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Related Person Transactions | Note 11. 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. As of the effective time of the TA Merger on May 15, 2023, TA is no longer a related person to us. RMR is a majority owned 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, 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. RMR provides management services to us and, until the TA Merger, provided services to TA, and Mr. Portnoy, until the TA Merger, also served as the chair of the board of directors and as a managing director of TA and, as of immediately prior to the TA Merger, beneficially owned 661,506 shares of TA common stock (including through RMR), representing approximately 4.4% of TA’s outstanding shares of common stock. See Notes 6 and 7 for further information regarding our relationships, agreements and transactions with TA. Sonesta. Sonesta is a private company. Mr. Portnoy is the largest owner and controlling shareholder and a director of Sonesta. Mr. Murray is a director of Sonesta and is its president and chief executive officer, and he is an officer and employee of RMR. 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. RMR also provides certain services to Sonesta. As of September 30, 2024, we owned 34% of Sonesta’s outstanding shares of common stock and Sonesta managed 189 of our hotels. See Notes 6 and 7 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 10 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 2023 Annual Report.
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