Company: DRH-PA
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001298946-25-000015
Chunk: 103

Company: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 16
Chunk 103
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Management has used the framework set forth in the report entitled Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission to evaluate the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting. Management has concluded that the Company's internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2024. KPMG LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, audited the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024 as stated in their report, which appears below.

/s/ JEFFREY J. DONNELLYChief Executive Officer(Principal Executive Officer)/s/ BRIONY R. QUINNExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer(Principal Financial Officer)/s/ STEPHEN M. SPIERTOChief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller(Principal Accounting Officer)

February 28, 2025

F-2

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors

DiamondRock Hospitality Company:

Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting 

We have audited DiamondRock Hospitality Company and subsidiaries' (the Company) internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes and financial statement schedule III (collectively, the consolidated financial statements), and our report dated February 28, 2025 expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements.

Basis for Opinion 

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included