Government Properties Income Trust, Select Income REIT complete merger

Government Properties Income Trust has completed its merger with Select Income REIT.

After the effective time of the merger, the combined company changed its name to “Office Properties Income Trust” and effected a 1-for-4 reverse split of its outstanding common shares such that every four common shares of the combined company will be converted into one common share of the combined company. The company will begin trading on the Nasdaq on a split adjusted basis under the ticker symbol OPI on Jan. 2, 2019.

Government Properties Income Trust is a REIT that primarily owns properties located throughout the United States that are majority leased to government tenants and office properties in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., market area that are leased to government and private sector tenants.

GOV is managed by the operating subsidiary of The RMR Group, an alternative asset management company that is headquartered in Newton, Mass.