Related Person Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Person Transactions

Note 10. Related Person Transactions

We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with TA, Sonesta, RMR, The RMR Group, Inc., or 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 operating subsidiary of RMR Inc. The Chair of our Board of Trustees and one of our Managing Trustees, Adam D. 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. John G. Murray, our other Managing Trustee and our former President and Chief Executive Officer until March 31, 2022, also serves as an officer and employee of RMR, and each of our other officers serves as an officer of RMR. Some of our Independent Trustees also serve as independent trustees or independent directors of other public companies to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services. Adam Portnoy serves as chair of the boards and as a managing trustee or managing director of those companies. Other officers of RMR, including Mr. Murray and certain of our other officers, serve as managing trustees, managing directors or officers of certain of these companies.

TA. We lease 179 of our travel centers to TA under our TA leases. As of March 31, 2022, we owned approximately 8.0% of TA’s outstanding shares of common stock. RMR provides management services to both us and TA, and Adam D. Portnoy, also serves as the chair of the board of directors and as a managing director of TA and, as of March 31, 2022, beneficially owned 658,505 shares of TA common stock (including through RMR), representing approximately 4.4% of TA’s outstanding shares of common stock. See Notes 5, 6 and 13 for further information regarding our relationships, agreements, transactions and investments with TA.

Sonesta. Sonesta is a private company and is controlled by one of our Managing Trustees, Adam D. Portnoy. Mr. Portnoy, is the largest owner and controlling shareholder and a director of Sonesta. One of Sonesta’s other directors is our other Managing Trustee and former President and Chief Executive Officer and is Sonesta’s president and chief executive officer. Sonesta’s other director serves as RMR’s and RMR Inc.’s executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, as a managing director of RMR Inc. and as our Secretary. Certain other officers of Sonesta are officers of RMR and certain other officers and employees of Sonesta are former employees of RMR. RMR also provides certain services to Sonesta. As of March 31, 2022, we owned approximately 34% of Sonesta which managed 256 of our hotels. See Notes 4, 5 and 6 for further information regarding our relationships, agreements and transactions with Sonesta.

Our Manager, RMR. We have two agreements with RMR to provide management services to us. See Note 9 for further information regarding our management agreements with RMR.

For further information about these and certain other such relationships and certain other related person transactions, refer to our 2021 Annual Report.