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Related Person Transactions
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Person Transactions Related Person Transactions
We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with Tremont, 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. Tremont is a subsidiary of RMR, which is a majority owned subsidiary of RMR Inc., and RMR Inc. is the managing member of RMR. RMR provides certain shared services to Tremont that are applicable to us, and we reimburse Tremont or pay RMR for the amounts Tremont or RMR pays for those services. One of our Managing Trustees and Chair of our Board of 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 he is also a director of Tremont, the chair of the board of directors, a managing director, the president and chief executive officer of RMR Inc., and an officer and employee of RMR. Matthew P. Jordan, our other Managing Trustee, is a director and the president and chief executive officer of Tremont. Mr. Jordan is also an officer of RMR Inc. and an officer and employee of RMR, and our executive officers are officers and employees of Tremont and/or RMR.
Some of our Independent Trustees also serve as independent directors or independent trustees of other public companies to which RMR provides management services. Adam D. Portnoy serves as the chair of the board and as a managing director or managing trustee of those companies. Other officers of RMR and Tremont serve as managing trustees or officers of certain of these companies.
Our Manager, Tremont Realty Capital LLC. We have a management agreement with Tremont to provide management services to us. See Note 7 for further information regarding our management agreement with Tremont. On May 11, 2022, Tremont purchased 882,407 of our common shares from Diane Portnoy, the mother of Adam D. Portnoy. Tremont paid an aggregate purchase price of $9,469 for these shares. As of March 31, 2023, Tremont owned 1,708,058 of our common shares, and Mr. Portnoy beneficially owned (including through Tremont and ABP Trust) 13.4% of our outstanding common shares.
Acceleration of Unvested Shares of Former Officer. G. Douglas Lanois resigned as our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective September 30, 2022. Our Compensation Committee approved the acceleration of all 3,648 of our unvested common shares owned by Mr. Lanois as of his separation date, January 1, 2023.
For further information about these and other such relationships and certain other related person transactions, refer to our definitive Proxy Statement for our 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and to our 2022 Annual Report.