ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST INC

During the three months ended December 31, 2023, no director or officer of the Company adopted orterminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading agreement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading agreement,” as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Third Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement

On March 12, 2024, we entered into the Third Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement with Ashford LLC (the “Third Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement”). The Third Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement amends and restates the terms of the Second Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement, dated January 14, 2021, to, among other items: (i) require the Company pay the advisor the Portfolio Company Fee (as defined in the Third Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement) upon certain specified defaults under the Company’s loan agreements resulting in the foreclosure of the Company’s hotel properties, (ii) provide that there shall be no additional payments to the advisor from the amendments to the master hotel management agreement with Remington Hospitality and the master project management agreement with Premier until the Oaktree Credit Agreement is paid in full, and limits, for a period of two years thereafter, the incremental financial impact to no more than $2 million per year in additional payments to the advisor from such amendments, (iii) reduces the Consolidated Tangible Net Worth covenant (as defined in the Third Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement) to $750 million (plus 75% of net equity proceeds received) from $1 billion (plus 75% of net equity proceeds received), (iv) revise the criteria that would constitute a Company Change of Control, (v) revise the definition of termination fee to provide for a minimum amount of such termination fee and (vi) revise the criteria that would constitute a voting control event.

Second Consolidated, Amended and Restated Hotel Master Management Agreement

On March 12, 2024, Ashford TRS Corporation entered into a Second Consolidated, Amended and Restated Hotel Master Management Agreement with Remington Hospitality (the “Second A&R HMA”). The provisions of the Second A&R HMA are substantially the same as in the Consolidated, Amended and Restated Hotel Master Management Agreement, dated as of August 8, 2018. The Second A&R HMA provides for an initial term of ten years as to each hotel governed by the Second A&R HMA. The term may be renewed by Remington Hospitality, at its option, for three successive periods of seven years each, and, thereafter, a final term of four years, provided that at the time the option to renew is exercised, Remington Hospitality is not then in default under the Second A&R HMA. The Second A&R HMA also provides that Remington Hospitality may charge market premiums for its self-insured health plans to its hotel employees, the cost of which is an operating expense of the hotel properties.

Amended and Restated Master Project Management Agreement

On March 12, 2024, Ashford Hospitality Limited Partnership entered into an Amended and Restated Master Project Management Agreement with Premier (the “A&R PMA”). The provisions of the A&R PMA are substantially the same as the Master Project Management Agreement, dated as of August 8, 2018. The A&R PMA provides for an initial term of ten years as to each hotel governed by the A&R PMA. The term may be renewed by Premier, at its option, for three successive periods of seven years each, and, thereafter, a final term of four years, provided that at the time the option to renew is exercised, Premier is not then in default under the A&R PMA. The A&R PMA also (i) provides that fees will be payable monthly as the service is delivered based on percentage completion; (ii) allows a project management fee to be paid on a development, together with (and not in lieu of) the development fee; and (iii) fixes the fees for FF&E purchasing, expediting, freight management and warehousing at 8%.

Amendment No. 3 to Oaktree Credit Agreement

On March 11, 2024, we entered into Amendment No. 3 to the Oaktree Credit Agreement which, among other items, (i) extends the Credit Agreement to January 15, 2026, (ii) removes the $50 million minimum cash requirement, (iii) removes the 3% increase in the interest rate if cash is below $100 million, (iv) removes the provision in which a default under mortgage indebtedness is a default under the Credit Agreement, (v) increases the interest rate by 3.5% if the principal balance is not less than $100 million as of September 30, 2024 or not fully repaid by March 31, 2025, (vi) terminates all “delayed draw” term loan commitments and the unused fees thereon, (vii) provides for a mandatory prepayment of the Credit Agreement at the end of each calendar quarter in the amount by which unrestricted cash exceeds $75 million for the first three quarters of 2024, $50 million for the fourth quarter of 2024, and $25 million for each quarter thereafter, (viii) provides for a mandatory prepayment of the Credit Agreement in an amount equal to 50% of all net proceeds raised from the issuance of equity, including non-traded preferred stock (increased to 100% of such net proceeds if the principal balance is not less than $100 million as of September 30, 2024 or not fully repaid by March 31, 2025), (ix) removes the option to pay the exit fee in the form of common stock warrants, (x) requires the exit fee to be paid in the form of a 15% cash exit fee (payable entirely in cash), which exit fee shall be reduced to 12.5% if the Oaktree Credit Agreement is repaid on or before September 30, 2024, (xi) requires the Company to use commercially reasonable efforts to sell fifteen specified hotels, (xii) if the principal balance is not less than $100 million as of September 30, 2024 or not fully repaid by March 31, 2025, requires the Company to sell eight specified hotels at a minimum sales price within six months, with the net sales proceeds to be applied as a prepayment of the Credit Agreement, (xiii) requires the Company to use commercially reasonable efforts to refinance the Renaissance Nashville hotel property, and (xiv) limits the Company’s ability to perform discretionary capital expenditures.

Limited Waiver Under Advisory Agreement

On March 11, 2024, we entered into a Limited Waiver Under Advisory Agreement with Ashford Inc. and Ashford LLC (the “Advisory Agreement Limited Waiver”). Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement Limited Waiver, the Company, the Operating Partnership, TRS and the Advisor waive the operation of any provision in our advisory agreement that would otherwise limit the ability of the Company in its discretion, at the Company’s cost and expense, to award during calendar year 2024, cash incentive compensation to employees and other representatives of the Advisor.

Limited Waiver to Credit Agreement

On March 11, 2024, the Company and Ashford Trust OP, as borrower (the “Borrower”) entered into that certain Limited Waiver to Credit Agreement (the “Limited Waiver to Credit Agreement”) with the guarantors party thereto, the lenders party thereto (the "Lenders") and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent. Pursuant to the Limited Waiver to Credit Agreement, the Borrower, the other Loan Parties (as defined in the Oaktree Credit Agreement), the Lenders and the Administrative Agent acknowledged and agreed that:

(a) certain deferred cash grants were or are being awarded to employees and/or officers of the Advisor and/or their affiliates pursuant to equity compensation plans during 2022, 2023 and 2024, in aggregate amounts of $7,950,817 in 2022, $13,063,844 in 2023 and $14,880,846 in 2024 (i.e., $35,895,507 in the aggregate) (the “Specified Deferred Cash Grants”), which the parties agreed may be made (and were or are being made) in lieu of deferred stock grants that would otherwise be permitted and made under the terms of the Advisory Agreement;

(b) accordingly, (i) the departure from the terms of the Advisory Agreement in making the Specified Deferred Cash Grants as described in the foregoing clause (a) shall be deemed to be permitted under Section 7.13(b) of the Credit Agreement; provided, however, the Borrower and the other Loan Parties agree that actual cash payments made under the Specified Deferred Cash Grants, together with any other Restricted Payments (as defined in the Oaktree Credit Agreement) made pursuant to Section 7.06(f) of the Oaktree Credit Agreement, shall not exceed $30,000,000 in the aggregate unless and until the Borrower has repaid in full the principal amount of the Loans, including any Cash Exit Fee Loans (as such terms are defined in the Oaktree Credit Agreement); (ii) the Lenders and the Administrative Agent waive non-compliance with Section 7.13(b), if any, prior to March 11, 2024, which resulted or would result (absent the waiver) from the making of the Specified Deferred Cash Grants in accordance with the foregoing provisions of Section 2 of the Limited Waiver to Credit Agreement, and (iii) effective from March 11, 2024 Section 7.13(b) shall be deemed to be amended to permit the Specified Deferred Cash Grants in accordance with the foregoing provisions of Section 2 of the Limited Waiver to Credit Agreement; and

(c) the waiver contained in the Limited Waiver to Credit Agreement shall be effective only in this instance and for the specific purpose for which it was intended and shall not be deemed to be a consent to any other transaction or matter or waiver of compliance in the future, or a waiver of any preceding or succeeding breach of the same or any other covenant or provision of the Oaktree Credit Agreement.

The foregoing descriptions of the Third Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement, the Second A&R HMA, the A&R PMA, Amendment No. 3 to Oaktree Credit Agreement, the Advisory Agreement Limited Waiver and the Limited Waiver to Credit Agreement contained in this Item 9B do not purport to be complete and are subject to and qualified in their entirety by the full text of the agreements, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibit 10.64, Exhibit 10.65, Exhibit 10.66, Exhibit 10.67, Exhibit 10.68 and Exhibit 10.69, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.