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Shared and Transition Services
Certain services are provided to the Company under a Transition Services Agreement (“TSA”) between MMC and the Company. The TSA is intended to provide certain services until the Company acquires the services separately. Under the TSA, the Company incurred net costs during the three months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 of $16,000 and $32,000, respectively, and during the six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 of $42,000 and $75,000, respectively. These amounts are included in selling, general and administrative expense in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of net and comprehensive income.
Brokerage and Financing Services with the Subsidiaries of MMC
MMC has wholly or majority owned subsidiaries that buy and sell commercial real estate properties. The Company performs certain brokerage and financing services related to transactions of the subsidiaries of MMC. For the three months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company earned real estate brokerage commissions and financing fees of $880,000 and $1.9 million, respectively, from transactions with subsidiaries of MMC related to these services. The Company incurred cost of services of $536,000 and $1.1 million, respectively, related to these revenues. For the six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company earned real estate brokerage commissions and financing fees of $1.6 million and $2.8 million, respectively, from transactions with subsidiaries of MMC related to these services. The Company incurred cost of services of $988,000 and $1.6 million, respectively, related to these revenues.
The Company has an operating lease with MMC for a single-story office building located in Palo Alto, California, which expires on May 31, 2022. The related operating lease cost was $332,000 and $333,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, and $665,000 and $666,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Operating lease cost is included in selling, general and administrative expense in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of net and comprehensive income. See Note 4 – “Operating Leases” for additional information.
Accounts Payable and Other Liabilities with MMC
As of June 30, 2020, and December 31, 2019, accounts payable and other liabilities with MMC totaling $94,000 and $88,000, respectively, remain unpaid and are included in accounts payable and other liabilities in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets.
The Company makes advances to
non-executive
employees from
At June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the aggregate principal amount for employee notes receivable was $576,000 and $388,000, respectively, which is included in other assets (current and
non-current)
in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. See Note 7 – “Selected Balance Sheet Data” for additional information.
As of June 30, 2020, George M. Marcus, the Company’s founder and
Co-Chairman,
beneficially owned approximately 40% of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock, including shares owned by Phoenix Investments Holdings, LLC and the Marcus Family Foundation II.
U.S. GAAP defines the fair value of a financial instrument as the amount that would be received from the sale of an asset in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The Company is responsible for the determination of fair value and the supporting methodologies and assumptions. The Company uses various pricing sources and third parties to provide and validate the values utilized.
The degree of judgment used in measuring the fair value of financial instruments is generally inversely correlated with the level of observable valuation inputs. Financial instruments with quoted prices in active markets generally have more pricing observability and less judgment is used in measuring fair value. Financial instruments for which no quoted prices are available have less observability and are measured at fair value using valuation models or other pricing techniques that require more judgment.
Assets recorded at fair value are measured and classified in accordance with a fair value hierarchy consisting of the three “levels” based on the observability of inputs available in the marketplace used to measure the fair values as discussed below:
| | | Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date for identical, unrestricted assets or liabilities; |