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The RMR Group (RMR) Risk Analysis
Risk Overview Q2, 2025
Source: the company's latest filing for the period ended Jun 30, 2025, filed Aug 05, 2025
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- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1Our governing documents permit our directors and officers, our Client Companies clients and ABP Trust to retain corporate opportunities for their own benefit.
Under RMR Inc.'s governing documents and RMR LLC's operating agreement, no director or officer of ours who is also serving as an officer, employee or agent of a client or ABP Trust or any of its affiliates is required to present, communicate or offer any business opportunity to us, and such person shall have the right to hold any business opportunity for themselves or transfer it to any other person to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law. If any of these persons fails to present an opportunity to us or takes the opportunity for themselves, to the maximum extent permitted under Maryland law they will not be liable to us. We have renounced all potential interest or expectation in certain business opportunities which may fit our growth objectives in the future or otherwise have value to us. These opportunities may be directed to the clients or other persons or entities to which RMR LLC may have a relationship. Additionally, under our governing documents, our directors, officers, employees and agents are permitted to engage in other business activities that are similar to, or even competitive with, our own. If such persons engage in competitive business activities, we may have no remedy under our governing documents in these circumstances.
- Debt & Financing - Risk 2We and our Client Companies clients are party to transactions with related parties that may increase the risk of allegations of conflicts of interest, and such allegations may impair our or our Client Companies' ability to realize the benefits we expect from these transactions. interest.
We and our clients are party to transactions with related parties, including with entities controlled by Adam D. Portnoy and entities that we manage. For example, because of the relationships among us, Adam D. Portnoy, and our clients, the agreements we are party to with them, including our management agreements, are among related parties. Other examples include: SVC is TA's principal landlord, and TA is SVC's largest tenant, operating travel center locations owned by SVC pursuant to long term leases; Five Star manages most of the senior living communities owned by DHC pursuant to long term management agreements, DHC owns approximately 34% of Five Star's outstanding common stock and most of the senior living communities Five Star operates are owned by DHC; Sonesta manages the majority of SVC's hotels pursuant to management agreements, SVC owns approximately 34% of Sonesta's outstanding common stock and most of the hotels Sonesta operates are owned by SVC. On September 30, 2021, TRMT merged with and into RMRM with RMRM continuing as the surviving entity under the name "Seven Hills Realty Trust." SEVN will continue to be managed by our subsidiary, Tremont Realty Capital. Our and our clients' agreements with related parties or in respect of transactions among related parties may not be on terms as favorable to us as they would have been if they had been negotiated among unrelated parties. Moreover, we are subject to the risk that our shareholders or the shareholders of one or more of our clients may challenge any such related party transactions. If challenges to related party transactions were to be successful, we or our clients might not realize the benefits expected from the transactions being challenged. Moreover, any such challenge could result in substantial costs and a diversion of our management's attention, could have a material adverse effect on our or our clients' reputation, business and growth and could adversely affect our or our clients' ability to realize the benefits expected from the transactions, whether or not the allegations have merit or are substantiated.
- Debt & Financing - Risk 3The registration of two of our subsidiaries Tremont Realty Capital under the Investment Advisers Act may discourage our change of control.
One of our subsidiaries, Tremont Realty Capital, is registered as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act. Any change in control of Tremont Realty Capital, as defined in and interpreted pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act, would trigger a shareholder approval right by SEVN shareholders or other advisory clients of Tremont Realty Capital as applicable, under that Act. The need for such approval may discourage a change of control of us, including a change of control which might result in payment of a premium for our Class A Common Shares.
- Corporate Activity and Growth - Risk 4Our management responsibilities to each of our Client Companies clients and any future companies we may manage may give rise to actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest.
Some of our clients have overlapping investment objectives, and if, and as we expand our management services to include additional private real estate capital clients, additional overlapping investment objectives may result. Additionally, some of our clients have material business relationships with, and in some instances have engaged in material transactions with, other of our clients that could give rise to conflicting interests. Our controlling shareholder's investment in some of our clients also could give rise to conflicting interests. Our clients rely on information and management services we provide to them. While we and our clients have policies and procedures in place that are intended to mitigate the risks of conflicts of interest, our allocation of investment opportunities and cost reimbursements, advice, recommendations and commitments of our management team across our clients might be perceived to favor one client at the expense of another. In addition to serving on our Board of Directors and executive team, Adam D. Portnoy serves as the chair of the board of trustees of each of the Managed REITs, as a managing trustee or managing director of each Managed REIT, TA and Five Star and as the chair of the board of directors of TA and Five Star and as a director of Sonesta (and its parent); certain of our other officers serve as managing trustees, managing directors or directors of our clients; and all of the executive officers of the Managed REITs and many of the executive officers of the Managed Operating Companies are our officers and employees. In addition, several of the independent trustees and independent directors of our public clients also serve as independent trustees or independent directors of other public clients. These multiple responsibilities and varying interests could create competition for the time and efforts of Adam D. Portnoy and RMR LLC and its subsidiaries and their officers and employees, and actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest may arise. Shareholder litigation, dissident shareholder director nominations and dissident shareholder proposals have often been instituted against companies alleging conflicts of interest in business dealings with affiliated and related persons and entities. Our relationships with Adam D. Portnoy and our clients, the position of our Managing Directors and executive officers as directors, trustees or executive officers of our clients, the position of independent trustees and independent directors of our public clients as independent trustees or independent directors of other public clients and the relationships among our clients may precipitate such activities. In addition, certain proxy advisory firms which have significant influence over the voting by shareholders of public companies, have, in the past, recommended that shareholders vote against, or withhold votes for, the election of board members at annual meetings of shareholders of our clients, and they may advocate for similar voting actions for future meetings. These actions may affect the outcome of those elections and impact the governance of those clients, which may increase the risk of shareholder activism and litigation at those clients. These activities could result in substantial costs and diversion of our management's attention and could have a material adverse effect on our and our clients' reputations and businesses.
Risk Highlights Q2, 2025
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- Employment / Personnel - Risk 1Governance
Our Board of Directors holds oversight responsibility over our strategy and risk management, including material risks related to cybersecurity threats. Our Audit Committee takes a leading role in oversight of risk management, including risks related to cybersecurity, and receives reports from our management regarding cybersecurity risks and countermeasures being undertaken or considered by us, including updates on the internal and external cybersecurity landscape and relevant technical developments and more frequent reports as it may direct or as warranted. Our cybersecurity program is led by our Chief Information Officer, or CIO, who has over two decades of relevant experience in information technology and cybersecurity and has primary responsibility for assessing and managing material risks from cybersecurity threats and overseeing our cybersecurity team. Our CIO has previously held senior information technology and security roles, including as CIO of a global real estate firm and of a real estate investment trust. Our Director of Information Security and our cybersecurity team are responsible for, among other things, information technology failure mitigation and business continuity, cybersecurity threat detection and incident response and continuous network monitoring. Our cybersecurity team members have a broad array of relevant skills and expertise and have obtained, or are working to obtain, relevant information security certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Risk and Information Systems Control certifications. Our Director of Information Security assembles our incident response and investigative teams and informs our CIO if an incident occurs. Investigative findings are reported to our executive leadership and to the relevant Our Board of Directors holds oversight responsibility over our strategy and risk management, including material risks related to cybersecurity threats. Our Audit Committee takes a leading role in oversight of risk management, including risks related to cybersecurity, and receives reports from our management regarding cybersecurity risks and countermeasures being undertaken or considered by us, including updates on the internal and external cybersecurity landscape and relevant technical developments and more frequent reports as it may direct or as warranted. Our cybersecurity program is led by our Chief Information Officer, or CIO, who has over two decades of relevant experience in information technology and cybersecurity and has primary responsibility for assessing and managing material risks from cybersecurity threats and overseeing our cybersecurity team. Our CIO has previously held senior information technology and security roles, including as CIO of a global real estate firm and of a real estate investment trust. Our Director of Information Security and our cybersecurity team are responsible for, among other things, information technology failure mitigation and business continuity, cybersecurity threat detection and incident response and continuous network monitoring. Our cybersecurity team members have a broad array of relevant skills and expertise and have obtained, or are working to obtain, relevant information security certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Risk and Information Systems Control certifications. Our Director of Information Security assembles our incident response and investigative teams and informs our CIO if an incident occurs. Investigative findings are reported to our executive leadership and to the relevant
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