Company: BHR-PD
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001574085-25-000024
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Company: Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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 likewise require greater focus and attention, placing competing high levels of demand on the limited time and resources of Ashford LLC’s employees. We may not receive the necessary support and assistance we require or would otherwise receive if we were internally managed by persons working exclusively for us.

Conflicts of interest with Remington Hospitality and Premier, each of which is a subsidiary of Ashford Inc., could result in our management acting other than in our stockholders’ best interest.

Remington Hospitality, a subsidiary of Ashford Inc., currently manages the Pier House Resort & Spa, the Bardessono Hotel and Spa, Hotel Yountville and Cameo Beverly Hills. We expect Remington Hospitality will manage certain of the hotels we acquire in the future. Premier, also a subsidiary of Ashford Inc., currently provides design and construction services to us. We expect Premier will also provide design and construction services to us in the future. Conflicts of interest in general and 

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specifically relating to Remington Hospitality and Premier may lead to management decisions that are not in our stockholders’ best interest. 

As of December 31, 2024, Mr. Monty J. Bennett, chairman of our board of directors and chairman, chief executive officer and a significant stockholder of Ashford Inc. and Mr. Archie Bennett, Jr. together owned approximately 809,937 shares of Ashford Inc. common stock, which represented an approximate 46.6% ownership interest in Ashford Inc., and owned 18,758,600 shares of Ashford Inc. Series D Convertible Preferred Stock, which, along with all unpaid accrued and accumulated dividends thereon, was convertible (at a conversion price of $117.50 per share) into an additional approximate 4,395,281 shares of Ashford Inc. common stock, which if converted as of December 31, 2024 would have increased the Bennetts’ ownership interest in Ashford Inc. to 84.9%. The 18,758,600 shares of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock owned by Mr. Monty J. Bennett and Mr. Archie Bennett, Jr. include 360,000 shares owned by trusts.

We have entered into a hotel management MEA and a master hotel management agreement with Remington Hospitality and a project management MEA and master project management agreement with Premier. To the extent we have the right or control the right to direct such matters, the hotel management MEA requires us to engage Remington Hospitality to provide, under the master hotel management agreement, hotel