Related Person Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2025

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Person Transactions

Note 11. Related Person Transactions

We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with Sonesta, RMR, RMR Inc., and others related to them, including other companies to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services and some of which have trustees, directors or officers who are also our Trustees or officers. RMR is a majority owned subsidiary of RMR Inc. The Chair of our Board of Trustees and one of our Managing Trustees, Adam Portnoy, is the sole trustee, an officer and the controlling shareholder of ABP Trust, which is the controlling shareholder of RMR Inc., the chair of the board of directors, a managing director and the president and chief executive officer of RMR Inc. and an officer and employee of RMR. Christopher Bilotto, our other Managing Trustee and our President and Chief Executive Officer since March 2025, also serves as an officer and employee of RMR. John Murray, our former Managing Trustee and President and Chief Executive Officer, also serves as an officer and employee of RMR and as president and chief executive officer of Sonesta. In addition, each of our other officers serves as an officer of RMR. Some of our Independent Trustees also serve as independent trustees of other public companies to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services. Mr. Portnoy serves as chair of the boards and as a managing trustee of these public companies. Other officers of RMR, including certain of our officers, serve as managing trustees or officers of certain of these companies.

Our Manager, RMR

We have two agreements with RMR to provide management services to us. See Note 10 for further information regarding our management agreements with RMR.

Sonesta

Sonesta is a private company of which Adam Portnoy, one of our Managing Trustees, is a director and the controlling shareholder. One of Sonesta’s other directors and president and chief executive officer was our other Managing Trustee until March 2025, and Sonesta’s other director serves as one of RMR Inc.’s managing directors, as RMR’s and RMR Inc.’s executive vice president, general counsel and secretary and as our Secretary. Certain other officers and employees of Sonesta are former officers and employees of RMR. RMR also provides certain services to Sonesta. As of March 31, 2025, we owned 34% of Sonesta’s outstanding shares of common stock and Sonesta managed 177 of our hotels. See Notes 6 and 7 for further information regarding our relationships, agreements and transactions with Sonesta.

For further information about these and certain other such relationships and certain other related person transactions, refer to our 2024 Annual Report.