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Related Person Transactions
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2023
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Person Transactions Related Person Transactions
We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with RMR, RMR Inc., AlerisLife (including Five Star) 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 Inc. is the managing member of RMR. The Chair of our Board 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. and AlerisLife, the chair of the board of directors, a managing director and the president and chief executive officer of RMR Inc., an officer and employee of RMR and, until the acquisition of AlerisLife by ABP Trust on March 20, 2023, the chair of the board of directors and a managing director of AlerisLife, and currently the sole director of AlerisLife. Jennifer F. Francis, our other Managing Trustee and our President and Chief Executive Officer, and our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer are also officers and employees of RMR. Jennifer B. Clark, our Secretary and former Managing Trustee, also serves as a managing director and the executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of RMR Inc., an officer and employee of RMR, an officer of ABP Trust, secretary of AlerisLife and, until March 20, 2023, a managing director of AlerisLife. Certain of AlerisLife's officers are officers and employees 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 the chair of the board and as a managing trustee of these companies. Other officers of RMR, including Ms. Clark, serve as managing trustees or officers of certain of these companies. In addition, officers of RMR and RMR Inc. serve as our officers and officers of other companies to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services.
AlerisLife. Until March 20, 2023, we were AlerisLife's largest stockholder, owning 10,691,658 of AlerisLife's common shares, or approximately 31.9% of AlerisLife's outstanding common shares, and ABP Acquisition LLC, or ABP Acquisition, a subsidiary of ABP Trust, together with ABP Trust, owned approximately 6.1% of AlerisLife's outstanding common shares. Five Star is an operating division of AlerisLife. Five Star manages certain of the senior living communities we own pursuant to the Master Management Agreement. RMR provides management services to both us and AlerisLife.
On February 2, 2023, AlerisLife entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, or the ALR Merger Agreement, with ABP Acquisition, and its wholly owned subsidiary, ABP Acquisition 2 LLC, or ABP Acquisition 2. Pursuant to the ALR Merger Agreement, ABP Acquisition 2 commenced a tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding AlerisLife common shares (other than the AlerisLife common shares held by ABP Trust, ABP Acquisition or their subsidiaries), at a price of $1.31 per share, net to the seller in cash, without interest, subject to any withholding of taxes. Following the consummation of the tender offer, on March 20, 2023, ABP Acquisition 2 merged with and into AlerisLife, with AlerisLife as the surviving entity. We refer to the transactions contemplated by the ALR Merger Agreement as the AlerisLife Transaction.
In connection with the ALR Merger Agreement, on February 2, 2023, we entered into the Consent Agreement with ABP Acquisition 2, ABP Acquisition, ABP Trust and Adam D. Portnoy, or, collectively, the ABP Parties. Pursuant to the Consent Agreement, we: (1) consented to AlerisLife’s granting of certain exceptions to the ownership restrictions set forth in its charter to the ABP Parties in connection with the AlerisLife Transaction, (2) waived any default under our Master Management Agreement arising or resulting from the AlerisLife Transaction, (3) agreed to tender all of the 10,691,658 AlerisLife common shares that we and our subsidiary owned, into the tender offer at the tender offer price, subject to the right, but not the
obligation, to purchase, in a single private transaction, on or before December 31, 2023, a number of shares of common stock of the surviving entity in the AlerisLife Transaction constituting a percentage up to 31.9% of the then issued and outstanding shares of the common stock of the surviving entity based on the tender offer price and otherwise pursuant to a stockholders agreement to be entered into at the time of any such purchase on such terms as are negotiated and mutually agreed by the parties, and (4) agreed to amend the Master Management Agreement to eliminate any change of control default or event of default provisions effective upon the consummation of the AlerisLife Transaction.
See Note 8 for further information regarding our relationships, agreements and transactions with AlerisLife (including Five Star) and Note 5 for further information regarding our investment in AlerisLife.
Merger Agreement with Office Properties Income Trust. As described further in Note 1, on April 11, 2023, we and OPI entered into the Merger Agreement, pursuant to which, on the terms and subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions thereof, we will be merged with and into OPI, with OPI continuing as the surviving entity in the Merger. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of closing conditions, the Merger is expected to close during the third quarter of 2023.
RMR serves as our and OPI’s manager and will continue to manage the surviving entity following the Merger. Contemporaneously with the execution of the Merger Agreement, we, OPI and RMR entered into a letter agreement pursuant to which, on the terms and subject to conditions contained therein, we and RMR have acknowledged and agreed that, effective upon consummation of the Merger, we shall have terminated our business and property management agreements with RMR for convenience, and RMR shall have waived its right to receive payment of the termination fee pursuant to each such agreement upon such termination. The foregoing terminations and waivers apply only in respect of the Merger and do not apply to any other transaction or arrangement.
Our Joint Ventures. In connection with our entering into the LSMD JV in January 2022, we paid mortgage escrow amounts and closing costs that were payable by that joint venture. Those costs totaled $6,040 as of June 30, 2023 and are included in other assets, net, in our condensed consolidated balance sheet. RMR provides management services to each of the Seaport JV and the LSMD JV. See Note 9 for further information regarding those management agreements with RMR.
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.
Leases with RMR. We lease office space to RMR in certain of our properties for RMR’s property management offices. Pursuant to our lease agreements with RMR, we recognized rental income from RMR for leased office space of $13 and $78 for the three months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $74 and $148 for the six months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
For further information about these and other such relationships and certain other related person transactions, see our Annual Report.