COPT to Participate in the NYSE-Nareit Virtual Investor Relations Symposium and Present at Nareit’s REITWeek: 2020 Virtual Investor Conference

Corporate Office Properties Trust ("COPT” or the "Company”) (NYSE: OFC) announced that its President and CEO, Stephen E. Budorick, will participate in a virtual panel discussion during the fourth-annual REIT Investor Relations Symposium presented by Nareit and the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE”) starting at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on June 1, 2020. The panel titled, REIT CEO Spotlight: Understanding the Imperative of Crisis Communications, will review the last quarter and the impact of COVID-19, with prominent REIT CEOs providing key learnings on how they leveraged communications to inform both shareholders, as well employees, tenants, and other critical stakeholders.

Mr. Budorick will also provide an update on COPT and participate in a question and answer session at Nareit’s REITWeek: 2020 Investor Conference, taking place virtually from June 2-4, 2020. The Company’s presentation will start at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on June 3, 2020. A live audio webcast of the presentation and materials encompassing the information provided during the presentation and conference will be available on COPT’s Investors website: https://investors.copt.com/

About COPT

COPT is a REIT that owns, manages, leases, develops and selectively acquires office and data center properties. The majority of its portfolio is in locations that support the United States Government and its contractors, most of whom are engaged in national security, defense and information technology ("IT”) related activities servicing what it believes are growing, durable, priority missions ("Defense/IT Locations”). The Company also owns a portfolio of office properties located in select urban/urban-like submarkets in the Greater Washington, DC/Baltimore region with durable Class-A office fundamentals and characteristics ("Regional Office Properties”). As of March 31, 2020, the Company derived 88% of its core portfolio annualized rental revenue from Defense/IT Locations and 12% from its Regional Office Properties. As of the same date and including 15 buildings owned through unconsolidated joint ventures, COPT’s core portfolio of 169 office and data center shell properties encompassed 19.2 million square feet and was 95.2% leased; the Company also owned one wholesale data center with a critical load of 19.25 megawatts that was 76.9% leased.

Forward-Looking Information

This press release may contain "forward-looking” statements, as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, that are based on the Company’s current expectations, estimates and projections about future events and financial trends affecting the Company. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "may,” "will,” "should,” "could,” "believe,” "anticipate,” "expect,” "estimate,” "plan” or other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which the Company cannot predict with accuracy and some of which the Company might not even anticipate. Although the Company believes that the expectations, estimates and projections reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions at the time made, the Company can give no assurance that these expectations, estimates and projections will be achieved. Future events and actual results may differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or supplement any forward-looking statements.

The areas of risk that may affect these expectations, estimates and projections include, but are not limited to, those risks described in Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020.

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