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The information appearing on DHC ’s website includes statements which constitute forward looking statements. These forward looking statements are based upon DHC ’s present intents, beliefs or expectations, but forward looking statements are not guaranteed to occur and may not occur. DHC ’s actual results may differ materially from those contained in DHC ’s forward looking statements. The information contained in DHC ’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including under “Risk Factors" and “Warnings Concerning Forward Looking Statements” in DHC ’s periodic reports and other filings, identifies important factors that could cause DHC ’s actual results to differ materially from those stated in DHC ’s forward looking statements. DHC ’s filings with the SEC are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and are also accessible on DHC ’s website at the following link: SEC Filings. You should not place undue reliance upon forward looking statements.

The documents provided in this archived section are provided for historical purposes only. The information contained in each document is accurate only as of the date each document was originally issued or such earlier date stated in those documents. Diversified Healthcare Trust does not undertake any obligation to update any information contained in these documents. For current information about the company, please refer to our most recent public SEC Filings.

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Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements

The information appearing on Diversified Healthcare Trust’s (“DHC”) website contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other securities laws. Also, whenever DHC uses words such as “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “plan”, “estimate”, “will”, “may” and negatives or derivatives of these or similar expressions, it is making forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon DHC’s present intent, beliefs or expectations, but forward-looking statements are not guaranteed to occur and may not occur. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in or implied by DHC’s forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. For example: (a) Office Properties Income Trust (“OPI”) and DHC have entered into a definitive merger agreement and the proposed merger is expected to close in the third quarter of 2023. However, the closing of the proposed merger is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of closing conditions, including DHC shareholder approval and the financing or any consents or approvals required or contemplated in connection with the proposed merger, some of which are beyond DHC’s control, and DHC cannot be sure that any or all of these conditions will be satisfied or waived. Accordingly, the proposed merger may not close on the contemplated terms or at all or it may be delayed; (b) DHC shareholders are expected to benefit from an annual dividend of $1.00 per share of the combined company. However, the Board of Trustees of the combined company will consider many factors when setting distribution rates, and thus future distribution rates may be increased or decreased and DHC cannot be sure as to the rate at which future distributions will be paid; (c) the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement and the terms thereof were evaluated, negotiated and recommended to DHC’s Board of Trustees by a special committee of DHC’s Board of Trustees, comprised solely of DHC’s disinterested, Independent Trustees, and were separately approved by DHC’s Independent Trustees and by DHC’s Board of Trustees. Despite this process, DHC could be subject to claims challenging the proposed merger or other transactions or DHC’s entry into the merger and related agreements because of the multiple relationships among DHC, OPI and The RMR Group LLC (“RMR”) and their related persons and entities or other reasons, and defending even meritless claims could be expensive and distracting to management; and (d) DHC’s website contains statements regarding the expectations for proposed merger and the combined company which may imply that the combined company will achieve its expected strategic and financial goals and the shareholders will benefit from the growth potential of the combined company. However, the combined company will be subject to various risks, including: the risk that the combined businesses will not be integrated successfully or that the integration will be more costly or more time-consuming and complex than anticipated; the risk that cost savings and synergies anticipated to be realized by the merger may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected; risks related to future opportunities, plans and strategy for the combined company, including the uncertainty of expected future financial performance, expected access to cash flows and capital, timing of accretion, distribution rates and results of the combined company following completion of the proposed merger and the challenges facing the industries in which each company currently operates and the combined company will, following the closing of the transaction, operate; risks related to the market value of the OPI common shares of beneficial interest to be issued in the proposed merger; risks associated with indebtedness incurred in connection with the proposed merger, including the potential inability to access, or reduced access to, the capital markets or other capital resources or increased cost of borrowings, including as a result of a credit rating downgrade; risks associated with the level of capital expenditures of each company and the combined company following the proposed merger; and risks associated with the impact of general economic, political and market factors on the combined company. As a result, the combined company may not achieve the long-term growth and value creation for shareholder as expected.

The information contained in DHC's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including under “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” or incorporated therein, also identifies important factors that could cause DHC's actual results to differ materially from those stated in or implied by DHC's forward-looking statements. DHC's filings with the SEC are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov and are also accessible on DHC ’s website at the following link: SEC Filings.

You should not place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, DHC does not intend to update or change any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

The documents provided in this section are provided for historical purposes only. The information contained in each document is accurate only as of the date each document was originally issued or such earlier date stated in those documents. DHC does not undertake any obligation to update any information contained in these documents. For current information about DHC, please refer to DHC’s most recent public SEC Filings.

IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE MERGER

The information appearing on DHC ’s website may be deemed to be solicitation material in respect of the proposed merger between DHC and OPI. In connection with the proposed merger, OPI filed a registration statement on Form S-4 with the SEC containing a joint proxy statement/prospectus of DHC and OPI. On July 21, 2023, the registration statement was declared effective by the SEC and DHC and OPI each filed with the SEC and commenced mailing to their respective shareholders the definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus. The proposed transaction involving DHC and OPI will be submitted to DHC’s and OPI’s shareholders for their consideration at special meetings of shareholders to be held on August 30, 2023. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING OR INVESTMENT DECISION, INVESTORS ARE URGED TO CAREFULLY READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, THE JOINT PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS THAT ARE FILED OR WILL BE FILED WITH THE SEC IN CONNECTION WITH THE MERGER OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND JOINT PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN OR WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT DHC, OPI AND THE MERGER. Investors are also able to obtain copies of the registration statement and the joint proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant documents (when they become available) free of charge at the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov). Additional copies of documents filed by DHC with the SEC may be obtained for free on DHC’s Investor Relations website at www.dhcreit.com/investors or by contacting the DHC Investor Relations department at 1-617-796-8234. In addition to the registration statement and the joint proxy statement/prospectus, DHC files annual, quarterly and current reports and other information with the SEC. DHC’s filings with the SEC are also available to the public from commercial document-retrieval services and at the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov.

NO OFFER OR SOLICITATION

The information appearing on DHC ’s website is for informational purposes only and is not intended to and does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to subscribe for or buy, any securities or a solicitation of any vote or approval in any jurisdiction with respect to the merger or otherwise, nor shall there be any sale, issuance or transfer of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful, prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

PARTICIPANTS IN THE SOLICITATION

DHC and certain of its trustees and executive officers, OPI and certain of its trustees and executive officers, and RMR, the manager of DHC and OPI, and its parent and certain of their respective directors, officers and employees may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from DHC’s and OPI’s shareholders in connection with the merger. Certain information regarding these trustees, executive officers, directors, officers and employees and a description of their direct and indirect interests are set forth in the registration statement and the joint proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC by DHC and/or OPI. Information about DHC’s trustees and executive officers is also included in the proxy statement for DHC’s 2023 annual meeting of shareholders, which was filed with the SEC on April 20, 2023. Information about OPI’s trustees and executive officers is included in the proxy statement for OPI’s 2023 annual meeting of shareholders, which was filed with the SEC on April 6, 2023. Copies of the foregoing documents may be obtained as provided above.

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December 23, 2013

Senior Housing Properties Trust Amends Management Agreement with RMR

Implements Changes Announced Earlier this Year to Further Align Interests of Management with Shareholders While Maintaining Low Cost Structure

New Incentive Fee Based on Three Year Total Return per Share Relative to Performance of Other Healthcare REITs

Eliminates Related Party Purchase Rights for Property Sales

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH) today announced that it has amended its business management agreement with Reit Management & Research LLC, or RMR, effective January 1, 2014. The amended agreement implements the previously announced plan to change the business management agreement, as follows:

New Base Management Fee:

  • The new calculation of the base management fee will be based on approximately 0.5% multiplied by the lower of: (i) the historical cost of SNH's real estate assets or (ii) SNH's total market capitalization. The comparatively low level of general and administrative, or G&A, expenses that SNH has historically enjoyed will continue, but with this change it is possible that G&A expenses may further decline if the market value of SNH's common shares declines.
  • 10% of the base fee will be paid in SNH's common shares. As a result, management's share ownership is expected to increase over time.

New Incentive Fee:

  • The new incentive fee will be calculated based on total return per share (dividends and share price changes) realized by SNH's shareholders in comparison to the total return of the SNL REIT Healthcare Index, or the Benchmark. The incentive fee formula will be based on the amount of outperformance, if any, realized by SNH's shareholders during the measurement periods compared to the Benchmark, multiplied by a 12% participation rate. For example, if SNH's shareholders' total return is 10% during the measurement period and the Benchmark's total return is 5% during that same period, the incentive fee will be 12% of the 5% of total outperformance realized by SNH's shareholders.
  • The measurement period for the new incentive fee will be a rolling, cumulative three year period starting January 1, 2014. In other words, the incentive fee payable at the end of 2016 will be based upon the outperformance realized by SNH's shareholders compared to the Benchmark cumulatively during 2014, 2015 and 2016; the incentive fee payable at the end of the 2017 would be based upon the cumulative outperformance realized in 2015, 2016 and 2017; etc.
  • No incentive fee will be payable by SNH in the event the total return realized during any measurement period is negative, even if the total return realized by SNH's shareholders exceeds the Benchmark. Also, the incentive fee formula includes a "high performance modifier" so that, within specific parameters, if the total return realized by SNH's shareholders over a three year period exceeds 36% an adjusted incentive fee may be paid.
  • The incentive fee will be paid in SNH's common shares. The annual payment of the incentive fee will be limited, or capped, at 1.5% of the number of SNH's common shares outstanding at the end of each measurement period. Common shares issued for payment of the incentive fees will vest over a multi-year period and the shares will be subject to "claw back" in the event of subsequent financial restatements. Also, because it will take three years for the new incentive fee formula to become fully effective, a one year interim fee may be paid at the end of 2014 and a two year cumulative interim fee may be paid at the end of 2015 based on outperforming the pro-rata hurdles in each of those periods.

The previous incentive fee arrangement was based on a percentage of annual increases in funds from operations, or FFO, per share. The new incentive fee formula is intended to more directly align the fee paid with the total return realized by shareholders relative to SNH's Healthcare REIT peers.

The new incentive fee formula was established by the SNH Board of Trustees' Compensation Committee (which is comprised solely of Independent Trustees) and it was developed by that Committee in consultation with FTI Consulting, Inc., an independent compensation consultant selected by the Committee.

Other Management Contract Terms:

In addition to the new fee formulas described above, the amended business management agreement eliminates the historical "right of first offer" for property dispositions among SNH and other REITs managed by RMR.

The amended business management agreement continues to require RMR to provide all personnel and substantially all corporate office functions typically included in G&A expenses, except certain third party services and expenses such as outside counsel and accountants as well as the fees and expenses of the Independent Trustees.

Senior Housing Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns independent and assisted living communities, medical office buildings, nursing homes and wellness centers throughout the United States. SNH is headquartered in Newton, MA.

WARNING REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

THIS PRESS RELEASE INCLUDES FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995 AND OTHER SECURITIES LAWS. THESE FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS ARE BASED UPON SNH'S AND ITS INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES' PRESENT BELIEFS AND EXPECTATIONS, BUT THEY ARE NOT GUARANTEED TO OCCUR AND MAY NOT OCCUR FOR VARIOUS REASONS, INCLUDING SOME REASONS WHICH ARE BEYOND SNH'S AND THE INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES' CONTROL. FOR EXAMPLE: THIS PRESS RELEASE REFERS TO THE COMPARATIVELY LOW LEVEL OF G&A EXPENSES WHICH SNH HAS HISTORICALLY EXPERIENCED AND STATES THAT SNH MAY CONTINUE TO RECEIVE HIGH QUALITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT BELOW AVERAGE COSTS. THE COMPARATIVE AND AVERAGE COSTS OF MANAGEMENT COSTS AND G&A EXPENSES MAY BE CALCULATED IN DIFFERENT WAYS: BY AMOUNTS, AS A PERCENTAGE OF ASSETS, AS A PERCENTAGE OF REVENUES AND OTHERWISE. SNH AND ITS INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES BELIEVE THAT THEIR CALCULATIONS OF SUCH COSTS AND EXPENSES ARE APPROPRIATE. HOWEVER, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT OTHERS MAY DISPUTE THESE CALCULATIONS TO ARGUE THAT SUCH COSTS AND EXPENSE ARE NOT AT A LOW LEVEL OR BELOW AVERAGE.

FOR THESE REASONS, AMONG OTHERS, INVESTORS ARE CAUTIONED NOT TO PLACE UNDUE RELIANCE UPON FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS IN THIS PRESS RELEASE OR THEIR IMPLICATIONS.

A Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust with transferable shares of beneficial interest listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
No shareholder, Trustee or officer is personally liable for any act or obligation of the Trust.

Senior Housing Properties Trust
Timothy A. Bonang, 617-796-8234
Vice President, Investor Relations
www.snhreit.com

Source: Senior Housing Properties Trust

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