Related Person Transactions

We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with RMR LLC, RMR Inc. and others related to them. RMR LLC is a subsidiary of RMR Inc. Our Managing Trustee, Adam Portnoy, as the current sole trustee of ABP Trust, is the controlling shareholder of RMR Inc. and as the current sole trustee of ABP Trust beneficially owns all the class A membership units of RMR LLC not owned by RMR Inc. Adam Portnoy is a managing director, president and chief executive officer of RMR Inc. and an officer of RMR LLC. Barry Portnoy was our other Managing Trustee and a director and an officer of RMR Inc. and an officer of RMR LLC until his death on February 25, 2018. Each of our executive officers is also an officer of RMR LLC. Our Independent Trustees also serve as independent directors or independent trustees of other companies to which RMR LLC or its subsidiaries provide management services. Adam Portnoy serves as a managing director or managing trustee of almost all of the public companies to which RMR LLC or its subsidiaries provide management services. In addition, officers of RMR LLC and RMR Inc. serve as our officers and officers of other companies to which RMR LLC or its subsidiaries provide management services.

Five Star. Five Star was our 100% owned subsidiary until we distributed its common shares to our shareholders in 2001. We are currently one of Five Star’s largest stockholders, owning, as of December 31, 2017, 4,235,000 Five Star common shares, or 8.4% of Five Star’s outstanding common shares. Five Star is our largest tenant and the manager of our managed senior living communities.

RMR LLC provides management services to both us and Five Star. RMR Inc., the managing member of RMR LLC, is controlled by our Managing Trustee, Adam Portnoy, as the current sole trustee of ABP Trust. As of December 31, 2017, Adam Portnoy and Barry Portnoy, our then Managing Trustees, beneficially owned an aggregate of 18,382,121 Five Star common shares, or 36.4% of Five Star’s outstanding common shares. Barry Portnoy also served as a managing director of Five Star until his death on February 25, 2018. Five Star’s president and chief executive officer, chief financial officer and treasurer and senior vice president and general counsel are officers of RMR LLC and Five Star’s chief financial officer and treasurer was formerly our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer from 2007 through 2015.

In order to effect our distribution of Five Star common shares to our shareholders in 2001 and to govern our relations with Five Star thereafter, Five Star entered agreements with us and others, including RMR LLC. Since then, we have entered various leases, management agreements and other agreements with Five Star that include provisions that confirm and modify these undertakings. Among other things, these agreements provide that:


•	so long as we remain a REIT, Five Star may not waive the share ownership restrictions in its charter that prohibit any person or group from acquiring more than 9.8% (in value or number of shares, whichever is more restrictive) of the outstanding shares of any class of Five Star stock without our consent;


•	so long as Five Star is our tenant or manager, Five Star will not permit nor take any action that, in our reasonable judgment, might jeopardize our qualification for taxation as a REIT;

•

we have the right to terminate our leases and management agreements with Five Star upon the acquisition by a person or group of more than 9.8% of Five Star’s voting stock or other change in control events, as defined therein affecting Five Star, including the adoption of any shareholder proposal (other than a precatory proposal) or the election to Five Star’s board of directors of any individual, if such proposal or individual was not approved, nominated or appointed, as the case may be, by a majority of Five Star’s directors in office immediately prior to the making of such proposal or the nomination or appointment of such individual; and


•	so long as Five Star is our tenant or manager or has a business management agreement with RMR LLC, Five Star will not acquire or finance any real estate of a type then owned or financed by us or any other company managed by RMR LLC without first giving us or such company managed by RMR LLC, as applicable, the opportunity to acquire or finance that real estate.

Our Senior Living Communities Leased or Managed by Five Star. As of December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, we leased 185, 185 and 177 senior living communities to Five Star, respectively, pursuant to five leases, and Five Star managed 70, 68 and 60 senior living communities for our account, respectively.

See Notes 3 and 5 for further information regarding our relationship, agreements and transactions with Five Star.

Tender Offer for Five Star Shares. On October 2, 2016, in connection with the proposed acquisition of up to 18,000,000 Five Star common shares by ABP Acquisition LLC, an entity indirectly beneficially owned by our then Managing Trustees, Adam Portnoy and Barry Portnoy, we entered a consent agreement with Adam Portnoy, Barry Portnoy, ABP Trust and ABP Acquisition LLC, or together, the ABP Parties, which was approved by our Board of Trustees (with Adam Portnoy and Barry Portnoy abstaining), pursuant to which we: (1) consented to the Five Star board of directors’ grant of exceptions to the ownership restrictions set forth in Five Star’s charter that allowed the ABP Parties and certain related persons to acquire and own, in aggregate, up to 38% of the issued and outstanding Five Star common shares and (2) waived any default or event of default under any lease, management or other agreement between or among us and Five Star, or any of its or our subsidiaries, arising or resulting from the grant of such exceptions or the acquisition by the ABP Parties, in aggregate, of up to 18,000,000 Five Star common shares. On November 10, 2016, ABP Acquisition LLC completed the acquisition of 17,999,999 Five Star common shares at a purchase price of $3.00 per share pursuant to a tender offer.

D&R Yonkers LLC. See Note 5 for further information regarding our relationship, agreements and transactions with D&R Yonkers LLC and Five Star.

Our Manager, RMR LLC. We have two agreements with RMR LLC to provide management services to us: (1) a business management agreement, which relates to our business generally, and (2) a property management agreement, which relates to the property level operations of our MOBs. See Note 6 for further information regarding our management agreements with RMR LLC.

Leases with RMR LLC. We lease office space to RMR LLC in certain of our properties for RMR LLC’s property management offices. Pursuant to our lease agreements with RMR LLC, we recognized rental income from RMR LLC for leased office space of $331, $242 and $204 for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Our office space leases with RMR LLC are terminable by RMR LLC if our management agreements with RMR LLC are terminated.

Share Awards to RMR LLC Employees. We have historically granted share awards to certain RMR LLC employees under our equity compensation plans. During the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, we granted annual share awards of 88,100, 79,650 and 84,000 of our common shares, respectively, to our officers and to other employees of RMR LLC, valued at $1,743, $1,724 and $1,321, respectively, based upon the closing price of our common shares on the applicable stock exchange on which our common shares were listed on the dates of grant. One fifth of these awards vested on the grant date and one fifth vests on each of the next four anniversaries of the grant date. These awards to RMR LLC employees are in addition to the share awards granted to Adam Portnoy and Barry Portnoy, as our then Managing Trustees, and the fees we paid to RMR LLC. During these periods we purchased some of our common shares from certain employees of RMR LLC in satisfaction of tax withholding and payment obligations in connection with the vesting of awards of our common shares. See Note 4 for further information regarding these purchases.

Acquisition of Interest in RMR LLC. On June 5, 2015, we and three other REITs to which RMR LLC provides management services - Government Properties Income Trust, or GOV, Hospitality Properties Trust, or HPT and SIR, or collectively, the Other REITs - participated in a transaction, or the Up-C Transaction, by which we and the Other REITs each acquired shares of class A common stock of RMR Inc. The Up-C Transaction was completed pursuant to a transaction agreement among us, RMR LLC, ABP Trust (RMR LLC’s then sole member), and RMR Inc. and similar transaction agreements that each Other REIT entered into with RMR LLC, ABP Trust and RMR Inc. As part of the Up-C Transaction and concurrently with entering into the transaction agreements, on June 5, 2015, among other things:


•	We contributed 2,345,000 of our common shares and $13,967 in cash to RMR Inc. and RMR Inc. issued 5,272,787 shares of its class A common stock to us.


•	We agreed to distribute approximately half of the shares of class A common stock of RMR Inc. issued to us in the Up-C Transaction to our shareholders as a special distribution.


•	We entered into amended and restated business and property management agreements with RMR LLC which, among other things, amended the term, termination and termination fee provisions of those agreements. See Note 6 for further information regarding our management agreements with RMR LLC.


•	We entered into a registration rights agreement with RMR Inc. covering the shares of class A common stock of RMR Inc. issued to us in the Up-C Transaction, pursuant to which we received demand and piggyback registration rights, subject to certain limitations.


•	We entered into a lock up and registration rights agreement with ABP Trust, Adam Portnoy and Barry Portnoy pursuant to which they agreed not to transfer the 2,345,000 of our common shares ABP Trust received in the Up-C Transaction for a 10 year period ending on June 5, 2025 and we granted them certain registration rights, subject, in each case, to certain exceptions.

Each Other REIT participated in the Up-C Transaction in a similar manner. After giving effect to the Up-C Transaction, RMR LLC became a subsidiary of RMR Inc. and RMR Inc. became the managing member of RMR LLC.

Pursuant to the transaction agreements for the Up-C Transaction, on December 14, 2015, we distributed 2,635,379 shares of class A common stock of RMR Inc. to our shareholders as a special distribution, which represented approximately half of the shares of class A common stock of RMR Inc. issued to us in the Up-C Transaction; each Other REIT also distributed approximately half of the shares of class A common stock of RMR Inc. issued to it in the Up-C Transaction to its respective shareholders. RMR Inc. facilitated these distributions by filing a registration statement with the SEC to register the shares of class A common stock of RMR Inc. being distributed and by listing those shares on the Nasdaq. In connection with this distribution, we recognized a non cash loss of $38,437 in the fourth quarter of 2015 as a result of the closing price of the class A common stock of RMR Inc. being lower than our carrying amount per share on the distribution date. See Notes 2 and 9 for information regarding the fair value of our investment in RMR Inc. as of December 31, 2017.

Through their ownership of class A common stock of RMR Inc., class B-1 common stock of RMR Inc., class B-2 common stock of RMR Inc. and class A membership units of RMR LLC, as of December 31, 2017, our then Managing Trustees, Adam Portnoy and Barry Portnoy in aggregate held, directly and indirectly (including as trustee of ABP Trust), a 51.9% economic interest in RMR LLC and control 91.4% of the voting power of outstanding capital stock of RMR Inc. We currently hold 2,637,408 shares of class A common stock of RMR Inc.

SIR. On January 29, 2015, we purchased from SIR entities owning 23 MOBs, or the CCIT MOBs, that SIR acquired when its subsidiary merged with CCIT. Our purchase price for these 23 MOBs was $532,000, including a purchase price adjustment of $7,677 and our assumption of $29,995 of mortgage debts, but excluding working capital. In April 2015, SIR paid us $1,316 to settle certain working capital activity for the 23 MOBs as of the sale date. See Note 3 for further information regarding our purchase of the CCIT MOBs.

Our Managing Trustee, Adam Portnoy, is also the managing trustee of SIR. One of our Independent Trustees also serves as an independent trustee of SIR. RMR LLC provides management services to us and SIR.

AIC. We, ABP Trust, Five Star, and four other companies to which RMR LLC provides management services currently own AIC, an Indiana insurance company, in equal amounts and are parties to a shareholders agreement regarding AIC. All of our Trustees and all of the trustees and directors of the other AIC shareholders currently serve on the board of directors of AIC. RMR LLC provides management and administrative services to AIC pursuant to a management and administrative services agreement with AIC. Pursuant to this agreement, AIC pays RMR LLC a service fee equal to 3.0% of the total annual net earned premiums payable under then active policies issued or underwritten by AIC or by a vendor or an agent of AIC on its behalf or in furtherance of AIC’s business.

We and the other AIC shareholders participate in a combined property insurance program arranged and insured or reinsured in part by AIC; we also have a one year standalone insurance policy that provides coverage for our MOB (two buildings) located in Boston, Massachusetts that is owned in our joint venture arrangement, which we obtained as a part of this insurance program. We (including our consolidated joint venture) paid aggregate annual premiums, including taxes and fees, of $2,433, $3,607 and $2,785 in connection with this insurance program for the policy years ending June 30, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively, which amount for the current policy year ending June 30, 2018, and in the prior policy years were, adjusted from time to time as we acquire or dispose of properties that are included in this insurance program.

As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, our investment in AIC had a carrying value of $8,185 and $7,116, respectively. These amounts are included in other assets in our consolidated balance sheets. We recognized income of, $608, $137, and $(20) related to our investment in AIC for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively. These amounts are presented as equity in earnings of an investee in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income. Our other comprehensive income includes our proportionate part of unrealized gains (losses) on securities which are owned and held for sale by AIC of $462, $152 and $20 related to our investment in AIC for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively.

Directors’ and Officers’ Liability Insurance. We, RMR Inc., RMR LLC and certain other companies to which RMR LLC or its subsidiaries provide management services, including Five Star, participate in a combined directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy. This combined policy expires in September 2019. We paid aggregate premiums of $255, $142 and $472 in 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively, for these policies.