To: All Persons or Entities who purchased LaSalle Hotel Properties (“LaSalle” or the “Company”) (NYSE: LHO) stock prior to May 21, 2018. You are hereby notified that Levi & Korsinsky, LLP has commenced an investigation into the fairness of the LaSalle merger. LaSalle will be sold to Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII for $33.50 per share. To learn more about the LHO merger and your rights, go to: http://www.zlk.com/mna/lasalle-hotel-properties or contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. either via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500, toll-free: (877) 363-5972. There is no cost or obligation to you.

The investigation concerns whether the Board of LaSalle breached their fiduciary duties to stockholders by failing to adequately shop the Company before agreeing to enter into this transaction, and whether Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII is underpaying for LaSalle shares, thus unlawfully harming LaSalle shareholders.

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