Table of Contents Corporate Information The We Company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware in April 2019 as a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of WeWork Companies Inc. As a result of various reorganization transactions undertaken in July 2019, The We Company became the holding company of our business, and the then-stockholders of WeWork Companies Inc. became the stockholders of The We Company. The We Company holds an indirect general partner interest and indirect limited partner interests in The We Company Management Holdings L.P. (the “We Company Partnership”). The We Company, through the We Company Partnership and other subsidiaries, holds all the assets held by WeWork Companies Inc. prior to the reorganization and is subject to all the liabilities to which WeWork Companies Inc. was subject prior to the reorganization. The We Company will consolidate the financial results of its subsidiaries, including the We Company Partnership, for financial accounting purposes. In addition to The We Company’s indirect partnership interests in the We Company Partnership, certain members of our management team and their related entities hold partnership interests in the We Company Partnership. The diagram below is a simplified depiction of our organizational structure immediately following the completion of this offering: (1) Corresponds to partnership interests in We Company Partnership held by certain members of our leadership team and their affiliates. (2) We own 80% of the general partner and manager of ARK, but our capital commitments to its underlying real estate acquisition vehicles and joint ventures generally represent a small percentage of the total committed capital. (3) Management fee based on revenue from the applicable joint venture. ChinaCo, PacificCo and JapanCo are consolidated in the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. 4% of the JapanCo management fee is held by JapanCo and used to reimburse sales and marketing expenses incurred by SoftBank. 16