8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM

8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): September 1, 2021

MEDICAL PROPERTIES TRUST, INC.

MPT OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, L.P.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Commission File Number

001-32559

Commission File Number

333-177186


Maryland Delaware		20-0191742 20-0242069
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)


1000 Urban Center Drive, Suite 501 Birmingham, AL		35242
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (205)

969-3755

Check the appropriate box below if the Form

8-K

filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the Registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐	Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐	Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:


Title of each class	Trading Symbol	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of Medical Properties Trust, Inc.	MPW	The New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule

12b-2

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

(§240.12b-2

of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

This Current Report on Form

8-K

is filed by Medical Properties Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), and MPT Operating Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership through which the Company conducts substantially all of its operations (the “Operating Partnership”). Through one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, the Company serves as the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership. Unless otherwise indicated or unless the context requires otherwise, references to “we” and “our” refer to the Company, the Operating Partnership and any other subsidiaries thereof.

Item 7.01.

Regulation FD Disclosure.

On September 1, 2021, the Company issued a press release announcing that it had entered into a definitive agreement with Macquarie Infrastructure Partners V (“MIP V”) to form a partnership pursuant to which a MIP V controlled subsidiary will acquire a 50% interest in a portfolio of eight Massachusetts-based general acute care hospitals currently owned by the Company and operated by Steward Health Care System. The transaction values the portfolio at approximately $1.78 billion. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

The information contained in this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1, is being “furnished” and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liability of that section or Sections 11 and 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The information in this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document pursuant to the Securities Act or into any filing or other document pursuant to the Exchange Act, except as otherwise expressly stated in any such filing.

Item 9.01.

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)

Exhibits


Exhibit Number		Description

99.1		Press release dated September 1, 2021

104		Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunder duly authorized.


MEDICAL PROPERTIES TRUST, INC.

By:		/s/ R. Steven Hamner
Name:		R. Steven Hamner
Title:		Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Date: September 1, 2021


MPT OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, L.P.

By:		/s/ R. Steven Hamner
Name:		R. Steven Hamner
Title:		Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the sole member of the general partner of MPT Operating Partnership, L.P.

Date: September 1, 2021