or voting in person at the Special Meeting, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually. Attendance alone will not be sufficient to revoke a previously authorized proxy.

The Mergers (page 39)

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, on the closing date, Parent Merger Sub will merge with and into Switch and the separate existence of Parent Merger Sub will cease, and Switch will continue as the surviving entity in the Merger. We use the term Surviving Company in this proxy statement to refer to Switch following the effective time of the Merger.

The Merger will become effective upon the later of (1) the acceptance for record of the articles of merger with respect to the Merger by the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada or (2) such other date and time as may be mutually agreed to by us and Parent and specified in the articles of merger. We use the term Effective Time in this proxy statement to refer to the time the Merger becomes effective. Under the Merger Agreement, the Effective Time will occur prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time.

Promptly following the Merger, on the closing date, Company Merger Sub will merge with and into Company Ltd. and the separate existence of Company Merger Sub will cease, and Company Ltd. will be the surviving limited liability company in the LLC Merger. We use the term Surviving Company Ltd. in this proxy statement to refer to Company Ltd. following the LLC Merger Effective Time.

The LLC Merger will become effective at the time the filing of articles of merger with respect to the LLC Merger has been accepted by the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada or such other date and time as may be mutually agreed to by the Company and Parent and specified in the LLC articles of merger. We use the term LLC Merger Effective Time in this proxy statement to refer to the time the LLC Merger becomes effective. Under the Merger Agreement, the LLC Merger Effective Time will occur promptly following the Effective Time.

Recommendation of Our Board of Directors and the Special Committee (page 52)

Our board of directors and a special committee of the board of directors comprised only of independent directors (the “special committee”) has:

• duly authorized and approved the execution, delivery and performance of the Merger Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby;

• determined the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the LLC Merger and the Merger, to be advisable and in the best interests of Switch and our stockholders on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement; and

• recommended that you vote “FOR” the proposal to approve the Merger, “FOR” the proposal to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers, and “FOR” the proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

Opinion of the Special Committee’s Financial Advisor (page 54)

Opinion of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (“Goldman Sachs”) delivered its opinion to the special committee of the board of directors of Switch that, as of May 11, 2022 and based upon and subject to the factors and assumptions set

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forth therein, the $34.25 in cash per share of Switch’s Class A common stock to be paid to the holders (other than Parent and its affiliates) of the outstanding shares of Switch’s Class A common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement was fair from a financial point of view to such holders.

The full text of the written opinion of Goldman Sachs, dated May 11, 2022, which sets forth assumptions made, procedures followed, matters considered and limitations on the review undertaken in connection with the opinion, is attached as Annex B. Goldman Sachs provided advisory services and its opinion for the information and assistance of the special committee in connection with its consideration of the Merger. The Goldman Sachs opinion is not a recommendation as to how any holder of shares of Switch’s Class A common stock or any other securities of Switch should vote with respect to the Merger or any other matter. The engagement letter between the special committee and Goldman Sachs provides for a transaction fee that is estimated, based on the information available as of the date of the announcement of the Merger, at approximately $47,000,000 all of which is contingent upon consummation of the Merger.

Treatment of Common Stock (page 86)

The Merger Agreement provides that, at the Effective Time, each share of Class A common stock (other than any of our shares of Class A common stock owned by the Company as treasury stock, by any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company immediately prior to the Effective Time (the “excluded shares”), which will automatically be cancelled and retired and will cease to exist with no consideration being delivered in exchange therefor) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically be converted into the right to receive an amount in cash equal to $34.25, without interest (the “merger consideration”). The Merger Agreement further provides that, at the Effective Time, each share of Class B common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically be cancelled and will cease to exist, and each holder of Class B common stock will no longer have any rights with respect to these shares, subject to (1) the right of the holder of any related Company Ltd. Common Units (as defined below), other than any Rollover Member (as defined below) with respect to its Rollover Units (as defined below), to receive the merger consideration and (2) applicable law in the case of dissenting shares (as defined below).

Treatment of Equity Awards (page 86)

Stock Options. Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each option to purchase shares of common stock granted under Switch’s equity plan (each, an “option”) that is outstanding and unexercised immediately prior to the Effective Time, whether vested or unvested, shall be cancelled in exchange for the right to receive a cash payment (without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes), equal to (1) the number of shares of common stock for which such option had not been exercised multiplied by (2) the excess, if any, of the merger consideration over the exercise price per share of such option, rounded down to the nearest cent. For the avoidance of doubt, if the exercise price per share of any option, is equal to or greater than the merger consideration, such option will be cancelled without payment of any consideration to the holder thereof.

Restricted Shares. Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each restricted share subject to forfeiture conditions granted under Switch’s equity plan or otherwise (each, a “restricted share award”) that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically become fully vested and converted into the right to receive a cash payment in an amount equal to the merger consideration, without interest.

Restricted Stock Unit Awards. Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each restricted stock unit award that corresponds to common stock granted under Switch’s equity plan and that vests solely based on the passage of time (each, a “restricted stock unit award”) that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically become fully vested and cancelled in exchange for the right to receive a cash payment in an

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amount equal to (1) the product of (A) the number of shares of common stock subject to such restricted stock unit award as of immediately prior to the Effective Time and (B) the merger consideration, plus (2) the amount of any accrued dividend equivalents with respect to such restricted stock unit award that remain unpaid as of the Effective Time, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes.

Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Awards. Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each restricted stock unit award that corresponds to common stock granted under Switch’s equity plan and that vests based on the achievement of performance goals (each, a “performance-based restricted stock unit award”) that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically become fully vested and cancelled in exchange for the right to receive a cash payment in an amount equal to (1) the product of (A) the number of shares of common stock subject to the performance-based restricted stock unit award immediately prior to the Effective Time as determined based on the actual achievement of performance goals in accordance with the terms of the applicable award agreement and (B) the merger consideration, plus (2) the amount of any accrued dividend equivalents with respect to such performance-based restricted stock unit award that remain unpaid as of the Effective Time, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes.

Treatment of Interests in Company Ltd. (page 87)

In connection with the LLC Merger, each unit of limited liability company interest in Company Ltd. (“Company Ltd. Common Unit”) (other than any Company Ltd. Common Unit owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or any of its subsidiaries immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time or Rollover Units (together, the “Excluded Company Ltd. Common Units”)) that are issued and outstanding immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time and all rights in respect thereof will be automatically converted into the right to receive the merger consideration. Each Excluded Company Ltd. Common Unit will be unaffected by the LLC Merger and will remain outstanding as a unit of Surviving Company Ltd.

Treatment of Interests in Company Merger Sub (page 87)

In connection with the LLC Merger, each unit of interest of Company Merger Sub (“Company Merger Sub Common Unit”) that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time will be automatically exchanged for a number of units of the Surviving Company Ltd. equal to the number of Company Ltd. Common Units (other than Excluded Company Ltd. Common Units) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time.

Financing (page 61)

The merger is not conditioned on Parent’s receipt of any financing. Parent plans to fund the merger consideration with committed equity financing and debt financing, as described below.

Equity Financing

Parent has entered into equity commitment letters with DigitalBridge and IFM GIF, each dated May 11, 2022 (the “equity commitment letters”), pursuant to which DigitalBridge has committed to directly or indirectly contribute to Parent an aggregate amount in cash equal to $2.895 billion and IFM GIF has committed to directly or indirectly contribute to Parent an aggregate amount in cash equal to $1.930 billion, in each case, simultaneously with the closing of the Mergers, which will be used by Parent, together with the Debt Financing as defined and described below, solely to fund each such fund’s pro rata share of (1) Parent’s payment obligations at the closing of the Mergers under the Merger Agreement, including payment of the merger consideration and (2) all other fees and expenses of Parent and Parent Merger Sub related to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement which are payable by Parent under the Merger

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Agreement (collectively, the “payment obligations”). The equity commitment will be reduced as agreed by the investors under the equity commitment letters solely in the event Parent does not require all of the funds contemplated by the equity financing with respect to which an investor has made an equity commitment to satisfy the payment obligations in full at the closing of the Mergers. Funding of the equity commitments is subject to the terms, conditions and limitations set forth in the equity commitment letters, which include (i) the satisfaction or waiver of all conditions precedent to Parent’s obligation to the closing of the Mergers set forth in the Merger Agreement (except those conditions that by their nature cannot be satisfied except by actions to be taken at the closing, provided that such conditions are actually satisfied or validly waived at the closing), (ii) the substantially concurrent funding of the initial mortgage loans and the other equity commitments and (iii) the substantially concurrent consummation of the closing of the Mergers. See “The Mergers — Financing— Equity Financing” for additional information.

Debt Financing

Additionally, The Toronto-Dominion Bank, New York Branch (“TD”), Royal Bank of Canada (“RBC”), Societe Generale (“SG”), and Citizens Banks, N.A. (“Citizens” and, together with TD, RBC and SG, the “debt financing sources”) have committed to provide Parent, severally but not jointly, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the debt commitment letters, debt financing in an aggregate amount of $5.795 billion, consisting of a revolving credit facility of up to $100 million (with the ability to increase up to $150 million) and mortgage loans of up to $5.695 billion (with the ability to obtain an additional $1 billion of proceeds within two (2) years of closing) (collectively, the “Debt Financing”), which may be used to consummate the Mergers, refinance existing Company debt, establish any required reserves under the applicable credit facilities and pay related fees, costs and expenses, to the extent that Parent does not obtain alternative financing, in lieu of such Debt Financing, at or prior to the closing of the Mergers. See “The Mergers — Financing— Debt Financing” for additional information.

Amendment to the Tax Receivable Agreement (page 64)

Concurrent with the initial public offering of shares of its Class A common stock, the Company entered into a Tax Receivable Agreement, dated as of October 5, 2017, by and among the Company, Company Ltd. and the members of Company Ltd. party thereto (the “TRA”). The TRA provided for payment by the Company to members of Company Ltd. party to the TRA and their assignees (the “TRA beneficiaries”) of approximately 85% of the amount of the calculated tax savings, if any, the Company will realize due to (i) increases in tax basis resulting from the redemption of Company Ltd. Common Units and (ii) certain other tax benefits attributable to payments made under the TRA. Pursuant to its terms, amendment of the TRA requires the approval of members of Company Ltd. whose rights are attributable to at least 70% of the Company Ltd. Common Units outstanding (and not held by the Company) immediately after the Company’s initial public offering (as appropriately adjusted for any subsequent changes to the number of outstanding Company Ltd. Common Units (the “Supermajority Threshold”).

As a result of negotiation by the special committee, on May 11, 2022, in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, the Company, Company Ltd. and members of Company Ltd. satisfying the Supermajority Threshold entered into, which was concurrently publicly filed, an amendment to the TRA (the “TRA Amendment”). The TRA Amendment establishes that in exchange for the termination of the TRA and all payment obligations of the Company associated therewith, the members to the TRA (other than the Company) will be entitled to receive a payment in cash from the Company of $0.37 per Company Ltd. Common Unit (such implied price equating to $5.89 per share of Class A common stock if there were no reduction in the amount of aggregate accelerated change of control payments required to be made under the then-current terms of the TRA) in connection with the closing of the Mergers in full satisfaction of the payment obligations to the TRA beneficiaries under the TRA. Such payments will be made by the Company as promptly as practicable following the earlier of (i) the closing of the Mergers (or any other change of control of the Company (as defined in the TRA)), or (ii) December 31, 2022. This represents a

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reduction of approximately $1,121 million, which is an approximately 93.72% reduction of the estimated aggregate amount of approximately $1,196 million that would have otherwise been payable to the TRA beneficiaries under the TRA in respect of a change of control of the Company at the implied price per share of Class A common stock offered by Parent, absent the TRA Amendment. It is a condition of the obligation of Parent and Parent Merger Sub to effect the Mergers that the TRA Amendment be in full force and effect. For more information, please see the section of this proxy statement captioned “The Mergers—Amendment to the Tax Receivable Agreement.”

Rollover Agreements (page 65)

Concurrent with the execution of the Merger Agreement and as a condition and inducement to the willingness of Parent and Parent Merger Sub to enter into the Merger Agreement, Rob Roy, the Company’s CEO, founder and chairman, and Thomas Morton, the Company’s President and Chief Legal Officer, executed Rollover and Contribution Agreements, dated as of May 11, 2022 (each, a “Rollover Agreement” and collectively, the “Rollover Agreements”), providing that Rob Roy and Thomas Morton (together, the “Rollover Members”) will contribute to Parent approximately $424.3 million worth of Company Ltd. Common Units (the “Rollover Units”) in the aggregate in exchange for a number of equity interests of Parent or one or more of its parent entities. The Rollover Members’ contribution of the Rollover Units to Parent in exchange for equity interests of Parent or one or more of its parent entities will occur immediately prior to the closing. The obligation of Parent and Parent Merger Sub to effect the Mergers is subject to the Rollover Members having complied with their rollover obligations in the Rollover Agreements.

Other members of the Company management team may also be invited to rollover a portion of their equity interests in amounts to be mutually agreed upon between such member and Parent. Prior to the Effective Time, Parent may initiate negotiations of these agreements and/or arrangements, and may enter into definitive agreements regarding the right to participate in the equity interests of Parent or one or more of its parent entities following the completion of the Mergers.

For more information, please see the section of this proxy statement captioned “The Mergers—Rollover Agreements.”

Voting and Support Agreements (page 66)

Concurrent with the execution of the Merger Agreement, Parent or the Company entered into Voting and Support Agreements (each, a “Voting and Support Agreement” and collectively, the “Voting and Support Agreements”) with certain stockholders of the Company (including members of the Company’s management and board of directors) providing that, among other things, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, such stockholder will support the Mergers and the transactions contemplated thereby, including by voting to adopt the Merger Agreement. For more information, please see the section of this proxy statement captioned “The Mergers—Voting and Support Agreements.”

Purchase and Sale Agreement (page 67)

On May 10, 2022, in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, Company Ltd., as buyer, and Beltway Business Park, L.L.C., Beltway Business Park Warehouse No. 3, LLC, Beltway Business Park Warehouse No. 4, LLC, Beltway Business Park Warehouse No. 6, LLC and Beltway Business Park Warehouse No. 8, LLC (collectively, the “Beltway Entities”), as the sellers, entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement and Joint Escrow Instructions (the “Land Purchase Agreement”) for the acquisition by Company Ltd. of certain properties located in Las Vegas, Nevada for a total purchase price of $300 million. Pursuant to the Land Purchase Agreement, the closing of the acquisition of the purchased land will be conditioned upon, among other things, the consummation of the Mergers. For more information, please see the section of this proxy statement captioned “The Mergers—Purchase and Sale Agreement.”

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Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Mergers (page 67)

Our directors and executive officers have certain interests in the Mergers that are different from, or in addition to, the interests of our stockholders generally, including accelerated vesting of outstanding Switch equity awards, potential severance benefits, payment under the TRA Amendment, an interest in the Land Purchase Agreement and rollover under the Rollover Agreements and rights to ongoing indemnification and insurance coverage. See “The Mergers — Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Mergers” for additional information about interests that our directors and executive officers have in the Mergers that are different than yours.

Restriction on Solicitation of Company Takeover Proposals (page 100)

Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, we and our subsidiaries, and our and their respective officers and directors, are subject to restrictions on our ability to solicit any company takeover proposals (as defined in the section entitled “The Merger Agreement — Special Meeting”), including, among others, restrictions on our ability to furnish to any third parties any non-public information in connection with any company takeover proposal, or engage in any discussions or negotiations regarding any company takeover proposal, or propose or agree to do any of the foregoing. Subject to the terms of the Merger Agreement, we or our subsidiaries may furnish non-public information to, and engage in discussions or negotiations with, a third party if we receive an unsolicited bona fide written company takeover proposal from such third party after the date of the Merger Agreement and that did not result from a breach of our obligations described in the section entitled “The Merger Agreement — Restriction on Solicitation of Company Takeover Proposals,” and our board of directors or the special committee, after consultation with its independent financial advisors, determines in good faith, after consultation with outside legal counsel, that such company takeover proposal constitutes or could reasonably be expected to lead to a superior proposal (as defined in the section entitled “The Merger Agreement — Restriction on Solicitation of Company Takeover Proposals”). Under certain circumstances and after following certain procedures and adhering to certain restrictions, we are permitted to terminate the Merger Agreement in order to enter into a definitive agreement relating to a superior proposal (subject to payment of the company termination fee (as described below)).

Conditions to the Mergers (page 110)

Completion of the Mergers depends upon the satisfaction or waiver of a number of conditions, including, among others, that:

• the Merger must be approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock entitled to be cast on the matter, each voting separately;

• no order by any governmental entity has been entered and continues to be in effect and no law has been adopted that remains in effect or be effective, in each case, that prevents, enjoins, prohibits or makes illegal the consummation of the Mergers;

• all waiting periods applicable to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement under the HSR Act, and any commitment to, or agreement (including any timing agreement) with any governmental entity to delay the consummation of, or not to consummate before a certain date, the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, have expired or been terminated and all regulatory consents required by the Merger Agreement have been obtained;

• each Rollover Member must have performed or complied with all of their obligations in their respective Rollover Agreements;

• the TRA Amendment is in full force and effect;

• our and Parent’s and Parent Merger Sub’s respective representations and warranties in the Merger Agreement must be true and correct in the manner described under the section entitled “The Merger Agreement — Conditions to the Mergers”;

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• from the date of the Merger Agreement through the closing date, there must not have occurred a material adverse effect (as described in the section entitled “The Merger Agreement — Representations and Warranties”);

• on the day of closing, the acquisition contemplated by the Land Purchase Agreement must be consummated by individual special purpose entity subsidiaries of the Company and fee title to the properties acquired under the Land Purchase Agreement must be owned by such special purpose entity subsidiaries as of the closing free and clear of all liens other than permitted liens; and

• we, Company Ltd., Company Merger Sub, Parent and Parent Merger Sub must have performed and complied in all material respects with our and their respective covenants required by the Merger Agreement to be performed or complied with on or prior to the Effective Time.

Termination of the Merger Agreement (page 111)

We and Parent may mutually agree to terminate and abandon the Merger Agreement at any time prior to the Effective Time, even after we have obtained the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger.

Termination by either Switch or Parent

In addition, we, on the one hand, or Parent, on the other hand, may terminate the Merger Agreement by written notice to the other at any time prior to the Effective Time, even after we have obtained the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger (if applicable), if:

• the Mergers have not been consummated on or prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the six month anniversary of the date of the Merger Agreement (the “End Date”) (though the End Date may be extended for two successive three-month periods if certain closing conditions relating to regulatory approvals, no orders and/or the Land Purchase Agreement have not yet been satisfied on the End Date); provided that the right to terminate the Merger Agreement under this bullet point will not be available to us or Parent if the primary cause of the failure of the Merger to be consummated by the End Date was due to the material breach by us, Company Merger Sub or Company Ltd. (in the case of termination by us) or Parent or Parent Merger Sub (in the case of termination by Parent) of any representation, warranty, covenant or other agreement of such party under the Merger Agreement;

• a governmental entity has issued an order, or a law has been enacted or promulgated, in each case after the date of the Merger Agreement, permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the consummation of the Merger and such order or law has become final and nonappealable, provided that the right to terminate the Merger Agreement under this bullet point will not be available to us or Parent if such order resulted from the material breach by us, Company Merger Sub or Company Ltd. (in the case of termination by us) or Parent or Parent Merger Sub (in the case of termination by Parent) of any representation, warranty, covenant or other agreement of such party under the Merger Agreement; or

• the duly held Special Meeting (as it may be adjourned or postponed) at which a vote on the Merger was taken has concluded and the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger has not been obtained.

Termination by Switch

We may also terminate the Merger Agreement by written notice to Parent at any time prior to the Effective Time, even after we have obtained the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger (if applicable), if:

• Parent or Parent Merger Sub has breached or there is any inaccuracy in any of its representations or warranties, or has breached or failed to perform any of its covenants or other agreements contained in

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the Merger Agreement, which breach, inaccuracy or failure to perform (1) if it occurred or was continuing to occur on the closing date, would result in a failure of our closing conditions under the Merger Agreement and (2) is either not curable or is not cured by the earlier of the End Date and the date that is sixty (60) days following written notice from us to Parent of such breach, inaccuracy or failure, provided that we, Company Merger Sub and Company Ltd. are not then in breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement contained in this Merger Agreement that would give rise to a failure of Parent’s closing conditions under the Merger Agreement;

• prior to obtaining the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger, after following certain procedures and adhering to certain restrictions, in order to enter into a definitive agreement relating to a superior proposal (subject to payment of the company termination fee (as described below)); or

• (1) all of Parent’s and Parent Merger Sub’s closing conditions under the Merger Agreement are satisfied (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the closing and that are then capable of being satisfied if there were a closing) or waived, (2) we have confirmed in writing to Parent that (x) all of our closing conditions have been satisfied (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the closing and that are then capable of being satisfied if there were a closing), (y) the Mergers are required to be consummated pursuant to the Merger Agreement and (z) we are ready, willing and able to consummate the Mergers on the date such notice is delivered and through the end of the next succeeding five (5) business days and (3) Parent fails to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement within five (5) business days after the later of receipt of such notice and the date the Mergers were required to be consummated pursuant to the Merger Agreement.

Termination by Parent

Parent may also terminate the Merger Agreement by written notice to us at any time prior to the Effective Time, even after we have obtained the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger (if applicable), if:

• we, Company Merger Sub or Company Ltd. has breached or there is any inaccuracy in any of our representations or warranties, or if we, Company Merger Sub or Company Ltd. has breached or failed to perform any of its covenants or other agreements contained in the Merger Agreement, which breach, inaccuracy or failure to perform (1) if it occurred or was continuing to occur on the closing date, would result in a failure of Parent’s closing conditions under the Merger Agreement and (2) is either not curable or is not cured by the earlier of the End Date and the date that is sixty (60) days following written notice from Parent to us of such breach, inaccuracy or failure, provided that Parent and Parent Merger Sub are not then in breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement contained in this Merger Agreement that would give rise to a failure of our closing conditions under the Merger Agreement; or

• prior to obtaining the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger, our board or the special committee effects a company adverse recommendation change in accordance with the requirements described below under “The Merger Agreement — Obligation of the Board of Directors with Respect to Its Recommendation” or takes (or fails to take) certain other actions with respect to their recommendations.

Termination Fees (page 113)

Termination Fee Payable by Switch; Expense Reimbursement

We have agreed to pay a termination fee of $260 million (the “company termination fee”) to Parent if:

• we terminate the Merger Agreement pursuant to the provision described in the second bullet point under “The Merger Agreement — Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch”;

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• Parent terminates the Merger Agreement pursuant to the provision described in the second bullet point under “The Merger Agreement — Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Parent”;

• either we or Parent terminate pursuant to the provision described in the third bullet point under “The Merger Agreement — Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch or Parent” at a time when the Merger Agreement was terminable by Parent pursuant to the provision described in the second bullet point under “The Merger Agreement — Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Parent”; or

• all of the following requirements are satisfied:

• prior to (1) the Special Meeting to obtain the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger, in the case of a termination pursuant to the provision described in the third bullet point under “The Merger Agreement — Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch or Parent”, (2) the breach giving rise to such right of termination, in the case of a termination pursuant to the provision described in the first bullet point under “The Merger Agreement — Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Parent” and (3) the termination of this Agreement, in the case of a termination pursuant to the provision described in the first bullet point under “The Merger Agreement — Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch or Parent”, a company takeover proposal (substituting 50% for the 20% threshold set forth in the definition of “company takeover proposal”) has been publicly made and not withdrawn at least three business days prior to the Special Meeting (or any adjournment or postponement thereof);

• the Merger Agreement is terminated by us or Parent pursuant to provisions described in the first sub-bullet point above; and

• at any time on or before the 12-month anniversary of the termination referred to in the immediately preceding sub-bullet point, we or any of our subsidiaries completes or enters into a definitive agreement with respect to any company takeover proposal (substituting 50% for the 20% threshold set forth in the definition of “company takeover proposal” (whether or not the same company takeover proposal as that made prior to the termination of the Merger Agreement).

Termination Fee Payable by Parent

Parent has agreed to pay a termination fee of $693 million (the “parent termination fee”) to the Company if (1) we terminate the Merger Agreement pursuant to the provisions described in the first bullet point or third bullet point under “The Merger Agreement — Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch” or (2) either we or Parent terminate the Merger Agreement pursuant to provisions described in the first bullet point under “The Merger Agreement — Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by either Switch or Parent” and, at such time, we had the right to terminate the Merger Agreement pursuant to the provision described in the first bullet point or third bullet point under “The Merger Agreement — Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch.”

Payment of Termination Fee

In no event will a termination fee be payable by the Company or Parent on more than one occasion.

In the event the Merger Agreement is validly terminated and the parent termination fee is paid under the circumstances for which such fee is payable pursuant to the Merger Agreement, payment of the parent termination fee will be the sole and exclusive monetary damages remedy available to the Company in respect of any and all losses incurred as a result of the failure of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement to be consummated and, upon payment of such termination fee in such circumstances, none of Parent and its related

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parties will have any further liability or obligation relating to or arising out of the Merger Agreement, the Mergers or the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

If the Company or Parent, as the case may be, fails to timely pay its termination fee and, in order to obtain the payment, Parent or the Company, as the case may be, commences an action which results in a final and non-appealable judgment against the other party for the payment, then the paying party must pay the other party its reasonable and documented costs and expenses (including reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees) in connection with such proceeding, together with interest on that amount from and including the date payment of such amount was due but excluding the date of actual payment at the prime rate set forth in The Wall Street Journal in effect on the date such payment was required to be made plus 2% per annum.

Guarantees and Remedies (page 114)

In connection with the Merger Agreement and subject to the terms and limitations set forth in the guarantees, Parent has entered into guarantees with DigitalBridge and IFM GIF in our favor, pursuant to which DigitalBridge and IFM GIF have guaranteed their respective portions of Parent’s payment obligations with respect to the parent termination fee under the Merger Agreement and certain collection costs related thereto (collectively, the “guaranteed obligation”) if and when due in accordance with the Merger Agreement, subject to an aggregate cap of $415.8 million for DigitalBridge and an aggregate cap of $277.2 million for IFM GIF for payment of the guaranteed obligations. The maximum aggregate liability of the guarantors under the guarantees will not exceed $693 million. See “The Mergers — Financing— Guarantees and Remedies” for additional information.

The Merger Agreement provides that the parties are entitled to specific performance, including specific performance of Parent’s and Parent Merger Sub’s obligations to consummate the Mergers. However, we, Company Merger Sub and Company Ltd. may only seek specific performance to require Parent or Parent Merger Sub to consummate the Mergers if certain conditions are met, including (1) Parent and Parent Merger Sub’s closing conditions under the Merger Agreement (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the closing and that are then capable of being satisfied if there were a closing) have been satisfied or waived, (2) the full amount of the initial mortgage loans (or alternative financing) contemplated in connection with the Merger Agreement has been funded or would be funded at closing if the equity financing contemplated in connection with the Merger Agreement were funded at the closing, (3) Parent and Parent Merger Sub have failed to complete the closing by the date the closing is required under the Merger Agreement, (4) the Merger Agreement has not been terminated and (5) the Company has confirmed in writing that, if specific performance is granted and the initial mortgage loans and equity financing are funded, we are ready, willing and able to consummate the closing in accordance with the Merger Agreement. Under no circumstances will we be permitted or entitled to both a grant of specific performance causing the closing to occur or any monetary damages whatsoever on the one hand, and payment of the parent termination fee, on the other hand.

Regulatory Matters (page 74)

Parent, Parent Merger Sub, the Company, Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub have covenanted to use their respective reasonable best efforts to take, or to cause to be taken, all actions necessary, proper and advisable under any applicable laws to receive all approvals by governmental entities, including in connection with antitrust laws and communications laws. This includes (1) preparing and filing of all filings, forms, notices, registrations and notifications required to be filed to consummate the Mergers, (2) using reasonable best efforts to satisfy the conditions to consummating the Mergers, (3) using reasonable best efforts to obtain any consents or orders from any governmental entities, including certain regulatory consents agreed upon by Parent and the Company to be required, (4) defending any judicial or administrative proceedings challenging the Merger Agreement or the transactions contemplated thereby and (5) the execution and delivery of any reasonable additional instruments necessary to consummate the Mergers.

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In addition, under the Merger Agreement, Parent and Parent Merger Sub have agreed to use reasonable best efforts to take any and all steps necessary to eliminate each and every impediment under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”) and any other antitrust, competition, merger control or foreign investment law that is asserted by any governmental entity or any other person so as to enable the parties to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement as soon as possible and prior to the End Date, including, but not limited to offering, proposing, negotiating, agreeing and committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order or otherwise:

• divestitures, sales, transfers or other dispositions of, licenses of, or hold separate or similar arrangements with respect to, any assets, product lines, businesses or interests of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates;

• the termination, amendment, assignment or creation of relationships, contractual rights or obligations, ventures or other arrangements of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates;

• conduct of business restrictions, including restrictions on Parent’s or its affiliates’ ability to manage, operate or own any assets, product lines, businesses or interests;

• any other change or restructuring of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates and other actions and non-actions with respect to assets, product lines, businesses or interests of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates; and

• any other condition, commitment, remedy or undertaking of any kind, in each case of the foregoing, in order to obtain any and all actions, consents and orders from governmental entities as soon as possible and prior to the End Date, including committing to take any and all actions necessary in order to ensure that no requirement for non-action, a waiver, consent or approval of any governmental entity, no decree, judgment, decision, injunction, temporary restraining order or any other order in any proceeding and no other matter relating to any antitrust, competition, merger control or foreign investment law, would preclude the occurrence of the closing prior to the End Date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Merger Agreement does not require Parent or Parent Merger Sub to take or agree to take any action, including any action contemplated by the foregoing, with respect to any of its affiliates (including any person in which any of its affiliates has any debt or equity investment and any affiliated or commonly advised investment fund) or any direct or indirect portfolio company (as such term is understood in the private equity industry) thereof, other than the Company, the Surviving Company, Company Ltd., Surviving Company Ltd. or any of their respective subsidiaries.

Both the Company and Parent filed their respective Notification and Report Forms with the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) on May 25, 2022. The 30-day waiting period with respect to the Merger, which cannot expire on a Saturday, Sunday or a U.S. federal holiday, will expire at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on June 24, 2022, unless the FTC or the DOJ earlier terminates the waiting period or issues requests for additional information and documentary material related to the Merger (“Second Requests”). If the FTC or the DOJ issues Second Requests, the waiting period with respect to the Merger will be extended for an additional period of 30 calendar days, which will begin on the date on which both the Company and Parent have substantially complied with their respective Second Requests. In addition, the Company and Parent made the appropriate applications with the Federal Communications Commission on May 27, 2022 and made the notifications with each of the Georgia Public Service Commission and Nevada Public Utilities Commission on May 26, 2022.

Legal Proceedings Regarding the Mergers and the Transactions Contemplated Thereby (page 82)

On May 26, 2022, an alleged class action lawsuit was filed by a purported stockholder of the Company in connection with the Merger. The lawsuit is captioned Palkon v. Rob Roy et al., Case No. A-22-853216-B, and

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names as defendants our board of directors, DigitalBridge, IFM and certain affiliates of the Company, DigitalBridge and IFM. The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that our board of directors breached their fiduciary duties in approving the Merger, and that DigitalBridge and IFM aided and abetted such breaches. The lawsuit seeks, among other things, to enjoin the consummation of the Mergers. The Company believes that the claims in the pending lawsuit are without merit and intends to vigorously defend against them.

Dissenters’ Rights (page 82)

Under Nevada Revised Statues Chapter 92A - Mergers, Conversions, Exchanges and Domestications (the “NMA”), under certain circumstances, stockholders of a Nevada corporation may be entitled to dissent from a transaction and demand payment of the fair value of such stockholder’s shares in the event of certain corporate actions, including certain mergers. However, holders of Class A common stock do not have such dissenters’ rights.

Shares of Class B common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time that are held by any stockholder entitled to demand, and who properly and timely, pursuant to the NMA and a separate notice from the Company demands payment for such shares under the NMA (“dissenting shares”) will be treated in accordance with the NMA. At the Effective Time, all dissenting shares will be automatically cancelled and will cease to exist, and holders of dissenting shares will have the right to receive the fair value of the dissenting shares in accordance with the NMA. If any dissenting stockholder loses its status as dissenter under the NMA, then as of the later of the Effective Time or the date this status was lost, these shares will be converted into, or will have been deemed to have been converted into at the Effective Time, as applicable, the right to receive merger consideration (without interest thereon) with respect to that holder’s related Company Ltd. Common Units. For the avoidance of doubt, no dissenters’ or appraisal rights are available with respect to the Company Ltd. Common Units. A copy of the full text of NRS 92A.300 to 92A.500 is included as Annex C to this proxy statement and is incorporated herein by reference. The summary of dissenters’ rights set forth in this proxy statement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of NRS 92A.300 to 92A.500. Failure to follow the procedures set forth in NRS 92A.300 to 92A.500 will result in the forfeiture of dissenter’s rights.

Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences (page 76)

If you are a U.S. holder (as defined in “The Mergers — Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” on page 76 of this proxy statement), the exchange of your shares of our common stock for merger consideration (including any amounts required to be withheld for tax purposes) pursuant to the Merger will generally require you to recognize gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes in an amount equal to the difference, if any, between the amount of merger consideration you receive pursuant to the Merger (including any amounts required to be withheld for tax purposes) and your adjusted tax basis in such surrendered shares. A non-U.S. holder (as defined in “The Mergers — Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” on page 76 of this proxy statement) will generally not be subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to the exchange of such non-U.S. holder’s shares of our common stock for merger consideration in the Merger unless such non-U.S. holder has certain connections to the United States or we are, or were during the relevant period, a U.S. real property holding corporation. Because particular circumstances may differ, we recommend you consult your tax advisor to determine the U.S. federal income tax consequences to you of the Merger in light of your particular circumstances and any consequences arising under the laws of any state, local, or foreign taxing jurisdiction. A more complete description of the U.S. federal income tax consequences of the Merger is provided in “The Mergers — Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” on page 76 of this proxy statement.

Delisting and Deregistration of Our Class A Common Stock (page 80)

If the Mergers are completed, our shares of Class A common stock will no longer be traded on the NYSE and will be deregistered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).

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Market Price of Our Class A Common Stock (page 116)

Our Class A common stock is listed on the NYSE under the trading symbol “SWCH” On May 10, 2022, the last trading day prior to the date of the public announcement of the Merger Agreement, the reported closing price per share for our Class A common stock on the NYSE was $30.75. On [              ], 2022, the last trading day before the date of this proxy statement, the reported closing price per share for our Class A common stock on the NYSE was $[             ]. You are encouraged to obtain current market quotations for our Class A common stock.

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE SPECIAL MEETING AND THE MERGERS

The following questions and answers address briefly some questions you may have regarding the Special Meeting and the proposed Mergers. These questions and answers may not address all questions that may be important to you as a stockholder. Please refer to the more detailed information contained elsewhere in this proxy statement, as well as the additional documents to which it refers or which it incorporates by reference, including the Merger Agreement, a copy of which is attached to this proxy statement as Annex A.

Q: What is the proposed transaction?

A: The proposed transaction is the acquisition of Switch and its subsidiaries, including Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub, by Parent pursuant to the Merger Agreement. After the Merger has been approved by our stockholders and the other closing conditions under the Merger Agreement have been satisfied or waived, Parent Merger Sub will be merged with and into Switch, with Switch continuing as the Surviving Company. Promptly following the Effective Time, Company Merger Sub will merge with and into Company Ltd., with Company Ltd. continuing as the Surviving Company Ltd. The Mergers will occur at the times provided in the Merger Agreement. For additional information about the Mergers, please review with your advisors the Merger Agreement attached to this proxy statement as Annex A and incorporated by reference into this proxy statement. We encourage you to read the Merger Agreement carefully and in its entirety, as it is the principal document governing the Mergers.

Q: As a stockholder or a unitholder, what will I receive in the Merger?

A: For each outstanding share of Class A common stock that you own immediately prior to the Effective Time, you will receive $34.25 in cash, without interest. Subject to dissenters’ rights, each outstanding share of Class B common stock will be cancelled and for each related outstanding Company Ltd. Common Unit that you own immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time, you will receive $34.25 in cash, without interest.

Q: Will I receive dividends with respect to the common stock that I own?

A: During the quarter ended March 31, 2022, we paid a cash dividend in the aggregate of $0.0525 per share of common stock to stockholders of record at the quarterly record date. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, subject to the restrictions set forth therein, we may declare or pay any regular cash dividends of up to $0.07 per share quarterly, with usual declaration, record and payment dates in accordance with past dividend practice, to the holders of our common stock during the term of the Merger Agreement without reducing the merger consideration to be paid to you.

Q: When do you expect the Mergers to be completed?

A: If our stockholders vote to approve the Merger, and assuming that the other conditions to the Mergers are satisfied or waived, it is anticipated that the Mergers will be completed in the second half of 2022. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the closing of the Mergers will take place on (1) the fifth (5th) business day after receiving stockholder approval if all other closing conditions were satisfied on the date that is five (5) business days prior to the scheduled date of the Special Meeting and are satisfied at such time, (2) in all circumstances other than described in prong (1), the tenth (10th) business day after satisfaction or waiver of the conditions to the Mergers described under “The Merger Agreement — Conditions to the Mergers” (other than those conditions that by their terms or nature are to be satisfied or waived at the closing of the Mergers, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions), or (3) at such other date as mutually agreed to by the parties to the Merger Agreement. Unless extended by mutual agreement, the Merger Agreement provides that either party may terminate the agreement if the Merger has not been consummated on or prior to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the date six months after the date the Merger Agreement was signed (subject

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to certain limitations and available extensions and remedies). For further information regarding the timing of the closing of the Mergers, see “The Merger Agreement — Effective Times; Closing Date.”

Q: What happens if the Mergers are not completed?

A: If the Merger is not approved by our stockholders, or if the Mergers are not completed for any other reason, our stockholders will not receive any payment for their shares of Class A common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement. Instead, Switch will remain a public company, and our shares of Class A common stock will continue to be registered under the Exchange Act and listed on the NYSE. Upon a termination of the Merger Agreement, under certain circumstances and pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, we will be required to pay Parent the company termination fee. In certain other circumstances, Parent will be required to pay us the parent termination fee upon termination of the Merger Agreement. For further information regarding the circumstances giving rise to payment of these termination fees, see “The Merger Agreement — Termination Fees.”

Q: Will Switch continue to pursue its conversion to a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) now that this merger has been announced?

A: Yes. Between signing and closing the Mergers, we have agreed not to cause Switch to be treated as a REIT without Parent’s consent, but until the Mergers are consummated, we will continue to pursue and prepare for conversion to a REIT as previously announced by Switch and described in Switch’s 2022 annual meeting proxy statement.

Q: If the Mergers are completed, how do I obtain the merger consideration for my shares of common stock?

A: Following the completion of the Merger, your shares of Class A common stock and Company Ltd. Common Units will automatically be converted into the right to receive your portion of the merger consideration. Shortly after the Mergers are completed, you will receive a letter of transmittal describing how you may exchange your shares of Class A common stock and/or Company Ltd. Common Units, as applicable, for the merger consideration. If your shares of common stock are held in “street name” by your broker, bank or other nominee, you may receive instructions from your broker, bank or other nominee as to what action, if any, you need to take to effect the surrender of your “street name” shares in exchange for the merger consideration.

Q: When and where is the Special Meeting?

A: The Special Meeting will be held on [            ], 2022, at [        ] a.m., Pacific time, at 1 Superloop Circle, McCarran, Nevada 89434.

As part of our precautions regarding the coronavirus or COVID-19, we may determine that the Special Meeting be held solely by means of remote communication rather than in person. If we take this step, we will announce the decision to do so in advance and provide details on how to participate in the Special Meeting via a press release issued by Switch and made available on our website, www.switch.com.

Q: Who can vote and attend the Special Meeting?

A: All holders of record of our common stock as of the Record Date, which was the close of business on [            ], 2022, are entitled to receive notice of and attend and vote at the Special Meeting or any postponement or adjournment of the Special Meeting. Each stockholder will be entitled to cast one vote on each matter presented at the Special Meeting for each share of common stock that such holder owned as of the Record Date.

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As part of our precautions regarding the coronavirus or COVID-19, we may determine that the Special Meeting be held solely by means of remote communication rather than in person. If we take this step, we will announce the decision to do so in advance and provide details on how to attend and participate at the meeting via a press release issued by Switch and made available on our website, www.switch.com.

Q: What vote of stockholders is required to approve the Merger?

A: Approval of the Merger requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock entitled to be cast on the matter, each voting separately. Because the required vote for this proposal is based on the number of votes our stockholders are entitled to cast rather than on the number of votes cast, failure to vote your shares (including failure to give voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee) and abstentions will have the same effect as voting “AGAINST” the proposal to approve the Merger.

Q: What vote of stockholders is required to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers?

A: Approval, on a non-binding, advisory basis, of the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on the proposal. For the purpose of this proposal, failure to vote your shares (including failure to give voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee) and abstentions will have no effect on the proposal.

Q: What vote of stockholders is required to approve adjournments of the Special Meeting?

A: Approval of any adjournment of the Special Meeting to solicit additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on the proposal. For the purpose of this proposal, failure to vote your shares (including failure to give voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee) and abstentions will have no effect on the proposal. The Company does not intend to call a vote on this proposal if the proposal to approve the Merger is approved at the Special Meeting.

Q: Why is my vote important?

A: If you do not authorize your proxy or voting instructions or vote in person at the Special Meeting, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, it will be more difficult for us to obtain the necessary quorum to hold the Special Meeting. In addition, because the proposal to approve the Merger must be approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock entitled to be cast on the matter, each voting separately, your failure to authorize your proxy or voting instructions or to vote in person at the Special Meeting, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, will have the same effect as a vote “AGAINST” the approval of the Merger.

Q: How does the merger consideration compare to the market price of Switch’s common stock?

A: The merger consideration of $34.25 per share represents a premium over the closing price of our shares of Class A common stock of $30.75 per share on May 10, 2022, the last trading day prior to the public announcement of the Merger Agreement.

Q: How does our board of directors and special committee recommend that I vote?

A: Our board of directors and the special committee recommend that you vote “FOR” the proposal to approve the Merger, “FOR” the proposal to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may

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be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers, and “FOR” the proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

Q: What is the special committee?

A: In connection with its consideration of the matters described in this proxy statement, our board of directors established the special committee. The special committee, as currently constituted, is composed of Bryan Wolf, Liane Pelletier, Kim Sheehy and Jason Genrich, none of whom is party to the TRA or affiliated with TRA beneficiaries, and each of whom is independent of management. The special committee was established for the purpose of considering, investigating, evaluating, analyzing, negotiating and making recommendations to our board of directors in connection with any potential strategic transactions and the TRA. For more information on the actions and determinations of our board of directors and the special committee in connection with their consideration of the Merger Agreement and the Mergers, please see the section of this proxy statement captioned “The Mergers—Background of the Mergers.”

After considering various factors described in this proxy statement under the caption, “The Mergers—Recommendation of the Board of Directors and the Special Committee” and “ —Reasons for the Mergers,” the special committee and our board of directors have each: (1) determined that the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Mergers, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, are fair to, and in the best interests of, Switch and its stockholders; and (2) approved the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. The special committee also recommended that our board of directors approve the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Mergers.

Q: What is the TRA and the TRA Amendment?

A: Concurrent with the initial public offering of shares of its Class A common stock, the Company entered into a Tax Receivable Agreement, dated as of October 5, 2017, by and among the Company, Company Ltd. and the members of Company Ltd. party thereto. The TRA provided for payment by the Company to members of Company Ltd. party to the TRA and their assignees of approximately 85% of the amount of the calculated tax savings, if any, the Company will realize due to (i) increases in tax basis resulting from the redemption of Company Ltd. Common Units and (ii) certain other tax benefits attributable to payments made under the TRA. Amendment of the TRA requires the approval of members of Company Ltd. satisfying the Supermajority Threshold.

As a result of negotiation by the special committee, concurrent with the execution of the Merger Agreement, the Company, Company Ltd. and members of Company Ltd. satisfying the Supermajority Threshold executed the TRA Amendment. The TRA Amendment establishes that in exchange for the termination of the TRA and all rights associated therewith, the parties to the TRA (other than the Company) will be entitled to receive a payment in cash from the Company of $0.37 per Company Ltd. Common Unit (such implied price equating to $5.89 per share of Class A common stock if there were no reduction in the amount of aggregate accelerated change of control payments required to be made under the then-current terms of the TRA) in connection with the closing of the Mergers in full satisfaction of the payment obligations to the TRA beneficiaries under the TRA. Such payments will be made by the Company as promptly as practicable following the earlier of (i) the closing of the Mergers (or any other change of control of the Company (as defined in the TRA)), or (ii) December 31, 2022. This represents a reduction of approximately $1,121 million, which is an approximately 93.72% reduction of the estimated aggregate amount of approximately $1,196 million that would have otherwise been payable to the TRA beneficiaries under the TRA in respect of a change of control of the Company at the implied price per share of Class A common stock offered by Parent, absent the TRA Amendment. For more information, please see the section of this proxy statement captioned “The Mergers—Amendment to the Tax Receivable Agreement.”

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Q: Do any of Switch’s directors and executive officers have any interest in the Mergers that is different than mine?

A: Our directors and executive officers have certain interests in the Mergers that are different from, or in addition to, the interests of our stockholders generally, including accelerated vesting of outstanding Switch equity awards, potential severance benefits, benefits under the TRA Amendment, the Land Purchase Agreement and the Rollover Agreements and rights to ongoing indemnification and insurance coverage. See “The Mergers — Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Mergers” for additional information about interests that our directors and executive officers have in the Mergers that are different than yours.

Q: What do I need to do now?

A: After carefully reading and considering the information contained in this proxy statement and the annexes attached to this proxy statement, please vote your shares of common stock or authorize a proxy to vote your shares of common stock in one of the ways described below as soon as possible. You will be entitled to one vote for each share of Class A common stock and Class B common stock that you owned as of the Record Date.

Q: How do I cast my vote?

A: If you are a stockholder of record on the Record Date, you may vote at the Special Meeting or authorize a proxy to vote your shares at the Special Meeting. You can authorize your proxy by completing, signing, dating and returning the enclosed proxy card in the accompanying pre-addressed, postage-paid envelope, or, if you prefer, by following the instructions on your proxy card for telephonic or Internet proxy authorization. If the telephone or Internet option is available to you, we strongly encourage you to use it because it is faster and less costly. Registered stockholders can transmit their voting instructions by telephone by calling 1-866-697-7125 or on the Internet at www.proxypush.com/SWCH. Telephone and Internet proxy authorization are available 24 hours a day until 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, the day immediately prior to the Special Meeting. Have your proxy card with you if you are going to authorize your proxy by telephone or through the Internet. To authorize your proxy by mail, please complete sign, date and mail your proxy card in the envelope provided. If you attend the Special Meeting, you may request a ballot when you arrive.

Q: How do I cast my vote if my shares of common stock are held of record in “street name”?

A: If you own shares of common stock through a broker, bank or other nominee (i.e., in “street name”), you must provide voting instructions in accordance with the instructions on the voting instruction card that your broker, bank or other nominee provides to you, since brokers, banks and other nominees do not have discretionary voting authority with respect to any of the proposals described in this proxy statement. If you have not received such voting instructions or require further information regarding such voting instructions, contact your broker, bank or other nominee, who can give you directions on how to vote your common stock. If you hold your shares of common stock through a broker, bank or other nominee and wish to vote in person at the Special Meeting, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, you must obtain a “legal proxy,” executed in your favor, from the broker, bank or other nominee (which may take several days).

Q: What will happen if I abstain from voting or fail to vote?

A: With respect to the proposal to approve the Merger, if you abstain from voting, fail to cast your vote in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or by proxy or if you hold your shares in “street name” and fail to give voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee, it will have the same effect as a vote “AGAINST” the Merger.

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With respect to the proposal regarding the non-binding, advisory vote on the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers and the proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger, if you abstain from voting, fail to cast your vote in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or by proxy or if you hold your shares in “street name” and fail to give voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee, it will not have any effect on the outcome of such proposals, assuming a quorum is otherwise present at the Special Meeting.

Q: How will proxy holders vote my common stock?

A: If you properly authorize a proxy prior to the Special Meeting, your shares of common stock will be voted as you direct. If you properly authorize a proxy but no direction is otherwise made, your shares of common stock will be voted “FOR” the proposal to approve the Merger, “FOR” the proposal to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers, and “FOR” the proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger. Pursuant to our bylaws and consistent with applicable law, only the matters set forth in the Notice of Special Meeting may be brought before the Special Meeting.

Q: What happens if I sell my shares of Class A common stock before the Special Meeting?

A: If you held shares of Class A common stock on the Record Date but transfer them prior to the Effective Time, you will retain your right to vote at the Special Meeting, but not the right to receive the merger consideration for those shares. The right to receive such consideration when the Merger becomes effective will pass to the person who at that time owns the shares of Class A common stock you previously owned.

Q: Can I change my vote after I have mailed my proxy card?

A: Yes. If you own common stock as a record holder on the Record Date, you may revoke a previously authorized proxy at any time before it is exercised by voting again over the Internet or by telephone prior to 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on [            ], 2022, signing and returning another proxy card with a later date, provided we receive the updated proxy card before the date of the Special Meeting, or voting in person at the Special Meeting, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually. Attendance at the meeting will not, in itself, constitute revocation of a previously authorized proxy. If you have instructed a broker to vote your shares, the foregoing options for changing your vote do not apply and instead you must follow the applicable instructions received from such broker to change your vote.

Q: What are the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of the Merger?

A: If you are a U.S. holder (as defined in “The Mergers — Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” on page 76 of this proxy statement), the exchange of your shares of our common stock for merger consideration (including any amounts required to be withheld for tax purposes) pursuant to the Merger will generally require you to recognize gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes in an amount equal to the difference, if any, between the amount of merger consideration you receive pursuant to the Merger (including any amounts required to be withheld for tax purposes) and your adjusted tax basis in such surrendered shares. A non-U.S. holder (as defined in “The Mergers — Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” on page 76 of this proxy statement) will generally not be subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to the exchange of such non-U.S. holder’s shares of our common stock for merger consideration in the Merger unless such non-U.S. holder has certain connections to the United States or we are, or were during the relevant period, a U.S. real property holding corporation. Because particular circumstances may differ, we recommend you consult your tax advisor to determine the U.S. federal income

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tax consequences to you of the Merger in light of your particular circumstances and any consequences arising under the laws of any state, local, or foreign taxing jurisdiction. A more complete description of the U.S. federal income tax consequences of the Merger is provided in “The Mergers — Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” on page 76 of this proxy statement.

Q: What rights do I have if I oppose the Merger?

A: If you are a stockholder of record on the Record Date, you can vote against the proposal to approve the Merger. Only holders of our Class B common stock are entitled to exercise any dissenters’ rights or the rights of an objecting stockholder in connection with the Merger to receive the fair value of the stockholder’s shares as provided under the NMA. See “Dissenters’ Rights.” A copy of the full text of NRS 92A.300 to 92A.500 is included as Annex C to this proxy statement and is incorporated herein by reference. The summary of dissenters’ rights set forth in this proxy statement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of NRS 92A.300 to 92A.500. Failure to follow the procedures set forth in NRS 92A.300 to 92A.500 will result in the forfeiture of dissenter’s rights.

Q: Where can I find the voting results of the Special Meeting?

A: We intend to announce preliminary voting results at the Special Meeting and publish final results in a Current Report on Form 8-K that will be filed with the SEC following the Special Meeting. All reports that we file with the SEC are publicly available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Q: Can I participate if I am unable to attend the Special Meeting?

A: If you are unable to attend the meeting in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, we encourage you to complete, sign, date and return your proxy card, or authorize your proxy or voting instructions by telephone or through the Internet.

As part of our precautions regarding the coronavirus or COVID-19, we may determine that the Special Meeting be held solely by means of remote communication rather than in person. If we take this step, we will announce the decision to do so in advance and provide details on how to attend and participate in the Special Meeting via a press release issued by Switch and made available on our website, www.switch.com.

Q: Have any stockholders already agreed to approve the Merger?

A: Yes. Our directors, executive officers and entities affiliated with Elliott Investment Management L.P. have executed Voting and Support Agreements, agreeing to vote the shares of common stock that they own in favor of the proposal to approve the Merger.

Q: Where can I find more information about Switch?

A: We file certain information with the SEC. You may read and copy this information at the SEC’s public reference facilities. You may call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for information about these facilities. This information is also available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and on our website at www.switch.com. The information found on, or otherwise accessible through, our website is not incorporated into, and does not form a part of, this proxy statement or any other report or document we file with or furnish to the SEC. You can also request copies of these documents from us. See “Where You Can Find Additional Information.”

Q: Who will solicit and pay the cost of soliciting proxies?

A: We will bear the full cost of solicitation of proxies for the Special Meeting unless the Mergers are not consummated by the End Date and the Merger Agreement is terminated, in which case Parent will pay 50% of all printing and dissemination costs for the Proxy Statement. Our board of directors is soliciting your proxy on our behalf. In addition to the use of mails, proxies may be solicited by personal interview, telephone, facsimile, e-mail or otherwise, by our directors, officers and other employees. We have engaged

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MacKenzie Partners, Inc. (“MacKenzie”) to assist in the solicitation of proxies for a fee of $25,000, plus reimbursement of reasonable expenses. We also will request persons, firms and corporations holding common stock in their names, or in the names of their nominees, that are beneficially owned by others to send or cause to be sent proxy materials to, and obtain proxies from, such beneficial owners and will reimburse such holders for their reasonable expenses in so doing.

Q: Who can help answer my other questions?

A: If after reading this proxy statement you have more questions about the Special Meeting or the Mergers, you should contact MacKenzie, our proxy solicitor, as follows:

1407 Broadway, 27^th Floor

New York, New York 10018

(800) 322-2885 or (212) 929-5500

or

E-mail: proxy@mackenziepartners.com

If your broker holds your shares, you should also contact your broker for additional information.

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This proxy statement and the documents that we incorporate by reference herein contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (set forth in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Exchange Act). Also, documents we subsequently file with the SEC and incorporate by reference may contain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements about the expected benefits of the Mergers, the expected timing and completion of the Mergers and the future business, performance and opportunities of Switch. Forward-looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties, and you should not rely on them as predictions of future events. Forward-looking statements depend on assumptions, data or methods which may be incorrect or imprecise, and we may not be able to realize them. We do not guarantee that the transactions and events described will happen as described (or that they will happen at all). Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “foresee,” “looking ahead,” “is confident,” “should,” “will,” “predicted,” “likely,” or similar words or phrases intended to identify information that is not historical in nature. Forward-looking statements are based on expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation:

• risks associated with our ability to obtain the stockholder approval required to consummate the Merger and the timing of the closing of the Mergers, including the risks that a condition to closing will not be satisfied within the expected timeframe or at all or that the closing of the Mergers will not occur;

• the occurrence of any change, effect, event, circumstance, occurrence or state of facts that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement;

• the outcome of any legal proceedings that have been or may be instituted against the parties to, and others related to, the Mergers and the Merger Agreement;

• unanticipated difficulties or expenditures relating to receiving approvals from governmental entities to consummate the transaction;

• unanticipated difficulties or expenditures relating to the transaction, the response of business partners and competitors to the announcement of the transaction and/or potential difficulties in employee retention as a result of the announcement and pendency of the transaction;

• restrictions on our ability to pay dividends pursuant to the Merger Agreement;

• the limitation on our right to recover from Parent and Parent Merger Sub an amount equal to the $693 million parent termination fee in circumstances in which such fee is payable, which may not be adequate to cover our damages;

• risks affecting the real estate industry and the data center sector, in particular (such as the inability to enter into new leases, dependence on customers’ financial condition, and competition from other owners of data centers);

• risks relating to lease terminations, lease defaults, or changes in our financial condition;

• risks relating to our ability to maintain and increase data center utilization rates;

• adverse economic or market developments in our target markets;

• the risks of pandemics or other public health emergencies, such as the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including uncertainty surrounding implications of variants of the disease;

• the impact of social distancing, shelter-in-place, border closings, travel restrictions, remote work trends and similar governmental and private measures taken to combat the spread of COVID-19 and related variants;

• risks relating to the use of debt to fund acquisitions;

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• availability and terms of financing;

• ability to refinance indebtedness as it comes due;

• sensitivity of our operations and financing arrangements to fluctuations in interest rates;

• reductions in asset valuations and related impairment charges;

• risks relating to construction, development and redevelopment activities;

• risks associated with our joint venture, including disagreements with, or misconduct by, joint venture partners;

• risks relating to reduced demand for, or oversupply of, data center space in our markets;

• risks relating to acquisition and disposition activities;

• risks associated with possible cybersecurity attacks against us or any of our tenants;

• potential liability for uninsured losses and environmental contamination;

• potential adverse impact of market interest rates on the market price for our securities;

• risks associated with natural disasters;

• risks and uncertainties associated with potential legal and regulatory changes, including changes in tax, real estate, environmental, zoning and other laws and regulations; and

• risks associated with our dependence on key personnel whose continued service is not guaranteed.

While forward-looking statements reflect our good faith beliefs, they are not guarantees of future performance. We disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. For a further discussion of these and other factors that could impact our future results, performance or transactions, see the section entitled “Risk Factors” included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and our other filings with the SEC. Forward-looking statements should be evaluated together with the many uncertainties that affect our business, particularly those mentioned in the risk factors in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and in our periodic reports on Form 10-Q and our current reports on Form 8-K.

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PROPOSAL 1

PROPOSAL TO APPROVE THE MERGER

We are asking our stockholders to vote on a proposal to approve the Merger of Parent Merger Sub with and into Switch.

For detailed information regarding this proposal, see the information about the Mergers and the Merger Agreement throughout this proxy statement, including the information set forth in the sections entitled “The Mergers” and “The Merger Agreement.” A copy of the Merger Agreement is attached as Annex A to this proxy statement.

Approval of the proposal to approve the Merger requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock entitled to be cast on the matter, each voting separately. If you properly authorize your proxy by mail, by telephone or through the Internet, but do not indicate instructions to vote your shares “FOR,” “AGAINST” or “ABSTAIN” on this Proposal 1, your shares of common stock will be voted in accordance with the recommendation of our board of directors, which is “FOR” this Proposal 1. Because the required vote for this proposal is based on the number of votes our common stockholders are entitled to cast rather than on the number of votes cast, failure to vote your shares (including failure to give voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee) and abstentions will have the same effect as voting “AGAINST” the proposal to approve the Merger.

Approval of this proposal is a condition to the completion of the Mergers. In the event this proposal is not approved, the Mergers cannot be completed and the Merger Agreement may be terminated.

Recommendation of the Board of Directors and the Special Committee

Our board of directors and the special committee recommend that our stockholders vote “FOR” the proposal to approve the Merger.

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PROPOSAL 2

PROPOSAL TO APPROVE THE MERGER-RELATED COMPENSATION

Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 and Rule 14a-21(c) under the Exchange Act, we are asking our stockholders to vote at the Special Meeting on an advisory basis regarding the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers. Information intended to comply with Item 402(t) of Regulation S-K concerning this compensation, subject to certain assumptions described therein, is presented in the section entitled “The Mergers — Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Mergers — Quantification of Payments and Benefits.”

The stockholder vote on executive compensation is an advisory vote only, and it is not binding on us or our board of directors. Further, the underlying arrangements are contractual in nature and not, by their terms, subject to stockholder approval. Accordingly, regardless of the outcome of the advisory vote, if the Mergers are completed, our named executive officers will be eligible to receive the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers, in accordance with the terms and conditions applicable to such compensation. Approval of this proposal is not a condition to the completion of the Mergers.

We are asking our common stockholders to vote “FOR” the following resolution:

“RESOLVED, that the stockholders of Switch, Inc. (“Switch”) approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to the named executive officers of Switch in connection with the Mergers, as disclosed pursuant to Item 402(t) of Regulation S-K under the heading “The Mergers — the Company’s Quantification of Potential Payments and Benefits to Our Named Executive Officers in Connection with the Mergers” to Our Named Executive Officers in Connection with the Mergers beginning on page 73 (which disclosure includes the table required pursuant to Item 402(t) of Regulation S-K).”

Adoption of the above resolution, on a non-binding, advisory basis, requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on the proposal. If you properly authorize your proxy by mail, by telephone or through the Internet, but do not indicate instructions to vote your shares “FOR,” “AGAINST” or “ABSTAIN” on this Proposal 2, your shares of common stock will be voted in accordance with the recommendation of our board of directors, which is “FOR” this Proposal 2. An abstention (which will count as present for purposes of determining presence of a quorum) or failure to vote on this proposal (including failure to give voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee) will have no effect on the approval of this proposal, assuming a quorum is otherwise present at the Special Meeting.

Recommendation of the Board of Directors

Our board of directors unanimously recommends that our stockholders vote “FOR” the proposal to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers.

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PROPOSAL 3

PROPOSAL TO APPROVE ADJOURNMENT OF THE MEETING

We are asking our stockholders to vote on a proposal to approve any adjournments of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

Approval of the proposal to approve any such adjournment of the Special Meeting requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on the proposal. Approval of this proposal is a not a condition to the completion of the Mergers. If you properly authorize your proxy by mail, by telephone or through the Internet, but do not indicate instructions to vote your shares “FOR,” “AGAINST” or “ABSTAIN” on this Proposal 3, your shares of common stock will be voted in accordance with the recommendation of our board of directors, which is “FOR” this Proposal 3. An abstention (which will count as present for purposes of determining presence of a quorum) or failure to vote on this proposal (including failure to give voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee) will have no effect on the approval of this proposal, assuming a quorum is otherwise present at the Special Meeting.

Pursuant to our bylaws and Nevada law, if a quorum is not present, the stockholders entitled to vote at the Special Meeting, present in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or by proxy, or the person presiding at the meeting, will have the power to adjourn the meeting without notice other than announcement at the meeting (subject to certain restrictions in the Merger Agreement, including that the Special Meeting generally may not be recessed, adjourned or postponed for more than 30 days after the originally scheduled date of the Special Meeting without Parent’s prior written consent, not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

Recommendation of the Board of Directors

Our board of directors unanimously recommends that our stockholders vote “FOR” the proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

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THE PARTIES TO THE MERGERS

Switch, Inc.

7135 S. Decatur Boulevard

Las Vegas, NV 89118

(702) 444-4111

Switch, Inc. (“Switch,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a Nevada corporation and is the independent leader in exascale data center ecosystems, edge data center designs, industry-leading telecommunications solutions and next-generation technology innovation. Switch Founder and CEO Rob Roy has developed more than 700 issued and pending patent claims covering data center designs that have manifested into the Company’s world-renowned data centers and technology solutions. During 2021, Switch operated five primary campus locations, called Primes. The Primes consist of The Core Campus in Las Vegas, Nevada; The Citadel Campus near Reno, Nevada; The Pyramid Campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan; The Keep Campus in Atlanta, Georgia; and The Rock Campus in Austin, Texas, which was launched with Switch’s acquisition in June 2021 of all of the equity interests of Data Foundry, LLC (“Data Foundry”) and certain real property interests used in connection with Data Foundry’s operations. Switch’s website is www.switch.com. The information found on, or otherwise accessible through, our website is not incorporated into, and does not form a part of, this proxy statement or any other report or document we file with or furnish to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Our shares of common stock are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “SWCH.” For additional information about the Company and our business, please refer to “Where You Can Find Additional Information.”

Switch, Ltd.

7135 S. Decatur Boulevard

Las Vegas, NV 89118

(702) 444-4111

Switch, Ltd. (“Company Ltd.”) is a Nevada limited liability company. Switch is the sole manager and voting member of Company Ltd., and includes the accounts of Company Ltd. in its consolidated financial statements. In addition to differences in their respective ownership, the primary difference between Switch and Company Ltd. is that Switch issues publicly traded common stock to investors (including employees and board members). Switch’s principal asset is its interest in Company Ltd.

Sunshine Merger Sub, Ltd.

7135 S. Decatur Boulevard

Las Vegas, NV 89118

(702) 444-4111

Sunshine Merger Sub, Ltd. (“Company Merger Sub”) is a Nevada limited liability company. Switch is the sole member of Company Merger Sub. Company Merger Sub was formed solely for purposes of facilitating the acquisition of Company Ltd. and has not carried on any activities to date, except for activities incidental to its formation and activities undertaken in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, at the LLC Merger Effective Time, Company Merger Sub will merge with and into Company Ltd., and Company Ltd. will continue as the surviving entity.

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Sunshine Bidco Inc.

c/o DigitalBridge Investments, LLC

750 Park of Commerce Drive, Suite 210

Boca Raton, FL 33487

(561) 570-4644

and

c/o IFM Investors (US) LLC

114 West 47th Street, 19th Floor

New York, NY 10036

(212) 784-2260

Sunshine Bidco Inc. (“Parent”) is a Delaware corporation that is controlled by funds affiliated with DigitalBridge (as defined below) and IFM GIF (as defined below) that was formed solely for the purposes of entering into the Merger Agreement and related agreements and consummating the transactions contemplated thereby. Parent has not engaged in any business activities other than in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and arranging of the equity financing and debt financing in connection with the Mergers. Upon the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and related agreements, the Company will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

Sunshine Parent Merger Sub Inc.

c/o DigitalBridge Investments, LLC

750 Park of Commerce Drive, Suite 210

Boca Raton, FL 33487

(561) 570-4644

and

c/o IFM Investors (US) LLC

114 West 47th Street, 19th Floor

New York, NY 10036

(212) 784-2260

Sunshine Parent Merger Sub Inc. (“Parent Merger Sub”) is a Nevada corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent that was formed solely for the purposes of entering into the Merger Agreement and related agreements and consummating the transactions contemplated thereby. Parent Merger Sub has not engaged in any business activities other than in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and arranging of the equity financing and debt financing in connection with the Mergers. Upon completion of the Merger, Parent Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, and will cease to exist.

Parent and Parent Merger Sub are each affiliated with (1) investment funds controlled by DigitalBridge Partners II, LP (“DigitalBridge”) and (2) IFM Global Infrastructure Fund (“IFM GIF”).

DigitalBridge is an affiliate of DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (NYSE: DBRG), a leading global digital infrastructure firm managing an approximately $47 billion portfolio of digital infrastructure assets on behalf of its limited partners and shareholders.

IFM GIF is an open-ended global infrastructure fund invested in core infrastructure assets predominantly in Europe and North America and selectively in other regions. IFM GIF is a Cayman Island unit trust. The trustee of IFM GIF is Conyers Trust Company (Cayman) Limited. IFM GIF is advised by IFM Investors Pty Ltd, a global institutional funds manager with approximately US $133 billion under management (as at December 31, 2021) on behalf of more than 550 institutional investors (IFM Investors Pty Ltd, together with its affiliates and funds managed or advised by it or its affiliates, “IFM”).

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THE SPECIAL MEETING

Date, Time and Purpose of the Special Meeting

Your proxy is solicited on behalf of the board of directors of Switch for use at our Special Meeting to be held on [            ], [            ], 2022, [        ] a.m. Pacific Time, at The Citadel Campus located at 1 Superloop Circle, McCarran, Nevada 89434, or at any continuation, postponement or adjournment thereof, for the purposes discussed in this proxy statement and in the accompanying Notice of Special Meeting and any business properly brought before the Special Meeting. Proxies are solicited to give all stockholders of record an opportunity to vote on matters properly presented at the Special Meeting.

We have elected to provide access to our proxy materials over the Internet. Accordingly, we are sending a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (the “Notice of Internet Availability”) to most of our stockholders of record, and paper copies of the proxy materials to certain other stockholders of record. Brokers and other nominees who hold shares on behalf of beneficial owners will be sending their own similar Notice of Internet Availability. All stockholders will have the ability to access the proxy materials on the website referred to in the Notice of Internet Availability or request to receive a printed set of the proxy materials. You can find instructions on how to request a printed copy by mail or electronically on the Notice of Internet Availability and on the website referred to in the Notice of Internet Availability, including an option to request paper copies on an ongoing basis. On or around [            ], 2022, we intend to make this proxy statement available on the Internet and to commence mailing of the Notice to all stockholders entitled to vote at the Special Meeting. The purpose of the Special Meeting is for you to consider and vote on the following matters:

1.    a proposal to approve the Merger of Parent Merger Sub with and into Switch;

2.    a proposal to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers; and

3.    a proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

Pursuant to our bylaws and Nevada law, only the matters set forth in the Notice of Special Meeting may be brought before the Special Meeting. The affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock entitled to be cast on the matter, each voting separately, is required to approve the Merger and for the Mergers to occur. A copy of the Merger Agreement is attached as Annex A to this proxy statement, which we encourage you to read carefully in its entirety.

As part of our precautions regarding the coronavirus or COVID-19, we may determine that the Special Meeting be held solely by means of remote communication rather than in person. If we take this step, we will announce the decision to do so in advance and provide details on how record holders may attend virtually and participate in the Special Meeting, via a press release issued by Switch and made available on our website, www.switch.com.

Record Date, Notice and Quorum

Record holders of outstanding shares of our Class A common stock and Class B common stock as of the close of business on [            ], 2022, the record date for the Special Meeting (the “Record Date”), are entitled to vote at the Special Meeting on all matters to be voted upon. As of the Record Date, there were [            ] shares of our Class A common stock and [            ] shares of our Class B common stock outstanding. On each matter presented to our stockholders for vote at the Special Meeting, the holders of our outstanding Class A common stock and Class B common stock are entitled to one vote per share held as of the Record Date, voting together, except for the proposal to approve the Merger of Parent Merger Sub with and into Switch, for which the Class A common stock and Class B common stock will be voting as separate classes.

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On November 8, 2019 (the “Conversion Date”), at the request of our board of directors, Rob Roy and his affiliated entities, which comprised all holders of our shares of Class C common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class C common stock”), converted each share of Class C common stock held by them into one share of Class B common stock pursuant to our articles of incorporation. Following the Conversion Date, each former holder of a share of Class C common stock is entitled to one vote instead of ten votes per share on all matters on which holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock are entitled to vote. As a result of the conversion, there were no shares of Class C common stock outstanding as of the Record Date.

The current owners of common membership interests of Switch, Ltd. (“Company Ltd. Common Units”) hold shares of Class B common stock on a one-for-one basis for each Company Ltd. Common Unit held. The shares of Class B common stock (i) confer only voting rights and do not confer any incidents of economic ownership to the holders thereof and (ii) are forfeited and cancelled, on a one-for-one basis, without consideration, upon the redemption of the Company Ltd. Common Units for shares of Class A common stock, or cash, at our election. The number of shares of Class B common stock held by a Member is always equal to the number of Company Ltd. Common Units held by that Member. The exchange of Company Ltd. Common Units and concurrent forfeiture of shares of the Class B common stock are governed by our articles of incorporation and Company Ltd.’s Fifth Amended and Restated Operating Agreement (the “Company Ltd. Operating Agreement”), which is discussed in more detail in the “Relationships and Related Party Transactions” section of our annual proxy statement. Only Founder Members and Non-Founder Members and their permitted transferees may hold shares of Class B common stock. “Founder Members” refer to Rob Roy, our Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Non-Founder Members” are those who hold Company Ltd. Common Units and shares of Class B common stock. “Members” refers to the Founder Members and Non-Founder Members.

Required Vote

Completion of the Mergers requires approval of the Merger by the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock entitled to be cast on the matter, each voting separately. Each stockholder is entitled to cast one vote on each matter presented at the Special Meeting for each share of common stock owned by such stockholder on the Record Date. Because the required vote for this proposal is based on the number of votes our holders of common stock are entitled to cast rather than on the number of votes cast, if you fail to vote by proxy or in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually (including by abstaining), or fail to instruct your broker on how to vote, such failure will have the same effect as voting against the proposal to approve the Merger.

The approval of the proposal regarding the non-binding, advisory vote on the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers, and the approval of the proposal regarding any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger, each requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on the proposal. Approval of these proposals is not a condition to completion of the Mergers. For the purpose of each of these proposals, if you fail to vote by proxy or in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or fail to instruct your broker on how to vote, it will not have any effect on the outcome of such proposals, assuming a quorum is otherwise present at the meeting. Abstentions, while present for purposes of determining presence of a quorum, are not considered votes cast and therefore will have no other effect on the outcome of these proposals.

In order for your shares of common stock to be voted, if you are a stockholder of record, you must either return the enclosed proxy card, authorize your proxy or voting instructions by telephone or through the Internet or vote in person at the Special Meeting, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually.

As of the Record Date, our directors and executive officers owned and are entitled to vote an aggregate of approximately [            ] of our shares of Class A common stock and approximately [            ] of our shares of

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Class B common stock, entitling them to exercise approximately [    ]% of the voting power of Class A common stock, [    ]% of the voting power of Class B common stock and [    ]% of the voting power of our common stock entitled to vote at the Special Meeting. Our directors and executive officers have executed Voting and Support Agreements, agreeing to vote the shares of common stock that they own in favor of the proposal to approve the Merger, in favor of the proposal regarding the non-binding, advisory vote on the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers and in favor of the proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

Votes cast by proxy or in person at the Special Meeting, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, will be counted by the person appointed by us to act as inspector of election for the Special Meeting. The inspector of election will also determine the number of shares of common stock represented at the Special Meeting, in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or by proxy.

Solicitation of Proxies

Our board of directors is soliciting proxies for the Special Meeting from our stockholders. We will bear the entire cost of soliciting proxies from our stockholders, unless the Mergers are not consummated by the End Date and the Merger Agreement is terminated, in which case, Parent will bear 50% of all printing and dissemination costs for this proxy statement. We have retained the services of MacKenzie Partners to assist with the solicitation of proxies in connection with the Special Meeting, and we will pay MacKenzie Partners $25,000 for these services, plus reimbursement of reasonable expenses. In addition to the solicitation of proxies by delivery of the Notice or proxy statement by mail, we will request that brokers, banks and other nominees that hold shares of our common stock, which are beneficially owned by our stockholders, send Notices, proxies and proxy materials to those beneficial owners and secure those beneficial owners’ voting instructions. We will reimburse those record holders for their reasonable expenses. We may also use several of our regular employees, who will not be specially compensated, to solicit proxies from our stockholders, either personally or by telephone, Internet, facsimile or special delivery letter.

Voting of Shares

You may vote by attending the Special Meeting and voting in person, or you may vote by submitting a proxy. The method of voting by proxy differs (1) depending on whether you are viewing this proxy statement on the Internet or receiving a paper copy and (2) for shares held as a record holder and shares held in “street name.” If you hold your shares of common stock as a record holder and you are viewing this proxy statement on the Internet, you may vote by submitting a proxy over the Internet by following the instructions on the website referred to in the Notice previously mailed to you. If you hold your shares of common stock as a record holder and you are reviewing a paper copy of this proxy statement, you may vote your shares by completing, dating and signing the proxy card that was included with the proxy statement and promptly returning it in the preaddressed, postage paid envelope provided to you, or by submitting a proxy over the Internet or by telephone by following the instructions on the proxy card.

Stockholders who wish to attend the Special Meeting will be required to present verification of ownership of our common stock, such as a bank or brokerage firm account statement, and will be required to present a valid government-issued picture identification, such as a driver’s license or passport, to gain admittance to the Special Meeting. No cameras, recording equipment, electronic devices, large bags, briefcases or packages will be permitted in the Special Meeting.

If you hold your shares of common stock in “street name,” which means your shares are held of record by a broker, bank or nominee, you will receive a Notice from your broker, bank or other nominee that includes instructions on how to vote your shares. Your broker, bank or nominee will allow you to deliver your voting

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instructions over the Internet and may also permit you to vote by telephone. In addition, you may request paper copies of the proxy statement and proxy card from your broker by following the instructions on the Notice provided by your broker.

Under NYSE rules, all of the proposals in this proxy statement are non-routine matters, so there can be no broker non-votes at the Special Meeting. A broker non-vote occurs when shares held by a bank, broker, trust or other nominee are represented at a meeting, but the bank, broker, trust or other nominee has not received voting instructions from the beneficial owner and does not have the discretion to direct the voting of the shares on a particular proposal but has discretionary voting power on other proposals at such meeting. Accordingly, if you own shares of common stock through a broker, bank or other nominee (i.e., in “street name”), you must provide voting instructions in accordance with the instructions on the voting instruction card that your broker, bank or other nominee provides to you, as brokers, banks and other nominees do not have discretionary voting authority with respect to any of the three proposals described in this proxy statement. You should instruct your broker, bank or other nominee as to how to vote your shares of common stock following the directions contained in such voting instruction card. If you have not received such voting instructions or require further information regarding such voting instructions, contact your broker, bank or other nominee who can give you directions on how to vote your shares of common stock. If you hold your shares of common stock through a broker, bank or other nominee and wish to vote in person at the Special Meeting, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, you must obtain a “legal proxy,” executed in your favor, from the broker, bank or other nominee (which may take several days). Because the proposal to approve the Merger requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock entitled to be cast on the matter, each voting separately, the failure to provide your bank, broker, trust or other nominee with voting instructions will have the same effect as a vote “AGAINST” the proposal to approve the Merger. Because the approval of each of (1) the non-binding, advisory proposal regarding compensation and (2) the proposal to adjourn the Special Meeting if necessary or appropriate requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on such proposal, and because your bank, broker, trust or other nominee does not have discretionary authority to vote on either proposal, the failure to provide your bank, broker, trust or other nominee with voting instructions will have no effect on approval of either proposal, assuming a quorum is otherwise present.

If you vote through the Internet, you should be aware that you may incur costs to access the Internet, such as usage charges from telephone companies or Internet service providers and that these costs must be borne by you. If you vote by Internet or telephone, then you need not return a written proxy card by mail.

YOUR VOTE IS VERY IMPORTANT. Regardless of whether you plan to attend the Special Meeting, we request that you authorize a proxy for your shares of common stock as described above as promptly as possible. If you properly give your proxy and submit it to us in time to vote, one of the individuals named as your proxy will vote your shares as described below.

All shares entitled to vote and represented by properly submitted proxies (including those submitted electronically, telephonically and in writing) received before the polls are closed at the Special Meeting, and not revoked or superseded, will be voted at the Special Meeting in accordance with the instructions indicated on those proxies. If no direction is indicated on a proxy, your shares will be voted as follows: “FOR” the Merger, as described in the proxy statement, “FOR” the advisory compensation proposal, and “FOR” the adjournment of this meeting, if needed, to allow the Company to get more votes. The proxy gives each of Rob Roy, Thomas Morton and Gabe Nacht discretionary authority to vote your shares in accordance with his best judgment with respect to all additional matters that might come before the Special Meeting.

Proxies and Revocation

If you authorize a proxy, your shares of common stock will be voted at the Special Meeting as you indicate on your proxy. If no instructions are indicated when you authorize your proxy, your shares of common stock will

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be voted in accordance with the recommendations of our board of directors. Our board of directors and the special committee recommends that you vote “FOR” the proposal to approve the Merger, “FOR” the proposal to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers and “FOR” the proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

If you are a stockholder of record, you may revoke your proxy at any time before your proxy is voted at the Special Meeting by taking any of the following actions:

• delivering to our Secretary a signed written notice of revocation, bearing a date later than the date of the proxy, stating that the proxy is revoked;

• signing and delivering a new paper proxy, relating to the same shares and bearing a later date than the original proxy;

• submitting another proxy by telephone or over the Internet (your latest telephone or Internet voting instructions are followed); or

• attending the Special Meeting and voting in person, although attendance at the Special Meeting will not, by itself, revoke a proxy.

Written notices of revocation and other communications with respect to the revocation of proxies should be addressed to:

Switch, Inc.

7135 S. Decatur Blvd.

Las Vegas, NV 89118

Attention: Secretary

If your shares are held in “street name,” you may change your vote by submitting new voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee. You must contact your broker, bank or other nominee to find out how to do so. See below regarding how to vote in person if your shares are held in “street name.”

Pursuant to our bylaws and Nevada law, only the matters set forth in the Notice of Special Meeting may be brought before the Special Meeting.

Availability of Proxy Materials for the Special Meeting

Our proxy materials, including this proxy statement, our 2022 annual meeting proxy statement and our annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, are available online at https://www.proxydocs.com/SWCH. You are encouraged to access and review all of the important information contained in the proxy materials before voting.

Adjournments and Postponements

Although it is not currently expected, the Special Meeting may be adjourned for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if the holders of a sufficient number of shares of common stock are not present at the Special Meeting, in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually or by proxy, to constitute a quorum or if we believe it is reasonably likely that the Merger will not be approved at the Special Meeting when convened on [            ], 2022, or when reconvened following any adjournment. Pursuant to our bylaws, if a quorum is not present, the stockholders entitled to vote at the Special Meeting, present in person, or, in the event that the Special Meeting is held by means of remote communication, virtually, or by proxy, will have the power to adjourn the meeting without notice other than announcement at the meeting.

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Any adjournments may be made to a date not more than 60 days after the original record date without notice (other than by an announcement at the Special Meeting), subject to certain restrictions in the Merger Agreement, including that the Special Meeting (as so postponed or adjourned) may not be held on a date that is more than 30 days after the date on which the Special Meeting was originally scheduled without Parent’s written consent, not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. See “Proposal 3 – Proposal to Approve Adjournment of the Meeting.”

In addition, at any time prior to convening the Special Meeting, we may postpone the Special Meeting for any reason without the approval of our stockholders to a date not more than 60 days after the original record date (subject to the restrictions in the Merger Agreement described above).

Voting in Person, Attendance at the Special Meeting

If you plan to attend the Special Meeting and wish to vote in person, you will be given a ballot at the Special Meeting. Please note, however, that if your shares are held in “street name,” which means your shares are held of record by a broker, bank or other nominee, and you wish to vote at the Special Meeting, you must bring to the Special Meeting a legal proxy from the record holder of the shares, which is the broker, bank or other nominee, authorizing you to vote at the Special Meeting.

Stockholder List

A list of stockholders eligible to vote at the Special Meeting will be available for inspection, for any purpose germane to the Special Meeting, at Switch’s principal executive office during regular business hours for a period of no less than ten days prior to the Special Meeting.

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THE MERGERS

General Description of the Mergers

Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, Parent will acquire Switch and our subsidiaries, including Company Ltd., through the merger of Parent Merger Sub with and into Switch and the merger of Company Merger Sub with and into Company Ltd. Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, Parent Merger Sub will merge with and into Switch, with Switch continuing as the surviving entity. Promptly following the Effective Time of the Merger, Company Merger Sub will merge with and into Company Ltd., with Company Ltd. continuing as the surviving entity.

Background of the Mergers

The terms of the Merger Agreement and the related ancillary agreements were the result of extensive negotiations between Switch, DigitalBridge and IFM (on behalf of funds managed or advised by each of DigitalBridge and IFM) and their respective affiliates. The following is a brief description of the background of the Mergers and related transactions.

Switch’s board of directors (the “board of directors” or the “board”), together with members of senior management of Switch, regularly reviews and assesses the performance, future growth prospects, business plans and overall strategic direction of Switch, and considers a variety of strategic alternatives that may be available to Switch, including continuing to pursue its strategy as a standalone company or pursuing potential strategic or financing transactions with third parties, in each case, with the goal of maximizing stockholder value. As part of that review, in August 2021, the board announced the establishment of a REIT committee of the board to evaluate whether a REIT conversion would enhance Switch’s long-term value creation strategy. After REIT committee and management consideration, Switch announced in its third quarter 2021 earnings release, and on an earnings conference call on November 5, 2021, adjusted full year 2021 guidance and that the board unanimously determined to pursue a REIT conversion, targeting a REIT tax election for the 2023 tax year. Switch Class A common stock closed on November 5, 2021 at $23.06 per share.

Following discussions among the board and management during the second half of 2021, including regarding several publicly traded data center companies that announced sale transactions, and consistent with the board’s and management’s efforts to maximize stockholder value, the board authorized management to take preliminary steps to gather information to explore potential strategic transactions (a “Strategic Transaction”). Thereafter, (i) on November 24, 2021, representatives of Switch met with representatives of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (“Goldman Sachs”) and (ii) on December 16, 2021, representatives of Switch met with representatives of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), in each case, to discuss the market and strategic alternatives.

During meetings of the board held on December 9, 2021, attended by management, and on December 16, 2021, attended by management and representatives from Latham & Watkins LLP (“Latham”), outside legal counsel, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the board considered and discussed initiating a process to evaluate strategic alternatives. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley presented to the board regarding certain strategic alternatives that could be available to Switch and potential counterparties that could be interested in a Strategic Transaction. Mr. Roy, CEO and founder of Switch, noted that he had no current plans, nor had he taken any actions, to participate with any bidder in a Strategic Transaction, but wanted to preserve flexibility if the board determined to engage in a Strategic Transaction and a potential financial buyer wanted Mr. Roy to have a continuing management role in the surviving entity and/or rollover all or a portion of his Switch equity. Taking this and other considerations into account, the board formed a special committee of the board (the “special committee”) for the purpose of considering, evaluating, negotiating and making recommendations to the board for or against any Strategic Transaction. The special committee would comprise of directors who were determined to be (i) independent, (ii) not current employees of Switch, and (iii) otherwise disinterested in a potential Strategic Transaction. The initial members of the special committee were Don Snyder, Jason Genrich, Kim Sheehy and Bryan Wolf. Mr. Snyder served as the initial chair of the special committee.

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Following the December 16, 2021 board meeting, the special committee instructed the board of directors to authorize negotiation of terms of engagement with each of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as financial advisors to the special committee in connection with exploring strategic alternatives and authorized Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to reach out to an agreed list of potential bidders on a confidential basis. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were selected, in part, because of (i) their familiarity with Switch, (ii) their reputation as internationally recognized investment banking firms and (iii) their substantial experience in transactions similar to the Mergers. The special committee also determined that based on fee allocations, only Goldman Sachs would be asked to provide a fairness opinion in connection with a Strategic Transaction. Switch Class A common stock closed on December 16, 2021 at $26.94 per share. Throughout December of 2021 and January of 2022, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley contacted 16 potential bidders, including each of DigitalBridge, IFM, Bidder A and Bidder B, on or about January 11, 2022, to inquire about their interest in entering into a Strategic Transaction with Switch.

On January 6, 2022, the special committee and representatives from Latham, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and management met, and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley presented to the special committee regarding certain Strategic Transactions that could be considered.

On January 13 and January 19, 2022, the special committee held additional meetings attended by representatives from Latham, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and management. During these meetings, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley presented to the special committee regarding their outreach and communication with potential counterparties.

During the January 13, 2022 special committee meeting, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reviewed with the special committee Switch’s Tax Receivable Agreement (the “TRA”). The TRA was entered into in connection with the restructuring undertaken as part of Switch’s initial public offering (“IPO”) in 2017 and contractually commits Switch to pay members of Switch, Ltd. (other than Switch) as of immediately prior to the IPO, 85% of the tax benefits realized by Switch as the result of the members of Switch, Ltd. exchanging their common units in Switch, Ltd. for Class A common stock in Switch after the IPO process (the remaining 15% would inure to the benefit of Switch). The special committee, together with its outside advisors and management, considered Switch’s recorded liability of $359 million as of September 30, 2021 with respect to tax benefit payments owed to TRA members, and that the TRA required an early termination payment to TRA members upon a change in control, taking into account certain valuation assumptions and the discounted present value of all tax benefit payments payable to the members under the TRA. The special committee and its advisors discussed the size of this early termination payment liability and the various terms, assumptions and calculations set forth in the TRA in determining the early termination payment. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley presented on various actions taken by other public companies with tax receivable agreements that included early termination payments upon a change in control, including payment in full of the early termination payment, and amendments and waivers that modified the size or terms of the early termination payment. In addition, the special committee considered that the net present value of the TRA tax benefits to Switch after a REIT conversion was potentially lower. The special committee, in consultation with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, reviewed the magnitude of the early termination payment and potential ambiguity in the TRA with respect to determining the early termination payment under various change in control scenarios and considered the potential for this ambiguity to be disruptive to the transaction process and confuse bidders or cause bidders to potentially reduce the value they would be willing to pay in a transaction. The special committee, in consultation with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, further considered that terminating the TRA or having a fixed, certain value of payments under the TRA in connection with a change in control would be in the best interests of Switch and its stockholders. The special committee and its advisors determined to conduct further analysis regarding the ability to amend or modify the TRA pursuant to its terms in connection with a change in control, and separately requested that management conduct its own analysis and report back to the special committee. The special committee acknowledged certain members of the special committee, board, and management were entitled to payments under the TRA and considered appropriate procedures to address any conflict of interest as a result.

Over the next month, Latham negotiated and Switch entered into nondisclosure agreements with nine potential bidders, including (i) DigitalBridge on February 8, 2022, (ii) IFM on February 9, 2022, (iii) Bidder A

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on February 4, 2022 and (iv) Bidder B on February 3, 2022. Two additional bidders executed nondisclosure agreements in March of 2022. All 11 of the nondisclosure agreements included a customary standstill provision

(which did not prohibit the bidders from privately requesting waivers of such provisions). Upon the execution of a nondisclosure agreement, each of the 11 bidders received access to a virtual data room enabling them to conduct due diligence regarding Switch. In addition, each of the nine potential bidders who executed a nondisclosure agreement in February 2022 attended separate in-person management presentations with Switch during the first several weeks of February 2022.

Additional board meetings were held on February 2, 2022 and February 4, 2022 with representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Latham and management. During these board meetings, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley updated the board regarding their discussions to date with potential bidders for a Strategic Transaction and management reviewed with the board bidder presentation materials and prospects and the Switch Projections, including the material assumptions therein. For a detailed discussion regarding the Switch Projections, please see “—Certain Unaudited Financial Projections” beginning on page 52 of this proxy statement.

The special committee held a meeting on February 9, 2022 with Latham in attendance to further discuss the TRA in connection with a potential Strategic Transaction and special committee composition. Prior to the meeting, Mr. Snyder, the sole member of the special committee who was also a TRA member, elected to recuse himself from the meeting and offered to withdraw from the committee so that no special committee member had any interest in the TRA. The special committee then discussed the TRA, including the calculation of the early termination payment at various stock prices and the number of TRA members required to amend the TRA. Following discussion, the special committee recommended to the board that management (i) propose to certain TRA members holding the rights to the most TRA tax benefit payments that the TRA be terminated upon a change in control without any payments to the TRA members and (ii) if such TRA members were unwilling to do so, request that they determine a spokesperson and counsel, if they so choose, to negotiate the terms under which the TRA would be terminated or amended in connection with a change in control or conversion to a REIT. The special committee also directed management to have Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”), tax advisor to Switch, prepare an analysis of the early termination payment and tax benefit payments that could be payable under the TRA, including all assumptions underlying the analysis. In addition, given the desire of the special committee to terminate or modify the TRA to obtain maximum value for stockholders in any Strategic Transaction, the special committee determined to accept Mr. Snyder’s offer to step off the special committee and proposed that Ms. Pelletier, who had no interest in the TRA, replace Mr. Snyder as a member of the special committee.

On February 14, 2022, after making a determination that Ms. Pelletier was (i) independent, (ii) not a current employee of Switch, (iii) disinterested in a Strategic Transaction and (iv) not a party to the TRA, the board, acting by unanimous written consent, approved the replacement of Mr. Snyder with Ms. Pelletier, and on February 15, 2022, the special committee amended and restated its charter to authorize the special committee to negotiate the termination of, or amendment to, the TRA and elected Mr. Wolf as the chair of the special committee.

On February 22, 2022, the special committee, along with representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Latham, met to discuss the status of negotiations with potential bidders. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley updated the special committee on various initial and follow-up meetings held with the nine potential bidders who had already executed nondisclosure agreements. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley noted that management had held meetings with the nine potential bidders and continued to respond to diligence requests from the bidders. Following discussion, the special committee authorized Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to send a process letter to the nine interested bidders, including DigitalBridge, IFM, Bidder A and Bidder B, later that day requesting that interested bidders submit initial indicative offers by March 10, 2022.

From February 22, 2022 through March 10, 2022, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley continued to engage in discussions with potential bidders, including two additional bidders who entered the process in early March and mid-March, respectively, with respect to the terms of their potential bids and management, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Latham coordinated responses by Switch management to various diligence questions posed

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by the bidders, including regarding the status and liability under the TRA. From February 18, 2022 through April 6, 2022, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley attended diligence calls with management to discuss and coordinate answers by the management team to various diligence questions posed by the bidders.

On March 10, 2022, Switch received indicative offers from four potential bidders: DigitalBridge at $34.00 per share; IFM, who did not submit a per share price, but indicated they were willing to invest up to $2.5 billion; Bidder A at $32.50 per share; and Bidder B at a range of $28.00 - $31.00 per share. Each bid assumed, as directed by Switch, that no payment would be required pursuant to the TRA. Switch Class A common stock price on March 10, 2022 closed at $27.08 per share. Later in the day, the special committee met to discuss the various bids along with Latham, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. After this discussion, the special committee determined to proceed in further discussions with each of the bidders.

On March 14, 2022, the board held a meeting, attended by representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Latham and management, to discuss the indicative offers received to date. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley summarized each bid and presented a proposed timeline for entering into definitive agreements. The board, Goldman Sachs and management then discussed the Switch Projections, including the material assumptions therein. For a detailed discussion regarding the Switch Projections, please see “—Certain Unaudited Financial Projections” beginning on page 52 of this proxy statement.

From late March 2022 through mid-April 2022, management and the board held additional in-person meetings with DigitalBridge, IFM, Bidder A and Bidder B, and their respective advisors, including tours of Switch’s various campuses, attended numerous diligence calls with each potential bidder and continued to populate the virtual data room in response to diligence requests from each potential bidder. During diligence calls in late March, potential bidders, including DigitalBridge and Bidder A, raised that in order to obtain certain real estate-style financing for the transaction, Switch would need to amend its leases for certain of its properties in Las Vegas, Nevada.

On March 21, 2022, the media reported that Switch was considering a Strategic Transaction. On March 18, 2022, the last day of trading prior to the reporting, shares of Switch Class A common stock closed at $28.78 per share. On March 22, 2022, the first full day of trading after the reporting, shares of Switch Class A common stock closed at $29.68 per share.

On March 30, 2022, DigitalBridge requested through the special committee’s financial advisors that DigitalBridge and IFM be permitted to submit a joint-bid at the next deadline. The special committee’s financial advisors informed DigitalBridge and IFM that Switch approved the submission of this joint-bid on April 1, 2022 to allow the parties to put forth their most competitive bid.

On April 4 and April 5, 2022, the special committee held meetings, attended by representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Latham, management and Deloitte, during which management and Deloitte discussed Switch’s recorded liability under the TRA as of December 31, 2021 of $395.6 million and the assumptions used by Switch in determining the liability. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley presented to the special committee an analysis of the TRA tax benefit payments and early termination payments in various scenarios (in each case as provided to Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley by Switch management), including upon a change in control, and under both Switch’s existing Up-C corporate structure and after a REIT conversion, noting net present value of the TRA tax benefit payments after a REIT conversion was potentially lower and discussed further how this should impact a special committee proposal to TRA members on terminating the TRA. In addition, the special committee authorized Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to send a second round process letter to bidders, reviewed and provided input on the terms of an initial draft merger agreement to Latham and authorized Latham to make the draft merger agreement available to the bidders.

On April 5, 2022, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley provided a second round process letter to DigitalBridge (now bidding with IFM), Bidder A and Bidder B and Latham uploaded a draft merger agreement to a virtual data room for review by bidders. The process letter directed bidders to provide a final bid no later than April 28, 2022.

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On April 7, 2022, the special committee held a meeting, attended by representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Latham, management and Deloitte. Management discussed the communications to date with certain TRA members, in which such TRA members expressed a willingness to amend the TRA by reducing the payout to members in order to facilitate a Strategic Transaction, provided some consideration was paid to TRA members in connection with any such transaction. Following discussion and based upon the analysis provided by Deloitte, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on the amount of the tax benefit payments and early termination payments owed under various scenarios, including a change in control and after a REIT conversion, the state of discussions with bidders with respect to a Strategic Transaction, the significant early termination payment that would be due to TRA holders upon a change in control if no action was taken with respect to the TRA that would likely make a Strategic Transaction no longer attractive to Switch stockholders, and the significant number of TRA members required to satisfy the 70% Supermajority Threshold necessary to amend the TRA pursuant to its terms, the special committee proposed to recommend to the board an aggregate payment of approximately $75 million paid to all parties to the TRA, pro rata, in exchange for terminating the TRA upon the earlier of a change in control and December 31, 2022.

From April 7, 2022 through April 12, 2022, management, the special committee and the board met to discuss next steps with regard to the TRA. Upon the recommendation of the special committee, the board authorized Switch to enter into an amendment to the TRA that would provide for an aggregate payout to TRA members of approximately $75 million in exchange for the termination of all obligations under the TRA (the “TRA Amendment”). See “The Mergers—Amendment to the Tax Receivable Agreement” for a full summary of the TRA Amendment. The special committee believed that amendment would offer the best opportunity to maximize stockholder value for the Strategic Transaction or conversion to a REIT. Management was also authorized to begin soliciting approval from TRA members necessary to effect the TRA Amendment.

On April 15, Latham received revised merger agreement drafts from each of DigitalBridge/IFM and Bidder A. Bidder A also provided initial drafts of an equity commitment letter and a limited guarantee.

On April 20, 2022, the special committee met to discuss various transaction-related matters. Representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Latham and management were in attendance. Management summarized for the special committee negotiations to effect a lease amendment for certain of Switch’s leased properties in the Las Vegas, Nevada area (the “Leased Properties”) that the bidders had requested as critical to obtaining their financing, and discussed with the special committee that because of Mr. Tom Thomas’ ownership interests in the Leased Properties, as described more fully in the section entitled “- Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Mergers,” that he would not take part in discussions with respect to the Leased Properties. Management then provided an update to the special committee regarding the ongoing process to solicit approvals from TRA members to satisfy the Supermajority Threshold to amend the TRA. Next, Latham provided the special committee a summary of the two merger agreement markups received and outlined the material issues therein. With respect to the DigitalBridge/IFM merger agreement, the special committee discussed, among other things, that (i) Mr. Roy and Mr. Morton were being asked to rollover a portion of their equity in connection with the transaction, (ii) DigitalBridge/IFM deleted several obligations to obtain antitrust approval between signing and closing, (iii) a number of additional regulatory approvals were added as conditions to closing, (iv) DigitalBridge/IFM had proposed a buyer termination fee of 5% and a Switch termination fee of 3.75%, (v) the transaction documents contemplated a mortgage debt commitment that contained additional closing conditionality as compared to a leveraged buyout financing and (vi) certain representations, warranties and covenants were revised to more buyer-friendly positions. With respect to the Bidder A merger agreement, the special committee discussed, among other things, that (i) the financing package proposed involved leverage buyout financing rather than a mortgage debt commitment, (ii) Bidder A was requesting a similar management rollover equity condition as DigitalBridge/IFM, (iii) Bidder A had also limited its obligations with respect to obtaining antitrust approval, (iv) a similar list of new regulatory approvals were proposed as conditions to closing, (v) Bidder A had proposed a Bidder A break fee of 6% and a Switch break fee of 3%, as well as an obligation for Switch to reimburse Bidder A for expenses up to $30 million in the event of a failure to obtain stockholder approval and (vi) certain representations, warranties and covenants were revised to more buyer-

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friendly positions. Both DigitalBridge/IFM and Bidder A markups included obtaining voting agreements in support of the Mergers from all of the board and executive management team and certain stockholders. Following discussion of the draft merger agreements, the special committee directed Latham to negotiate the merger agreement drafts with legal counsel to DigitalBridge/IFM, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (“STB”), and with legal counsel for Bidder A. The special committee also considered whether Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley should contact any additional parties as to their interest in a Strategic Transaction with Switch, but noted that Switch’s consideration of strategic alternatives had appeared in media reports and no other parties had contacted Switch, Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley with interest in a Strategic Transaction.

On April 20, 2022, representatives for the owners of the Leased Properties informed management that they were not willing to amend the leases for the Leased Properties; however, they would consider the sale of the Leased Properties to Switch (the “Land Purchase”). Management, after consultation with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, notified the special committee that it believed such a purchase by Switch would facilitate financing that would allow a higher price in a Strategic Transaction, and the special committee authorized negotiation of terms under which a purchase might be possible, including a closing contingent upon a Strategic Transaction closing, and instructed management to bring back terms for final approval.

On April 21, 2022, Latham held separate calls with STB and the legal representatives of Bidder A to discuss their revised drafts of the merger agreement. Latham highlighted the material issues in the drafts, as well as certain other issues raised in other draft ancillary agreements submitted, and informed legal counsel for each bidder that they should consider improving those positions in revised drafts to be submitted with their client’s final bid.

During the week of April 18, 2022, Bidder A informed Switch they would need to complete additional diligence in order to have their financing package finalized in advance of submitting a bid. After discussions and in light of the status of ongoing negotiations in connection with the Land Purchase, the special committee elected to push the date for final bids from April 28, 2022 to May 5, 2022 in order to allow bidders additional time to finalize their bids, including their financing packages.

From April 21, 2022 through May 5, 2022, management and Latham held numerous diligence calls with DigitalBridge/IFM and Bidder A and their respective representatives relating to a number of matters, including diligence related to financing real estate, benefits, intellectual property, tax and various regulatory matters.

On April 22, 2022, management informed the special committee that TRA members satisfying the Supermajority Threshold had approved the TRA Amendment.

On April 28, 2022, Latham provided initial drafts of the Voting and Support Agreement and the Switch Disclosure Letter to STB and legal counsel for Bidder A.

On May 3, 2022, the media reported that Switch was in negotiations to be purchased by Brookfield Asset Management. On May 5, 2022, the first full day of trading after the report, shares of Switch Class A common stock closed at $31.64 per share.

On May 4, 2022, representatives of Bidder B informed representatives of Morgan Stanley that Bidder B would not submit a revised bid to acquire Switch.

On May 5, 2022, DigitalBridge/IFM and Bidder A provided revised bids to Switch, along with revised drafts of the Merger Agreement, financing documents and ancillary agreements. The revised bid from DigitalBridge/IFM proposed to acquire Switch for $34.25 per share, and DigitalBridge/IFM offered to connect executives of their financing partners with the special committee’s financial advisors to demonstrate DigitalBridge/IFM’s commitment to the financing. The revised bid from Bidder A proposed to acquire Switch for $29.00 per share, and Bidder A communicated that this reflected a change in market conditions that impacted financing costs, the impact of the TRA Amendment and the Land Purchase.

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On May 6, 2022, the special committee met to discuss the terms of the final bids and revised transaction documents. Representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Latham and management were in attendance. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley summarized the terms of the bids and Latham highlighted certain key issues remaining in the transaction documents. With respect to DigitalBridge/IFM, the special committee considered, among other things, that the transaction documents continued to contemplate a mortgage debt commitment that contained additional closing conditionality as compared to a leveraged buyout financing and a DigitalBridge/IFM termination fee of 5% and a Switch termination fee of 3.75%. With respect to Bidder A, the special committee considered, among other things, that the transaction documents continued to contemplate a leveraged buyout financing, certain limitations on Bidder A’s obligations to obtain regulatory approval and an obligation for Switch to reimburse Bidder A for expenses up to $30 million in the event of a failure to obtain stockholder approval. The special committee provided their views and instructed Latham to go back and negotiate with DigitalBridge/IFM and Bidder A for key terms, including informing DigitalBridge/IFM that their mortgage debt commitment disadvantaged their bid and that they should obtain a leveraged buyout financing to give their bid additional closing certainty. During the May 6, 2022 special committee meeting, the special committee also discussed the status of negotiations for the Land Purchase. Management informed the special committee that negotiations remained ongoing, particularly with respect to the total price for the Land Purchase.

On May 7, 2022, the special committee met, along with representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Latham and management, to discuss a number of transaction-related issues, including communication to each of DigitalBridge/IFM and Bidder A regarding increasing their offer price and accepting certain revisions to the terms of the transaction documents, including, with respect to DigitalBridge/IFM, revising their financing to provide improved deal closing certainty, the status of negotiations regarding the Land Purchase and requests in the bid letter from each bidder that Messrs. Roy and Morton exchange an aggregate of approximately $500 million of equity in connection with the transaction. Mr. Morton informed the special committee that he and Mr. Roy were amenable to rolling over the requested amount of equity were Switch to enter into a definitive agreement with the winning bidder, and had engaged their own counsel that was prepared to negotiate the terms of any rollover and that they would not negotiate with either bidder on the terms of any rollover until the special committee authorized them to do so. Furthermore, Mr. Roy and Mr. Morton both agreed that neither would discuss their respective employment status or compensation matters with the bidders until authorized to do so by the special committee.

Later on May 7, 2022, Latham sent revised drafts of all transaction documents back to STB and Bidder A’s legal representative. From May 7, 2022 until May 11, 2022, Latham, STB and the legal representatives of Bidder A, as applicable, traded revised drafts of the various transaction documents and negotiated the key open points remaining in the documents.

During the evening on May 7, 2022, in response to the proposal for Messrs. Roy and Morton to rollover their Switch equity, Latham forwarded to STB and legal counsel for Bidder A a draft rollover term sheet prepared by counsel for Messrs. Roy and Morton. Latham communicated to STB and legal counsel for Bidder A that the winning bidder would be connected with counsel to Messrs. Roy and Morton to negotiate the terms thereof in advance of signing.

On May 8, 2022, the special committee, along with representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Latham and management, met to continue to discuss the bids received from DigitalBridge/IFM and Bidder A. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley informed the special committee that Bidder A had agreed to increase its offer price to $30.00 per share from $29.00 per share. Following the discussion, the special committee authorized Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to communicate to each bidder to improve its bid price in order to finalize a transaction and, additionally with respect to DigitalBridge/IFM, to seek to improve the certainty of its financing package. With respect to the Land Purchase, both bidders had been informed of the negotiations and reiterated to Switch that the Land Purchase would need to be finalized in advance of executing definitive agreements for the proposed Strategic Transaction.

On May 9, 2022, the special committee held two meetings and the full board met once to discuss various transaction-related matters. Each of these meetings were also attended by representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Latham and management. During the morning meetings, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley

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informed the special committee (i) that Bidder A had agreed to increase its offer price to $32.50 per share from $30.00 and conditioned this price on signing the transaction by end of day and (ii) that DigitalBridge/IFM had agreed to make certain improvements to the terms of its financing package and the draft merger agreement to improve closing certainty, including by limiting certain conditions to funding and limiting the possibility of a material breach claim by DigitalBridge/IFM in connection with Switch’s obligations to provide financing cooperation between signing and closing. Following these meetings and significant discussion on the topics among the special committee, the board, management, Latham, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the special committee concluded it was in the best interest of maximizing stockholder value to authorize Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to inform each bidder that (i) Switch intended to consummate a transaction with one of the bidders prior to market open on May 11, 2022, (ii) that each bidder should provide a “best and final” offer by the following morning, which should include an increase in offer price and (iii) that DigitalBridge/IFM should continue to make improvements to its financing package to provide for greater closing certainty.

Also on May 9, 2022, the media reported that Switch was in advanced discussions with Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and DigitalBridge for the sale of Switch. On May 6, 2022, the last day of trading prior to the report, shares of Switch Class A common stock closed at $30.49 per share. On May 10, 2022, the first full day of trading after the report, shares of Switch Class A common stock closed at $30.75 per share.

Both the special committee and the board met separately on multiple occasions over the course of the day on May 10, 2022. In attendance during these meetings were representatives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Latham and management. During these meetings, representatives of Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Latham, as applicable, reported to the special committee and the board that (i) Bidder A had informed Morgan Stanley that it was unwilling to increase its offer price beyond $32.50 and that they would not negotiate further for the purchase of Switch at a higher price and (ii) DigitalBridge/IFM had offered an increased break fee of $693 million, or approximately 8% of the equity value that would be payable upon certain breaches of the merger agreement. Management also informed the special committee that Switch was close to reaching terms in connection with the Land Purchase for a total purchase price of $300 million. The closing price per share of Switch Class A common stock on May 10, 2022 was $30.75.

Later in the day on May 10, 2022, the board met to discuss the revised terms proposed by DigitalBridge/IFM. Following significant discussion among the board, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Latham, taking into account the outreach, negotiations, transaction terms and offer prices, the board voiced its support for pursuing a transaction with DigitalBridge. Following the board meeting, the special committee convened a meeting and following extensive discussions, the special committee determined that the DigitalBridge/IFM proposal provided the best value to Switch stockholders, and authorized Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to convey to DigitalBridge and IFM that Switch was interested in executing definitive documentation for a transaction prior to market opening on the following day and that DigitalBridge/IFM should increase its offer by an additional $0.25 per share in order to secure the transaction. When making this determination, the special committee took into account that DigitalBridge/IFM had made a number of concessions with respect to its mortgage debt financing over a short period of time, including improving closing certainty by limiting certain conditions to funding and limiting the possibility of a material breach claim by DigitalBridge/IFM in connection with Switch’s obligations to cooperate with regards to the financing between signing and closing. The board of directors of Switch also determined, after consultation with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, that the proposal by DigitalBridge/IFM had an acceptable level of risk around the financing and closing certainty.

During the early evening on May 10, 2022, DigitalBridge/IFM communicated that $34.25 was their best and final offer price. DigitalBridge/IFM noted that this was an increase from their initial offer of $34.00 per share, which offer did not contemplate the additional approximately $75 million payment in connection with the TRA Amendment or the $300 million payment in connection with the Land Purchase. Because DigitalBridge/IFM had communicated that any Strategic Transaction was conditioned on Messrs. Roy and Morton rolling over their Switch equity, the special committee authorized Messrs. Roy and Morton to have discussions and negotiations with DigitalBridge/IFM regarding the terms of their equity rollover. During the course of the evening, counsel

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for Messrs. Roy and Morton was connected with STB, exchanged drafts of the rollover term sheet with DigitalBridge/IFM and STB and negotiated terms of the rollover with DigitalBridge/IFM and STB.

During the late evening on May 10, 2022, the board convened along with management, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Latham. Goldman Sachs reviewed with the board Goldman Sachs’ financial analyses of the merger consideration, and rendered to the special committee an oral opinion, which was subsequently confirmed by delivery of a written opinion dated May 11, 2022, that, as of such date and based upon and subject to the various qualifications, assumptions and limitations set forth therein, the merger consideration to be received by holders (other than Parent and its affiliates) of the outstanding shares of Switch Class A common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement was fair, from a financial point of view, to such holders. For a detailed discussion of Goldman Sachs’s opinion, please see “- Opinion of the Special Committee’s Financial Advisor” beginning on page 54 of this proxy statement. Latham then reviewed the proposed final terms of the Merger Agreement and the related ancillary agreements and presented to the board regarding their fiduciary obligations under Nevada law in connection with the proposed transaction. Management for Switch also informed the board and the special committee that, based upon, among other things, their views of Switch’s prospects on a standalone basis, its consideration of all the alternatives available to Switch and the information and advice provided by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Latham, it was Switch executive management’s recommendation that the board approve the transaction as proposed by DigitalBridge/IFM upon the terms negotiated by the parties and set forth in the definitive documents. Next, the special committee informed the board that, based upon, among other things, its consideration of all the alternatives available to Switch and the information and advice provided by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Latham over the course of evaluating Strategic Transactions, it was the special committee’s recommendation that the board approve the transaction as proposed by DigitalBridge/IFM upon the terms negotiated by the parties and set forth in the definitive documents. The board then discussed the various reasons to approve the Mergers, and certain countervailing factors. For a detailed description of the various reasons considered by the board, see “- Recommendation of the Board of Directors and the Special Committee” beginning on page 52 of this proxy statement. After further discussion, including a review of the status of Switch’s business, the process that led to the proposed Mergers, the alternatives available to Switch, including remaining as a public company, and the risks and benefits associated with the proposed transaction, the board unanimously (other than Mr. Roy who informed the special committee and the board that he was supportive of the transaction and would vote for the transaction in the interest of all stockholders, but under advice of counsel, recused himself from the vote given his agreement to participate in a rollover of a portion of his equity) (i) determined that the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the LLC Merger and the Merger, are advisable and in the best interests of Switch, Switch, Ltd., and Sunshine Merger Sub, Ltd., respectively, and their respective stockholders or equityholders, as applicable, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, (ii) directed that the Mergers be submitted for consideration at a special meeting of Switch’s stockholders and (iii) recommended that Switch’s stockholders approve the Merger. The Land Purchase was also approved as part of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

Prior to the market opening on May 11, 2022, Latham and STB finalized all transaction documents and Switch, Switch, Ltd., Sunshine Merger Sub, Ltd., Sunshine Bidco Inc. and Sunshine Parent Merger Sub Inc. executed the Merger Agreement and the ancillary agreements to be executed in connection therewith.

Before NYSE opened on May 11, 2022, DigitalBridge/IFM and Switch issued a press release announcing the entry into the Merger Agreement.

Reasons for the Mergers

As described above in the section entitled “-Background of the Mergers”, prior to and in reaching its determination to (i) authorize and approve the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the LLC Merger and the Merger, (ii) direct that the Merger be submitted for consideration at a special meeting of Switch’s stockholders and (iii) recommend that Switch’s stockholders approve the Merger, the special

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committee and the board consulted with and received the advice of their outside legal counsel and the special committee’s financial advisors, discussed certain issues with management and considered a variety of factors weighing positively in favor of the Mergers, the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the following material factors:

a) the $34.25 per share or unit price for Switch Class A common stock and Company Ltd. Common Units to be paid in cash, which was in excess of the all-time highest closing price for shares of Switch Class A common stock on any day since the date of Switch’s initial public offering in October 2017, and which represented a premium of approximately 19% over the undisturbed closing stock price of Switch Class A common stock on March 18, 2022, the last full trading day prior to media reporting regarding a potential sale of Switch;

b) the special committee and the board’s understanding of Switch’s business, operations, financial condition, earnings, prospects, competitive position and the nature of the industry in which Switch competes;

c) the special committee and the board’s understanding of the risks and uncertainties in the industry in which Switch competes, and the risks that Switch would face if it continued to operate on a standalone public company basis, including:

i) risks relating to the fundamentals for companies in the data center industry, including, but not limited to, increased competition, falling market rents and decreases in or slowed growth of global data, e-commerce and demand for outsourcing of data storage and cloud-based applications;

ii) risks relating to the operation of Switch, including, but not limited to, economic downturn, natural disaster or oversupply of data centers in the geographic areas that Switch serves, significant competition in the data center industry, a loss of key customers, a loss of access to key third-party service providers and suppliers, a loss of power or cooling which may interrupt Switch’s services to its customers, increased operating costs and capital expenditures at Switch’s facilities, including those resulting from higher utilization by customers, unknown or contingent liabilities related to Switch’s historical acquisitions of property or other assets and the inability to identify or complete acquisitions of additional properties or other assets;

iii) risks relating to financing of Switch, particularly in light of its capital expenditure requirements, including, but not limited to, the failure to obtain necessary outside financing on favorable terms, or at all, restrictions in the instruments governing Switch’s indebtedness, increases in market interest rates, volatility in the market price and volume of Switch Class A common stock and potential negative impacts resulting from incurring excessive leverage;

iv) risks relating to Switch’s development of properties, obtaining applicable permits, power and connectivity and Switch’s ability to successfully lease or purchase those properties;

v) risks relating to compliance with existing and future applicable laws and regulations;

vi) risks relating to Switch’s qualification as a REIT for fiscal year 2023 (including distributional requirements and compliance with technical requirements of the Code); and

vii) other risks and uncertainties, including the risk factors set forth in Switch’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2022 and current reports on Form 8-K;

d) turnover of Switch’s executives and other key personnel;

e) the special committee and the board’s determination that other alternatives to a sale of all of Switch, including entering into financing transactions, divesting certain assets and pursuing joint ventures or acquisitions, which alternatives the special committee evaluated with the assistance of its advisors, did not represent an attractive alternative to a sale of the entirety of Switch in light of, among other factors, the potential risks, rewards and uncertainties associated with those alternatives;

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f) the fact that the consideration to be paid in the Mergers is all cash, which provides certainty, immediate value and liquidity to holders of Switch Class A common stock and Company Ltd. Common Units, especially when viewed against any internal or external risks and uncertainties associated with Switch’s standalone strategy, immediately upon the closing of the Mergers;

g) the ability of the board to continue to declare and pay regular quarterly cash dividends to Switch’s stockholders for the entire period between signing and closing of the Mergers at a quarterly rate of up to $0.07 per share of Switch Class A common stock in accordance with the Merger Agreement without a reduction in the Merger Consideration to be paid to Switch’s stockholders, as more fully described below in the section entitled “The Merger Agreement – Certain Dividends”;

h) the possibility that an infrastructure fund or other private financial sponsor might be able to realize more value from the business than a public company buyer and thereby pay a higher price to acquire Switch, including the ability to fund developments without having to rely on the volatility of equity capital markets;

i) Switch management’s presentation to the special committee and the board of its views and analyses, in each case, conducted with the assistance of the special committee’s financial advisors;

j) the financial analyses reviewed and discussed with the special committee and the board by Goldman Sachs as well as the oral opinion of Goldman Sachs rendered to the board, which was subsequently confirmed by delivery of a written opinion, dated May 11, 2022, and that is attached to this proxy statement as Annex B, that, as of such date and based upon and subject to the various qualifications, assumptions and limitations set forth therein, the Merger Consideration to be received by holders (other than Parent and its affiliates) of shares of Switch Class A common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement was fair, from a financial point of view, to such holders, which is more fully described in the section entitled “- Opinion of the Special Committee’s Financial Advisor”;

k) the special committee and the board’s assessment, taking into account the foregoing factors, of Switch’s value on a standalone basis relative to the $34.25 per share or unit of Switch Class A common stock and Company Ltd. Common Units in connection with the Mergers, and the possibility that the trading price of shares of Switch Class A common stock would not reach and sustain such price, or that doing so could take a considerable period of time;

l) the special committee and the board’s process for soliciting and responding to offers from the third parties that were believed to be the most willing and able to pay the highest price for Switch, which included providing such parties with an opportunity to conduct due diligence and conduct management sessions with members of Switch’s management, as described in the section entitled “–Background of the Mergers”;

m) the special committee and the board’s belief that, based on discussions with DigitalBridge and IFM and other potential counterparties, $34.25 represented the best and final offer and the highest price per share or unit of Switch Class A common stock or Company Ltd. Common Units that DigitalBridge, IFM or any other potential counterparty would be willing to pay, and any request for a further price increase or solicitation of additional bids from other third parties would have created a meaningful risk that DigitalBridge/IFM might determine not to enter into the transaction and to terminate negotiations, in which event stockholders of Switch would lose the opportunity to obtain the proposed $34.25 per share or unit of Switch Class A common stock or Company Ltd. Common Units in cash being offered;

n) the successful track record that DigitalBridge and IFM have developed in acquiring other companies and the consolidated financial strength and industry expertise of DigitalBridge and IFM;

o) the fact that DigitalBridge and IFM have provided certain guarantees and equity commitments in favor of Switch as described below in the section entitled “- Financing”;

p) the provisions of the Merger Agreement that permit Switch, in response to certain unsolicited takeover proposals, to furnish information to, and conduct negotiations with, third parties under certain

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circumstances and, under certain conditions, to accept a superior proposal, and Switch’s corresponding right to terminate the Merger Agreement (subject to payment of the company termination fee of $260 million) in order to enter into a definitive agreement providing for the consummation of such Superior Proposal;

q) the ability of Switch to seek specific performance in certain circumstances, if required, in order to enforce the terms of the Merger Agreement;

r) the provisions of the Merger Agreement that permit the special committee and the board to withhold, withdraw, modify or qualify its recommendation that our stockholders vote to approve the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement under certain circumstances;

s) the high probability that the Mergers would be consummated based on, among other things, DigitalBridge and IFM’s independent respective abilities to complete large acquisition transactions and the $693 million parent termination fee, payable to Switch if the Merger Agreement is terminated in certain circumstances, which payment is guaranteed by certain affiliates of DigitalBridge and IFM;

t) the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement and the related transaction documents, which were reviewed by the special committee and the board with Latham, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and the fact that such terms were the product of arm’s-length negotiations between the parties;

u) the fact that resolutions approving the Mergers were evaluated, negotiated and recommended and approved by the special committee prior to presentation to the board for approval, a committee which is comprised solely of independent directors with respect to the Mergers and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, who are not affiliated with DigitalBridge/IFM, are not employees of Switch or any of its subsidiaries;

v) the fact that the Mergers would be subject to the approval of our stockholders, and our stockholders would be free to reject the Mergers by voting against the Mergers; and

w) the willingness of Rob Roy and Thomas Morton to roll over equity with the new owners of Switch on the similar terms as the bidder’s other equity investment sources.

In the course of its deliberations, the special committee and the board also considered a variety of risks and other countervailing factors related to the Merger Agreement and the Mergers, including the following material factors:

a) the potential upside in Switch’s standalone strategic plan;

b) the possibility that the Mergers might not be consummated in a timely manner or at all due to a failure of certain conditions, including with respect to the required approval of the transaction by the necessary regulatory authorities;

c) the risks and costs to Switch if the Mergers do not close in a timely manner or at all, including the potential negative impact on Switch’s ability to retain key employees, the diversion of management and employee attention and the potential disruptive effect on Switch’s day-to-day operations and Switch’s relationships with customers, suppliers and other third parties;

d) the fact that holders of Switch Class A common stock and Company Ltd. Common Units, other than as described below in the sections entitled “- Rollover Agreements” and “-Potential Employment Arrangements with Parent”, will have no ongoing equity interest in the surviving corporation following the Mergers, meaning that the holders of Switch Class A common stock and Company Ltd. Common Units, other than Messrs. Roy and Morton, will not (by virtue of their holdings) participate in Switch’s potential future earnings or growth;

e) the restrictions on the conduct of Switch’s business prior to the consummation of the Mergers, which may delay or prevent Switch from undertaking business opportunities that may arise or any other action that it might otherwise take with respect to the operations and strategy of Switch;

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f) the risk that the parties may incur significant costs and material delays resulting from seeking regulatory approvals and other clearances, consents and approvals necessary for consummation of the Mergers;

g) the provisions of the Merger Agreement that restrict Switch’s ability to solicit or participate in discussions or negotiations regarding alternative business combination transactions, subject to specified exceptions, and that require Switch to negotiate with Parent (if it so desires) prior to Switch being able to terminate the Merger Agreement to accept a superior proposal;

h) the possibility that Switch’s obligation to pay the company termination fee of $260 million upon the termination of the Merger Agreement under certain circumstances could discourage other potential acquirors from making a superior proposal to acquire Switch;

i) the significant costs involved in connection with negotiating the Merger Agreement; consummating the Mergers; and the fact that if the Mergers are not consummated, Switch may be required to bear such costs;

j) the risk of litigation in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement and the consummation of the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated therein; and

k) the fact that an all-cash transaction would be taxable to the holders of Switch Class A common stock and Company Ltd. Common Units that are U.S. holders for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

In addition, the special committee and the board were aware of and considered the fact that certain of Switch’s executive officers and directors have financial interests in the Mergers that may be different from, or in addition to, those of Switch stockholders generally, including those interests that are a result of (i) employment and compensation arrangements with Switch, (ii) payouts under the terms of the TRA Amendment, (iii) the rollover and/or (iv) ownership interests in the Land Purchase, in each case, as described more fully below in the section entitled “- Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Mergers”.

The foregoing discussion of the factors considered by the special committee and the board is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather includes the material factors considered by the special committee and the board. The special committee and the board reached the conclusion to (i) authorize and approve the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the LLC Merger and the Merger, (ii) declare the Merger advisable and in the best interests of Switch, Switch, Ltd. and Sunshine Merger Sub, Ltd., respectively, and their respective shareholders or equityholders, as applicable, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement and (iii) recommend that Switch’s stockholders approve the Merger, in light of the factors described above and other factors that the special committee and the board believed were appropriate. In view of the wide variety of factors considered by the special committee and the board in connection with its evaluation of the Mergers and the complexity of these matters, the special committee and the board did not consider it practical, and did not attempt, to quantify, rank or otherwise assign relative weights to the specific factors it considered in reaching its decision and did not undertake to make any specific determination as to whether any particular factor, or any aspect of any particular factor, was favorable or unfavorable to the ultimate determination of the special committee and the board. Rather, the special committee and the board made its recommendations based on the totality of the information available to the special committee and the board, including discussions with, and questioning of, Switch’s management and its financial and legal advisors. In considering the factors discussed above, individual members of the special committee and the board may have given different weights to different factors.

This explanation of the special committee and the board’s reasons for its recommendations and other information presented in this section is forward-looking in nature and, therefore, should be read in light of the factors described in the section of this proxy statement entitled “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” beginning on page 26.

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Recommendation of the Board of Directors and the Special Committee

Our board of directors and the special committee have (1) duly authorized and approved the execution, delivery and performance by Switch, Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub of the Merger Agreement and the consummation by Switch, Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub of the Merger Agreement and the consummation by Switch, Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub of the transactions contemplated thereby, (2) determined the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the LLC Merger and the Merger, to be advisable and in the best interests of Switch, Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub, respectively, and their respective stockholders or equity holders, as applicable, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, (3) directed that the Merger be submitted for consideration at a special meeting of Switch’s stockholders and (4) recommended that Switch’s stockholders approve the Merger. Our board of directors and the special committee recommends that you vote “FOR” the proposal to approve the Merger, “FOR” the proposal to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers, and “FOR” the proposal to approve any adjournment of the Special Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve the Merger.

Certain Unaudited Financial Projections

While Switch from time to time provides a financial outlook to investors with respect to the then-current fiscal year, Switch has not, as a matter of course, otherwise publicly disclosed longer-term internal projections as to future performance, earnings or other results due to, among other reasons, the uncertainty, unpredictability and subjectivity of the underlying assumptions and estimates. However, in connection with the Mergers, prior to the execution of the Merger Agreement, Switch management prepared and provided to the board in connection with its evaluation of the Mergers and the special committee’s financial advisor, Goldman Sachs, for its use and reliance in connection with its financial analyses and opinion, certain nonpublic, internal, financial projections regarding Switch’s future operations for fiscal years 2022 through 2031 (the “Switch Projections”). The Switch Projections were also provided to DigitalBridge, IFM, Bidder A, Bidder B and each of their respective advisors and representatives. Switch has included below a summary of the Switch Projections for the purpose of providing stockholders access to certain nonpublic information that was prepared for the board, Goldman Sachs, DigitalBridge, IFM, Bidder A, Bidder B and each of their respective advisors and representatives for purposes of evaluating the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, and such information may not be appropriate for other purposes, and is not included to influence your decision, if you are a Switch stockholder, to vote in favor of the Mergers. The inclusion of this summary should not be regarded as an indication that Switch management or anyone who received the Switch Projections then considered, or now considers, them to be a reliable prediction of future events, and the Switch Projections should not be relied upon as such. This information is not fact and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the Switch Projections.

The Switch Projections were not prepared with a view toward public disclosure, nor were they prepared with a view toward compliance with published guidelines established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for preparation and presentations of financial projections, but in the view of management, were prepared on a reasonable basis and reflect the assumptions and estimates available at the time they were prepared. The prospective financial information requires significant estimates and assumptions that make it inherently less comparable to the similarly titled GAAP measures in Switch’s historical GAAP financial statements. The Switch Projections have been prepared by, and are the responsibility of, Switch management and were not prepared with the assistance of, or reviewed, compiled or examined by, independent accountants.

While presented with numeric specificity, the Switch Projections were based on numerous variables and assumptions (including those related to industry performance and general business, economic, market and financial conditions and additional matters specific to Switch’s businesses) that are inherently subjective and uncertain and are beyond the control of Switch’s management. Important factors that may affect actual results

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and cause the Switch Projections to not be achieved include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties relating to Switch’s businesses (including its ability to achieve strategic goals, objectives and targets over applicable periods), industry performance, general business, economic, competitive, regulatory and financial market conditions and other factors described under “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and other risk factors described in Switch’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2022 and current reports on Form 8-K. The Switch Projections also reflect numerous variables, expectations and assumptions available at the time they were prepared as to certain business decisions that are subject to change. As a result, actual results may differ materially from those contained in the Switch Projections. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the projected results summarized below will be realized. Switch stockholders are urged to review the most recent SEC filings of Switch for a description of the reported and anticipated results of operations and financial condition and capital resources during 2021, including in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Switch’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2022 and current reports on Form 8-K.

The inclusion of a summary of the Switch Projections in this proxy statement should not be regarded as an indication that any of Switch or its officers, directors, affiliates, advisors or other representatives considered the Switch Projections to necessarily be predictive of actual future events, and the Switch Projections should not be relied upon as such nor should the information contained in the Switch Projections be considered appropriate for other purposes. None of Switch or its officers, directors, affiliates, advisors or other representatives can give you any assurance that actual results will not differ materially from the Switch Projections. The Switch Projections were prepared by Switch prior to entry into and public announcement of the Mergers, have not been updated as of the date of this proxy statement and Switch undertakes no obligation to update or otherwise revise or reconcile the Switch Projections to reflect circumstances existing after the date the Switch Projections were generated or to reflect the occurrence of future events, even in the event that any or all of the assumptions underlying the Switch Projections are shown to be in error. The Switch Projections cover multiple years, and such information by its nature becomes less predictive with each successive year.

Switch has not made and makes no representation to any person in the Merger Agreement or otherwise concerning the Switch Projections or regarding Switch’s ultimate performance compared to the information contained in the Switch Projections or that the projected results will be achieved. Switch urges all stockholders to review Switch’s most recent SEC filings for a description of Switch’s reported financial results.

The Switch Projections were based on numerous variables and assumptions, including the variables discussed above, as well as the following material assumptions: (i) Switch conversion to a REIT in 2023, (ii) 55% adjusted funds from operations ("AFFO") dividend payout policy from 2023 onwards, (iii) $0 in taxes as part of the REIT conversion, (iii) maximum debt / EBITDA ratio of 6.0x, (iv) equity offerings of $200 million in Q3 2023 and $220 million in Q3 2024 to fund existing growth and capital expenditures and (v) termination of any TRA liability for a total payment in 2022 of $75 million. The Switch Projections were also provided without the assumption of Switch converting to a REIT and with other REIT conversion sensitivity analyses around accelerated depreciation and tax structure. The Switch Projections do not give effect to the Mergers. The Switch Projections were provided to DigitalBridge, IFM, Bidder A, Bidder B and each of their respective advisors and representatives and a summary is presented in the following table, with all figures rounded to the nearest million. Switch management directed Goldman Sachs to use and rely upon the Switch Projections for purposes of its opinion and related financial analyses and the Switch Projections were approved for Goldman Sachs’s use by the board. For more information, see “ - Reasons for the Mergers” and “ - Opinion of the Special Committee’s Financial Advisor.”

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Summary of Switch Projected Financial Information

($ in millions)

	Projections
	2022E			2023E			2024E			2025E			2026E		2027E		2028E		2029E		2030E		2031E
Total Revenue	$	670		$	720		$	793		$	965		$	1,142	$	1,279	$	1,409	$	1,534	$	1,651	$	1,763
Adjusted EBITDA(1)	$	348		$	386		$	426		$	533		$	646	$	733	$	816	$	891	$	962	$	1,029
Adjusted EBIT(2)	$	98		$	96		$	104		$	177		$	275	$	341	$	412	$	473	$	541	$	621
Unlevered Free Cash Flow(3)	$	(207	)	$	(179	)	$	(227	)	$	(1	)	$	193	$	189	$	349	$	370	$	652	$	852
AFFO (4)	$	291		$	320		$	350		$	442		$	538	$	615	$	694	$	764	$	834	$	906

(1) Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income or loss adjusted for interest expense, interest income, income taxes, depreciation and amortization of property and equipment, amortization of customer relationships, and for specific and defined supplemental adjustments to exclude (i) non-cash equity-based compensation expense, (ii) equity in net losses of investments and (iii) certain other items that we believe are not indicative of our core operating performance.

(2) Adjusted EBIT is defined as Adjusted EBITDA, as adjusted to exclude (i) depreciation and amortization and (ii) stock-based compensation.

(3) Unlevered Free Cash Flow is defined as Adjusted EBIT, net of changes in net working capital, as adjusted to (i) include total depreciation and amortization and (ii) exclude capital expenditures.

(4) AFFO is defined as net income adjusted for depreciation & amortization, non-cash equity-based compensation expense, maintenance capital expenditures, other non-cash items, and certain other items not core to operating performance.

Opinion of the Special Committee’s Financial Advisor

Goldman Sachs rendered its opinion to the special committee of the board of directors of Switch that, as of May 11, 2022 and based upon and subject to the factors and assumptions set forth therein, the $34.25 in cash per share of Switch’s Class A common stock to be paid to the holders (other than Parent and its affiliates) of the outstanding shares of Switch’s Class A common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement was fair from a financial point of view to such holders.

The full text of the written opinion of Goldman Sachs, dated May 11, 2022, which sets forth assumptions made, procedures followed, matters considered and limitations on the review undertaken in connection with the opinion, is attached as Annex B. Goldman Sachs provided advisory services and its opinion for the information and assistance of the special committee in connection with its consideration of the Merger. The Goldman Sachs opinion is not a recommendation as to how any holder of shares of Switch’s Class A common stock or any other securities of Switch should vote with respect to the Merger, or any other matter.

In connection with rendering the opinion described above and performing its related financial analyses, Goldman Sachs reviewed, among other things:

• the Merger Agreement;

• annual reports to stockholders and Annual Reports on Form 10-K of Switch for the five fiscal years ended December 31, 2021;

• certain interim reports to stockholders and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q of Switch;

• certain publicly available research analyst reports for Switch;

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• certain other communications from Switch to its stockholders; and

• the Switch Projections, as prepared by management of Switch and approved for Goldman Sachs’ use by the special committee of the board of directors of Switch.

Goldman Sachs also held discussions with members of the senior management of Switch regarding their assessment of the past and current business operations, financial condition, and future prospects of Switch; reviewed the reported price and trading activity for Switch’s Class A common stock; compared certain financial and stock market information for Switch with similar information for certain other companies the securities of which are publicly traded; reviewed the financial terms of certain recent business combinations in the data center industry and in other industries; and performed such other studies and analyses, and considered such other factors, as it deemed appropriate.

For purposes of rendering this opinion, Goldman Sachs, with the consent of the special committee, relied upon and assumed the accuracy and completeness of all of the financial, legal, regulatory, tax, accounting and other information provided to, discussed with or reviewed by, it, without assuming any responsibility for independent verification thereof. In that regard, Goldman Sachs assumed, with the consent of the special committee, that the Switch Projections were reasonably prepared on a basis reflecting the best currently available estimates and judgments of the special committee. Goldman Sachs did not make an independent evaluation or appraisal of the assets and liabilities (including any contingent, derivative or other off-balance-sheet assets and liabilities) of Switch or any of its subsidiaries and it was not furnished with any such evaluation or appraisal. Goldman Sachs assumed that all governmental, regulatory or other consents and approvals necessary for the consummation of the Merger will be obtained without any adverse effect on the expected benefits of the Merger in any way meaningful to its analysis. Goldman Sachs has also assumed that the Merger will be consummated on the terms set forth in the Merger Agreement, without the waiver or modification of any term or condition the effect of which would be in any way meaningful to its analysis.

Goldman Sachs’ opinion does not address the underlying business decision of Switch to engage in the transaction or the relative merits of the transaction as compared to any strategic alternatives that may be available to Switch; nor does it address any legal, regulatory, tax or accounting matters. Goldman Sachs’ opinion addresses only the fairness from a financial point of view, as of the date of the opinion, of the $34.25 in cash per share of Switch’s Class A common stock to be paid to the holders (other than Parent and its affiliates) of the outstanding shares of Switch’s Class A common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement. Goldman Sachs’ opinion does not express any view on, and does not address, any other term or aspect of the Merger Agreement or the transaction or any term or aspect of any other agreement or instrument contemplated by the Merger Agreement or entered into or amended in connection with the Merger, including the TRA and any amendments (including the TRA Amendment) and related payments thereunder, and the fairness of the Merger to, or any consideration received in connection therewith by, the holders of any other class of securities (including the shares of Switch’s Class B common stock, the shares of Switch’s Class C common stock (none of which are outstanding) and the Company Ltd. Common Units), creditors, or other constituencies of Switch; nor as to the fairness of the amount or nature of any compensation to be paid or payable to any of the officers, directors or employees of Switch, or class of such persons in connection with the Mergers, whether relative to the $34.25 in cash per share of Switch’s Class A common stock to be paid to the holders (other than Parent and its affiliates) of the outstanding shares of Switch’s Class A common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement or otherwise. Goldman Sachs’ opinion was necessarily based on economic, monetary market and other conditions, as in effect on, and the information made available to it as of the date of the opinion and Goldman Sachs assumed no responsibility for updating, revising or reaffirming its opinion based on circumstances, developments or events occurring after the date of its opinion. In addition, Goldman Sachs does not express any opinion as to the prices at which the shares of Switch’s Class A common stock will trade at any time, as to the potential effects of volatility in the credit, financial and stock markets on Switch, Parent or the Merger, or as to the impact of the Merger on the solvency or viability of the Switch, Company Ltd. or Parent, or the ability of the Switch, Company Ltd. or Parent to pay their respective obligations when they come due. Goldman Sachs’ opinion was approved by a fairness committee of Goldman Sachs.

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The following is a summary of the material financial analyses delivered by Goldman Sachs to the special committee of the board of directors of Switch in connection with rendering the opinion described above. The following summary, however, does not purport to be a complete description of the financial analyses performed by Goldman Sachs, nor does the order of analyses described represent relative importance or weight given to those analyses by Goldman Sachs. Some of the summaries of the financial analyses include information presented in tabular format. The tables must be read together with the full text of each summary and are alone not a complete description of Goldman Sachs’ financial analyses. Except as otherwise noted, the following quantitative information, to the extent that it is based on market data, is based on market data as it existed on or before May 10, 2022, the last trading day before the date of the public announcement of the Merger, and is not necessarily indicative of current market conditions.

Historical Stock Trading Analysis. Goldman Sachs analyzed the consideration to be paid to holders of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement in relation to:

• $26.62, the volume weighted average price (the “VWAP”) per share of Switch’s Class A common stock over the 1-month-trading period ended March 18, 2022, the last trading day before media reports that Switch was exploring a sale of the company (the “1-Month Undisturbed VWAP”);

• $26.36, the VWAP of per share of Switch’s Class A common stock over the 3-month-trading period ended March 18, 2022 (the “3-Month Undisturbed VWAP”);

• $26.10, the VWAP per share of Switch’s Class A common stock over the 6-month-trading period ended March 18, 2022 (the “6-Month Undisturbed VWAP”);

• $28.78, the highest closing price per share of Switch’s Class A common stock for the 52-week period ended March 18, 2022 (the “52-Week High (Undisturbed) Price”); and

• $31.64, the highest current closing price per share of Switch’s Class A common stock for the 52-week period ended May 10, 2022 (the “52-Week High (Current) Price”).

This analysis indicated that the price per share of Switch’s Class A common stock to be paid pursuant to the Merger Agreement represented:

Reference Price per Share of Company common stock	Implied Premium/ Discount (Undisturbed Price)
1-Month Undisturbed VWAP of $26.62		28.6	%
3-Month Undisturbed VWAP of $26.36		30.0	%
6-Month Undisturbed VWAP of $26.10		31.2	%
52-Week High (Undisturbed) Price of $28.78		19.0	%
52-Week High (Current) Price of $31.64		8.2	%

Selected Companies Analysis. Goldman Sachs reviewed and compared certain financial information for Switch and for the following publicly traded corporations in the data center industry (collectively, the “Selected Companies”):

• CyrusOne

• Equinix Inc.

• Digital Realty

Although none of the Selected Companies is directly comparable to Switch, the companies included were chosen because they are publicly traded companies with operations that for purposes of analysis may be considered similar to certain operations of Switch.

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Goldman Sachs calculated for each of the Selected Companies:

• enterprise value as of May 10, 2022 (or, in the case of CyrusOne, March 29, 2022, which was the last day of public trading of CyrusOne common stock) as a multiple of the Institutional Brokers Estimate System (“IBES”) estimates of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) (the “EV/ EBITDA Multiple”) for 2022 and 2023; and

• the closing share price on May 10, 2022 (or, in the case of CyrusOne, March 29, 2022, which was the last day of public trading of CyrusOne common stock) as a multiple of the IBES estimates of adjusted funds from operations (“AFFO”) (the “P/ AFFO Multiple”) for 2022 and 2023.

In addition, Goldman Sachs calculated for Switch:

• the EV/EBITDA Multiple using the enterprise values as of May 10, 2022 and March 18, 2022, respectively, and IBES estimates and the Switch Projections, respectively, for 2022 and 2023; and

• the P/AFFO Multiple using the closing price on May 10, 2022 and March 18, 2022, respectively, and IBES estimates and the Switch Projections, respectively, for 2022 and 2023.

The following table presents the result of these calculations:

	Switch (Switch Projections, May 10, 2022 closing price)		Switch (Switch Projections, March 18, 2022 closing price)		Switch (IBES, May 10, 2022 closing price)		Switch (IBES, March 18, 2022 closing price)		Selected Companies
EV/ EBITDA Multiple (2022 estimates)		27.6x		26.2x		27.3x		25.8x	Range: 20.0x – 23.5x Median: 21.0x
EV/ EBITDA Multiple (2023 estimates)		24.9x		23.6x		24.3x		23.1x	Range: 18.3x – 21.6x Median: 18.9x
P/ AFFO Multiple (2022 estimates)		27.0x		25.2		28.0		26.2x	Range: 18.5x – 21.6x Median: 21.0x
P/ AFFO Multiple (2023 estimates)		25.2x		23.6x		25.2		24.2x	Range: 17.2x – 20.4x Median: 19.8x

Illustrative Present Value of Future Share Price Analysis. Goldman Sachs performed an illustrative analysis of the implied present value of an illustrative future value per share of the Switch’s Class A common stock, which is designed to provide an indication of the present value of a theoretical future value of a company’s equity as a function of such company’s financial multiples. For this analysis, Goldman Sachs used the Switch Projections for each of the fiscal years 2022 to 2024. Goldman Sachs first calculated (a) implied enterprise values for Switch, as of December 31 for each of fiscal years 2022 to 2024, by applying EV / next twelve month “NTM” EBITDA multiples ranging from 22.0x to 26.0x to EBITDA estimates for each of fiscal years 2023 to 2025 and (b) implied future share prices for Switch’s Class A common stock as of December 31 for each of fiscal years 2022 to 2024, by applying P/NTM AFFO multiples ranging from 21.0x to 25.0x to AFFO estimates for each of fiscal years 2023 to 2025. These illustrative EV/NTM EBITDA and P/AFFO multiples were derived by Goldman Sachs utilizing its professional judgment and experience, taking into account current and historical enterprise value to EBITDA and AFFO multiples for Switch and the Selected Companies. Goldman Sachs then, in the case of the analysis using EV/NTM EBITDA multiples, subtracted the amount of Switch’s forecasted net debt as of December 31, 2022 to 2024, using the Switch Projections, from the implied enterprise values to derive a range of illustrative implied equity values for Switch as of December 31 for each of the years 2022 to 2024. Goldman Sachs then, in the case of the analysis using EV/NTM EBITDA multiples, divided these implied equity values by the number of projected year-end fully diluted shares of the Switch’s common stock for each of the years 2022 to

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2024, each as provided by management of Switch and approved for Goldman Sachs’ use by the special committee, to derive an illustrative range of implied future share prices for Switch’s Class A common stock. Goldman Sachs then, in the case of both the analysis using EV/NTM EBITDA multiples and the analysis using P/NTM AFFO multiples, discounted these implied future share prices back to March 31, 2022 using an illustrative discount rate of 8.2%, reflecting an estimate of Switch’s cost of equity. Goldman Sachs derived such discount rate by application of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, which requires certain company-specific inputs, including a beta for Switch, as well as certain financial metrics for the United States financial markets generally. This analysis using the EV/NTM EBITDA multiples resulted in a range of implied present values of $23.99 to $35.32 per share of Switch’s Class A common stock. This analysis using the P/NTM AFFO multiples resulted in a range of implied present values of $24.29 to $34.25 per share of Switch’s Class A common stock.

Illustrative Discounted Cash Flow Analysis. Using the Switch Projections, Goldman Sachs performed an illustrative discounted cash flow analysis on Switch. Using discount rates ranging from 7.0% to 8.0%, reflecting estimates of Switch’s weighted average cost of capital, Goldman Sachs discounted to present value as of March 31, 2022 (i) estimates of unlevered free cash flow for Switch for the years 2022 through 2031 as reflected in the Switch Projections and (ii) a range of illustrative terminal values for Switch, which were calculated by applying perpetuity growth rates ranging from 2.0% to 2.5%, to a terminal year estimate of the free cash flow to be generated by Switch, as reflected in the Switch Projections. Goldman Sachs derived such discount rates by application of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, which requires certain company-specific inputs, including the company’s target capital structure weightings, the cost of long-term debt, after-tax yield on permanent excess cash, if any, future applicable marginal cash tax rate and a beta for the company, as well as certain financial metrics for the United States financial markets generally. The range of perpetuity growth rates was estimated by Goldman Sachs utilizing its professional judgment and experience, taking into account the Switch Projections and market expectations regarding long-term real growth of gross domestic product and inflation. Goldman Sachs derived ranges of illustrative enterprise values for Switch by adding the ranges of present values it derived above. Goldman Sachs then subtracted from the range of illustrative enterprise values it derived for Switch the net debt of Switch as of March 31, 2022, as provided by management of Switch, to derive a range of illustrative equity values for Switch. Goldman Sachs then divided the range of illustrative equity values it derived by the number of fully diluted outstanding shares of Switch, as provided by management Switch to derive a range of illustrative present values per share of Switch’s Class A common stock ranging from $24.44 to $37.78.

Selected Transactions Analysis. Goldman Sachs analyzed certain information relating to the following selected transactions (“Selected Transactions”) in the data center industry since 2015.

Tier 1 Selected Transactions

Date of Announcement	Acquirer	Target
November 15, 2021	KKR; Global Infrastructure Partners	CyrusOne
November 15, 2021	American Tower Corporation	CoreSite
June 7, 2021	Blackstone	QTS
October 29, 2019	Digital Realty	Interxion
June 9, 2017	Digital Realty	DFT

Other Selected Transactions:

Date of Announcement	Acquirer	Target
August 19, 2020	EQT	EdgeConnex
January 10, 2020	Macquarie	AirTrunk
September 24, 2018	Digital Realty; Brookfield	Ascenty

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Date of Announcement	Acquirer	Target
December 7, 2016	Equinix	Verizon
November 4, 2016	BC Partners; Medina Capital	Century Link
May 29, 2015	Equinix	TelecityGroup

For each of the selected transactions, Goldman Sachs calculated the enterprise value, represented by the transaction, as a multiple of the target company’s EBITDA as reported or calculated using publicly available financial information for the applicable trailing twelve-month period (“EV/LTM EBITDA multiples”), except that for the Macquarie/AirTrunk and Digital Realty-Brookfield/Ascenty transactions, Goldman Sachs used the EV/NTM EBITDA multiples due to limited publicly available information. While none of the target companies that participated in the selected transactions are directly comparable to Switch, the target companies that participated in the selected transactions are companies with operations that, for the purposes of analysis, may be considered similar to certain of Switch’s results, market size and product profile.

The following table presents the results of this analysis:

	Range	Median
EV/LTM EBITDA	Tier 1: 22.8x-29.6x Other: 12.0x-33.3x	Tier 1: 26.0x Other: 24.0x

Based on the results of the foregoing calculations of EV/LTM EBITDA multiples and Goldman Sachs’ professional judgment and experience, Goldman Sachs’ applied a reference range of EV/LTM EBITDA multiples of 26.0x, representing the median for the Tier 1 Selected Transactions, to 29.6x, representing the multiple for the American Tower/CoreSite transaction, to Switch’s LTM EBITDA as of the end of the first quarter of 2022, as provided by management of Switch, to derive a range of implied enterprise values for Switch. Goldman Sachs then subtracted from this range of implied enterprise values net debt of Switch as of March 31, 2022, as provided by management of Switch, and divided the result by the total number of fully diluted shares outstanding as of March 31, 2022, as provided by management of Switch, to derive a range of implied values per share of Switch’s Class A common stock of $26.54 to $31.09.

Premia Analysis. Goldman Sachs reviewed and analyzed, using publicly available information, the acquisition premia for all-cash acquisition transactions announced during the time period from 2012 through May 10, 2022 involving targets that were publicly traded companies in the technology, media and telecom industry in the United States and publicly traded REITs in the United States in which the disclosed enterprise values for the transactions were greater than $1.0 billion. For each full calendar year (and for the period ending May 10, 2022 in the case of 2022) during this period and for the entire period overall, using publicly available information, Goldman Sachs calculated the average, 25th percentile and 75th percentile premia of the price paid in the transactions relative to the applicable targets’ last undisturbed 52-week high closing stock prices prior to announcement of the transactions. This analysis indicated an average premium of 6% for the entire period overall and a range of average premia per annum for each of the years (and for the period ending May 10, 2022 in the case of 2022) of negative 2% to 18%. This analysis also indicated a 25th percentile premium of negative 3% and 75th percentile premium of 16% for the entire period overall and a range of 25th percentile and 75th percentile premia per annum for each of the years (and for the period ending May 10, 2022 in the case of 2022) of negative 9% to 5% for the 25th percentile premia per annum and of 7% to 32% for the 75th percentile premia per annum. Based on the results of the foregoing calculations and Goldman Sachs’ professional judgment and experience, Goldman Sachs applied a reference range of illustrative premia of (3)% to 16%, representing the 25th percentile premium and the 75th percentile premium for the entire period in the foregoing analysis, to the undisturbed 52-week high closing price per share of Switch’s Class A common stock of $28.78 as of March 18, 2022 and calculated a range of implied equity values per share of Switch’s Class A common stock of $27.92 to $33.38.

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The preparation of a fairness opinion is a complex process and is not necessarily susceptible to partial analysis or summary description. Selecting portions of the analyses or of the summary set forth above, without considering the analyses as a whole, could create an incomplete view of the processes underlying Goldman Sachs’ opinion. In arriving at its fairness determination, Goldman Sachs considered the results of all of its analyses and did not attribute any particular weight to any factor or analysis considered by it. Rather, Goldman Sachs made its determination as to fairness on the basis of its experience and professional judgment after considering the results of all of its analyses. No company or transaction used in the above analyses as a comparison is directly comparable to Switch or the merger.

Goldman Sachs prepared these analyses for purposes of Goldman Sachs’ providing its opinion to the special committee as to the fairness from a financial point of view, as of the date of the opinion, to the holders (other than Parent and its affiliates) of the shares of Switch’s Class A common stock of the $34.25 in cash per share of Switch’s Class A common stock to be paid to such holders pursuant to the Merger Agreement. These analyses do not purport to be appraisals nor do they necessarily reflect the prices at which businesses or securities actually may be sold. Analyses based upon forecasts of future results are not necessarily indicative of actual future results, which may be significantly more or less favorable than suggested by these analyses. Because these analyses are inherently subject to uncertainty, being based upon numerous factors or events beyond the control of the parties or their respective advisors, none of Switch, Parent, Goldman Sachs or any other person assumes responsibility if future results are materially different from those forecast.

The merger consideration of $34.25 in cash per shares of Switch’s Class A common stock was determined through arm’s-length negotiations between Switch and Parent and was approved by the special committee. Goldman Sachs provided advice to the special committee during these negotiations. Goldman Sachs did not, however, recommend any specific amount of consideration to the special committee or that any specific amount of consideration constituted the only appropriate consideration for the Mergers.

As described above, Goldman Sachs’ opinion to the special committee was one of many factors taken into consideration by the special committee in making its determination to approve the Merger Agreement. The foregoing summary does not purport to be a complete description of the analyses performed by Goldman Sachs in connection with the fairness opinion and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the written opinion of Goldman Sachs attached as Annex B.

Goldman Sachs and its affiliates are engaged in advisory, underwriting and financing, principal investing, sales and trading, research, investment management and other financial and non-financial activities and services for various persons and entities. Goldman Sachs and its affiliates and employees, and funds or other entities they manage or in which they invest or have other economic interests or with which they co-invest, may at any time purchase, sell, hold or vote long or short positions and investments in securities, derivatives, loans, commodities, currencies, credit default swaps and other financial instruments of Switch, Company Ltd., Parent, any of their respective affiliates and third parties, including DigitalBridge and IFM GIF, or any currency or commodity that may be involved in the transaction contemplated by the Merger Agreement. Goldman Sachs acted as financial advisor to the special committee in connection with, and participated in certain of the negotiations leading to, the Merger. Goldman Sachs has provided certain financial advisory and/or underwriting services to Switch and/or its affiliates from time to time for which the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs has received, and may receive, compensation, including having acted as including having acted as bookrunner with respect to Switch’s high yield bond offering (aggregate principal amount $600,000,000) in September 2020; bookrunner with respect to Switch’s high yield bond offering (aggregate principal amount $500,000,000) in June 2021; and bookrunner with respect to a bank loan (aggregate principal amount $400,000,000) to Switch in July 2021. During the two year period ended May 11, 2022, Goldman Sachs has recognized compensation for financial advisory and/or underwriting services provided by its Investment Banking Division to Switch and/or its affiliates of approximately $1,500,000. Goldman Sachs also has provided certain financial advisory and/or underwriting services to DigitalBridge and/or its affiliates and portfolio companies from time to time for which our Investment Banking Division has received, and may receive, compensation, including having acted as financial advisor to DigitalBridge in connection with the acquisition of Uol Diveo assets in April 2020; and bookrunner with respect

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to a high yield offering (aggregate principal amount $375,000,000) by Andean Tower Partners, a portfolio company of DigitalBridge, in April 2021. During the two year period ended May 11, 2022, Goldman Sachs has recognized compensation for financial advisory and/or underwriting services provided by its Investment Banking Division to DigitalBridge and/or its affiliates and portfolio companies of approximately $1,700,000. Goldman Sachs also has provided certain financial advisory and/or underwriting services to IFM Investors Pty Ltd (“IFM Investors”) and its affiliates, funds managed or advised by IFM Investors and its affiliates, and their respective subsidiaries (collectively, “IFM”) from time to time, including having acted as bookrunner with respect to a bank loan (aggregate principal amount $445,000,000) to Aleatica S.A., a subsidiary company of IFM GIF, in June 2021; and financial advisor to funds advised by IFM Investors in connection with the acquisition of Sydney Airport in March 2022. During the two-year period ended May 11, 2022, Goldman Sachs has recognized compensation for financial advisory and/or underwriting services provided by its Investment Banking Division to IFM of approximately $57,300,000. Goldman Sachs may also in the future provide financial advisory and/or underwriting services to Switch, Company Ltd., Parent, DigitalBridge, IFM and their respective affiliates and, as applicable, portfolio companies for which the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs may receive compensation. Affiliates of Goldman Sachs also may have co-invested with DigitalBridge, IFM and their respective affiliates from time to time and may have invested in limited partnership units of affiliates of DigitalBridge and IFM from time to time and may do so in the future.

The special committee selected Goldman Sachs as its financial advisor, in part, because it is an internationally recognized investment banking firm that has substantial experience in transactions similar to the Merger and because of its familiarity with Switch. Pursuant to a letter agreement dated March 11, 2022, the special committee engaged Goldman Sachs to act as its financial advisor in connection with the Merger. The engagement letter between the special committee and Goldman Sachs provides for a transaction fee that is estimated, based on the information available as of the date of announcement of the Merger, at approximately $47,000,000 all of which is contingent upon consummation of the Merger. In addition, Switch has agreed to reimburse Goldman Sachs for certain of its expenses, including attorneys’ fees and disbursements, and to indemnify Goldman Sachs and related persons against various liabilities, including certain liabilities under the federal securities laws.

Financing

We anticipate that the total funds available to DigitalBridge and IFM GIF to consummate the Mergers (which includes the funds that will be used to pay the aggregate merger consideration, make payments in respect of equity or other incentive compensation obligations to be paid in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the payment of any debt required to be repaid, redeemed, retired, cancelled, terminated or otherwise satisfied or discharged in connection with the Mergers (including all indebtedness of the Company and its subsidiaries contemplated or required to be repaid, redeemed, retired, cancelled, terminated or otherwise satisfied or discharged in connection with the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement) and all premiums and fees required to be paid in connection therewith and all other amounts to be paid pursuant to the Merger Agreement and associated costs and expenses of the Mergers, in each case, that are payable by Parent or Merger Sub) will be approximately $4.825 billion of equity financing pursuant to the equity commitment letters and an aggregate amount of $5.795 billion of Debt Financing. DigitalBridge and IFM GIF do not anticipate seeking or requiring additional sources of funding in order to consummate the Mergers. Parent has received the equity commitment for the equity financing from DigitalBridge and IFM GIF as described below in the section entitled “— Equity Financing” and debt commitments for the Debt Financing from the debt financing sources as described below in the section entitled “— Debt Financing”.

The consummation of the Mergers is not conditioned on Parent’s receipt of any financing.

Equity Financing

Pursuant to the equity commitment letters, DigitalBridge has committed to directly or indirectly contribute to Parent an aggregate amount in cash equal to $2.895 billion and IFM GIF has committed to directly or

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indirectly contribute to Parent an aggregate amount in cash equal to $1.930 billion, in each case, simultaneously with the closing of the Mergers, which will be used by Parent, together with the Debt Financing described below, solely to fund the payment obligations.

Funding of the equity commitments is subject to the terms, conditions and limitations set forth in the equity commitment letters, which include (i) the satisfaction or waiver of all conditions precedent to Parent’s obligation to the closing of the Mergers set forth in the Merger Agreement (except those conditions that by their nature cannot be satisfied except by actions to be taken at the closing, provided that such conditions are actually satisfied or validly waived at the closing), (ii) the substantially concurrent funding of the Debt Financing and the other equity commitments and (iii) the substantially concurrent consummation of the closing of the Mergers.

The obligation of DigitalBridge and IFM GIF to fund their respective equity commitments will terminate automatically and immediately upon the earliest to occur of (i) the Effective Time following Parent and Parent Merger Sub’s fulfillment of their respective obligations under the Merger Agreement to satisfy the payment obligations, (ii) the valid termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms and (iii) the Company, Company Ltd., Company Merger Sub or any of their respective directors, officers, controlled affiliates or its or their respective agents, securityholders or representatives acting on their behalf, asserting a claim against DigitalBridge or IFM GIF, as applicable, and/or certain related parties, other than a claim (A) under the confidentiality agreements with DigitalBridge or IFM GIF, as applicable, (B) under the Merger Agreement against Parent or Parent Merger Sub, (C) against a guarantor under the applicable guarantee, (D) to specifically enforce an investor’s obligations under the equity commitment letter, (E) under the other guarantees against the other investors or (F) against the other investors to specifically enforce the other investor’s obligations under the other equity commitments.

Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, Parent and Parent Merger Sub will use reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and use reasonable best efforts to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, advisable or proper to consummate and obtain the Equity Financing contemplated by the equity commitment letters on or prior to the closing date on the terms and conditions set forth in the equity commitment letters, including causing the equity investors to maintain in full force and effect the equity commitment letters.

The Company, Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub are third party beneficiaries of the right granted to Parent to specific performance under the equity commitment letters and are entitled to enforce Parent’s rights to specific performance of DigitalBridge and IFM GIF to fund all or any portion of their respective equity commitments under the equity commitment letters, subject to the terms thereof, if the Company is entitled to specific performance of Parent’s obligation to cause the Equity Financing to be funded pursuant to the Merger Agreement.

Debt Financing

In connection with entering into the Merger Agreement, Parent entered into (i) a revolver commitment letter (the “revolver commitment letter”) from The Toronto-Dominion Bank, New York Branch (“TD”), Royal Bank of Canada (“RBC”), Societe Generale (“SG”), and Citizens Banks, N.A. (“Citizens” and, together with TD, RBC and SG, the “debt financing sources”) providing for a senior secured revolving credit facility in the aggregate amount of $100 million (the “revolving credit facility”) (with ability to increase up to $150 million) and (ii) a financing commitment letter (the “mortgage commitment letter” and, together with the revolver commitment letter, the “debt commitment letters”) from the debt financing sources providing for debt financing in an aggregate amount of up to $5.695 billion principal amount (with ability to obtain additional $1 billion of proceeds within two (2) years of closing) (the “initial mortgage loans” and together with the revolving credit facility, the “Debt Financing”).

Pursuant to the debt commitment letters, the debt financing sources have committed to provide, severally but not jointly, the Debt Financing.

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The commitments of the debt financing sources under the revolver commitment letter are subject to the satisfaction (or waiver by the applicable debt financing sources) of certain conditions precedent, including, without limitation:

• the execution and delivery by Parent and the guarantors, as applicable, to the administrative agent, of definitive documentation with respect to the revolving credit facility, consistent with the terms set forth in the revolver commitment letter;

• the merger shall have been prior to or, substantially concurrently with the initial availability under the revolving credit facility shall be, consummated in all material respects in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, without giving effect to certain material amendments or waivers absent the consent of the applicable debt financing sources;

• since the date of the Merger Agreement through the closing date, there has not been any event that has had or would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect;

• the Equity Financing shall have been consummated, or substantially concurrently with the borrowings under the revolving credit facility shall be consummated, in at least an amount equal to 35% of the sum of (i) the aggregate gross proceeds received from the initial mortgage loans, (ii) the aggregate gross proceeds received from loans borrowed under the revolving credit facility, (iii) the aggregate principal amount of any other indebtedness for borrower money incurred to fund the Mergers and (iv) the amount of such cash contribution and the fair market value of the equity of management and existing shareholders of the Company and Company Ltd., as applicable, rolled over or invested, in each case, on the closing date, as such amount may be modified pursuant to the terms set forth in the revolver commitment letter;

• prior to or substantially simultaneously with the initial borrowing under the revolving credit facility, the refinancing of certain existing Company indebtedness shall be consummated;

• all documents and instruments required to create or perfect the security interests contemplated under the credit facilities shall be fully executed and delivered by the applicable parties and, if applicable, in proper form for filing, to the extent required by the definitive documentation with respect to the revolving credit facility; and

• other customary conditions precedent set forth in the revolver commitment letter.

The commitments under the revolver commitment letter terminate automatically on the earliest to occur of: (i) 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on the date that is five business days after the End Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement as of May 11, 2022, including any extensions of such date pursuant to the Merger Agreement) and (ii) the valid termination of the Merger Agreement prior to consummation of the Mergers.

The commitments of the debt financing sources under the mortgage commitment letter are subject to the satisfaction (or waiver by the applicable debt financing sources) of certain conditions precedent, including, without limitation:

• the execution and delivery by Parent and the guarantors, as applicable, to the administrative agent, of definitive documentation with respect to the initial mortgage loans, consistent with the terms set forth in the mortgage commitment letter;

• satisfactory completion of certain real estate and property due diligence;

• acquisition by the Company of the real property interests contemplated by the Land Purchase Agreement;

• approval by the debt financing sources of certain title, property and other insurance; and

• other conditions precedent customary for a mortgage backed financing set forth in the mortgage commitment letter.

To the extent there exists prior to the closing of the loans any material defects, material environmental conditions or other shortfalls of the debt financing sources’ required due diligence (other than with respect to “know-your-customer” diligence), including ground lease matters or casualty or condemnation matters, or any property otherwise would not meet customary underwriting standards for a balance sheet loan secured by a portfolio

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of properties leased to third party tenants, the initial mortgage loans shall nevertheless be funded, the borrowers shall use commercially reasonable efforts to correct such defects within a reasonable period of time after closing and the debt financing sources may establish one or more special reserves at closing in an amount sufficient to correct or collateralize such defects, environmental conditions or shortfalls. The debt financing sources have committed to fund, on the closing date, a portion of the additional loan proceeds available to borrower under the mortgage commitment letter, in an amount up to $1 billion, to fund the amount subject to the special reserves.

The commitments under the mortgage commitment letter terminate automatically on the earliest to occur of: (i) 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on the date that is five business days after the End Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement as of May 11, 2022, including any extensions of such date pursuant to the Merger Agreement), but not in any event after the date that is five business days after the twelve-month anniversary of the date of the Merger Agreement and (ii) the valid termination of the Merger Agreement prior to the closing of the loans contemplated by the mortgage commitment letter (the “Mortgage Commitment Expiration Date”). In addition, the debt financing sources may terminate the mortgage commitment letter in the event:

• Parent has made in writing certain specified representations which were untrue or false when made or which become untrue or false and which, in each case, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to material and adversely affect the transactions contemplated by the mortgage commitment letter or the validity and priority of the debt financing sources’ liens on the properties and other collateral for the loan;

• any petition of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization is filed by or against, among others, Parent or the Company; provided, however if such action was involuntary and not consented to by Parent or the Company, the debt financing sources may only terminate the mortgage commitment letter if such action has not been discharged, stayed or dismissed as of the Mortgage Commitment Expiration Date;

• any condition precedent to the consummation of the loan as set forth in the mortgage commitment letter fails to be satisfied by the commitment expiration date; or

• the Merger Agreement is terminated in whole for any reason prior to the closing of the loan.

Amendment to the Tax Receivable Agreement

The following summary describes certain relevant provisions of the TRA and the material provisions of the TRA Amendment. The descriptions of the TRA and the TRA Amendment in this summary and elsewhere in this proxy statement are not complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the TRA and the TRA Amendment, each of which is incorporated into this proxy statement by reference. We encourage you to read the TRA and the TRA Amendment carefully and in their entirety because this summary may not contain all the information about the TRA and the TRA Amendment that is important to you. The rights and obligations of the parties are governed by the express terms of the TRA and the TRA Amendment and not by this summary or any other information contained in this proxy statement.

Concurrent with the initial public offering of its Class A common stock, the Company entered into the TRA with Company Ltd. and the members of Company Ltd. party thereto. Exchanges or redemptions of Company Ltd. Common Units for cash or shares of Class A common stock are expected to produce favorable tax attributes for the Company. When the Company acquires Company Ltd. Common Units from such members through these exchanges or redemptions, anticipated tax basis adjustments are likely to increase (for tax purposes) the Company’s depreciation and amortization deductions, thereby reducing the amount of income tax that the Company would be required to pay in the future in the absence of this increased basis. This increased tax basis may also decrease the gain (or increase the loss) on future dispositions of certain assets to the extent that the tax basis is allocated to those assets. Under the terms of the TRA, absent a change of control of the Company, the Company would generally be required to pay to members of Company Ltd. party to the TRA 85% of the applicable savings, if any, in income tax that the Company realizes, or that the Company is deemed to realize, as a result of (1) these tax attributes that are created as a result of the exchanges or redemptions of the such members’ Company Ltd. Common Units (calculated under certain assumptions), (2) tax benefits related to imputed interest, and (3) payments under the TRA. Amendment of the TRA requires the approval of members of Company Ltd. satisfying the Supermajority Threshold.

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In addition, the TRA provides that if certain mergers, asset sales, other forms of business combination or other changes of control were to occur, then the TRA would terminate and the Company’s obligations, or the Company’s successor’s obligations, under the TRA would accelerate and become due and payable. Absent the TRA Amendment, the amount of such accelerated change of control payment obligations would have been calculated as aggregate payment obligations under the TRA absent a change of control based on certain assumptions set forth in the TRA, including the assumption that the Company would have sufficient taxable income in each taxable year ending on or after the change of control to fully utilize all potential future tax benefits that are subject to the TRA and that any un-exchanged Company Ltd. Common Units would be exchanged for cash at the market value of the Class A common stock as of the closing of the change of control, and applying a discount rate to those payments equal to LIBOR plus 100 basis points. The Mergers, upon closing, constitute a change of control under the TRA that would cause the payment obligations to accelerate and become due and payable.

For more information with respect to the TRA, please see our other filings with the SEC. A copy of the TRA is included as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Form S-1 Registration Statement filed with the SEC on September 8, 2017.

As a result of negotiation by the special committee, on May 11, 2022, in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, the Company, Company Ltd. and members of Company Ltd. satisfying the Supermajority Threshold entered into, which was concurrently publicly filed, the TRA Amendment, in accordance with the terms of the TRA. The TRA Amendment establishes that in exchange for the termination of the TRA and all rights associated therewith, the parties to the TRA (other than the Company) will be entitled to receive a payment in cash from the Company of $0.37 per Company Ltd. Common Unit (such implied price equating to $5.89 per share of Company Class A common stock if there were no reduction in the amount of aggregate accelerated change of control payments required to be made under the then-current terms of the TRA) in connection with the closing of the Mergers in full satisfaction of the payment obligations to the TRA beneficiaries under the TRA. Such payments will be made by the Company as promptly as practicable following the earlier of (i) the closing of the Mergers (or any other change of control of the Company (as defined in the TRA)), or (ii) December 31, 2022. This represents a reduction of approximately $1,121 million, which is an approximately 93.72% reduction of the estimated aggregate amount of approximately $1,196 million that would have otherwise been payable to the TRA beneficiaries under the TRA in respect of a change of control of the Company at the implied price per share of Class A common stock offered by Parent, absent the TRA Amendment.

Rollover Agreements

In connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and as a condition and inducement to the willingness of Parent and Parent Merger Sub to enter into the Merger Agreement, the Rollover Members have entered into Rollover Agreements, pursuant to which such Rollover Members committed to contribute approximately $424.3 million worth of Company Ltd. Common Units in the aggregate (approximately 66% of each of the Rollover Members’ respective gross proceeds from Class A common stock and Class B common stock) to Parent in exchange for a number of equity interests of Parent or one or more of its parent entities. The Rollover Members’ contribution of the Rollover Units to Parent in exchange for equity interests of Parent or one or more of its parent entities will occur immediately prior to the Closing. The obligation of Parent and Parent Merger Sub to effect the Mergers is subject to the Rollover Members having complied with their rollover obligations in the Rollover Agreements.

Other members of the Company management team may also be invited to rollover a portion of their equity interests in amounts to be mutually agreed upon between such member and Parent. Prior to the Effective Time, Parent may initiate negotiations of these agreements and/or arrangements, and may enter into definitive agreements regarding the right to participate in the equity interests of Parent or one or more of its parent entities following the completion of the Mergers.

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Voting and Support Agreements

The following summary describes the material provisions of the Voting and Support Agreements. The rights and obligations of the parties are governed by the express terms of the Voting and Support Agreements and not by this summary or any other information contained in this proxy statement.

Concurrently with the execution of the Merger Agreement, Parent or the Company entered into the Voting and Support Agreements with certain stockholders (the “Voting and Support Agreement stockholders”). As of the Record Date, the Voting and Support Agreement stockholders held, in the aggregate, shares of common stock representing approximately [    ]% of the voting power of Class A common stock, [    ]% of the voting power of Class B common stock and [            ]% of the voting power of the total outstanding shares of common stock of the Company.

Under the Voting and Support Agreements, the Voting and Support Agreement stockholders have agreed, subject to the terms and conditions in the Voting and Support Agreements, to vote all of their shares of common stock (i) in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement and any other matters presented to the stockholders for consummation of the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and any actions related thereto, (ii) in favor of the approval of any proposal to adjourn the Special Meeting to a later date if there are not sufficient votes for adoption of the Merger Agreement on the date on which the Special Meeting is held, (iii) against any company takeover proposal or any acquisition agreement related to such company takeover proposal, or any other proposal made in opposition to, in competition with, or inconsistent with the Merger Agreement, the Mergers or the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, (iv) against any action, proposal, transaction or agreement that would reasonably be expected to result in a breach of any covenant, representation or warranty or any other obligation or agreement of such stockholder under the Voting and Support Agreements or of the Company or its subsidiaries under the Merger Agreement or result in any condition set forth in the Merger Agreement not being satisfied on a timely basis, (v) against any merger, consolidation or other business combination involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (vi) against any sale, lease, license or other transfer of a material amount of the assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (vii) against any reorganization, recapitalization, dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, and/or (viii) against any other action, agreement or proposal which would reasonably be expected to frustrate the purposes, or prevent or materially delay the consummation, of the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. The stockholders party to the Voting and Support Agreements have also waived rights of appraisal and rights to dissent in connection with the Mergers, and have agreed not to raise certain legal challenges to the Mergers.

Pursuant to the Voting and Support Agreements, the Voting and Support Agreements stockholders have agreed not to, until the termination of the acquisition agreement and subject to certain exceptions in the acquisition agreement, directly or indirectly: (1) sell, assign, transfer, tender, pledge, offer, encumber, hypothecate, loan or otherwise dispose of (including by gift), whether voluntarily or by operation of law or otherwise, any of their shares of common stock (any of the items set forth in this clause (1), a “Transfer”); (2) enter into any option or other contract, arrangement or understanding with respect to any direct or indirect sale, assignment, transfer, tender, pledge, offer, encumbrance, hypothecation, loan or other disposition (including by gift), whether voluntarily or by operation of law or otherwise, of any Transfer; (3) deposit such relevant shares into a voting trust, enter into a voting agreement or other arrangement (other than the Voting and Support Agreements) with respect to their shares of common stock that is in contravention of the applicable Voting and Support Agreements; or (4) enter into any contract or commitment to take any of the actions referred to in the foregoing clauses (1) through (4).

The stockholders’ obligations to vote in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement and the approval of the Mergers and other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement terminate automatically upon the earliest to occur of: (1) the Effective Time; (2) with respect to a stockholder party to the Voting and Support Agreements, any amendment of any term or provision of the original Merger Agreement that reduces the merger

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consideration or adversely modifies the form of consideration payable to such stockholder pursuant to the Merger Agreement, without such stockholder’s consent; (3) the termination of the Voting and Support Agreements by written notice from Parent to the stockholders party thereto and the Company; and (4) the termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms.

Purchase and Sale Agreement

As a condition to the willingness of Parent to enter into the Merger Agreement, on May 10, 2022, in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, Company Ltd., as buyer, and the Beltway Entities, as the sellers, entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement and Joint Escrow Instructions (the “Land Purchase Agreement”) for the acquisition of certain properties located in Las Vegas, Nevada for a total purchase price of $300 million. Pursuant to the Land Purchase Agreement, the closing on the acquisition of the purchased land will be conditioned upon, among other things, the consummation of the Mergers. Fee title to the properties purchased pursuant to the Land Purchase Agreement shall be owned by individual special purpose entity subsidiaries of the Company as of closing free and clear of all liens, other than liens permitted pursuant to the Merger Agreement.

Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Mergers

In considering the recommendation of our board of directors to vote in favor of the proposal to approve the Merger, our stockholders should be aware that our directors and executive officers have interests in the Merger that may be different from, or in addition to, the interests of our stockholders generally. Our board of directors was aware of these interests and considered them, among other matters, in establishing a special committee, in evaluating and negotiating the Merger Agreement, in reaching its decision to approve the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (including the Merger), and in recommending to our stockholders that the Merger Agreement and the Merger be approved. Such interests are described below. The Merger will be a “change in control” for purposes of the executive compensation agreements described below.

Our executive officers who are named executive officers for purposes of the discussion below are Rob Roy (Chief Executive Officer), Thomas Morton (President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary), Gabe Nacht (Chief Financial Officer), Jonathan King (Chief Revenue Officer) and Melissa Young (Chief Information Officer). We do not currently have any executive officers who are not named executive officers.

Certain Assumptions

Except as otherwise specifically noted, for purposes of quantifying the potential payments and benefits described in this section, the following assumptions were used:

• The relevant price per share of our common stock is $34.25, which is the per share merger consideration;

• The effective time as referenced in this section occurs on May 31, 2022, which is the assumed date of the effective time solely for purposes of the disclosure in this section; and

• The employment of each of our named executive officers was terminated by Switch without “cause” or, for each named executive officer other than Ms. Young, due to the named executive officer’s resignation for “good reason” (as such term is defined in the relevant agreements), in either case immediately following the Merger and on the assumed date of the effective time of May 31, 2022.

The amounts indicated below are estimates based on multiple assumptions that may or may not actually occur or be accurate on the relevant date, including the assumptions described above, and do not reflect certain compensation actions that may occur before completion of the Merger.

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Land Purchase Agreement

Each of Tom Thomas, a member of our board of directors, and Peter Thomas, Mr. Thomas’s brother, indirectly holds membership interests in the Beltway Entities through Peter Trust LP, a limited partnership in which Tom Thomas, Peter Thomas, and their siblings are the limited partners and Tom Thomas and Peter Thomas are the managing members of its general partner. Peter Trust LP holds 50% of the membership interests of Thomas & Mack Beltway, LLC, which holds 40% of the membership interests in each of the Beltway Entities other than BBP Warehouse 1, in which it holds a 30% membership interest. As a result, Tom Thomas, Peter Thomas, and their siblings collectively and indirectly hold 20% of the membership interests of each of the Beltway Entities other than BBP Warehouse 1, in which they collectively and indirectly hold a 15% membership interest. In addition, each Beltway Entity is managed by Thomas & Mack Beltway, LLC, where Tom Thomas and Peter Thomas serve as the managing members. In September 2017, Thomas & Mack Beltway, LLC amended its operating agreement to provide that Tom Thomas will not act or make any decisions on behalf of Thomas & Mack Beltway, LLC with respect to any matter involving Switch, Ltd. or Switch, Inc. Peter Thomas retains the power to act or make any decisions on behalf of Thomas & Mack Beltway, LLC with respect to any matter involving Switch, Ltd. or Switch, Inc.

In connection with the consummation of the Land Purchase Agreement, Mr. Thomas and his immediate family members stand to receive $63.6 million in gross proceeds. Mr. Thomas did not participate in any negotiations or discussions with respect to the Land Purchase Agreement or in our board of directors’ consideration of the Land Purchase Agreement.

The TRA and the TRA Amendment

Concurrent with the initial public offering of its Class A common stock, the Company entered into the TRA with Company Ltd. and the members of Company Ltd. party thereto. Under the terms of the TRA, absent a change of control of the Company, the Company would generally be required to pay to members of Company Ltd. party to the TRA 85% of the applicable savings, if any, in income tax that the Company realizes, or that the Company is deemed to realize, as a result of (1) these tax attributes that are created as a result of the exchanges or redemptions of the such members’ Company Ltd. Common Units (calculated under certain assumptions), (2) tax benefits related to imputed interest, and (3) payments under the TRA. On May 11, 2022, in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, the Company, Company Ltd. and members of Company Ltd. as of the date of the TRA entered into, which was concurrently publicly filed, the TRA Amendment, in accordance with the terms of the TRA. The TRA Amendment establishes that the parties to the TRA (other than the Company) will be entitled to receive a payment in cash from the Company of $0.37 per Company Ltd. Common Unit (such implied price equating to $5.89 per share of Class A common stock if there were no reduction in the amount of aggregate accelerated change of control payments required to be made under the then-current terms of the TRA) in connection with the closing of the Mergers in full satisfaction of the payment obligations to the TRA beneficiaries under the TRA. Such payments will be made by the Company as promptly as practicable following the earlier of (i) the closing of the Mergers (or any other change of control of the Company (as defined in the TRA)), or (ii) December 31, 2022. This represents a reduction of approximately $1,121 million, which is an approximately 93.72% reduction of the estimated aggregate amount of approximately $1,196 million that would have otherwise been payable to the TRA beneficiaries under the TRA in respect of a change of control of the Company at the implied price per share of Class A common stock offered by Parent, absent the TRA Amendment.

Certain directors and members of management of Switch and other persons known by certain executive officers of Switch to be an affiliate or immediate family member of any of the foregoing and affiliates, as equityholders prior to Switch’s initial public offering, are parties to the TRA, and are entitled to receive payments pursuant to the TRA and the TRA Amendment in connection with the closing of the Mergers based on the fixed price of $0.37 per Company Ltd. Common Unit established in the TRA Amendment in the amounts set forth below. For more information, please see the section of this proxy statement captioned “The Mergers—Amendment to the Tax Receivable Agreement.”

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TRA Beneficiary	TRA Payments
Rob Roy(1)	$	11,727,391
Thomas Morton(2)	$	1,424,663
Tom Thomas(3)	$	13,353,127
Donald Snyder(4)	$	584,638
Gabe Nacht(5)	$	124,821
Melissa Young(6)	$	303,510

(1) Rob Roy and his related entities hold shares that correspond to a payment of $5,791,182. Mr. Roy’s immediate family members hold shares that correspond to a payment of $5,936,209.

(2) Thomas Morton’s payment is solely attributable to shares held by him and his related entities.

(3) Tom Thomas and his related entities hold shares that correspond to a payment of $3,794,686. Mr. Thomas’s immediate family members hold shares that correspond to a payment of $9,558,441.

(4) Donald Snyder and his related entities hold shares that correspond to a payment of $467,235. Mr. Snyder’s immediate family members hold shares that correspond to a payment of $117,403.

(5) Gabe Nacht’s payment is solely attributable to shares held by him and his related entities.

(6) Melissa Young’s payment is solely attributable to shares held by her and her related entities.

Treatment of Outstanding Equity Awards

Each of our named executive officers holds Switch restricted stock units, and certain of our named executive officers also hold Switch options and Switch performance stock units. Each of our non-employee directors holds Switch restricted share awards.

Immediately prior to the Effective Time and as a result of the Merger, (a) each option to purchase shares of common stock with a per share exercise price that is less than the merger consideration that is outstanding and unexercised immediately prior to the Effective Time, whether vested or unvested, will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive a cash payment equal to the product of the merger consideration, net of the applicable per share exercise price, and the aggregate number of shares of our common stock subject to the option, subject to applicable withholding taxes or other amounts required by applicable law to be withheld, (b) each option to purchase shares of common stock with a per share exercise price that is equal to or greater than the merger consideration that is outstanding and unexercised immediately prior to the Effective Time, whether vested or unvested, will be cancelled for no consideration, (c) each award of restricted stock units covering shares of common stock that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive a cash payment equal to the product of the merger consideration and the aggregate number of shares subject to the award, plus any accrued and unpaid dividend equivalents with respect to such restricted stock unit award, and subject to applicable withholding taxes or other amounts required by applicable law to be withheld, (d) each award of performance-based restricted stock units covering shares of common stock that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive a cash payment equal to the product of the merger consideration and the number of shares of common stock subject to the performance-based restricted stock unit award immediately prior to the Effective Time as determined based on the actual achievement of performance goals under the applicable award agreement, plus any accrued and unpaid dividend equivalents with respect to such performance stock unit award, and subject to applicable withholding taxes or other amounts required by applicable law to be withheld and (e) each restricted share of our common stock that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically become fully vested and converted into the right to receive a cash payment in an amount equal to the merger consideration, without interest.

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The following table sets forth, for any current executive officer or non-employee director or executive officer or non-employee director who served at some point since January 1, 2021, the aggregate number of shares of our common stock owned or subject to outstanding (i) vested and unvested Switch stock options with an exercise price that does not exceed the merger consideration, (ii) Switch restricted stock unit awards, (iii) Switch performance-based restricted stock unit awards, and (iv) Switch restricted share awards, and the value of such equity awards; and the aggregate number of Company Ltd. Common Units held by any executive officer and the value of such Company Ltd. Common Units, in each case as of May 31, 2022:

Name	Vested Stock Options (#)		Value of Vested Stock Options ($)(1)		Unvested Stock Options (#)		Value of Unvested Stock Options ($)(1)		Restricted Stock Units (#)		Value of Restricted Stock Units ($)(1)		Performance Stock Units (#)(3)		Value of Performance Stock Units ($)(1)(3)		Company Ltd. Common Units (#)		Value of Company Ltd. Common Units ($)(1)		Shares of Common Stock (#)(4)		Value of Common Stock ($)(1)
Current or Former Non-Employee Directors
Angela Archon		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		17,349		594,203
Jason Genrich		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		6,100		208,925
Liane Pelletier		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		17,349		594,203
Zareh Sarrafian		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		52,278		1,790,522
Kim Sheehy		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		52,278		1,790,522
Donald D. Snyder		99,438		1,715,306		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		465,075		15,928,819
Tom Thomas		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		5,357,500		183,494,375		3,118,397		106,805,097
Bryan Wolf		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		36,987		1,266,805
Current or Former Executive Officers
Rob Roy		1,492,677		35,109,651		402,539		8,370,933		429,078		14,695,922		544,394		18,645,495		14,726,931		504,397,387		307,920		10,546,260
Thomas Morton		2,230,320		44,308,868		227,976		4,668,628		228,682		7,832,359		279,576		9,575,478		3,214,063		110,081,658		332,233		11,378,980
Gabe Nacht		750,937		17,646,021		131,421		2,757,789		105,189		3,602,723		117,592		4,027,526		337,353		11,554,340		145,135		4,970,874
Jonathan King		—		—		—		—		172,098		5,894,357		33,304		1,140,662		—		—		31,234		1,069,765
Melissa Young		193,579		3,339,238		—		—		25,504		873,512		21,878		749,322		730,296		25,012,638		38,005		1,301,671
Teresa Borden(2)		117,529		2,027,375		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		470,000		16,097,500

(1) Dollar values are calculated based on the merger consideration of $34.25 per share.

(2) Ms. Borden is no longer employed by us; accordingly, information related to Ms. Borden’s current ownership of common stock is not readily determinable. The information related to Ms. Borden’s ownership of common stock set forth in this table is as of December 31, 2021, the last day Ms. Borden served as an executive officer of the Company.

(3) The value of the performance unit awards is estimated assuming achievement of the applicable performance goals at the maximum level based on trending performance.

(4) This column includes Switch restricted share awards.

Treatment of Company Ltd. Common Units

In connection with the LLC Merger, each Company Ltd. Common Unit (other than any Company Ltd. Common Unit owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or any of its subsidiaries immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time or Rollover Units (together, the “Excluded Company Ltd. Common Units”)) that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time and all rights in respect thereof will be automatically converted into the right to receive the merger consideration. Each Excluded Company Ltd. Common Unit will be unaffected by the LLC Merger and will remain outstanding as a unit of Surviving Company Ltd.

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Severance Benefits

Switch has entered into Executive Severance Agreements with each of its named executive officers, other than Ms. Young (collectively, the “Executive Severance Agreements”). Each Executive Severance Agreement provides that the executive is eligible to receive certain payments and benefits in the event of a “qualifying termination” and enhanced payments and benefits in the event of a “change in control termination.” A “qualifying termination” means a termination for “good reason,” a termination without “cause” or a termination due to death or disability. A “change in control termination” means a qualifying termination within six months prior to, on or within 24 months following, a “change in control.”

In the event of a “change in control termination,” each executive who is party to an Executive Severance Agreement is entitled to receive the following payments and benefits:

• cash severance in an amount equal to the product of: (1) a “severance multiple,” equal to 2.0 for Mr. Roy, 1.5 for Mr. Morton, and 1.0 for Messrs. Nacht and King; and (2) the sum of: (a) the named executive officer’s base salary; and (b) the named executive officer’s target annual bonus;

• a pro-rata portion of the executive’s target annual bonus for the calendar year in which the date of termination occurs; and

• up to 18 months of subsidized COBRA benefits.

In addition, the Executive Severance Agreements provide that upon a “change in control termination,” any unvested time-based equity awards will vest as of the later of the termination date or the change in control, and the post-termination exercise period for any outstanding vested stock options held by the named executive officer at the date of termination will be extended through the later of (i) 36 months after his date of termination or (ii) the expiration date of such stock options. However, as described above, all unvested Switch equity awards will be paid out at the Effective Time in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement.

The receipt of the compensation and benefits under the Executive Severance Agreements is conditioned upon the named executive officer’s execution of a general release of claims in favor of the Company and compliance with the post-employment confidentiality, non-disparagement, non-competition and non-solicitation obligations contained therein. The noncompetition and non-solicitation covenants apply during employment and for a period of 12 months and 18 months, respectively, following termination of employment for any reason, except that the noncompetition covenant does not apply following a “change in control termination.”

Each Executive Severance Agreement includes a so-called “better net after-tax cutback” provision providing that, if the compensation and benefits payable to the named executive officer in connection with a change in control would be subject to an excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code, such amounts will either be paid in full or reduced to the level that would avoid application of the excise tax, whichever would place the named executive officer in a better after-tax position.

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, each continuing Switch employee who is not party to an Executive Severance Agreement and who is terminated by the Company without cause within the twelve-month period following the closing date will be entitled to receive severance benefits equal to two weeks’ base salary per year of service with the Company and its subsidiaries, up to 26 weeks, subject to the continuing Switch employee’s execution of a release of claims in favor of the Company.

See the section entitled “Quantification of Potential Payments and Benefits to Our Named Executive Officers in Connection with the Mergers” beginning on page 73 of this proxy statement for the estimated amounts that each of our named executive officers would receive upon a qualifying termination of employment following a change in control of Switch pursuant to his Executive Severance Agreement, or, in the case of Ms. Young, pursuant to the Merger Agreement.

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Treatment of Annual Bonus

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, each continuing Switch employee who is a participant in an annual cash bonus or other short-term incentive program, shall be eligible to receive a cash bonus for the year in which the closing occurs, determined as follows: (1) for the portion of the performance period that has elapsed as of the closing date, the bonus shall be no less than the amount determined by the Compensation Committee of the Switch board of directors, based on actual achievement of pro-rated performance goals under the applicable bonus programs of Switch, or its subsidiaries, through the closing date, and pro-rated based on the number of days in the applicable performance period that have elapsed as of the closing date (such amount, the “Pro-Rata Bonus”) and (2) for the remaining portion of the performance period that follows the closing date, the bonus shall be based on actual achievement of pro-rated performance goals determined under the bonus programs maintained by Parent or its subsidiaries, including the Surviving Company, and pro-rated based on the number of days in the applicable performance period that have elapsed following the closing date (collectively, the “2022 Bonus”). Such 2022 Bonus will be paid by Parent or its subsidiaries, including the Surviving Company, at the same time that such annual bonuses are typically paid in the ordinary course of business, subject to the continuing Switch employee’s continued employment through the payment date, except that if such employee is terminated prior to such payment date by Parent or its subsidiaries, including the Surviving Company, without cause or due to disability, then the employee will be entitled to payment of the Pro-Rata Bonus no later than 60 days following such termination date.

See the section entitled “Quantification of Potential Payments and Benefits to Our Named Executive Officers in Connection with the Mergers” beginning on page 73 of this proxy statement for the estimated amount of the pro-rated bonus payment that Ms. Young would receive under the terms of the Merger Agreement.

Potential Employment Arrangements with Parent

Any of our named executive officers who become officers or employees or who otherwise are retained to provide services to Parent or the Surviving Company may, prior to, on, or following the closing, enter into new individualized compensation arrangements with Parent or the Surviving Company and may participate in cash or equity incentive or other benefit plans maintained by Parent or the Surviving Company. As of the date of this proxy statement, no new individualized compensation arrangements between our named executive officers and Parent or the Surviving Company have been established.

Employee Benefits

The merger agreement requires Parent (or the Surviving Company) to provide certain compensation and benefits for a period of 12 months following the Effective Time for continuing Switch employees, and to take certain actions in respect of employee benefits provided to Switch’s employees, including its executive officers. For a detailed description of these requirements, please see the section entitled “The Merger Agreement—Employee Matters” of this proxy statement.

Indemnification and Insurance

Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, our non-employee directors and executive officers will be entitled to certain ongoing indemnification and coverage under directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies following the Merger. Such indemnification and insurance coverage is further described in the section entitled “The Merger Agreement—Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification and Insurance” beginning on page 105 of this proxy statement.

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Quantification of Potential Payments and Benefits to Our Named Executive Officers in Connection with the Mergers

The information set forth in the table below is intended to comply with Item 402(t) of the SEC’s Regulation S-K, which requires disclosure of information about certain compensation for each of our named executive officers in connection with the Mergers. For additional details regarding the terms of the payments and benefits described below, see the discussion under the caption “Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Mergers” above.

The amounts shown in the table below are estimates based on multiple assumptions that may or may not actually occur or be accurate on the relevant date, including the assumptions described below and in the footnotes to the table, and do not reflect certain compensation actions that may occur before completion of the Merger. For purposes of calculating such amounts, the following assumptions were used:

• The relevant price per share of our common stock is $34.25, which is the per share merger consideration;

• The effective time as referenced in this section occurs on May 31, 2022 which is the assumed date of the effective time solely for purposes of the disclosure in this section; and

• The employment of each of our named executive officers was terminated by the Surviving Company without “cause” (as such term is defined in the relevant agreements), in either case immediately following the effective time and on the assumed date of the effective time of May 31, 2022.

Named Executive Officer	Cash ($)(1)		Equity($)(2)		Perquisites / Benefits($)(3)		Total ($)
Rob Roy		5,399,753		41,712,349		19,046		47,131,148
Thomas Morton		3,235,397		22,076,465		29,804		25,341,666
Gabe Nacht		1,064,468		10,388,039		30,250		11,482,757
Jonathan King		752,740		7,035,019		30,530		7,818,289
Melissa Young		273,786		1,622,834		—		1,896,620

⁽¹⁾  Cash. For each named executive officer other than Ms. Young, consists of (a) cash severance equal to the product of (i) 2.0 for the Chief Executive Officer, 1.5 for the President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, and 1.0 for the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Revenue Officer and (ii) the sum of: (A) the named executive officer’s base salary; and (B) the named executive officer’s target annual bonus; and (b) a prorated annual bonus payment (assumed to equal target performance for purposes of this quantification). For Ms. Young, consists of (a) cash severance equal to 26 weeks’ base salary, plus (b) a prorated annual bonus payment, each pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement (assumed to equal target performance for purposes of this quantification). The cash severance and the pro-rated annual bonus are “double trigger” and become payable only upon satisfying a continued employment requirement or upon a qualifying termination of employment following a change in control of Switch under the terms of the Executive Severance Agreement or, in the case of Ms. Young, the Merger Agreement (see “Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger—Severance Benefits”). The estimated amount of each such payment is shown in the following table:

Named Executive Officer	Severance ($)		Prorated Bonus ($)		Total ($)
Rob Roy		4,846,500		553,253		5,399,753
Thomas Morton		2,808,000		427,397		3,235,397
Gabe Nacht		895,400		169,068		1,064,468
Jonathan King		650,000		102,740		752,740
Melissa Young		172,000		101,786		273,786

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⁽²⁾  Equity. Includes accelerated vesting at the Effective Time of the options, restricted stock unit awards and performance stock unit awards, each of which is a “single trigger” benefit. The value of the performance unit awards is estimated assuming achievement of the applicable performance goals at the maximum level. For further details regarding the treatment of Switch equity awards in connection with the Mergers, see “Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger—Treatment of Outstanding Equity Awards”. The estimated values of such awards are shown in the following table:

Named Executive Officer	Stock Options ($)		Restricted Stock Unit Awards ($)		Performance Stock Unit Awards ($)		Total ($)
Rob Roy		8,370,933		14,695,922		18,645,495		41,712,349
Thomas Morton		4,668,628		7,832,359		9,575,478		22,076,465
Gabe Nacht		2,757,789		3,602,723		4,027,526		10,388,039
Jonathan King		—		5,894,357		1,140,662		7,035,019
Melissa Young		—		873,512		749,322		1,622,834

⁽³⁾  Perquisites/Benefits. Represents the estimated value of subsidized COBRA coverage for each named executive officer, other than Ms. Young, for 18 months, pursuant to his Executive Severance Agreement. Such benefits are “double trigger” and are provided only upon a qualifying termination of employment following a change in control of Switch (see “Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger—Severance Benefits”).

Regulatory Matters

Parent, Parent Merger Sub, the Company, Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub have covenanted to use their respective reasonable best efforts to take, or to cause to be taken, all actions necessary, proper and advisable under any applicable laws to receive all approvals by governmental entities, including in connection with antitrust laws and communications laws. This includes (1) preparing and filing all filings, forms, notices, registrations and notifications required to be filed to consummate the Mergers, (2) using reasonable best efforts to satisfy the conditions to consummating the Mergers, (3) using reasonable best efforts to obtain any consents or orders from any governmental entities, including certain regulatory consents agreed upon by Parent and the Company to be required, (4) defending any judicial or administrative proceedings challenging the Merger Agreement or the transactions contemplated thereby and (5) the execution and delivery of any reasonable additional instruments necessary to consummate the Mergers. The management of each of the Company and Parent currently believe that the necessary regulatory approvals can be obtained by the end of the second half of 2022; however, there can be no assurances that such approvals will be obtained in accordance with this timing or at all.

In addition, under the Merger Agreement, Parent and Parent Merger Sub have agreed to use reasonable best efforts to take any and all steps necessary to eliminate each and every impediment under the HSR Act and any other antitrust, competition, merger control or foreign investment law that is asserted by any governmental entity or any other person so as to enable the parties to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement as soon as possible and prior to the End Date, including, but not limited to offering, proposing, negotiating, agreeing and committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order or otherwise:

• divestitures, sales, transfers or other dispositions of, licenses of, or hold separate or similar arrangements with respect to, any assets, product lines, businesses or interests of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates;

• the termination, amendment, assignment or creation of relationships, contractual rights or obligations, ventures or other arrangements of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates;

• conduct of business restrictions, including restrictions on Parent’s or its affiliates’ ability to manage, operate or own any assets, product lines, businesses or interests;

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• any other change or restructuring of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates and other actions and non-actions with respect to assets, product lines, businesses or interests of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates; and

• any other condition, commitment, remedy or undertaking of any kind, in each case of the foregoing, in order to obtain any and all actions, consents and orders from governmental entities as soon as possible and prior to the End Date, including committing to take any and all actions necessary in order to ensure that no requirement for non-action, a waiver, consent or approval of any governmental entity, no decree, judgment, decision, injunction, temporary restraining order or any other order in any proceeding and no other matter relating to any antitrust, competition, merger control or foreign investment law, would preclude the occurrence of the closing prior to the End Date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Merger Agreement does not require Parent or Parent Merger Sub to take or agree to take any action, including any action contemplated by the foregoing, with respect to any of its affiliates (including any person in which any of its affiliates has any debt or equity investment and any affiliated or commonly advised investment fund) or any direct or indirect portfolio company (as such term is understood in the private equity industry) thereof, other than the Company, the Surviving Company, Company Ltd., Surviving Company Ltd. or any of their respective subsidiaries.

HSR Act

Consummation of the Merger is subject to the requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”) and the rules promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), which prevent transactions such as the Merger from being consummated until (i) certain information and materials are furnished to the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the FTC and (ii) the applicable waiting period is terminated early or expires. Both the Company and Parent filed their respective Notification and Report Forms with the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the DOJ on May 25, 2022. The 30-day waiting period with respect to the Merger, which cannot expire on a Saturday, Sunday or a U.S. federal holiday, is expected to expire at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on June 24, 2022, unless the FTC or the DOJ earlier terminates the waiting period or issues requests for additional information and documentary material related to the Merger (“Second Requests”). If the FTC or the DOJ issues Second Requests, the waiting period with respect to the Merger will be extended for an additional period of 30 calendar days, which will begin on the date on which both the Company and Parent have substantially complied with their respective Second Requests. Complying with Second Requests can take a significant period of time.

At any time before or after consummation of the Merger, notwithstanding expiration or termination of the waiting period under the HSR Act, the applicable antitrust authorities could take such action under applicable antitrust laws as each deems necessary or desirable in the public interest, including seeking to enjoin the consummation of the Merger. Private parties may also seek to take legal action under the antitrust laws under certain circumstances. We cannot assure you that the FTC, DOJ, any state attorney general, or any other U.S. or foreign government authority will not attempt to challenge the Merger on antitrust grounds, and, if such a challenge is made, we cannot assure you as to its result.

Additional Approvals

In addition, the parties expect to (1) submit a change of control application to the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) for certain wireless licenses held by the Company, (2) submit an application for and receive approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), (3) receive authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) with respect to the termination of the market-based rate authorization issued to a subsidiary of the Company and (4) provide notices to and seek

approvals from certain state regulatory agencies. The consummation of the Merger is conditioned upon the receipt of these approvals or upon providing notice, as applicable. The Company and Parent made the appropriate applications with the FCC on May 27, 2022 and with FERC on May 24, 2022 and made the notifications with

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each of the Georgia Public Service Commission and Nevada Public Utilities Commission on May 26, 2022. The Company and Parent also intend to make all required filings under the Exchange Act relating to the Merger and obtain all other approvals and consents that may be necessary to give effect to the Merger.

For further information regarding the timing of the closing of the Mergers, see “The Merger Agreement — Effective Times; Closing Date.”

Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences

The following discussion is a summary of the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of the Merger to U.S. holders and non-U.S. holders (each as defined below) of our common stock who receive merger consideration in exchange for shares of our common stock pursuant to the Merger. This discussion is for general information purposes only and does not purport to be a complete analysis of all potential tax consequences of the Merger. The tax consequences of the Merger under U.S. federal tax laws other than those pertaining to income tax, such as estate and gift tax laws, and any applicable state, local, and non-U.S. tax laws are not discussed. This discussion is based on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, judicial decisions and published rulings, and administrative pronouncements of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”), in each case in effect as of the date of this proxy statement. These authorities may change or be subject to differing interpretations, and any such change or differing interpretation may be applied retroactively in a manner that could affect the accuracy of the statements and conclusions set forth in this summary. The U.S. federal income tax laws are complex and subject to varying interpretation. We have not sought, and do not intend to seek, any ruling from the IRS with respect to the statements made and the conclusions reached in the following summary. There can be no assurance the IRS or a court will not take a contrary position to that discussed below regarding the tax consequences of the Merger.

This discussion is limited to holders of shares of our common stock who hold such shares as “capital assets” within the meaning of Section 1221 of the Code (generally, property held for investment). This discussion does not address all U.S. federal income tax consequences that may be relevant to a holder in light of such holder’s particular circumstances, including the impact of the Medicare contribution tax on net investment income and the alternative minimum tax. In addition, this discussion does not address the U.S. federal income tax consequences to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation:

• U.S. expatriates and former citizens or long-term residents of the United States;

• U.S. holders whose functional currency is not the U.S. dollar;

• persons holding shares of our common stock as part of a hedge, straddle, or other risk reduction strategy or as part of a conversion transaction or other integrated investment;

• banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions;

• brokers or dealers in securities;

• traders in securities that elect to apply a mark-to-market method of accounting;

• “controlled foreign corporations,” “passive foreign investment companies,” and corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax;

• “S corporations,” partnerships, or other entities or arrangements classified as partnerships for U.S. federal income tax purposes or other pass-through entities (and investors therein);

• real estate investment trusts and regulated investment companies;

• tax-exempt organizations or governmental organizations;

• persons subject to special tax accounting rules as a result of any item of gross income with respect to shares of our common stock being taken into account in an applicable financial statement;

• persons deemed to sell their shares of our common stock under the constructive sale provisions of the Code;

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• persons who actually or constructively hold (or actually or constructively held at any time during the five-year period ending on the date of the Merger) 5% or more of the shares of our Class A common stock;

• persons who hold or received their shares of our common stock pursuant to the exercise of any employee stock option or otherwise as compensation; and

• tax-qualified retirement plans.

This discussion also does not address the U.S. federal income tax consequences to holders of shares of our common stock who exercise appraisal rights in connection with the Merger under the NMA.

If an entity or arrangement classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes holds shares of our common stock, the tax treatment of a partner in such partnership will generally depend on the status of the partner, the activities of the partnership, and certain determinations made at the partner level. Accordingly, partnerships holding our common stock and partners in such partnerships should consult their tax advisors regarding the U.S. federal income tax consequences of the Merger to them.

THIS DISCUSSION IS FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TAX OR LEGAL ADVICE. HOLDERS OF OUR COMMON STOCK SHOULD CONSULT THEIR TAX ADVISORS WITH RESPECT TO THE U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE MERGER TO THEM IN LIGHT OF THEIR PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES, AS WELL AS ANY TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE MERGER ARISING UNDER THE U.S. FEDERAL TAX LAWS OTHER THAN THOSE PERTAINING TO INCOME TAX, INCLUDING ESTATE OR GIFT TAX LAWS, OR UNDER ANY STATE, LOCAL, OR NON-U.S. TAX LAWS OR UNDER ANY APPLICABLE INCOME TAX TREATY.

Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders

Definition of a U.S. Holder

For purposes of this discussion, a “U.S. holder” is any beneficial owner of shares of our common stock that, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, is or is treated as:

• an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States;

• a corporation (or other entity taxable as a corporation) created or organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, or the District of Columbia;

• an estate, the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income tax regardless of its source; or

• a trust that (i) is subject to the primary supervision of a U.S. court and one or more “United States persons” (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) are authorized to control all substantial decisions of the trust or (ii) has a valid election in effect to be treated as a “United States person” for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Effect of the Merger

The receipt of merger consideration by a U.S. holder in exchange for shares of our common stock in the Merger will generally be a taxable transaction for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The amount of any taxable gain or loss realized by a U.S. holder who receives merger consideration for shares of our common stock in the Merger will generally equal the difference, if any, between the amount of merger consideration received for such shares (determined before the deduction of any applicable withholding taxes) and the U.S. holder’s adjusted tax basis in such shares. A U.S. holder’s adjusted tax basis in a share will generally be equal to the amount the U.S. holder paid for such share. The amount and character of such gain or loss and the holding period of shares will be determined separately for each block of shares of our common stock (that is, shares acquired at the same cost in a single transaction) exchanged for merger consideration in the Merger. Any gain or loss realized by a

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U.S. holder upon the receipt of merger consideration in exchange for a share of our common stock in the Merger will generally be capital gain or loss, and will be long-term capital gain or loss if the U.S. holder has held such share for more than one year at the effective time of the Merger. Otherwise, such gain or loss will be short-term capital gain or loss which is subject to U.S. federal income tax at the same rates as ordinary income. Long-term capital gains recognized by certain non-corporate U.S. holders, including individuals, are generally taxable at a reduced rate. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to limitations.

Information Reporting and Backup Withholding

Payments made to a U.S. holder in exchange for shares of our common stock pursuant to the Merger may be subject to information reporting to the IRS and backup withholding (currently at a rate of 24%). To avoid backup withholding on such payments, U.S. holders that do not otherwise establish an exemption should complete and return to the paying agent a properly executed IRS Form W-9 included in the letter of transmittal certifying that such holder is a United States person, that the taxpayer identification number provided is correct and that such holder is not subject to backup withholding. Certain holders (including corporations) are not subject to backup withholding or information reporting rules.

Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld from payments of merger consideration to a U.S. holder pursuant to the Merger under the backup withholding rules may be allowed as a refund or a credit against such U.S. holder’s U.S. federal income tax liability, if any, provided the required information is timely furnished to the IRS. U.S. holders should consult their tax advisors regarding their qualification for an exemption from backup withholding and the procedures for obtaining such an exemption.

Tax Consequences to Non-U.S. Holders

Definition of a Non-U.S. Holder

For purposes of this discussion, a “non-U.S. holder” is a beneficial owner of shares of our common stock that is neither a U.S. holder nor an entity or arrangement classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Effect of the Merger

A non-U.S. holder will generally not be subject to U.S. federal income tax on any gain realized on the receipt of merger consideration in exchange for shares of our common stock in the Merger unless:

• the gain is effectively connected with the non-U.S. holder’s conduct of a trade or business within the United States (and, if required by an applicable income tax treaty, such gain is also attributable to a permanent establishment or, in the case of an individual, a fixed base, maintained by the non-U.S. holder in the United States);

• the non-U.S. holder is a nonresident alien individual present in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year of the disposition of shares of our common stock in the Merger, and certain other requirements are met; or

• we are or have been a U.S. real property holding corporation (“USRPHC”) for U.S. federal income tax purposes at any time during the shorter of the five-year period ending on the date of the Merger or the period that the non-U.S. holder held shares of our common stock (the “relevant period”) and the non-U.S. holder held (actually or constructively) more than 5% of the total fair market value of all shares of our common stock at any time during such five-year period.

Gain described in the first bullet point above will generally be subject to U.S. federal income tax on a net income basis at the regular U.S. federal income tax rates in the same manner as if such non-U.S. holder were a U.S. holder. A non-U.S. holder that is a corporation also may be subject to a branch profits tax at a rate of 30% (or such lower rate as may be specified under an applicable income tax treaty) on after-tax profits effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business to the extent that such after-tax profits are not reinvested and maintained in the business.

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A non-U.S. holder described in the second bullet point above will generally be subject to U.S. federal income tax at a rate of 30% (or such lower rate as may be specified under an applicable income tax treaty) on gain realized upon the sale or other taxable disposition of our common stock, which may be offset by U.S.-source capital losses of the non-U.S. holder (even though the individual is not considered a resident of the United States), provided the non-U.S. holder has timely filed U.S. federal income tax returns with respect to such losses.

With respect to the third bullet point above, generally, a corporation is a USRPHC if the fair market value of its U.S. real property interests equals or exceeds 50% of the sum of the fair market value of its worldwide real property interests and its other assets used or held for use in a trade or business. We may be a USRPHC, and if we are a USRPHC, gain arising from the sale or other taxable disposition of our common stock by a non-U.S. holder generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax if our common stock is “regularly traded on an established securities market,” as defined by applicable Treasury Regulations, and such non-U.S. holder owned, actually and constructively, 5% or less of our common stock throughout the shorter of the five-year period ending on the date of the sale or other taxable disposition and the non-U.S. holder’s holding period. We believe that our Class A common stock is currently treated as regularly traded on an established securities market, but we cannot guarantee that our Class A common stock will continue to be treated as regularly traded on an established securities market through the closing of the Merger. If gain on the sale or other taxable disposition of shares of our common stock were subject to taxation under the third bullet point above, the non-U.S. holder would be subject to regular U.S. federal income tax with respect to such gain in generally the same manner as a United States person, and the non-U.S. holder would be required to file a U.S. tax return with respect to such gain. In addition, if shares of our common stock were not regularly traded on an established securities market, the acquirer of such common stock would generally be required to withhold and remit to the IRS 15% of the purchase price, which withholding would be creditable against any income tax liability described in the previous sentence and generally refundable to the extent in excess thereof. Non-U.S. holders should consult their advisors about the U.S. federal income tax consequences that could result from our status as a USRPHC and regarding potentially applicable income tax treaties that may provide for different rules.

Information Reporting and Backup Withholding

Payments made to non-U.S. holders in the Merger may be subject to information reporting to the IRS and backup withholding (currently at a rate of 24%). Non-U.S. holders generally can avoid information reporting and

backup withholding by providing the paying agent with an applicable and properly executed IRS Form W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E, or W-8ECI (or successor form), as the case may be, certifying under penalties of perjury the holder’s non-U.S. status (and the payor or applicable withholding agent does not have actual knowledge or reason to know that the holder is a United States person as defined under the Code) or by otherwise establishing an exemption. Copies of information returns that are filed with the IRS may be made available under an applicable tax treaty or information exchange agreement to the tax authorities of the country in which the non-U.S. holder resides or is established. Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules may be allowed as a refund or a credit against a non-U.S. holder’s U.S. federal income tax liability, if any, provided the required information is timely furnished to the IRS.

The discussion above of U.S. federal income tax consequences is not intended to constitute a complete description of all tax consequences relating to the Merger. This summary is for general information purposes only and is not tax or legal advice. Because individual circumstances may differ, each holder should consult their tax advisor regarding the applicability of the rules discussed above to the holder and the particular tax effects to the holder of the Merger in light of such holder’s particular circumstances, including the tax consequences arising under the U.S. federal estate or gift tax rules, or through the application of any state, local, or foreign tax laws.

Delisting and Deregistration of Our Class A Common Stock

If the Mergers are completed, our Class A common stock will no longer be traded on the NYSE and will be deregistered under the Exchange Act.

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Guarantees and Remedies

In connection with the Merger Agreement and subject to the terms and limitations set forth in the guarantees, Parent has entered into guarantees with DigitalBridge and IFM GIF in our favor, pursuant to which DigitalBridge and IFM GIF have guaranteed their respective portions of Parent’s payment obligations with respect to the parent termination fee under the merger Agreement and certain collection costs related thereto (collectively, the “guaranteed obligation”) if and when due in accordance with the Merger Agreement, subject to an aggregate cap of $415.8 million for DigitalBridge and an aggregate cap of $277.2 million for IFM GIF for payment of the guaranteed obligations. The maximum aggregate liability of the guarantors under the guarantees will not exceed $693 million.

Each guarantee is irrevocable, and will not terminate until the earliest to occur of (i) the fulfillment of Parent and Parent Merger Sub’s respective obligations under the Merger Agreement to fund the merger consideration at the Effective Time, (ii) receipt by the Company of payment in full of the guaranteed obligation, (iii) the valid termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms under circumstances in which Parent would not be obligated to make any payments with respect to any of the guaranteed obligation, (iv) 60 days following any valid termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms under circumstances in which Parent would be obligated to make any payments with respect to any of the guaranteed obligations; provided that, in the case of clause (iv), if the Company has made a claim under an applicable guarantee prior to such date, then the earliest of (w) a final, non-appealable order resolving such claim determining that Parent does not have any liability to the Company that gives rise to the guaranteed obligation, (x) payment of the amounts due and owing in respect of the guaranteed obligation as determined in a final, non-appealable order resolving such claim and (y) a written agreement among the applicable guarantor and the Company terminating the obligations of such guarantor pursuant to the applicable guarantee). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Company or any of its controlled affiliates, and any person claiming by, through or on behalf of any of them, asserts in any litigation or other proceeding that the provisions of the guarantee limiting the guarantor’s liability to the cap set forth therein or that the continuing guarantee and non-recourse provisions set forth in Section 8 or Section 9 of the applicable guarantee are illegal, invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, or asserts any theory of liability whatsoever (whether at law or in equity, whether sounding in contract, tort, statute or otherwise) against any non-recourse party with respect to the applicable guarantee, the Merger Agreement or the equity commitment letter (collectively, the “Transaction Agreements”) or any other agreement or instrument delivered pursuant to such Transaction Agreements, or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, other than specified excluded claims asserted by the Company against the applicable guarantor or the non-recourse party(ies) against which such excluded claims may be asserted pursuant to the terms of the applicable guarantor, then (A) the obligations of the guarantor under or in connection with the applicable guarantee will terminate ab initio and be null and void, (B) if the guarantor has previously made any payments under the guarantee, it will be entitled to recover such payments, and (C) neither the guarantor nor any other non-recourse party will have any liability whatsoever (whether at law or in equity, whether sounding in contract, tort, statute or otherwise) to the Company or any other person in any way under or in connection with any Transaction Agreement, any other agreement or instrument delivered pursuant to such Transaction Agreement, or the transactions contemplated by the guarantee or by the Transaction Agreements.

The Merger Agreement provides that the parties are entitled to specific performance, including specific performance of Parent’s and Parent Merger Sub’s obligations to consummate the Mergers. However, we, Company Merger Sub and Company Ltd. may only seek specific performance to require Parent or Parent Merger Sub to consummate the Mergers if certain conditions are met, including (1) Parent and Parent Merger Sub’s closing conditions under the Merger Agreement (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the closing or the failure of which to be satisfied is caused by a breach by Parent or Parent Merger Sub of their representations, warranties, covenants or agreements contained in the Merger Agreement) have been satisfied (or are capable of being satisfied at the closing) or (to the extent permissible under applicable law) waived, (2) the full amount of the initial mortgage loans (or alternative financing) contemplated in connection with the Merger Agreement has been funded or would be funded at closing if the equity financing contemplated by the equity commitment letters (the “Equity Financing”) in connection with the Merger Agreement were

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funded at the closing, (3) the Company has irrevocably confirmed in a written notice delivered to Parent that if specific performance is granted and the Equity Financing and the initial mortgage loans (or alternative financing) are funded, then the Company stands ready, willing and able to then consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement on such date, (4) Parent and Parent Merger Sub have failed to complete the closing by the date the closing is required under the Merger Agreement and (5) the Merger Agreement has not been terminated. Under no circumstances will we be permitted or entitled to both a grant of specific performance causing the closing to occur or any monetary damages whatsoever, on the one hand, and payment of the parent termination fee, on the other hand.

Certain Effects of the Mergers

If the Company stockholder approval is obtained, the other conditions to the closing of the Merger are either satisfied or (to the extent permitted by law) waived and the Mergers are consummated, Parent Merger Sub will be merged with and into the Company and Company Merger Sub will be merged with and into Company Ltd., in each case upon the terms set forth in the Merger Agreement. As the Surviving Company in the Merger, the Company will continue to exist following the Merger as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Parent; as the Surviving Company Ltd., Company Ltd. will continue to exist following the Merger as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of the Surviving Company.

At the Effective Time, each share of Class A common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than excluded shares) will be canceled and converted into the right to receive $34.25 in cash, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes. Following the Merger, all of the Class A common stock will be beneficially owned by Parent, and none of the current holders of Class A common stock will, by virtue of the Merger, have any ownership interest in, or be a stockholder of, the Company, the Surviving Company. The Merger Agreement further provides that, at the Effective Time, each share of Class B common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically be cancelled and will cease to exist, and each holder of Class B common stock will no longer have any rights with respect to these shares, subject to (1) the right of the holder of any related Company Ltd. Common Units, other than any Rollover Member with respect to its Rollover Units, to receive the merger consideration and (2) applicable law in the case of dissenting shares. As a result, the current holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock will no longer benefit from any increase in the value, nor will they bear the risk of any decrease in the value, of the Company. Following the Merger, Parent will benefit from any increase in the Company’s value and also will bear the risk of any decrease in the Company’s value.

For information regarding the effects of the Merger on the Company’s outstanding equity awards, please see the section entitled “— Interests of the Company’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger” beginning on page 67 and the section of this proxy statement entitled “The Merger Agreement — Treatment of Common Stock and Equity Awards” beginning on page 86.

Shares of our Class A common stock are currently registered under the Exchange Act and listed on NYSE under the trading symbol “SWCH”. Following the consummation of the Merger, shares of our Class A common stock will no longer be traded on NYSE or any other public market. In addition, the registration of our Class A common stock under the Exchange Act is expected to be terminated, and, upon such termination, the Company will no longer be required to file periodic and other reports with the SEC with respect to the Class A common stock.

Effects on the Company if the Mergers Are Not Consummated

In the event that the Company stockholder approval is not obtained or if the Mergers are not consummated for any other reason, Switch stockholders will not receive any payment for their shares of common stock in connection with the Mergers. Instead, the Company will remain an independent public company, the Class A common stock will continue to be listed and traded on NYSE, the Class A common stock will continue to be

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registered under the Exchange Act and the Company’s stockholders will continue to own their shares of common stock and will continue to be subject to the same general risks and opportunities as they currently are with respect to ownership of the common stock.

If the Mergers are not consummated, there is no assurance as to the effect of these risks and opportunities on the future value of your common stock, including the risk that the market price of Class A common stock may decline to the extent that the current market price of the Class A common stock reflects a market assumption that the Mergers will be consummated. If the Mergers are not consummated, there is no assurance that any other transaction acceptable to the Company will be offered or that the business, operations, financial condition, earnings or prospects of the Company will not be adversely impacted. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, under certain circumstances the Company is permitted to terminate the Merger Agreement in order to enter into an alternative transaction. Please see the section of this proxy statement entitled “The Merger Agreement — Termination of the Merger Agreement” beginning on page 111.

Under certain circumstances, if the Mergers are not consummated, the Company may be obligated to pay to Parent a $260 million termination fee. In certain other circumstances, if the Mergers are not consummated, Parent may be obligated to pay to the Company a $693 million termination fee. Please see the section of this proxy statement entitled “The Merger Agreement — Termination Fees” beginning on page 113.

Legal Proceedings Regarding the Mergers and the Transactions Contemplated Thereby

On May 26, 2022, an alleged class action lawsuit was filed by a purported stockholder of the Company in connection with the Merger. The lawsuit is captioned Palkon v. Rob Roy et al., Case No. A-22-853216-B, and names as defendants the board, DigitalBridge, IFM and certain affiliates of the Company, DigitalBridge and IFM. The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that the board breached their fiduciary duties in approving the Merger, and that DigitalBridge and IFM aided and abetted the breaches. The lawsuit seeks, among other things, to enjoin the consummation of the Mergers. The Company believes that the claims in the pending lawsuit are without merit and intends to vigorously defend against them.

Dissenters’ Rights

Under sections 92A.300 to 92A.500, inclusive, of the NMA, stockholders of a Nevada corporation may, subject to certain conditions, be entitled to dissent from a transaction and demand payment of the fair value of such stockholder’s shares in the event of certain corporate actions, including certain mergers. However, there is no such right of dissent for stockholders of a class or series of stock that is a “covered security” under section 18(b)(1)(A) or (B) of the Securities Act. The Class A common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, a national securities exchange, and, consequently is a “covered security” within the meaning of Section 18(b)(1)(A) of the Securities Act. Therefore, the holders of Class A common stock do not have the right, under the NMA, to dissent from, or demand payment for their shares in connection with, the Merger.

Shares of Class B common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time that are held by any stockholder entitled to demand, and who does properly and timely demand, pursuant to the NMA and a separate notice provided by the Company, payment for such shares (“dissenting shares”) will be treated in accordance with the NMA. At the Effective Time, all dissenting shares will be automatically cancelled and will cease to exist, and stockholders who properly exercised their dissenters’ rights will have the right to receive the fair value of the dissenting shares in accordance with the NMA. If any dissenting stockholder loses its status as a dissenter under the NMA, then as of the later of the Effective Time or the date this status was lost, such stockholder’s shares of Class B common stock will be converted into, or will have been deemed to have been converted into at the Effective Time, as applicable, the right to receive only the merger consideration (without interest thereon) with respect to that holder’s related Company Ltd. Common Units. For the avoidance of doubt, no dissenters’ or appraisal rights are available with respect to the Company Ltd. Common Units. A copy of the full text of NRS 92A.300 to 92A.500 is included as Annex C to this proxy statement and is incorporated herein

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by reference. The summary of dissenters’ rights set forth in this proxy statement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of NRS 92A.300 to 92A.500. Failure to follow the procedures set forth in NRS 92A.300 to 92A.500 will result in the forfeiture of dissenter’s rights.

Any holder of Class B common stock who wishes to dissent must, before the vote is taken, deliver to Switch a statement of intent with respect to the Mergers and must not vote, or cause or permit to be voted, any of his or her shares of Class B common stock in favor of the Mergers.

Dividends

Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, subject to limited exceptions, we may declare or pay any regular cash dividends of up to $0.07 per share quarterly, with usual declaration, record and payment dates in accordance with past dividend practice, to the holders of our common stock during the term of the Merger Agreement without a reduction in the merger consideration to be paid to our stockholders.

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THE MERGER AGREEMENT

The following summarizes the material provisions of the Merger Agreement. This summary does not purport to be complete and may not contain all of the information about the Merger Agreement that is important to you. The summary of the material terms of the Merger Agreement below and elsewhere in this proxy statement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Merger Agreement, a copy of which is attached to this proxy statement as Annex A and which we incorporate by reference into this proxy statement. We recommend that you read the Merger Agreement attached to this proxy statement as Annex A carefully and in its entirety, as the rights and obligations of the parties are governed by the express terms of the Merger Agreement and not by this summary or any other information contained in this proxy statement.

The Merger Agreement contains representations and warranties made by, and to, Switch, Company Merger Sub, Company Ltd., Parent and Parent Merger Sub. These representations and warranties, which are set forth in the copy of the Merger Agreement attached to this proxy statement as Annex A, were made for the purposes of negotiating and entering into the Merger Agreement between the parties, or may have been used for the purpose of allocating risk between the parties instead of establishing such matters as facts. In addition, these representations and warranties may be subject to important qualifications and limitations agreed to by the parties in connection with negotiating the terms of the Merger Agreement, were made as of specified dates, and may be subject to standards of materiality different from what may be viewed as material to our investors. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties, which do not purport to be accurate as of the date of this proxy statement, may have changed since the date of the Merger Agreement, and subsequent developments or new information qualifying a representation or warranty may have been included in this proxy statement, and the representations and warranties are qualified by the confidential disclosure schedules attached to the Merger Agreement, which have not been included in this proxy statement or summarized herein. You should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or conditions of Switch, Company Merger Sub, Company Ltd. or their affiliates.

Accordingly, the representations and warranties and other provisions of the Merger Agreement should not be read alone, but instead should be read together with the information provided elsewhere in this proxy statement and in the documents incorporated by reference into this proxy statement. The Company will provide additional disclosure in its public reports of any material information necessary to provide Switch stockholders with a materially complete understanding of the disclosures relating to the Merger Agreement. See “Where You Can Find Additional Information” beginning on page 125 of this proxy statement.

The summary of the material terms of the Merger Agreement below and elsewhere in this proxy statement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Merger Agreement, a copy of which is attached to this proxy statement as Annex A and which we incorporate by reference into this proxy statement.

Structure

The Merger

At the Effective Time, Parent Merger Sub will be merged with and into Switch, the separate existence of Parent Merger Sub will cease, and Switch will be the surviving entity in the Merger (the “Surviving Company”). Following the completion of the Merger, our Class A common stock will no longer be traded on NYSE and will be deregistered under the Exchange Act.

The LLC Merger

At the LLC Merger Effective Time, Company Merger Sub will be merged with and into Company Ltd., the separate existence of Company Merger Sub will cease, and Company Ltd. will be the surviving entity in the LLC Merger (the “Surviving Company Ltd.”).

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Effective Times; Closing Date

On the closing date, Parent and Switch will file articles of merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada and any other filings, recordings or publications required, if any, under Nevada law in connection with the Merger. The Merger will become effective upon the later of (1) the acceptance for record of the articles of merger with respect to the Merger by the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada or (2) such other date and time as may be mutually agreed to by us and Parent and specified in the articles of merger. Under the Merger Agreement, the Effective Time will occur prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time.

On the closing date, Company Ltd. and Company Merger Sub will file articles of merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada. The LLC Merger will become effective at such time as the articles of merger with respect to the LLC Merger have been accepted for filing by the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada or at such other date and time as may be mutually agreed to by us and Parent and specified in the LLC articles of merger. Under the Merger Agreement, the LLC Merger Effective Time will occur promptly following the Effective Time.

In this proxy statement, we refer to the date on which the closing of the Merger occurs as the closing date. The closing of the Merger will take place (1) on, if on the date that is five (5) business days prior to the scheduled date of the Special Meeting, all of the conditions to closing other than the stockholder approval and those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of those conditions at such time), the fifth (5th) business day following receipt of the stockholder approval (so long as on such date all conditions to the Mergers described under “— Conditions to the Mergers” continue to be satisfied (other than those conditions that by their terms or nature are to be satisfied or waived at the closing of the Mergers, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions at the closing)), (2) on, if all circumstances other than those described in clause (1), the tenth (10th) business day following the day after satisfaction or waiver of the conditions to the Mergers described under “— Conditions to the Mergers” (other than those conditions that by their terms or nature are to be satisfied or waived at the closing of the Mergers, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions at the closing) or (3) at such other place, time and date as may be mutually agreed to in writing by the Company and Parent.

Organizational Documents

At the Effective Time, the articles of incorporation of Parent Merger Sub as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time will be the articles of incorporation of the Surviving Company until thereafter amended in accordance with the provisions thereof and applicable law, except that the name of the Surviving Company will be Switch, Inc., and provided, that the articles of incorporation of the Surviving Company will contain provisions no less favorable to all past and present directors, officers and employees of Switch and Company Ltd. or any of their respective subsidiaries and each person who served as a director, officer, member, trustee or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, pension or other employee benefit plan or enterprise at the request or for the benefit of Switch and Company Ltd. or any of their respective subsidiaries (collectively, the “Covered Persons”) with respect to exculpation, indemnification and advancement of expenses than are currently set forth in the articles of incorporation of Switch.

At the Effective Time, the bylaws of Parent Merger Sub as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time will be the bylaws of the Surviving Company until thereafter amended in accordance with the provisions thereof and applicable law, except that the name of the Surviving Company will be Switch, Inc., and provided, that the bylaws of the Surviving Company will contain provisions no less favorable to Covered Persons with respect to exculpation, indemnification and advancement of expenses than are currently set forth in the bylaws of Switch.

At the LLC Merger Effective Time, the Company Ltd. Operating Agreement, as in effect immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time, will be the operating agreement of Surviving Company Ltd., with such changes as may be agreed in writing between the Company and Parent prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time, until thereafter amended in accordance with the provisions thereof and applicable law.

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Directors and Officers

From and after the Effective Time, the directors of Parent Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time will be the initial directors of the Surviving Company and the officers of the Company immediately prior to the Effective Time will be the initial officers of the Surviving Company and, in each case, will hold office until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified, or their earlier death, resignation or removal in accordance with the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Company.

Following the Effective Time, the Surviving Company will be the manager of Surviving Company Ltd.

From and after the LLC Merger Effective Time, the officers and authorized signatories of Company Merger Sub immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time will be the officers and authorized signatories of Surviving Company Ltd. until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified, or their earlier death, resignation or removal in accordance with the operating agreement of Surviving Company Ltd.

Treatment of Common Stock and Equity Awards

The Merger Agreement provides that, at the Effective Time, each share of Class A common stock (other than any of our shares of Class A common stock owned by the Company as treasury stock or by any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company immediately prior to the Effective Time (the “excluded shares”), which will automatically be cancelled and retired and will cease to exist with no consideration being delivered in exchange therefor) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically be converted into the right to receive an amount in cash equal to $34.25, without interest.

At the Effective Time, each share of Class B common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically be cancelled and cease to exist, and each holder of Class B common stock will no longer have any rights with respect to these shares, subject to (1) the right of the holder of any related Company Ltd. Common Unit (other than Rollover Members with respect to their Rollover Units) to receive the merger consideration and (2) applicable law in the case of dissenting shares.

Shares of Class B common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time that are held by any stockholder entitled to demand, and who properly and timely, pursuant to the NMA and a separate notice from the Company demands payment for such shares under the NMA will be treated in accordance with the NMA. At the Effective Time, all dissenting shares will be automatically cancelled and will cease to exist, and holders of dissenting shares will have the right to receive the fair value of the dissenting shares in accordance with the NMA. If any dissenting stockholder loses its status as dissenter under the NMA, then as of the later of the Effective Time or the date this status was lost, these shares will be converted into, or will have been deemed to have been converted into at the Effective Time, as applicable, the right to receive merger consideration (without interest thereon) with respect to that holder’s related Company Ltd. Common Units. For the avoidance of doubt, no dissenters’ or appraisal rights are available with respect to the Company Ltd. Common Units.

Stock Options

Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each option to purchase shares of common stock granted under Switch’s equity plan that is outstanding and unexercised immediately prior to the Effective Time, whether vested or unvested, shall be cancelled in exchange for the right to receive a cash payment (without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes), equal to (1) the number of shares of common stock for which such option had not been exercised multiplied by (2) the excess, if any, of the merger consideration over the exercise price per share of such option, rounded down to the nearest cent. For the avoidance of doubt, if the exercise price per share of any option, is equal to or greater than the merger consideration, such option will be cancelled without payment of any consideration to the holder thereof.

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Restricted Shares

Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each restricted share subject to forfeiture conditions granted under Switch’s equity plan or otherwise that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically become fully vested and converted into the right to receive a cash payment in an amount equal to the merger consideration, without interest.

Restricted Stock Unit Awards

Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each restricted stock unit award that corresponds to common stock granted under Switch’s equity plan and that vests solely based on the passage of time that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically become fully vested and cancelled in exchange for the right to receive a cash payment in an amount equal to (1) the product of (A) the number of shares of common stock subject to such restricted stock unit award as of immediately prior to the Effective Time and (B) the merger consideration, plus (2) the amount of any accrued dividend equivalents with respect to such restricted stock unit award that remain unpaid as of the Effective Time, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes.

Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Awards

Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each restricted stock unit award that corresponds to common stock granted under Switch’s equity plan and that vests based on the achievement of performance goals that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically become fully vested and cancelled in exchange for the right to receive a cash payment in an amount equal to (1) the product of (A) the number of shares of common stock subject to the performance-based restricted stock unit award immediately prior to the Effective Time as determined based on the actual achievement of performance goals in accordance with the terms of the applicable award agreement and (B) the merger consideration, plus (2) the amount of any accrued dividend equivalents with respect to such performance-based restricted stock unit award that remain unpaid as of the Effective Time, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes.

Treatment of Interests in Company Ltd.

Company Ltd. Common Units

In connection with the LLC Merger, each Company Ltd. Common Unit issued and outstanding (other than those owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or any of its subsidiaries immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time and any Rollover Units) immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time and all rights in respect thereof will be automatically converted into the right to receive the merger consideration. Each such excluded Company Ltd. Common Unit and Rollover Unit will be unaffected by the LLC Merger and will remain outstanding as a unit of Surviving Company Ltd.

Company Merger Sub Units

In connection with the LLC Merger, each unit of Company Merger Sub issued and outstanding immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time will be automatically exchanged for a number of units of Surviving Company Ltd. equal to the number of Company Ltd. Common Units (other than Excluded Company Ltd. Common Units and Rollover Units) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time.

Certain Dividends

On March 22, 2022, we paid a regular quarterly dividend of $0.0525 per share of Class A common stock for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 to stockholders of record as of March 11, 2022. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, from the date of the Merger Agreement through the closing date, we may declare regular quarterly cash dividends of an amount not to exceed $0.07 per share of common stock, with usual declaration, record and payment dates in accordance with past dividend practice, without a reduction in the merger consideration to be paid to holders.

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No Further Ownership Rights

At the Effective Time and the LLC Merger Effective Time, as applicable, holders of our common stock and the holders of Company Ltd. Common Units, respectively, will cease to be, and will have no rights as, our stockholders or members of Switch or Company Ltd., as applicable, other than the right to receive the merger consideration, without interest. The merger consideration paid in respect of certificates or book-entry evidence representing common stock and Company Ltd. Common Units, as applicable, will be deemed to have been paid in full satisfaction of all rights and privileges pertaining to such common stock and Company Ltd. Common Units.

Exchange and Payment Procedures

Prior to the closing date, Parent will designate a bank or trust company reasonably acceptable to the Company to act as agent (the “Exchange Agent”) for payment of the merger consideration and will enter into an agreement with the exchange agent on or prior to the closing date. At or immediately prior to the Effective Time, Parent will deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Exchange Agent, cash sufficient to pay the aggregate merger consideration. As soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time (but in no event later than five (5) business days thereafter), Parent and the Surviving Company will cause the Exchange Agent to mail to each holder of record of one or more certificates that, (1) immediately prior to the Effective Time, represented outstanding common stock or that, (2) immediately prior to the LLC Merger Effective Time, represented applicable Company Ltd. Common Units (each, a “Company Certificate”), a letter of transmittal and instructions for effecting the surrender of the certificates in exchange for the merger consideration to which the holder is entitled.

Upon surrender of a Company Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) for cancellation to the Exchange Agent, together with a letter of transmittal, duly executed and completed in accordance with the instructions thereto, and such other documents as may be reasonably be required by the Exchange Agent, the holder of the Company Certificate will be entitled to receive the merger consideration. No interest will be paid or will accrue on any cash payable upon surrender of any Company Certificate. Each of Parent, Parent Merger Sub, the Surviving Company, Surviving Company Ltd., Switch, Company Ltd., Company Merger Sub and the Exchange Agent, as applicable, will be entitled to deduct and withhold from the consideration otherwise payable pursuant to the Merger Agreement to any person such amounts as it is required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment (and, with respect to our equity awards, the vesting, cancellation or redemption of such equity awards, as applicable) under applicable law, and such amounts deducted or withheld will be treated as having been paid to the person in respect of which deduction or withholding was made.

Holders of book-entry common stock or book-entry Company Ltd. Common Units will not receive a letter of transmittal for their common stock or units from the Exchange Agent. Instead, holders of such book-entry common stock or book-entry units, other than any holder of dissenting shares, will automatically be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the merger consideration to which the holder is entitled, without interest. As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time (but in no event later than five (5) business days thereafter), Parent and the Surviving Company will cause the Exchange Agent to issue to each such holder the aggregate cash consideration that such holder is entitled to receive under the Merger Agreement.

In the event of a transfer of ownership of shares of common stock or Company Ltd. Common Units held by Members of Company Ltd. prior to the Effective Time that is not registered in the transfer records of Switch or Company Ltd., as applicable, as of the Effective Time, it will be a condition of payment that any Company Certificate surrendered in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement must be properly endorsed or must be otherwise in proper form for transfer and any book-entry common stock or book-entry Company Ltd. Common Units must be properly transferred, and that the person requesting the payment must have paid any transfer taxes required by reason of the payment of the consideration to a person other than the registered holder of the Company Certificate surrendered or the book-entry common stock or book-entry Company Ltd. Common

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Units properly transferred, or must have established to the satisfaction of Parent that such transfer tax has either been paid or is not applicable.

On the closing date, the stock transfer books of Switch and the unit transfer books of Company Ltd. will be closed, and thereafter there will be no further registration of transfers of common stock or Company Ltd. Common Units.

None of Parent, Parent Merger Sub, the Surviving Company, Surviving Company Ltd., Switch, Company Ltd., Company Merger Sub or the Exchange Agent nor any employee, officer, director, agent, or affiliate of such persons will be liable to any person, including any holder of common stock or Company Ltd. Common Units with respect to the cash consideration delivered to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar law. Any amounts remaining unclaimed by holders of any such common stock or units immediately prior to the time at which such amounts would otherwise escheat to, or become property of, any governmental entity will, to the extent permitted by applicable law, become the property of the Surviving Company, free and clear of any claims or interest of any such holders or their successors, assigns or personal representatives previously entitled thereto.

If any Company Certificate has been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming such certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and, if required by the Exchange Agent or Parent, the posting by such person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent or Parent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Company Certificate, the Exchange Agent will deliver, in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Company Certificate, the merger consideration, as applicable, to be paid in respect of common stock or Company Ltd. Common Units formerly represented by such Company Certificate in accordance with terms of the Merger Agreement.

Any portion of the merger consideration deposited with the Exchange Agent (including any interest received with respect thereto) that remains undistributed to the former holders of common stock or Company Ltd. Common Units that are entitled to such consideration after the first anniversary of the Effective Time will be delivered to the Surviving Company, upon demand, and any such former holders of common stock or Company Ltd. Common Units will thereafter look only to the Surviving Company for payment, without interest and upon compliance with the procedures set forth in the Merger Agreement.

In the event that a dividend or distribution with respect to shares of common stock or Company Ltd. Common Units is declared after the date of the Merger Agreement with a record date prior to the Effective Time or the LLC Merger Effective Time, respectively, and has not been paid prior to the Effective Time or the LLC Merger Effective Time, respectively, then the applicable holders shall be entitled to receive such dividend or distribution from Switch or Company Ltd., as applicable, as of immediately prior to the Effective Time or the LLC Merger Effective Time, as applicable.

Representations and Warranties

We have made representations and warranties in the Merger Agreement that are subject, in some cases, to specified exceptions and qualifications contained in the Merger Agreement or in the disclosure schedules delivered in connection with the Merger Agreement. These representations and warranties relate to, among other things:

• the organization, valid existence, good standing, qualification to do business and power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and assets and to carry on the businesses of each of Switch and its subsidiaries;

• the articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational documents of each of Switch and its subsidiaries;

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• the capital structure and indebtedness, and the absence of restrictions or encumbrances with respect to the equity interests, of each of Switch, Company Ltd. and their subsidiaries;

• Switch’s subsidiaries, their jurisdiction of organization and their compliance with the terms of their organizational documents;

• Switch’s joint venture, partnership or other similar arrangements, the name and jurisdiction of formation of any joint venture entities and their compliance with the terms of their organizational documents;

• Switch’s ownership of Company Merger Sub and the absence of any liens, assets or liabilities with respect to Company Merger Sub;

• Switch, the special committee and the majority of independent directors of the board of directors of the Company has approved, and the Company has executed and delivered, the TRA Amendment and holders of at least 70% of the outstanding Company Ltd. Common Units not held by the Company have executed agreements in support of the TRA Amendment;

• Switch’s, Company Merger Sub’s and Company Ltd.’s power and authority to execute and deliver the Merger Agreement, and, subject to the approval of our stockholders and receipt of the other transaction approvals, to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement;

• the enforceability of the Merger Agreement against Switch, Company Merger Sub and Company Ltd.;

• the absence of conflicts with, or violations of, laws or organizational documents and the absence of any consents under, conflicts with or defaults under contracts to which Switch, Company Merger Sub, Company Ltd. or any of their subsidiaries is a party, in each case as a result of Switch, Company Merger Sub or Company Ltd. executing, delivering, performing and consummating the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement;

• approvals of, filings with or notices to governmental entities required in connection with entering into, performing or consummating the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including under the HSR Act, from CFIUS and any consents required from telecommunications regulatory authorities;

• our SEC filings since December 31, 2019 and the financial statements contained in those filings;

• the financial statements of each of Switch and its consolidated subsidiaries;

• the absence of any COVID-19 related loan or other financial assistance or relief;

• our internal controls over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures;

• the absence of liabilities required to be recorded on a balance sheet under GAAP since December 31, 2021;

• Switch’s and its subsidiaries’ compliance with laws and regulations, including anti-corruption, anti-bribery and economic sanctions laws;

• possession of, and compliance with, permits necessary for Switch and our subsidiaries to lawfully own, lease and operate our and our subsidiaries’ properties and assets and to carry on and operate Switch’s and its subsidiaries’ businesses as currently conducted;

• environmental matters affecting Switch and its subsidiaries;

• our and our subsidiaries’ employee benefit plans;

• employment and labor matters affecting Switch and its subsidiaries;

• the absence of a material adverse effect (as described below), the conduct of our business in all material respects in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and the absence of certain other changes since December 31, 2021 through the date of the Merger Agreement;

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• actions, suits, claims, hearings, arbitrations, litigation or other proceedings involving Switch or its subsidiaries;

• the accuracy of the information supplied by us in this proxy statement;

• tax matters affecting Switch and its subsidiaries;

• real property currently or historically owned and leased by Switch and its subsidiaries and Switch’s and its subsidiaries’ leases;

• intellectual property owned by Switch and its subsidiaries and other intellectual property matters;

• information technology assets used by Switch and its subsidiaries and other data privacy matters;

• the receipt by our special committee of a fairness opinion from Goldman Sachs to the effect that, as of that date and based upon and subject to the various qualifications, assumptions and limitations on the scope of review undertaken by Goldman Sachs as set forth in the written opinion, the merger consideration to be received by the holders of shares of our Class A common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement was fair from a financial point of view to such holders of shares of our Class A common stock;

• Switch’s and its subsidiaries’ material contracts and the absence of any breach or violation of the terms of such material contracts;

• the absence of any investment banker, broker or finder fees, other than those payable to the special committee’s financial advisors in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement;

• the exemption of the Mergers and the Merger Agreement from the requirements of any anti-takeover or similar law;

• absence of the requirement to be registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 for both Switch and its subsidiaries;

• certain related party transactions;

• Switch’s and its subsidiaries’ insurance policies;

• matters relating to the Company’s fiber networks and rights to operate these; and

• government security clearances held by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

Many of our representations and warranties are qualified by the concept of a “material adverse effect.” Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, a material adverse effect means, with respect to Switch and its subsidiaries, any change, effect, event, condition, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development that, individually or in the aggregate, (A) has or would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets, liabilities, operations, results of operations or financial condition of Switch and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, excluding the impact of:

• any changes or developments in domestic, foreign or global markets or domestic, foreign or global economic conditions generally, including (1) any changes or developments in or affecting the domestic or any foreign securities, equity, credit or financial markets or (2) any changes or developments in or affecting domestic or any foreign interest or exchange rates;

• any changes in GAAP or any official interpretation or enforcement thereof, in each case after the date of the Merger Agreement;

• any changes in law or any changes or developments in the official interpretation or enforcement thereof by governmental entities, including any changes in laws relating to taxes, in each case after the date of the Merger Agreement;

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• changes in domestic, foreign or global political conditions (including the outbreak or escalation of war, military actions or acts of terrorism), including any worsening of such conditions threatened or existing on the date of the Merger Agreement;

• changes or developments in the business or regulatory conditions affecting the industries in which Switch or any of its subsidiaries operate;

• the announcement or the existence of, or compliance with or performance under the Merger Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby (including the impact thereof on the relationships, contractual or otherwise, of Switch or any of its subsidiaries with employees, financing sources, tenants, ground lessors, lenders, servicers, agents, customers, suppliers, partners or other business relationships), except regarding certain representations detailed in the Merger Agreement whose purposes are to address the consequences resulting from the execution, delivery and performance by the Company, Company Merger Sub and Company ltd. of the Merger Agreement or the transactions contemplated thereby (or in respect of the closing conditions to the extent related to such representations);

• weather conditions, acts of God (including storms, earthquakes, tornados, floods or other natural disasters), any quarantine, “shelter in place,” “stay at home,” workforce reduction, social distancing, shut down, closure, sequester, safety or similar applicable law, directive, guidelines or recommendations promulgated by any governmental entity (collectively, “COVID-19 Measures”), in each case, in connection with or in response or relating to COVID-19 and pandemics (including SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, any evolutions or mutations thereof or related or associated or new epidemics, pandemics or disease outbreaks);

• any matter set forth in Switch’s disclosure schedules (to the extent set forth in Switch’s disclosure schedules);

• a decline in the trading price or trading volume of Switch’s common stock or any change in the ratings or ratings outlook for Switch or any of its subsidiaries, or the failure to meet any projections, guidance, budgets, forecasts or estimates (provided, that the underlying causes thereof may be considered in determining whether a “material adverse effect” has occurred if not otherwise excluded by the definition thereof);

• any action taken or omitted to be taken by Switch or any of its subsidiaries at the written request of Parent or as expressly required by the Merger Agreement (other than the covenant that Switch and its subsidiaries continue to operate in the ordinary course of business);

• any actions or claims made or brought by any of the current or former stockholders of Switch (or on their behalf or on behalf of Switch) against Switch or any of its directors, officers or employees arising out of the Merger Agreement or the Mergers;

• the failure to obtain any approvals or consents from any governmental entity in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (except that such failure will not apply with respect to certain portions of representations and warranties detailed in the Merger Agreement (or in respect of the closing conditions to the extent related to such representations)); or

• any cyberattack on or involving Switch or any of its subsidiaries;

provided, that with respect to the exceptions set forth in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, seventh and thirteenth bullet points above, such impact may be taken into account to the extent it is disproportionately adverse to the Company and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole, relative to others in the industry or industries in which we and our subsidiaries operate or (B) does or would reasonably be expected to prevent or materially delay, interfere with, hinder or impede the ability of Switch, Company Merger Sub and Company Ltd. to consummate any of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (including the Mergers or the financing) in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement.

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The Merger Agreement also contains representations and warranties made, jointly and severally, by Parent and Parent Merger Sub that are subject, in some cases, to specified exceptions and qualifications contained in the Merger Agreement or in the disclosure schedules delivered in connection with the Merger Agreement. These representations and warranties relate to, among other things, with respect to Parent and Parent Merger Sub:

• their organization, valid existence, good standing, qualification to do business and power and authority to own, lease and operate their properties and assets and to carry on their businesses;

• their power and authority to execute and deliver the Merger Agreement and, subject to receipt of the other transaction approvals, to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement;

• the enforceability of the Merger Agreement against them;

• the absence of conflicts with, or violations of, laws or organizational or governing documents and the absence of any consents under, conflicts with or defaults under contracts to which they are a party, in each case as a result of their executing, delivering and performing under or consummating the transactions contemplated by, the Merger Agreement;

• approvals of, filings with, or notices to, governmental entities required in connection with entering into, performing or consummating the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including under the HSR Act, from CFIUS and any consents required from telecommunications regulatory authorities;

• the absence of any action, suit, claim, hearing, arbitration, litigation or other proceeding against them that would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on Parent or Parent Merger Sub’s ability to timely consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (including the Merger or the financing) in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement (a “parent material adverse effect”);

• the accuracy of the information supplied by them in this proxy statement;

• the absence of any investment banker, broker or finder fees, fees payable to any other person who would be entitled to similar fees or any reimbursement of expenses by us or any of our affiliates prior to the Effective Time in connection with the Mergers based upon arrangements made by and on behalf of them;

• Parent’s financing in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the debt and equity commitment letters delivered by Parent to us and the availability of cash, on the basis described in such commitment letters and the Merger Agreement (including the rollover of the Rollover Units), sufficient for the satisfaction of all of Parent and Parent Merger Sub’s payment obligations under the Merger Agreement;

• the solvency of the Surviving Company and Surviving Company Ltd. following the consummation of the Mergers, subject to customary assumptions;

• the guarantees executed by guarantors in respect of the parent termination fee and any costs and interest payable in respect of the collection of the parent termination fee payable by Parent pursuant to the Merger Agreement;

• other than the Merger Agreement, the commitment letters, the guarantees, the confidentiality agreements, the Voting and Support Agreements, and the Rollover Agreements, the absence of any contracts, undertakings, commitments, agreements, obligations or understandings between Parent, Parent Merger Sub and certain of their affiliates, on the one hand, and certain related parties of Switch, on the other hand, relating to Switch, the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement or to the operations of the Surviving Company after the Effective Time;

• ownership of Company common stock or securities of subsidiaries of Switch by Parent, Parent Merger Sub and certain of their affiliates, except pursuant to the Merger Agreement and the Rollover Agreements; and

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• Parent’s ownership of Parent Merger Sub and the absence of any liens (other than subject to certain exceptions), assets or liabilities with respect to Parent Merger Sub.

The representations and warranties of each of the parties to the Merger Agreement will expire at the Effective Time.

Conduct of Our Business Pending the Mergers

Under the Merger Agreement, we have agreed that, subject to certain exceptions in the Merger Agreement and the disclosure schedules delivered in connection with the Merger Agreement (including exceptions related to COVID-19), between the date of the Merger Agreement and the earlier of the closing date and the termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms (which period we refer to as the “interim period”), we will, and will cause our subsidiaries to, use commercially reasonable efforts, among other things, to:

• conduct our business in all material respects in the ordinary course consistent with past practice;

• maintain and preserve intact, in all material respects, our respective current business organization;

• retain the services of our respective current officers; and

• maintain our relationships with significant landlords, tenants, customers and others having business dealings with us, consistent with past practice.

We have also agreed to (1) use best efforts to consummate the Land Purchase Agreement in accordance with its terms, (2) not amend, terminate, waive compliance with the terms of or breaches under, or assign the Land Purchase Agreement without the prior written consent of Parent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) and (3) not take any actions under or enter into documentation in furtherance of certain sections of the Land Purchase Agreement without prior written consent of Parent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

We have also agreed that during the interim period, subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Merger Agreement, including exceptions for actions required by applicable law or as expressly required by the Merger Agreement and the disclosure schedules delivered in connection with the Merger Agreement or unless Parent consents in writing (which consent may not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), we and our subsidiaries will not, among other things:

• amend our organizational documents, the organizational documents of Company Ltd. or the organizational or governance documents of any of our subsidiaries other than the formation of new entities or restructuring of any subsidiaries in connection with our conversion into a REIT;

• split, subdivide, combine or reclassify any of our capital stock, voting securities or other equity interests of the Company or any of our subsidiaries;

• make, set aside, declare or pay any dividend, or make any other distribution on, or directly or indirectly redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire, any shares of capital stock, or any other securities or obligations convertible into or exchangeable for any shares of capital stock, except (1) for any such transactions solely among the Company and our wholly owned subsidiaries organized in the United States or among our wholly owned subsidiaries organized in the United States; (2) for (A) the payment of dividends or distribution declared prior to the date of the Merger Agreement or (B) the payment in the ordinary course of business of regular quarterly cash dividends on shares of common stock in an amount not to exceed a quarterly rate of $0.07 per share, in each case, with usual declaration, record and payment dates in accordance with past dividend practice; (3) in connection with the exercise, vesting or settlement of equity awards outstanding on the date of the Merger Agreement or granted in compliance of the Merger Agreement; (4) for the accrual and payment of dividend equivalents with respect to restricted stock unit awards and performance-based restricted stock unit awards in

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accordance with the terms of the Switch equity plan in effect on the date of the Merger Agreement and the terms of the applicable award agreements; (5) an exchange of Company Ltd. Common Units (together with the same number of shares as Class B common stock) in accordance with the Company Ltd. Operating Agreement and the Company’s organizational documents; or (6) the payment of any Tax Distributions in accordance with and as defined in the Company Ltd. Operating Agreement (and utilizing the Fixed Distribution Tax Rate as defined in the Merger Agreement) and the organizational documents of the Company and, without duplication, the payment of any amounts necessary to allow the Company to satisfy its obligations under the TRA (as in effect as of the date of the Merger Agreement);

• transfer, authorize for issuance, issue, sell or otherwise permit to become outstanding or agree or commit to issue, sell or otherwise permit to become outstanding (whether by issuing or granting options, warrants, commitments, subscriptions, rights to purchase, forward equity sales or otherwise) any additional shares of capital stock or securities convertible or exchangeable into, or exercisable for, shares of capital stock or any options, warrants or other rights to acquire any shares of capital stock, except (1)(A) pursuant to the exercise, vesting and/or settlement of our equity awards outstanding as of the date of the Merger Agreement or granted in accordance with the Merger Agreement or (B) in transactions solely among Company Ltd. and its wholly owned subsidiaries that are treated as disregarded entities for U.S. federal income tax purposes or among Company Ltd.’s wholly owned subsidiaries treated as disregarded entities for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (2) upon an exchange of Company Ltd. Common Units (together with the same number of shares of Class B common stock) in accordance with the organizational documents of the Company and Company Ltd.’s operating agreement;

• enter into any contract with respect to the voting or registration of any capital share or equity interest of the Company or any of our subsidiaries, other than the Voting and Support Agreements and the Rollover Agreements;

• (1) authorize, recommend, propose, announce or adopt a plan of complete or partial liquidation, dissolution, merger, consolidation, conversion, restructuring, recapitalization or other reorganization of the Company or any subsidiaries other than the Mergers or (2) alter, through merger, liquidation, dissolution, reorganization, restructuring or otherwise, their respective corporate structures of ownership of any joint venture entities;

• incur, assume, guarantee, prepay or amend any indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any debt securities, or assume or guarantee any indebtedness for borrowed money of any person, except for (1) any intercompany indebtedness for borrowed money among us and/or our wholly owned subsidiaries or among our wholly owned subsidiaries, (2) borrowings under our existing revolving credit facility and (3) additional indebtedness for borrowed money incurred by us or any of our subsidiaries not to exceed $25 million in the aggregate that is not secured and which is prepayable at any time without penalty or premium in excess of $2 million in the aggregate, and (4) mandatory prepayments under the terms of any indebtedness in accordance with its terms;

• assign, transfer, sell, exclusively license, lease, pledge, abandon, allow the expiration or lapse of or otherwise dispose of any material intellectual property, except pursuant to (1) non-exclusive licenses in the ordinary course of business or (2) national expirations due to statutory terms;

• except for transactions among the Company and our wholly owned subsidiaries or among our wholly owned subsidiaries, make loans, advances or capital contributions to or investments in any person, other than in the ordinary course pursuant to existing contractual obligations as of the date of the Merger Agreement;

• create or suffer to exist any material lien (other than permitted liens) on shares of capital stock or other equity interests in any of our subsidiaries;

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• (1) other than in the ordinary course of business, sell, transfer, assign, dispose of, pledge or encumber (other than permitted liens) any material personal property, equipment or assets of the Company or any of our subsidiaries, except (A) in connection with any execution of Company Space Leases (as defined in the Merger Agreement) entered into in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement or (B) for the execution of easements, covenants, rights of way, restrictions and other similar instruments in the ordinary course of business that, would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to materially impair the existing use, operation or value of the property or asset affected by the applicable instrument or (2) sell, transfer, pledge, dispose of, lease, ground lease, license or encumber (other than permitted liens) any real property (including any property acquired under the Land Purchase Agreement);

• acquire (whether by merger, consolidation or acquisition of stock or assets or otherwise) any interest in any person (or equity interests thereof) or any assets, real property, personal property, equipment, business or other rights, other than (1) acquisitions of personal property and equipment in the ordinary course of business (including in connection with new development or expansion not otherwise prohibited by the Merger Agreement) for consideration that does not individually or in the aggregate exceed $10 million, (2) any other acquisitions of assets or business (excluding purchases of real property or a ground lease interest therein) pursuant to certain specified contracts, (3) any acquisitions of real property (or a ground lease therein) pursuant to certain specified contracts and (4) as set forth in the Company’s capital expenditure budget;

• except as required by any of our benefit plans as in effect on the date of the Merger Agreement, (1) establish, adopt, materially amend or terminate any material benefit plans, except for adoptions, amendments or terminations in the ordinary course of business that do not materially increase costs, (2) materially increase the compensation (including salaries and wages) or benefits of any individual who is an employee, director or service provider of the Company or any of our subsidiaries (each, a “Company Service Provider”), except for increases in annual base salary in the ordinary course of business to any Company Service Provider with an annual base salary below $250,000, (3) pay or award, or commit to pay or award, or increase (in the case of annual bonuses and cash incentive compensation paid in the ordinary course of business) any bonuses or incentive compensation to any Company Service Provider, except for annual bonuses and cash incentive compensation paid in the ordinary course of business to any Company Service Provider with an annual base salary below $250,000, (4) enter into any new severance, change-in-control and retention compensation arrangements with any Company Service Provider, (5) accelerate any rights or benefits under our benefit plans or (6) accelerate the time of vesting or payment of any award under our benefit plans;

• recognize any labor union or trade union or other employee representative group labor organization as the representative of any of the employees of the Company or any of our subsidiaries, or enter into any collective bargaining agreement, labor union contract or trade union agreement;

• settle or compromise any claims, suits or proceedings against the Company or any of our subsidiaries (or for which the Company or any of our subsidiaries would be financially responsible), whether or not commenced prior to the date of the Merger Agreement, other than settlements of, or compromises for any such legal proceedings for less than $5 million in the aggregate (except for claims arising out of legal proceedings in respect of taxes, which shall be governed by the bullet immediately below, or settlements of any Transaction Litigation);

• make, change or rescind any material tax election if such tax election or change would be materially inconsistent with past practice (other than any tax classification election made in connection with preparations for the Company to be treated as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) in 2023), settle or compromise any tax claim or assessment by any governmental entity, change any accounting method with respect to taxes, adopt or use any accounting method (including the classification of any asset and the selection of cost recovery lives, conventions and methods for tax purposes) that would be materially inconsistent with past practice, enter into any closing agreement with a taxing authority,

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surrender any right to claim a refund of taxes, request any ruling with respect to taxes, consent to any extension or waiver of the limitation period applicable to any taxes or take any action that would reasonably be expected to jeopardize the Company’s ability to elect to be treated as a REIT, in each case, except to the extent required by law;

• amend, modify or terminate the TRA (other than as contemplated by the TRA Amendment), the TRA Amendment or the TRA Support Agreements (as defined in the Merger Agreement);

• implement or adopt any material change in financial accounting principles or methods, other than as may be required by GAAP or applicable law or any governmental entity;

• make any materially adverse changes to the privacy policies of the Company and our subsidiaries or the security or operation of our information technology assets;

• enter into, amend or modify any tax protection agreement or take any action or fail to take any action that would violate or be inconsistent with any tax protection agreement or otherwise give rise to a material liability with respect to any tax protection agreement;

• (1) materially amend or terminate (except as required under the terms thereof), or waive compliance with the material terms of or material breaches under, or assign, or renew or extend (except as may be required under the terms thereof or in the ordinary course of business) any Material Space Lease or Material Company Lease (each as defined in the Merger Agreement), or (2) other than in the ordinary course of business, enter into, amend or terminate (except as required under the terms thereof), or waive compliance with the material terms of or breaches under, or assign, renew or extend (except as may be required under the terms thereof), any material contract, subject to certain exceptions;

• make, enter into any contract for or otherwise commit to, any capital expenditure (which does not include acquisitions) on, relating to or adjacent to any real property; provided, that the Company and our subsidiaries may, subject to the provisions of the Merger Agreement, make, enter into contracts for or otherwise commit to: (1) capital expenditures required by law, (2) emergency capital expenditures in any amount that we determine is necessary in our reasonable judgment to maintain our ability to operate our business in the ordinary course, (3) capital expenditures set forth in our capital expenditure budget and (4) capital expenditures in any amount not exceeding $50 million in the aggregate;

• (1) initiate or consent to any material zoning reclassification of any real property or any material change to any approved site plan (in each case, that is material to such real property or plan, as applicable), special use permit or other land use entitlement affecting any material real properties, in each case, in a manner that would (A) materially inhibit our ability to develop the real property as a data center or ability to use the real property for data center operations or (B) impose material obligations on us in connection with the development or use of such real property or (2) amend, modify or terminate, or authorize any person to amend, modify, terminate or allow to lapse, any material permit;

• (1) apply for or receive any relief under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”), (2) settle, waive or forgive any amount owed to us individually exceeding $1 million or not in the ordinary course of business or (3) grant any material refunds, credits, rebates or allowances to customers for an amount individually exceeding $1 million or not in the ordinary course of business;

• enter into any new line of business;

• agree to any subdivision or replat relating to the real property to be acquired pursuant to the Land Purchase Agreement without the prior reasonable approval of Parent; or

• authorize, commit or agree to take any of the actions described in the foregoing bullet points.

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Special Meeting

Under the Merger Agreement, we are required, as promptly as reasonably practicable after the date that this proxy statement is cleared by the SEC for mailing to our stockholders, to take all action necessary to establish a record date for, duly call, give notice of, convene and hold a meeting of our stockholders for the purpose of seeking stockholder approval of the Merger (the “Special Meeting”). We are required to, through our special committee and board of directors, recommend to our stockholders that they approve the Merger (the “Company Recommendation”) and solicit the approval of the Merger by our stockholders at the Special Meeting, unless our special committee or board of directors has effected a company adverse recommendation change, as permitted by and determined in accordance with the provisions described below under “— Restriction on Solicitation of Company Takeover Proposals.”

We may, after consultation with Parent, adjourn, recess or postpone the Special Meeting:

• to allow reasonable additional time for the filing and dissemination of any supplement or amendment to this Proxy Statement that our board of directors has determined in good faith (after consultation with its outside legal counsel) is required to be filed and disseminated under applicable law;

• if as of the time that the Special Meeting is originally scheduled (as set forth in this proxy statement) there are insufficient shares of common stock represented to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct the business of the Special Meeting; and

• to solicit additional proxies for the purpose of obtaining stockholder approval if we reasonably determine in good faith that the stockholder approval is unlikely to be obtained;

provided, that without the written consent of Parent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), in no event will the Special Meeting (as so postponed or adjourned) be held on a date more than thirty (30) days after the date on which the Special Meeting was originally scheduled. In no event will the Record Date of the Special Meeting be changed, unless Parent has otherwise consented in writing (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), except as required by applicable law.

Agreement to Take Certain Actions

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, each party to the Merger Agreement has agreed to, and to cause their respective controlled affiliates to, cooperate with the other parties and use their respective reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and to do, or cause to be done, and assist and cooperate with the other parties hereto in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable under any applicable laws to cause all conditions to the closing of the Mergers to be satisfied and to consummate the Mergers as promptly as practicable (and in any event prior to the End Date), including:

• preparing and filing promptly all filings, forms, notices, registrations petitions, statements and notifications required to be filed to consummate the Mergers;

• using reasonable best efforts to satisfy the conditions to consummating the Mergers;

• using reasonable best efforts to obtain (and to cooperate with each other in obtaining) any consent or order of any governmental entity or any other person required or advisable to be obtained or made by Parent, Parent Merger Sub, Switch or any of their respective affiliates, including for certain required regulatory consents, in connection with the transactions, or the taking of any action, contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the Mergers;

• defending any proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, challenging the Merger Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the Mergers; and

• the execution and delivery of any reasonable additional instruments necessary to consummate the Mergers and to fully carry out the purposes of the Merger Agreement.

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Furthermore, each of Parent, Parent Merger Sub, and Switch will, and will cause its respective affiliates to:

• make or cause to be made an appropriate filing of a form pursuant to the HSR Act relating to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement within ten (10) business days after the date of the Merger Agreement;

• use reasonable best efforts to make or cause to be made an appropriate filing of a draft joint voluntary notice to obtain approval from CFIUS within fifteen (15) business days after the date of the Merger Agreement;

• make or cause to be made certain other filings, forms, notices, registrations and notifications as agreed upon at the time of signing the Merger Agreement relating to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement as promptly as practicable after the date of the Merger Agreement;

• make or cause to be made all other required or advisable filings, forms, notices, registrations and notifications (1) under communications laws and (2) with or to certain governmental entities as agreed upon at the time of signing the Merger Agreement, in each case, within ten (10) business days after the date of the Merger Agreement; and

• respond to and comply with, as promptly as practicable, any request, requirement or demand for information or documents from any governmental entity in connection with the HSR Act, communications laws or any other antitrust law or foreign investment law or otherwise in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

Furthermore, Parent will, and will cause its controlled affiliates to, use reasonable best efforts to take all actions necessary to avoid or eliminate each and every impediment, including any order, that may be asserted by a governmental entity with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement or in connection with granting any required regulatory consents to enable the closing to occur as promptly as possible (and in any event prior to the End Date). Further, Parent will cause its affiliates to, as required, assist in the preparation and filing of any required filings. Parent will pay all filing fees associated with all filings, forms, notices, registrations and notifications under the HSR Act and other antitrust, competition, merger control and foreign investment laws.

Each party to the Merger Agreement has agreed to (1) give the other parties notice as promptly as practicable of the commencement by any governmental entity of any proceeding by or before any governmental entity with respect to the Mergers or any of the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; (2) keep the other parties promptly informed as to the status of any such proceeding; and (3) inform the other parties as promptly as practicable of any material written communication or material oral communication from the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, CFIUS, any telecommunications regulatory authority or any other governmental entity regarding the Mergers. The parties will coordinate and cooperate with one another in connection with any analyses, appearances, presentation, memoranda, briefs, arguments, opinions and proposals made or submitted by or on behalf of any party in connection with any proceeding under or relating to (1) the HSR Act or any other antitrust laws, (2) any communications law or (3) any required regulatory consents.

Parent and Parent Merger Sub will, and will cause their respective affiliates to, use their reasonable best efforts to cause the expiration or termination of all applicable waiting periods under the HSR Act and the receipt of all other required regulatory consents as soon as possible and prior to the End Date and take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary to consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including taking all such action as may be necessary to resolve such objections, if any, as any governmental entity or other person may assert under any antitrust, competition, merger control or foreign investment laws with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, and to avoid or eliminate each and every impediment under any law that may be asserted by any governmental entity so as to enable to transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement to be consummated as soon as possible and prior to the End Date.

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Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, under the Merger Agreement, Parent and Parent Merger Sub will, and will cause their respective controlled affiliates to, use reasonable best efforts to take any and all steps necessary to eliminate each and every impediment under the HSR Act and any other antitrust, competition, merger control or foreign investment law that is asserted by any governmental entity or any other person so as to enable the parties to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement as soon as possible and prior to the End Date, including, but not limited to offering, proposing, negotiating, agreeing and committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order or otherwise:

• divestitures, sales, transfers or other dispositions of, licenses of, or hold separate or similar arrangements with respect to, any assets, product lines, businesses or interests of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates;

• the termination, amendment, assignment or creation of relationships, contractual rights or obligations, ventures or other arrangements of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates;

• conduct of business restrictions, including restrictions on Parent’s or its affiliates’ ability to manage, operate or own any assets, product lines, businesses or interests;

• any other change or restructuring of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates and other actions and non-actions with respect to assets, product lines, businesses or interests of Parent, the Company, or any of Parent’s or the Company’s affiliates; and

• any other condition, commitment, remedy or undertaking of any kind, in each case of the foregoing, in order to obtain any and all actions, consents and orders from governmental entities as soon as possible and prior to the End Date, including committing to take any and all actions necessary in order to ensure that (x) no requirement for non-action, a waiver, consent or approval of any governmental entity, (y) no decree, judgment, decision, injunction, temporary restraining order or any other order in any proceeding and (z) no other matter relating to any antitrust, competition, merger control or foreign investment law, would preclude the occurrence of the closing prior to the End Date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Merger Agreement does not require Parent or Parent Merger Sub to take or agree to take any action, including any action contemplated by the foregoing, with respect to any of its affiliates (including any person in which any of its affiliates has any debt or equity investment and any affiliated or commonly advised investment fund) or any direct or indirect portfolio company (as such term is understood in the private equity industry) thereof, other than the Company, the Surviving Company, Company Ltd., Surviving Company Ltd. or any of their respective subsidiaries.

We are required to promptly (and in any event, within two business days) notify the other parties to the Merger Agreement in writing of any stockholder litigation or proceedings brought or threatened in writing against us or our directors or executive officers or other representatives relating to the Merger Agreement, the Voting and Support Agreements, the Rollover Agreements, the Mergers and/or the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Voting and Support Agreements or the Rollover Agreements (the “Transaction Litigation”) prior to the Effective Time and to keep the other parties to the Merger Agreement informed on a reasonably current basis with respect to the status thereof. We are required to give Parent the opportunity to participate in (but not control) the defense, negotiation or settlement of any Transaction Litigation, subject to certain exceptions relating to the preservation of privilege and confidential information. In addition, we are not permitted to cease to defend, consent to the entry of any judgment, settle or offer to settle or take any other material action with respect to such Transaction Litigation without the prior written consent of Parent (which must not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

Restriction on Solicitation of Company Takeover Proposals

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exceptions described below, we will immediately cease any discussions or negotiations with any persons (other than Parent and Parent Merger Sub) that may be ongoing as of the date of the Merger Agreement with respect to a company takeover proposal and request that each person (other than Parent, Parent Merger Sub and their representatives) that has received confidential information on or prior to the date of the Merger Agreement in connection with its consideration of a company takeover proposal to promptly return or destroy all such information, and we have agreed to terminate access to all data rooms furnished in connection therewith.

We have further agreed that we will not, will cause each of our subsidiaries and our and their respective officers and directors to not, and will instruct and use our reasonable best efforts to cause its and their respective other representatives not to directly or indirectly:

• solicit, initiate, or knowingly encourage or facilitate any proposal or offer or any inquiries regarding the making of any proposal or offer that constitutes, or would reasonably be expected to lead to, a company takeover proposal;

• engage or otherwise participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish to any other person any confidential information or access to the properties or assets of us or our subsidiaries for the purpose of encouraging or facilitating, any proposal or offer that constitutes, or would reasonably be expected to lead to, a company takeover proposal; or

• approve, recommend or enter into, or publicly propose to approve, recommend or enter into, any acquisition agreement.

We have agreed that neither us nor any of our subsidiaries will terminate, waive, amend, release or modify any provision of an existing standstill or similar agreement to which we or one of our subsidiaries is a party, except that prior to obtaining Switch stockholder approval, if after consultation with, and taking into account the advice of outside legal counsel, our board of directors or the special committee determines that the failure to take such action would be inconsistent with the directors’ fiduciary duties under applicable law, we may waive any such standstill provision solely to the extent necessary to permit a person to make, on a confidential basis, to our board of directors or the special committee, a company takeover proposal.

For purposes of the Merger Agreement, a “company takeover proposal” means any inquiry, proposal or offer (whether or not in writing) made by any person or group of persons (other than Parent and its subsidiaries and affiliates), and whether involving a transaction or series of related transactions, for any direct or indirect:

• merger, reorganization, share exchange, consolidation, business combination, dissolution, liquidation or similar transaction involving Switch;

• tender offer or exchange offer by any person or group of persons (other than Parent, Parent Merger Sub and their respective affiliates) of more than 20% of the shares of Switch common stock then issued and outstanding;

• acquisition by any person or group of persons (other than Parent, Parent Merger Sub and their respective affiliates) of more than 20% of the assets of Switch and its subsidiaries (based on the fair market value thereof, as determined in good faith by our board or the special committee), revenues or net income of Switch and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis (including securities of the subsidiaries of Switch); or

• acquisition by any person or group of persons (other than Parent, Parent Merger Sub and their respective affiliates) of more than 20% of the shares of Switch common stock then issued and outstanding, other than the Mergers.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, prior to obtaining the approval of the Merger by our stockholders, if we or any of our subsidiaries receive a company takeover proposal from any person that did not result from a breach of the obligations described in this section entitled “— Restriction on Solicitation of Company Takeover Proposals,” and if our board of directors or the special committee, after consultation with its independent

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financial advisors, determines in good faith, after consultation with outside legal counsel, that such company takeover proposal constitutes or would reasonably be expected to lead to a superior proposal and that the failure to take such action would be inconsistent with the director’s fiduciary duties under applicable law, then we and our representatives may:

• enter into an acceptable confidentiality agreement with the person making such company takeover proposal and thereafter furnish, pursuant thereto, information (including non-public information) with respect to Switch and its subsidiaries to the person that has made such company takeover proposal and its representatives (provided, that we will, substantially concurrently with the delivery to such person, provide to Parent any non-public information concerning us or any of our subsidiaries that is provided or made available to such person or its representatives unless such non-public information has been previously provided to Parent); and

• engage in or and otherwise participate in discussions or negotiations with the person making such company takeover proposal and its representatives regarding such company takeover proposal.

We are required to notify Parent promptly (and in any event within 48 hours) after we, any of our subsidiaries or any of their respective representatives becomes aware of any company takeover proposal or any offer, proposal or inquiry relating to us or our subsidiaries that would be reasonably likely to lead to or that contemplates a company takeover proposal and will disclose to Parent the material terms and conditions of any such company takeover proposal and copies of any written company takeover proposal, including proposed agreements, and the identity of the person making such company takeover proposal. We are also required to keep Parent reasonably informed, on a reasonably current basis (but in any event within 48 hours), as to the status of such company takeover proposal, offer, proposal or inquiry and any material changes thereto, including copies of any changes to any written company takeover proposal, including proposed agreements. We have agreed that we and our subsidiaries will not enter into any confidentiality agreements with any person after the date of the Merger Agreement that prohibits us or our subsidiaries from providing any information to Parent.

For purposes of the Merger Agreement, a “superior proposal” means a bona fide written company takeover proposal that if consummated would result in any person (other than Parent or its affiliates) owning more than 50% of each class of common stock that our board of directors or the special committee determines in good faith, after consultation with, and taking into account the advice of, the special committee’s financial advisors and outside legal counsel, and taking into account such factors as our board of directors or special committee considers to be appropriate, to be more favorable to the Company and our stockholders than the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

Obligation of the Board of Directors with Respect to Its Recommendation

Except in the circumstances and pursuant to the procedures described below, neither our board of directors nor the special committee is permitted to:

• change, qualify, withhold, withdraw or modify, or authorize or resolve to or publicly propose to change, qualify, withhold, withdraw or modify, in each case, in any manner adverse to Parent, the Company Recommendation or the special committee’s recommendation;

• fail to include the Company Recommendation or the special committee’s recommendation in this proxy statement;

• approve, adopt or recommend to our stockholders a company takeover proposal;

• authorize, cause or permit us or any of our subsidiaries to enter into any letter of intent, memorandum of understanding, merger agreement, acquisition agreement, or similar agreement or binding commitment or agreement in principle with respect to any company takeover proposal (other than an acceptable confidentiality agreement entered into in accordance with the provisions described above under “— Restriction on Solicitation of Company Takeover Proposals”) (an “acquisition agreement”); or

• agree or publicly propose to do any of the foregoing.

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We refer to any action described in the first three bullet points above as a “company adverse recommendation change.”

Notwithstanding the foregoing, prior to obtaining the approval of the Merger by our stockholders, our board of directors or the special committee may, if our board of directors or the special committee has determined in good faith, after consultation with and taking into account the advice of its independent financial advisors and outside legal counsel, that the failure to take such action would reasonably be expected to be inconsistent with the fiduciary duties under applicable law, make a company adverse recommendation change in response to an intervening event; provided, that prior to making such company adverse recommendation change:

• we have given Parent a written notice of our intention to take such action specifying, in reasonable detail, the reasons therefor and the underlying facts giving rise thereto (a “Company Notice”); and

• during the period from the delivery of the Company Notice until 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, on the fourth (4th) business day after the day on which the Company delivered the Company Notice, if requested by Parent, we will and will cause our representatives to, engage in good faith negotiations with Parent and its representatives regarding any changes to the terms of the Merger Agreement so that such intervening event would cease to warrant a company adverse recommendation change.

For purposes of the Merger Agreement, an “intervening event” means any event that is (1) neither known by, nor reasonably foreseeable (with respect to magnitude or material consequences) by our board of directors or the special committee as of or prior to the date of the Merger Agreement and (2) first occurs, arises or becomes known to our board of directors or the special committee after the date of the Merger Agreement and prior to obtaining the stockholder approval; provided, that none of the foregoing shall constitute an intervening event: (A) any event, change, effect, condition, development, fact or circumstance (i) relating to any company takeover proposal or (ii) resulting from (I) the announcement, pendency and consummation of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, (II) any actions required to be taken or to be refrained from being taken pursuant to the Merger Agreement or (III) a breach of the Merger Agreement by the Company, Company Merger Sub, or Company Ltd., (B) the fact that the Company meets or exceeds any internal or analysts’ expectations or projections or (C) any changes after the date of the Merger Agreement in our market price or trading volume (it being understood however, in each case of subclause (B) and (C), that any underlying cause thereof may be taken into account for purposes of determining whether an intervening event has occurred to the extent otherwise qualifying as an intervening event).

In addition, prior to obtaining the approval of the Merger by our stockholders, if our board of directors or the special committee has determined in good faith, after consultation with and taking into account the advice of its financial advisors and outside legal counsel, that a written company takeover proposal that did not result from a breach of provisions described above under “— Restriction on Solicitation of Company Takeover Proposals”) constitutes a superior proposal, our board of directors or the special committee may (1) make a company adverse recommendation change and/or (2) cause the Company to terminate the Merger Agreement in order to enter into an acquisition agreement relating to such superior proposal, subject to the Company paying the company termination fee to Parent; provided, that prior to so making a company adverse recommendation change or terminating the Merger Agreement, (A) we have delivered a Company Notice to Parent, including the material terms and conditions of and the identity of the person making such superior proposal, a copy of the superior proposal and a copy of any proposed acquisition agreements, (B) during the period from the delivery of the Company Notice until 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, on the fourth (4th) business day following delivery of the Company Notice (which, for purposes of calculating such four (4) business day period, the first business day will be the first business day after the date of such delivery) (the “Notice Period”), if requested by Parent, we will and will cause our representatives to, engage in good faith negotiations with Parent and its representatives regarding any changes to the terms of the Merger Agreement so that such company takeover proposal ceases to constitute a superior proposal and (C) after the expiration of the Notice Period, our board of directors or the special committee determines in good faith, after consultation with its independent financial advisors and outside legal counsel, that the superior proposal would nevertheless continue to constitute a superior proposal. We have agreed

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that any changes in the financial terms or any other material amendment to the terms and conditions of such superior proposal will require a new Company Notice and a new two (2) business day Notice Period (which will be calculated in the same manner as the initial four (4) business day period, will end at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time at the end of such two (2) business day period, and will not reduce the initial four (4) business day period).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and our board of directors and special committee are not prohibited from taking and disclosing to our stockholders a position contemplated by Rule 14e-2(a), Rule 14d-9 or Item 1012(a) of Regulation M-A promulgated under the Exchange Act or from making any “stop, look and listen” communication to our stockholders pursuant to Rule 14d-9(f) under the Exchange Act (and the issuance by the Company or our board of directors of a “stop, look and listen” statement pending disclosure of our position, as contemplated by Rules 14d-9 and 14e-2(a) promulgated under the Exchange Act, will not constitute a company adverse recommendation change); provided that neither the Company nor our board of directors or the special committee will be permitted to recommend that our stockholders tender any securities in connection with any tender offer or exchange offer that is a company takeover proposal or otherwise effect a company adverse recommendation change with respect thereto, subject to certain exceptions.

Employee Matters

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, with respect to each individual who is an employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Company employee”), for a period of twelve (12) months following the Effective Time (and in the case of clause (4), for the applicable period following termination of such Company employee’s employment), (1) base salary or wages at a rate that is no less favorable than the rate of base salary or wages provided to such Company employee immediately prior to the Effective Time, (2) an annual cash bonus opportunity that is no less favorable in amount than the annual cash bonus opportunity provided to such Company employee immediately prior to the Effective Time, (3) an annual long-term incentive award opportunity that is substantially similar to the annual long-term incentive award opportunity provided to such Company employee immediately prior to the Effective Time, (4) severance benefits that are no less favorable than the severance benefits set forth in the Merger Agreement, and (5) other employee benefits (other than equity incentives) that are substantially comparable, in the aggregate, to the other employee benefits provided to such Company employee immediately prior to the Effective Time.

Parent has agreed to pay to each Company employee who is a participant in an annual cash bonus or other short-term incentive program maintained by us or any of our subsidiaries for the year in which the closing occurs a cash bonus under the Company’s bonus programs for such year in which the closing occurs subject to the achievement of certain performance goals, to be paid at the time that we typically pay annual bonuses in the ordinary course of business.

With respect to each benefit plan, program, practice, policy or arrangement maintained by Parent or its subsidiaries following the closing of the Mergers and in which any of the Company employees participate, including any paid time off and severance plans, Parent has agreed that service with the Company or any of its subsidiaries and the predecessor of any of them will be treated as service with Parent or any of its subsidiaries, for purposes of determining eligibility to participate, vesting (if applicable) and entitlement to (or level of ) benefits (but not for accrual of or entitlement to pension benefits or post-employment welfare benefits, or to the extent that treatment would result in a duplication of benefits for the same period of service).

Parent has agreed to, and to cause its subsidiaries to, use reasonable efforts to (1) waive any preexisting condition limitations otherwise applicable to each Company employee and his or her eligible dependents under any plan of Parent or an affiliate of Parent that provides health benefits in which such Company employee is eligible to participate following the Effective Time, other than any limitations that were in effect with respect to such Company employee and his or her eligible dependents immediately prior to the Effective Time under the corresponding benefit plan of the Company, (2) honor any deductible, co-payment and out-of-pocket maximums incurred by such Company employee and his or her eligible dependents under the health plans in which they

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participated immediately prior to transitioning into a plan of Parent or an affiliate of Parent during the portion of the calendar year prior to such transition in satisfying any deductibles, co-payments or out-of-pocket maximums under health plans of Parent or an affiliate of Parent and (3) waive any waiting period limitation or evidence of insurability requirement that would otherwise be applicable to such Company employee and his or her eligible dependents on or after the Effective Time, in each case to the extent such Company employee or eligible dependent had satisfied any similar limitation or requirement under an analogous benefit plan of the Company prior to the Effective Time.

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, each employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries who is a participant in an annual cash bonus or other short-term incentive program, shall be eligible to receive a cash bonus for such year in which the closing occurs. Such cash bonus shall be calculated as follows: (1) for the portion of the performance period that has elapsed as of the closing date, the bonus shall be no less than the amount determined by the Compensation Committee of the Company’s board of directors based on actual achievement of pro-rated performance goals under the applicable bonus programs of the Company, or its subsidiaries, through the closing date, as determined immediately prior to the closing, and pro-rated based on the number of days in the applicable performance period that have elapsed as of the closing (the “Pro-Rata Bonus”) and (2) for the remaining portion of the performance period that follows the closing date for the fiscal year in which the closing occurs, the bonus shall be based on actual achievement of pro-rated performance goals determined under the bonus programs maintained by Parent or its subsidiaries, and pro-rated based on the number of days in the applicable performance period that have elapsed following the closing date (collectively, the “2022 Bonus”). Such 2022 Bonus will be paid by Parent or its subsidiaries, at the same time that such annual bonuses are typically paid in the ordinary course of business, subject to the continuing employee’s continued employment through the payment date, provided that, a Company employee who is terminated by Parent or its affiliates, without cause or due to disability, in either case, prior to the normal bonus payment date shall be entitled to receive the Pro-Rata Bonus within 60 days of his or her termination date.

Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification and Insurance

From and after the Effective Time, the Surviving Company, Surviving Ltd. and Parent will exculpate, defend, indemnify and hold harmless all past and present directors, officers and employees of the Company and Company Ltd. or any of their respective subsidiaries and each person who served as a director, officer, member, trustee or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, pension or other employee benefit plan or enterprise at the request or for the benefit of the Company and Company Ltd. or any of their respective subsidiaries to the fullest extent permitted by law against any costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages, liabilities and, subject to the proviso below, amounts paid in settlement in connection with any actual or threatened proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, arising out of acts or omissions, in each case, occurring at or prior to the Effective Time in connection with such persons serving as an officer or director or other fiduciary in any entity at the request or for the benefit of the Company, Company Ltd. or any of their respective subsidiaries (including in connection with serving at the request of the Company, Company Ltd. or such subsidiary as a director, officer or representative of another person (including any employee benefit plan)), including acts or omissions occurring in connection with the process resulting in and the authorization, adoption and approval of, and entry into, the Merger Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; provided, that (1) none of Parent, the Surviving Company or Surviving Company Ltd. will be liable for any settlement effected without their prior written consent (which may not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), (2) except for counsel engaged for one or more Covered Persons on the date of the Merger Agreement, none of Parent, the Surviving Company or Surviving Company Ltd. will be obligated under the Merger Agreement to pay the fees and expenses of more than one legal counsel for all Covered Persons in any jurisdiction with respect to any single proceeding, subject to certain exceptions and (3) none of Parent, the Surviving Company or Surviving Company Ltd. will have any obligation under the Merger Agreement to pay legal or other expenses to any Covered Person in advance of a final disposition of an action unless Parent, the Surviving Company or Surviving Company Ltd. receives an undertaking by or on behalf of such Covered Person to repay such expenses if it is

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ultimately determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that such Covered Person is not entitled to be indemnified by Parent, the Surviving Company or Surviving Company Ltd. In addition, from and after the Effective Time, Parent, the Surviving Company and Surviving Company Ltd. will advance expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) incurred in the defense of any proceeding or investigation with respect to the matters subject to indemnification pursuant to the provisions of the Merger Agreement described in this paragraph in accordance with the procedures (if any) set forth in the organizational documents of the Company and its subsidiaries as in effect as of the date of the Merger Agreement and any indemnification agreements in existence on the date of the Merger Agreement. In the event of any such proceeding, (1) the Surviving Company and Surviving Company Ltd. will have the right to control the defense thereof after the Effective Time; and (2) the Surviving Company will pay the reasonable fees and expenses of one legal counsel retained by the Covered Persons, promptly after statements therefor are received. In addition, Parent, the Surviving Company and Surviving Company Ltd. agree that they each will not settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment or otherwise seek termination with respect to any proceeding for which indemnification may be sought pursuant to the provisions of the Merger Agreement described in this paragraph unless such settlement, compromise, consent or termination obligates Parent, the Surviving Company or Surviving Company Ltd. to pay the full amount of any liability in connection with such proceeding and includes an unconditional release of all Covered Persons from all liability arising out of such proceeding.

For at least six years following the Effective Time, except to the extent otherwise expressly prohibited by applicable law, the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Company and the operating agreement of Surviving Company Ltd. must contain provisions no less favorable with respect to exculpation, indemnification of and advancement of expenses to Covered Persons for periods at or prior to the Effective Time than are currently set forth in the Company organizational documents and the Company Ltd. Operating Agreement, respectively, as of the date of the Merger Agreement. Following the Effective Time, the indemnification agreements, if any, in existence on the date of the Merger Agreement with any of the directors or officers of the Company, Company Ltd. or any of their respective subsidiaries will be assumed by the Surviving Company and Surviving Company Ltd. and will continue in full force and effect in accordance with their terms.

At or prior to the Effective Time, subject to the provisions of the Merger Agreement, the Company and Company Ltd. may obtain and pay for prepaid “tail” insurance policies with a claim period of six years from and after the Effective Time, with respect to directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and fiduciary insurance that provides coverage for the current and former directors and officers of the Company and Company Ltd. who were or are currently (and any additional individuals who prior to the Effective Time become) directors or officers of the Company or Company Ltd. covered by any of the Company’s or Company Ltd.’s directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies with respect to acts or omissions occurring at or prior to the Effective Time on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Parent and providing benefits that are substantially equivalent to and not less favorable than the existing policies of the Company and its subsidiaries or, if substantially equivalent insurance coverage is unavailable, the best available coverage, and the Surviving Company and Surviving Company Ltd. must maintain such directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and fiduciary insurance policies in full force and effect for each of their full six year terms and continue to honor their respective obligations under each policy; provided, that in no event will the aggregate premiums payable for such “tail” policies for their entire period exceed an amount equal to 300% of the aggregate current annual premiums paid by the Company and Company Ltd. for such insurance; provided, further, that if the amount of the aggregate premiums necessary to procure such insurance coverage exceeds this 300% maximum amount, the Company and Company Ltd. will be able to procure for such six-year period the most advantageous policies as can be reasonably obtained for this maximum amount. If the Company and Company Ltd. do not obtain such prepaid “tail” insurance as of the Effective Time, the Surviving Company and Surviving Company Ltd. must continue to maintain in effect, for a period of six years from and after the Effective Time, the Company’s and Company Ltd.’s existing directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and fiduciary insurance for the current and former directors and officers of the Company and Company Ltd.

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Financing Cooperation

The consummation of the Mergers is not conditioned upon Parent’s receipt of financing. Prior to the closing of the Mergers, we are required to, and to cause our subsidiaries and their respective representatives to, use reasonable best efforts to provide such cooperation as is reasonably requested by Parent and at Parent’s sole cost and expense, in connection with Parent’s debt financing (the “Debt Financing”), including using reasonable best efforts to:

• furnish to Parent and its financing sources such financial, statistical and other pertinent information (but not projections or other forward-looking information) relating to the Company and its subsidiaries as may be reasonably requested by Parent solely to the extent this information is within our or our subsidiaries’ control and (1) reasonably available thereto and prepared by or for us or any of our subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business or (2) in the form and substance of (or not more burdensome to prepare than) the financial information (including property-level financing information) delivered to Parent and Parent Merger Sub prior to the date of the Merger Agreement;

• make appropriate officers of the Company and its subsidiaries available at reasonable times and locations agreed by us for a reasonable number of due diligence meetings and for participation in a reasonable number of meetings, presentations, road shows and sessions with rating agencies and prospective sources of financing;

• assist Parent and its financing sources with the preparation of materials for rating agency presentations, bank information memoranda and similar documents necessary, proper or advisable in connection with any syndication of the Debt Financing;

• provide and execute documents as may be reasonably requested by Parent in connection with such Debt Financing, including all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable rules and regulations, KYC certifications and other definitive financing documents or other certificates, or documents as may be reasonably requested by Parent in connection with the Debt Financing, and facilitate the obtaining of guarantees and pledging collateral in connection with the Debt Financing, in each case to be effective as of no earlier than the closing;

• as may be reasonably requested by Parent, following the obtainment of the stockholder approval, form new direct or indirect subsidiaries of the Company pursuant to documentation reasonably satisfactory to Parent and us;

• as may be reasonably requested by Parent, following obtaining the stockholder approval and provided such actions would not adversely affect the tax status of us or our subsidiaries or cause us to be subject to additional taxes that are not indemnified by Parent pursuant to the Merger Agreement, transfer or otherwise restructure its ownership of existing subsidiaries, properties or other assets, in each case, pursuant to documentation reasonably satisfactory to Parent and us;

• provide reasonable assistance with respect to the review and delivery of guarantees and granting of mortgages, pledges and security interests in collateral for the Debt Financing, and using commercially reasonable efforts to obtain any consents associated therewith;

• to the extent reasonably requested by a financing source, using commercially reasonable efforts to obtain estoppels and certificates from tenants, lenders, managers, franchisors, ground lessors and counterparties to other real property interest agreements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to any potential financing source;

• cooperate in connection with the repayment or defeasance of any existing indebtedness of us or any of our subsidiaries incurred after the date of the Merger Agreement and in existence as of the Effective Time and the release of related liens, including delivering such payoff, defeasance or similar notices under any existing loans of the Company or any of our subsidiaries as reasonably requested by Parent; and

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• to the extent reasonably requested by a financing source, permit Parent and its representatives to conduct appraisal and environmental and engineering inspections of each real estate property owned and, subject to obtaining required third party consents with respect thereto (which we will use reasonable efforts to obtain), leased by us or any of our subsidiaries (provided, however, that (1) neither Parent nor its representatives will have the right, without our prior written consent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), to take an analyze any samples of any environmental media (including soil, groundwater, surface water, air or sediment) or any building material or to perform any invasive testing procedure on any such property, provided, that we will not unreasonably withhold our consent if such testing or analysis is reasonably required by lenders in connection with the findings of any Phase I environmental site assessment conducted in connection with the financing, (2) Parent will schedule, coordinate and conduct all inspections with us pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement and (3) we will be entitled to have representatives present at all times during any such inspection.

However, no obligations of the Company or any of our subsidiaries or any of our or their respective officers, directors, employees and agents or other representatives under any certificate, document or instrument delivered pursuant to our financing cooperation obligations under the Merger Agreement will be required to be effective until the Effective Time other than certain KYC certificates.

In fulfilling our financing cooperation obligations under the Merger Agreement, neither we nor any of our subsidiaries or our or their respective officers, directors, employees and agents or other representatives will be required to:

• pay any commitment or other fee, provide any security or incur any liability or obligation in connection with any financing prior to closing;

• take or permit the taking of any action that would conflict with or violate our organizational documents or the organizational documents of any of our subsidiaries;

• take or permit the taking of any action that would reasonably be expected to result in any material violation or breach of, or default (with or without lapse of time, or both) under, any applicable law or material contract of the Company or any of our subsidiaries;

• provide access to or disclose information that we or any of our subsidiaries determines would jeopardize any attorney-client privilege of the Company or any of our subsidiaries or could result in the disclosure of any trade secrets, customer-specific data or competitively sensitive information not otherwise required to be provided under the Merger Agreement or the violation of any confidentiality obligation (provided, we must use commercially reasonable efforts to allow for such access or disclosure in a manner that does not violate this bullet point);

• prepare any financial statements or information (including property-level financial information) that are not available and prepared in the ordinary course of its financial reporting practice or prepare any pro forma financial statements or information;

• pass resolutions or consents or approve or authorize the execution of or amendment of, or execute or amend, the Debt Financing or the definitive agreements relating to the Debt Financing or any agreement, document or instrument of any kind that will be effective prior to the Effective Time;

• cause any director, officer or employee or stockholder of the Company or any of our subsidiaries to incur any personal liability,

• bear any cost or expense or pay any commitment fee or other similar fee or make any other payment, excluding those fees, expenses, financial commitments or other financial obligations that we are reimbursed for by Parent;

• deliver or obtain opinions of internal or external counsel or auditors; or

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• provide any cooperation that would unreasonably interfere with the ongoing operations of the Company and our subsidiaries.

The Merger Agreement does not require the Company or any of our subsidiaries, prior to the Effective Time, to be an issuer or other obligor with respect to the Debt Financing.

We have also agreed to reasonably cooperate with Parent in its efforts to obtain title insurance and surveys, at Parent’s sole cost and expense, for the Company’s real property on or before the closing of the Mergers including, but not limited to, the Company and its subsidiaries providing any corrective title documents, customary certifications, customary affidavits, releases and terminations (in each case, with respect to liens that are not permitted liens) and similar documents or filings, in each case, as reasonably required by Parent’s title insurance company to issue a title insurance policy at the closing insuring Parent’s (or its designated subsidiary) title to the Company’s real property as required by the terms of the Merger Agreement.

Our assistance with the Debt Financing is not a condition to the Merger Agreement.

Certain Other Covenants

The Merger Agreement contains certain other covenants of the parties to the Merger Agreement relating to, among other things:

• giving the representatives of Parent and the sources of Debt Financing reasonable access to our and our subsidiaries’ personnel, properties, contracts, books and records and other information;

• the filing of this proxy statement with the SEC, and cooperation in preparing this proxy statement and in responding to any comments received from the SEC on this proxy statement;

• actions necessary to exempt the Merger Agreement, the Voting and Support Agreements, the Rollover Agreements and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Voting and Support Agreements and the Rollover Agreements from, or minimize, the effect of any applicable anti-takeover statutes;

• consultation regarding any press releases or other public announcements with respect to the Merger Agreement or the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement;

• taking such steps as may be required or reasonably necessary or advisable to cause any dispositions of common stock or other equity securities resulting from the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement by any individual subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act with respect to the Company to be exempt under Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act;

• stock exchange delisting and deregistration of our Class A common stock;

• certain tax matters;

• certain matters regarding redemption or prepayment of our senior notes, if requested by Parent;

• notification of certain matters relating to the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement;

• keeping Parent reasonably informed regarding any material developments with respect to our conversion into a REIT and consulting with Parent in good faith with respect to material actions taken in connection with causing our conversion into a REIT;

• restricting our ability to cause our conversion into a REIT and restricting our ability to communicate with the Internal Revenue Service with respect to our conversion to a REIT, in each case, without Parent’s prior written consent;

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• at the request of Parent, effective as of the Effective Time, to use our commercially reasonable efforts to cause customer contracts identified by Parent to be assigned to one or more of our subsidiaries as designated by Parent; and

• during the interim period, to not amend, terminate, waive compliance with the terms of or breaches under, or permit the assignment of, or fail to enforce its rights under the Voting and Support Agreement executed by the Company without the prior written consent of Parent.

Conditions to the Mergers

The obligations of the parties to complete the Mergers are subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the following mutual conditions:

• the Merger must be approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock, each voting separately in accordance with applicable law, the rules and policies of NYSE and our organizational documents;

• all waiting periods (and any extensions thereof) applicable to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement under the HSR Act, and any commitment to, or agreement (including any timing agreement) with, any governmental entity to delay the consummation of, or not to consummate before a certain date, the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, will have expired or been terminated, and all required regulatory consents will have been obtained;

• no order (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) has been issued, entered or enforced, and continues to be in effect, and no law has been enacted, issued, promulgated or adopted that remains in effect or will be effective, in each case, that prevents, enjoins, prohibits, restrains or makes illegal the consummation of the Mergers.

The obligation of Parent and Parent Merger Sub to complete the Mergers is further subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the following conditions:

• our representations and warranties regarding (1) our corporate authority and absence of a material adverse effect must be true and correct as of the closing date with the same effect as though made on an as of the closing date, (2) our capitalization must be true and correct as of the closing date with the same effect as though made on and as of the closing date, subject only to de minimis inaccuracies, (3) our organization, capital stock, authority, government consents and approvals and finders and brokers must be true and correct in all material respects (disregarding all qualifications or limitations as to “materiality”, “material adverse effect” and words of similar import set forth therein) as of the closing date as though made on and as of the closing date (except to the extent expressly made as of a specified date, in which case as of such specified date) and (4) other than those sections specifically identified in clauses (1), (2) and (3) must be true and correct (disregarding all qualifications or limitations as to “materiality”, “material adverse effect” and words of similar import set forth therein) as of the closing date as though made on and as of the closing date (except to the extent expressly made as of a specified date, in which case as of such specified date), except in the cause of this clause (4) where the failure to be true and correct would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect;

• each of us, Company Merger Sub and Company Ltd. must have performed and complied in all material respects with all obligations, agreements and covenants required by the Merger Agreement to be performed or complied with by it at or prior to the Effective Time;

• each Rollover Member must have performed or complied with the obligations of such Rollover Member under each such Rollover Member’s Rollover Agreement, provided, that if Parent terminates a Rollover Member’s Rollover Agreement, this condition will be deemed to be satisfied with respect to such Rollover Member;

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• since the execution of the Merger Agreement through the closing date, there must not have been an event that has had or reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect;

• the TRA Amendment must be in full force and effect;

• the acquisition contemplated by the Land Purchase Agreement must have been consummated by individual special purpose entity subsidiaries of the Company and fee title to the properties acquired under the Land Purchase Agreement must be owned by such special purpose entity subsidiaries as of the closing free and clear of all liens other than permitted liens; and

• we must have delivered to Parent a certificate, dated the closing date and signed by a duly authorized executive officer of the Company, certifying to the effect that the conditions set forth in the first, second and fourth bullet points above have been satisfied.

The obligation of the Company and Company Ltd. to complete the Mergers is further subject to the satisfaction or written waiver of the following conditions:

• the representations and warranties of Parent and Parent Merger Sub set forth in the Merger Agreement that are qualified by a parent material adverse effect qualification must be true and correct in all respects as so qualified at and as of the closing date as though made at and as of the closing date and the representations and warranties of Parent and Parent Merger Sub set forth in the Merger Agreement that are not qualified by a parent material adverse effect qualification must be true and correct in all respects at and as of the closing date as though made at and as of the closing date (disregarding all qualifications contained therein relating to materiality or material adverse effect set forth therein), except where such failure to be so true and correct would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a parent material adverse effect; provided, that representations and warranties that are made as of a particular date or period must be true and correct (in the manner set forth in the prior two clauses, as applicable) only as of such date or period;

• each of Parent and Parent Merger Sub must have performed and complied in all material respects with all obligations, agreements and covenants required by the Merger Agreement to be performed or complied with by them at or prior to the Effective Time; and

• Parent must have delivered to us a certificate, dated the closing date and signed by a duly authorized representative of Parent, certifying to the effect that the conditions set forth in the first and second bullet points above have been satisfied.

Termination of the Merger Agreement

We and Parent may mutually agree to terminate and abandon the Merger Agreement at any time prior to the Effective Time, even after we have obtained the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger.

Termination by either Switch or Parent

In addition, we, on the one hand, or Parent, on the other hand, may terminate the Merger Agreement upon written notice to the other at any time prior to the Effective Time, even after we have obtained the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger (if applicable), if:

• the Merger has not been consummated on or prior to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the End Date, provided, that if, on such date, the closing conditions related to regulatory approval, no orders and/or the Land Purchase Agreement have not been satisfied but all other closing conditions have been satisfied or waived (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the closing, but provided that such conditions are then capable of being satisfied if the closing were to take place on such date), then the End Date will be automatically extended for two successive three-month periods and such date

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will become the End Date for purposes of the Merger Agreement; provided, further, that the right to terminate the Merger Agreement pursuant to this bullet point will not be available to us or Parent if the cause of the failure of the Merger to be consummated by the End Date is due to the material breach by us, Company Merger Sub or Company Ltd. (in the case of termination by us) or Parent or Parent Merger Sub (in the case of termination by Parent) to perform or comply in any material respect with any representation, warranty, covenant or other agreement of such party set forth in the Merger Agreement;

• an order by a governmental entity of competent jurisdiction has been issued or entered, or a law has been enacted or adopted, permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the consummation of the Merger and such order or law has become final and nonappealable, provided, that the right to terminate the Merger Agreement pursuant to this bullet point will not be available to the Company or Parent if such order or law resulted from the material breach by us, Company Merger Sub or Company Ltd. (in the case of termination by us) or Parent or Parent Merger Sub (in the case of termination by Parent) of any representation, warranty, covenant or other agreement of such party set forth in the Merger Agreement; or

• the duly held Special Meeting (as it may be adjourned or postponed) at which a vote on the Merger was taken has concluded and the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger has not been obtained.

Termination by Switch

We may also terminate the Merger Agreement by written notice to Parent at any time prior to the Effective Time, even after we have obtained the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger (if applicable), if:

• Parent or Parent Merger Sub has breached or there is any inaccuracy in any of its representations or warranties, or has breached or failed to perform any of its covenants or other agreements contained in the Merger Agreement, which breach, inaccuracy or failure to perform (1) if it occurred or was continuing to occur on the closing date, would result in a failure of our closing conditions under the Merger Agreement and (2) is either not curable or is not cured by the earlier of the End Date and the date that is sixty (60) days following written notice from us to Parent of such breach, inaccuracy or failure, provided, that we, Company Merger Sub and Company Ltd. are not then in breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement contained in the Merger Agreement that would give rise to a failure of Parent’s closing conditions under the Merger Agreement;

• prior to obtaining the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger, in order to accept a superior proposal that did not result from a breach of provisions described above under “— Restriction on Solicitation of Company Takeover Proposals”) and enter into an acquisition agreement providing for the consummation of such superior proposal, in accordance with the procedures and restrictions described under “— Obligation of the Board of Directors with Respect to Its Recommendation;” provided, that we have previously paid the company termination fee and have, substantially concurrently with such termination, entered into an acquisition agreement;

• (1) all of Parent’s and Parent Merger Sub’s closing conditions under the Merger Agreement are satisfied or waived (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the closing and that are then capable of being satisfied if there were a closing), (2) we have confirmed by written notice to Parent that (x) all of our closing conditions have been satisfied (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the closing and that are then capable of being satisfied if there were a closing), (y) the Mergers are required to be consummated pursuant to the Merger Agreement and (z) we are ready, willing and able to consummate the Mergers on the date such notice is delivered and through the end of the next succeeding five (5) business days, and (3) Parent fails to consummate the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement within five (5) business days after the later of receipt of such notice and the date the Mergers were required to be consummated pursuant to the Merger Agreement.

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Termination by Parent

Parent may also terminate the Merger Agreement by written notice to us at any time prior to the Effective Time, even after we have obtained the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger (if applicable), if:

• the Company, Company Merger Sub or Company Ltd. has breached or there is any inaccuracy in any of its representations or warranties, or has breached or failed to perform any of its covenants or other agreements contained in the Merger Agreement, which breach, inaccuracy or failure to perform (1) if it occurred or was continuing to occur on the closing date, would result in a failure of Parent’s closing conditions under the Merger Agreement and (2) is either not curable or is not cured by the earlier of the End Date and the date that is sixty (60) days following written notice from Parent to us of such breach, inaccuracy or failure, provided that Parent and Parent Merger Sub are not then in breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement contained in this Merger Agreement that would give rise to a failure of our closing conditions under the Merger Agreement; or

• prior to obtaining the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger, our board effects a company adverse recommendation change in accordance with the requirements described under “— Obligation of the Board of Directors with Respect to Its Recommendation,” the Company has failed to publicly recommend against any tender offer or exchange offer subject to Regulation 14D under the Exchange Act that constitutes a company takeover proposal (including, for these purposes, by taking no position with respect to the acceptance of such tender offer or exchange offer by the Company’s stockholders), our board of directors or the special committee has failed to publicly reaffirm the Company Recommendation or special committee recommendation within ten business days after the date a company takeover proposal has been publicly announced (or if the Special Meeting is scheduled to be held within ten business days from the date a company takeover proposal is publicly announced, promptly and in any event prior to the date on which the Special Meeting is scheduled to be held) or the Company or any of its subsidiaries enters into an acquisition agreement.

Termination Fees

Termination Fee Payable by Switch

We have agreed to pay the company termination fee of $260 million to Parent if:

• we terminate the Merger Agreement pursuant to the provision described in the second bullet point under “— Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch”;

• Parent terminates the Merger Agreement pursuant to the provision described in the second bullet point under “— Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Parent”;

• either we or Parent terminate pursuant to the provision described in the third bullet point under “— Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch or Parent” at a time when the Merger Agreement was terminable by Parent pursuant to the provision described in the second bullet point under “— Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Parent”; or

• all of the following requirements are satisfied:

• prior to (1) the Special Meeting to obtain the requisite vote of our stockholders to approve the Merger, in the case of a termination pursuant to the provision described in the third bullet point under “— Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch or Parent”, (2) the breach giving rise to such right of termination, in the case of a termination pursuant to the provision described in the first bullet point under “— Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Parent” and (3) the termination of this Agreement, in the case of a termination pursuant to the provision described in the first bullet point under “— Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch or Parent”, a company takeover proposal (substituting 50% for the 20% threshold set forth in the definition of “company takeover proposal”) has been publicly made and not withdrawn at least three business days prior to the Special Meeting (or any adjournment or postponement thereof);

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• the Merger Agreement is terminated by us or Parent pursuant to provisions described in the first sub-bullet point above; and

• at any time on or before the 12-month anniversary of the termination referred to in the immediately preceding sub-bullet point, we or any of our subsidiaries completes or enters into a definitive agreement with respect to any company takeover proposal (substituting 50% for the 20% threshold set forth in the definition of “company takeover proposal” (whether or not the same company takeover proposal as that made prior to the termination of the Merger Agreement).

Termination Fee Payable by Parent

Parent has agreed to pay the parent termination fee of $693 million to the Company if (1) we terminate the Merger Agreement pursuant to the provisions described in the first bullet point or third bullet point under “— Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch” or (2) either we or Parent terminate the Merger Agreement pursuant to provisions described in the first bullet point under “— Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by either Switch or Parent” and, at such time, we could have terminated the Merger Agreement pursuant to the provision described in the first bullet point or third bullet point under “— Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by Switch.”

Payment of Termination Fee

In no event will a termination fee be payable by the Company or Parent on more than one occasion.

In the event the Merger Agreement is validly terminated and the parent termination fee is paid under the circumstances for which such fee is payable pursuant to the Merger Agreement, payment of the parent termination fee will be the sole and exclusive monetary damages remedy available to the Company in respect of any and all losses incurred as a result of the failure of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement to be consummated and, upon payment of such termination fee in such circumstances, none of Parent and its related parties will have any further liability or obligation relating to or arising out of the Merger Agreement, the Mergers or the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

If the Company or Parent, as the case may be, fails to timely pay its termination fee and, in order to obtain the payment, Parent or the Company, as the case may be, commences an action which results in a final and non-appealable judgment against the other party for the payment, then the paying party must pay the other party its reasonable and documented costs and expenses (including reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees) in connection with such proceeding, together with interest on that amount from and including the date payment of such amount was due but excluding the date of actual payment at the prime rate set forth in The Wall Street Journal in effect on the date such payment was required to be made plus 2% per annum.

Guarantees and Remedies

In connection with the Merger Agreement and subject to the terms and limitations set forth in the guarantees, Parent has entered into guarantees with DigitalBridge and IFM GIF in our favor, pursuant to which DigitalBridge and IFM GIF have guaranteed their respective portions of Parent’s payment obligations with respect to the parent termination fee under the merger Agreement and certain collection costs related thereto (collectively, the “guaranteed obligation”) if and when due in accordance with the Merger Agreement, subject to an aggregate cap of $415.8 million for DigitalBridge and an aggregate cap of $277.2 million for IFM GIF for payment of the guaranteed obligations. The maximum aggregate liability of the guarantors under the guarantees will not exceed $693 million.

The Merger Agreement provides that the parties are entitled to specific performance, including specific performance of Parent’s and Parent Merger Sub’s obligations to consummate the Mergers. However, we,

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Company Merger Sub and Company Ltd. may only seek specific performance to require Parent or Parent Merger Sub to consummate the Mergers if certain conditions are met, including (1) Parent and Parent Merger Sub’s closing conditions under the Merger Agreement (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the closing or the failure of which to be satisfied is caused by a breach by Parent or Parent Merger Sub of their representations, warranties, covenants or agreements contained in the Merger Agreement) have been satisfied (or are capable of being satisfied at the closing) or (to the extent permissible under applicable law) waived, (2) the full amount of the initial mortgage loans (or alternative financing) contemplated in connection with the Merger Agreement has been funded or would be funded at closing if the equity financing contemplated by the equity commitment letters (the “Equity Financing”) in connection with the Merger Agreement were funded at the closing, (3) the Company has irrevocably confirmed in a written notice delivered to Parent that if specific performance is granted and the Equity Financing and the initial mortgage loans (or alternative financing) are funded, then the Company stands ready, willing and able to then consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement on such date, (4) Parent and Parent Merger Sub have failed to complete the closing by the date the closing is required under the Merger Agreement and (5) the Merger Agreement has not been terminated. In no event will we be entitled to obtain specific performance of Parent’s or Parent Merger Sub’s right to cause the Equity Financing to be funded or obligations to complete the Merger if the Debt Financing has not been funded (or will not be funded at the closing if the Equity Financing is funded at closing). Under no circumstances will we be permitted or entitled to both a grant of specific performance causing the closing to occur or any monetary damages whatsoever, on the one hand, and payment of the parent termination fee, on the other hand.

Expenses

Whether or not the Mergers are consummated, all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the Mergers, the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby will be paid by the party incurring or required to incur such expenses; provided, that if the Mergers are not consummated by the End Date and the Merger Agreement is terminated pursuant to provisions described in the first bullet point under “— Termination of the Merger Agreement — Termination by either Switch or Parent”, Parent must bear 50% of all filing fees paid to the SEC with respect to, and 50% of all printing and dissemination costs for, this proxy statement.

Amendment and Waiver

At any time prior to the Effective Time, any provision of the Merger Agreement may be amended or waived if, and only if, such amendment of waiver is in writing and signed, in the case of an amendment, by us, Company Ltd., Company Merger Sub, Parent and Parent Merger Sub. However, after receipt of the approval of our stockholders of the Merger, if any such amendment or waiver would by applicable law or in accordance with the rules and regulations of the NYSE require further approval of the stockholders of the Company, the effectiveness of such amendment or waiver will be subject to such approval. In addition, certain provisions of the Merger Agreement may not be amended or modified in a manner that is materially adverse to any financing party without the prior written consent of such financing party.

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MARKET PRICE OF OUR CLASS A COMMON STOCK

Our Class A common stock is listed on the NYSE under the trading symbol “SWCH.” On [                ], 2022, there were approximately [        ] holders of record. Certain of our shares of common stock are held in “street” name and accordingly, the number of beneficial owners of such shares of common stock is not known or included in the foregoing number. The table below sets forth the quarterly high and low closing sales prices of our shares of Class A common stock on the NYSE for the periods indicated and the dividends declared by us with respect to the periods indicated.

Year	High			Low			Cash Dividend per Share
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2019
First Quarter	$	11.01		$	6.71		$	0.029
Second Quarter	$	13.63		$	10.19		$	0.029
Third Quarter	$	16.95		$	12.86		$	0.029
Fourth Quarter	$	16.38		$	13.98		$	0.029
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020
First Quarter	$	17.83		$	10.30		$	0.029
Second Quarter	$	19.56		$	13.74		$	0.029
Third Quarter	$	19.99		$	14.97		$	0.05
Fourth Quarter	$	16.65		$	13.82		$	0.05
Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2021
First Quarter	$	19.34		$	13.38		$	0.05
Second Quarter	$	21.99		$	16.25		$	0.05
Third Quarter	$	27.03		$	20.15		$	0.0525
Fourth Quarter	$	29.15		$	23.00		$	0.0525
Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2022
First Quarter	$	31.46		$	23.03		$	0.0525
Second Quarter (through [                ], 2022)	$	[	]	$	[	]	$	[	]

On May 10, 2022, the last trading day prior to the date of the public announcement of the Merger Agreement, the reported closing price per share for our Class A common stock on the NYSE was $30.75. On [                ], 2022, the last trading day before the date of this proxy statement, the reported closing price per share for our Class A common stock on the NYSE was $[        ]. You are encouraged to obtain current market quotations for our Class A common stock.

On March 22, 2022, we paid a regular quarterly dividend of $0.0525 per share of Class A common stock for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 to stockholders of record as of March 11, 2022. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, from the date of the Merger Agreement through the closing date, we may declare regular quarterly cash dividends of an amount not to exceed $0.07 per share of common stock, with usual declaration, record and payment dates in accordance with past dividend practice, without a reduction in the merger consideration to be paid to holders.

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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS

The following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial ownership of our common stock for:

• each person known by us to beneficially own more than 5% of our Class A common stock or Class B common stock;

• each of our directors, each of whom is also a nominee;

• each of our named executive officers (“NEOs”); and

• all of our current executive officers and directors as a group.

We have three classes of common stock: Class A common stock; Class B common stock; and Class C common stock. There are no shares of Class C common stock currently outstanding. Subject to the Company Ltd. operating agreement, Members can redeem Company Ltd. Common Units for Class A common stock on a one-to-one basis, or, at our option, for cash equal to the market value of the applicable number of our shares of Class A common stock. Thus, the Company Ltd. Common Units represent rights to acquire Class A common stock. The shares of Class B common stock (i) confer only voting rights and do not confer any incidents of economic ownership to the holders thereof; and (ii) are forfeited and cancelled, on a