Related Party Transactions and Arrangements | Related Party Transactions and Arrangements As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, entities wholly owned by AR Global owned 56,091 shares of the Company’s outstanding common stock. Fees and Participations Incurred in Connection with the Operations of the Company Summary of Advisory Agreement Pursuant to the advisory agreement with the Advisor (as amended from time to time, the “Advisory Agreement”), the Advisor manages the Company’s day-to-day operations. The initial term of the Advisory Agreement ends in July 2030, and will automatically renew for successive five-year terms unless either party gives written notice of its election not to renew at least 180 days prior to the then-applicable expiration date. The Company may only elect not to renew the Advisory Agreement on this basis with the prior approval of at least two-thirds of the Company’s independent directors, and no change of control fee (as defined in the Advisory Agreement) is payable if the Company makes this election. Asset Management Fees and Variable Management/Incentive Fees The Company pays the Advisor a base asset management fee on the first business day of each month equal to (x) $0.5 million plus (y) a variable amount equal to (a) 1.25% of the equity proceeds received after November 16, 2018, divided by (b) 12. The base asset management fee is payable in cash, shares of common stock, units of limited partnership interest in the OP, or a combination thereof, at the Advisor’s election. Equity proceeds are defined as, with respect to any period, cumulative net proceeds of all common and preferred equity and equity-linked securities issued by the Company and its subsidiaries during the period, including: (i) any equity issued in exchange or conversion of exchangeable notes based on the stock price at the date of issuance and convertible equity; (ii) any other issuances of equity, including but not limited to units in the OP (excluding equity-based compensation but including issuances related to an acquisition, investment, joint-venture or partnership); and (iii) effective following the time the Company commences paying a dividend of at least $0.05 per share per annum to its stockholders, (which occurred in October 2020), any cumulative Core Earnings (as defined in the Advisory Agreement) in excess of cumulative distributions paid on the Company’s common stock since November 16, 2018, the effective date of the most recent amendment and restatement of the Advisory Agreement. The Advisory Agreement also entitles the Advisor to an incentive variable management fee. In August 2020, the Company entered into an amendment to the Advisory Agreement to adjust the quarterly thresholds of Core Earnings Per Adjusted Share (as defined in the Advisory Agreement) the Company must reach on a quarterly basis for the Advisor to receive the variable management fee to reflect the Reverse Stock Split. Prior to this amendment, the variable management fee was equal to (i) the product of (a) the diluted weighted-average outstanding shares of common stock for the calendar quarter (excluding any equity-based awards that are subject to performance metrics that are not currently achieved) multiplied by (b) 15.0% multiplied by (c) the excess of Core Earnings Per Adjusted Share for the previous three-month period in excess of $0.06, plus (ii) the product of (x) the diluted weighted-average outstanding shares of common stock for the calendar quarter (excluding any equity-based awards that are subject to performance metrics that are not currently achieved) multiplied by (y) 10.0% multiplied by (z) the excess of Core Earnings Per Adjusted Share for the previous three-month period in excess of $0.08. Following the August 2020 amendment, the quarterly thresholds of Core Earnings Per Adjusted Share increased from $0.06 and $0.08 to $0.1458 and $0.1944 . The variable management fee is payable quarterly in arrears in cash, shares of common stock, units of limited partnership interest in the OP or a combination thereof, at the Advisor’s election. No incentive variable management fees were earned during the three months ended June 30, 2021 or June 30, 2020. The Compan y paid $1.5 million in cash asset management fees during each of the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, and $3.0 million during each of the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020. There were no variable management fees incurred in either of these periods. Prior to October 1, 2015, for its asset management services provided under the advisory agreement, the Company caused the OP to issue to the Advisor 65,498 Class B Units (52,398 of which were still held by the Advisor at the time of the Listing), after giving effect to the Reverse Stock Split (see Note 1 — Organization for additional details). The Class B Units were intended to be profits interests that would vest, and no longer subject to forfeiture, at such time as: (a) the value of the OP’s assets plus all distributions made by the Company to its stockholders equaled or exceeded the total amount of capital contributed by investors plus a 6.0% cumulative, pretax, non-compounded annual return thereon, (the “Economic Hurdle”); (b) any one of the following events occurred concurrently with or subsequently to the achievement of the Economic Hurdle: (i) a listing of the Company’s common stock on a national securities exchange; (ii) a transaction to which the Company or the OP was a party, as a result of which OP units or the Company’s common stock were exchanged for or converted into the right, or the holders of such securities will otherwise be entitled, to receive cash, securities or other property or any combination thereof; or (iii) the termination of the advisory agreement without cause by an affirmative vote of a majority of the Company’s independent directors after the Economic Hurdle had been met; and (c) the Advisor pursuant to the advisory agreement was providing services to the Company immediately prior to the occurrence of an event of the type described in clause (b) above (the “performance condition”). Pursuant to the limited partnership agreement of the OP, the Advisor was entitled to receive distributions on Class B Units, whether vested or unvested, at the same rate as distributions, if any, received on the Company’s common stock. Such distributions on issued Class B Units, if any, were expensed in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss until the performance condition was considered probable to occur. As a result of the Listing, which satisfied the performance condition, and the prior determination by the Company’s independent directors that the Economic Hurdle, had been satisfied, the Class B Units vested in accordance with their terms and were converted into an equal number of Class A Units. In addition, effective at the Listing following this conversion and as approved by the Company’s independent directors, 52,398 Class A Units, which were then held by the Advisor, were redeemed for an equal number of newly issued shares of Class A common stock consistent with redemption provisions contained in the A&R OP Agreement. As a result of the conversion of all 65,498 Class B Units into Class A Units, the Company recorded a non-cash expense of approximately $1.2 million which was recorded in vesting and conversion of Class B Units in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2020. The remaining Class A Units were redeemed for an equal number of shares of Class A common stock during the second quarter of 2021. Property Management Fees Pursuant to the Property Management and Leasing Agreement, dated as of April 24, 2014 (the “PMA”), except in certain cases where the Company contracts with a third party, the Company pays the Property Manager a property management fee equal to: (i) for non-hotel properties, 3.25% of gross revenues from the properties managed, plus market-based leasing commissions; and (ii) for hotel properties, a market-based fee based on a percentage of gross revenues. The term of the PMA is coterminous with the term of the Advisory Agreement. Pursuant to the PMA, the Company reimburses the Property Manager for property-level expenses. These reimbursements are not limited in amount and may include reasonable salaries, bonuses, and benefits of individuals employed by the Property Manager, except for the salaries, bonuses, and benefits of individuals who also serve as one of the Company’s executive officers or as an executive officer of the Property Manager or any of its affiliates. The Property Manager may also subcontract the performance of its property management and leasing services duties to third parties and pay all or a portion of its property management fee to the third parties with whom it contracts for these services. On April 13, 2018, in connection with a loan the Company entered into in April 2018, the borrowers entered into a new property management agreement with the Property Manager (the “April 2018 PMA”) to manage the properties secured by the loan. With respect to these properties, the substantive terms of the April 2018 PMA are identical to the terms of the PMA, except that the property management fee for non-hotel properties is 4.0% of gross revenues from the properties managed, plus market-based leasing commissions. The April 2018 PMA has an initial term of one year that is automatically extended for an unlimited number of successive one-year terms at the end of each year unless any party gives 60 days’ written notice to the other parties of its intention to terminate. The Company incurred approximately $0.3 million and $0.3 million in property management fees during the three months ended June 30, 2021 and June 30, 2020, respectively, and $0.8 million and $0.8 million during the six months ended June 30, 2021 and June 30, 2020, respectively. Professional Fees and Other Reimbursements The Company pays directly or reimburses the Advisor monthly in arrears, for all the expenses paid or incurred by the Advisor or its affiliates in connection with the services it provides to the Company under the Advisory Agreement, subject to the following limitations: • With respect to administrative and overhead expenses of the Advisor, including administrative and overhead expenses of all employees of the Advisor or its affiliates directly or indirectly involved in the performance of services but not including their salaries, wages, and benefits, these costs may not exceed in any fiscal year, (i) $0.4 million, or (ii) if the Asset Cost (as defined in the Advisory Agreement) as of the last day of the fiscal quarter immediately preceding the month is equal to or greater than $1.25 billion, (x) the Asset Cost as of the last day of the fiscal quarter multiplied by (y) 0.10%. • With respect to the salaries, wages, and benefits of all employees of the Advisor or its affiliates directly or indirectly involved in the performance of services (including the Company’s executive officers), these amounts must be comparable to market rates and reimbursements may not exceed, in any fiscal year, (i) $2.6 million, or (ii) if the Asset Cost as of the last day of the fiscal year is equal to or greater than $1.25 billion, (x) the Asset Cost as of the last day of the fiscal year multiplied by (y) 0.30%. Professional fees and other reimbursements for the three months ended June 30, 2021 and June 30, 2020 were $1.0 million and $1.2 million, respectively, and $2.4 million and $2.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and June 30, 2020, respectively. These amounts include reimbursements to the Advisor for administrative, overhead and personnel services, which are subject to the limits noted above, as well as costs associated with directors and officers insurance which are not subject to those limits. The amount of expenses included within professional fees and other reimbursements related to administrative, overhead and personnel services provided by and reimbursed to the Advisor for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 were $0.7 million and $1.9 million, respectively, of which $0.1 million and $0.4 million related to administrative and overhead expenses and $0.7 million and $1.6 million were for salaries, wages, and benefits. Total reimbursement expenses for administrative and personnel services provided by and reimbursed to the Advisor during the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 were $1.0 million and $1.9 million, respectively, of which $0.1 million and $0.4 million related to administrative and overhead expenses and $0.9 million and $1.5 million related to salaries, wages, and benefits. As part of this reimbursement, with respect to the salaries, wages, and benefits of all employees of the Advisor or its affiliates, the Company paid approximately $0.9 million in 2019 to the Advisor or its affiliates as reimbursement for bonuses of employees of the Advisor or its affiliates who provided administrative services during such calendar year, prorated for the time spent working on matters relating to the Company. The Company does not reimburse the Advisor or its affiliates for any bonus amounts relating to time dedicated to the Company by Edward M. Weil, Jr., the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. The Advisor formally awarded 2019 bonuses to employees of the Advisor or its affiliates in September 2020 (the “2019 Bonus Awards”). The original $0.9 million estimate for bonuses recorded and paid to the Advisor in 2019 exceeded the cash portion of the 2019 Bonus Awards to be paid to employees of the Advisor or its affiliates by $0.4 million and that were to be reimbursed by the Company. As a result, during the three months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recorded a receivable from the Advisor of $0.4 million in prepaid expenses and other assets on the consolidated balance sheet and a corresponding reduction in general and administrative expenses. Pursuant to authorization by the Company’s board of directors, the $0.4 million receivable is payable to the Company over a 10-month period from January 2021 through October 2021. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, approximately $0.2 million was received. Reimbursements for the cash portion of 2020 bonuses to employees of the Advisor or its affiliates were expensed and reimbursed on a monthly basis during 2020, and 2021 bonuses continue to be expensed and reimbursed on a monthly basis during 2021 in accordance with the cash bonus estimates provided by the Advisor. Generally, prior to the 2019 Bonus Awards, employee bonuses have been formally awarded to employees of the Advisor or its affiliates in March as an all-cash award and paid out by the Advisor in the year subsequent to the year in which services were rendered to the Company. Summary of Fees, Expenses and Related Payables The following table details amounts incurred in connection with the Company’s operations-related services described above as of and for the periods presented: Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30, Payable (receivable) as of (In thousands) 2021 2020 2021 2020 June 30, 2021 December 31, 2020 Ongoing fees: Asset and property management fees to related parties $ 1,847 $ 1,844 3,754 3,842 $ 74 (2) $ (28) (3) Professional fees and other reimbursements (1) 975 1,186 2,367 2,228 — (2) — Professional fee credit due from the Advisor — — — — (163) (4) (407) (4) Total related party operation fees and reimbursements $ 2,822 $ 3,030 $ 6,121 $ 6,070 $ (89) $ (435) ________ (1) Amounts for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 are included in general and administrative expenses in the unaudited consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. (2) Included in accounts payable, accrued expense and other liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet. (3) Included in prepaid expenses and other assets on the consolidated balance sheet. (4) Included in general and administrative expenses. The $0.4 million relates to overpayment of the 2019 Bonus Awards, of which $0.2 million was received during the six months ended June 30, 2021. Listing Arrangements Listing Note Pursuant to the limited partnership agreement of the OP, which was amended and restated in connection with the effectiveness of the Listing on the Listing Date (as so amended and restated, the “A&R OP Agreement”), in the event the Company’s shares of common stock was listed on a national exchange, the OP was obligated to distribute to the Special Limited Partner a promissory note in an aggregate amount (the “Listing Amount”) equal to 15.0% of the difference (to the extent the result is a positive number) between: • the sum of (i) (A) the average closing price of the shares of Class A common stock over the Measurement Period (as defined below) multiplied by the number of shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of the Listing, plus (B) the sum of all distributions or dividends (from any source) paid by the Company to its stockholders prior to the Listing; and (ii) (X) the aggregate purchase price (without deduction for organization and offering expenses or any other underwriting discount, commissions or offering expenses) of the initial public offering of the Company’s common stock, plus (Y) the total amount of cash that, if distributed to the stockholders who purchased shares of the Company’s common stock in the initial public offering, would have provided those stockholders with a 6.0% cumulative, non-compounded, pre-tax annual return on the aggregate purchase price of shares sold in the initial public offering through the listing, minus any distributions of net sales proceeds made to the Special Limited Partner prior to the end of the Measurement Period (as defined below). Effective at the Listing, the OP entered into a listing note agreement with respect to this obligation (the “Listing Note”) with the Special Limited Partner. The Listing Note evidences the OP’s obligation to distribute to the Special Limited Partner the Listing Amount, which will be calculated based on the Market Value of the Company’s common stock. Until the end of the 30 consecutive trading dates commencing on February 9, 2022 (the “Measurement Period”), which will be the 180th day after August 13, 2021, which will be the day all of the shares of the Company’s Class B common stock have fully converted into shares of Class A common stock and are eligible for trading on the NYSE (the “Measurement Period”), the final value of the Listing Note will not be determinable. Until the amount of the Listing Note can be determined, the Listing Note will be considered a liability which will be marked to fair value at each reporting date, with changes in the fair value recorded in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. The fair value of the Listing Note at issuance on the Listing Date (August 18, 2020) and at June 30, 2021 was nominal and was determined using a Monte Carlo simulation, which uses a combination of observable and unobservable inputs. The fair value of the Listing Note, if any, will be paid at the end of the Measurement Period. The Special Partner has the right to receive distributions of Net Sales Proceeds (as defined in the Listing Note), until the Listing Note is paid in full; provided that, the Special Limited Partner has the right, but not the obligation, to convert its entire special limited partnership interest in the OP into Class A Units. Multi-Year Outperformance Agreement The amendments effected to the limited partnership agreement of the OP pursuant to the A&R OP Agreement generally reflect provisions more consistent with the agreements of limited partnership of other operating partnerships controlled by real estate investment trusts with securities that are publicly traded and listed and make other changes in light of the transactions entered into by the Company in connection with the Listing. The A&R OP Agreement sets forth the terms of the LTIP Units, which includes the Master LTIP Unit (the “Master LTIP Unit”) issued to the Advisor on August 18, 2020 pursuant to a multi-year outperformance award agreement entered into with the Advisor (the “2020 OPP”). In addition, the A&R OP Agreement describes the procedures pursuant to which holders of Class A Units may redeem all or a portion of their Class A Units on a one-for-one basis for, at the Company’s election, shares of Class A common stock or the cash equivalent thereof. The A&R OP Agreement also requires the Company, upon the request of a holder of Class A Units but subject to certain conditions and limitations, to register under the Securities Act, the issuance or resale of the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon redemption of Class A Units in accordance with the A&R OP Agreement. On the Listing Date, the Company, the OP and the Advisor entered into the 2020 OPP pursuant to which a performance-based equity award was granted to the Advisor. Initially, the award under the 2020 OPP was in the form of a single Master LTIP Unit. On September 30, 2020, the Master LTIP Unit automatically converted into 4,012,841 LTIP Units in accordance with its terms. For additional information on the 2020 OPP, see Note 11 – Equity-Based Compensation. Termination Fees Payable to the Advisor The Advisory Agreement requires the Company to pay a termination fee to the Advisor in the event the Advisory Agreement is terminated prior to the expiration of the initial term in certain limited scenarios. The termination fee will be payable to the Advisor if either the Company or the Advisor exercises the right to terminate the Advisory Agreement in connection with the consummation of the first change of control (as defined in the Advisory Agreement). The termination fee is equal to • $15 million plus an amount equal to the product of (i) three (if the termination was effective on or prior to June 30, 2020) or four (if the termination is effective after June 30, 2020), multiplied by (ii) applicable Subject Fees. The “Subject Fees” are equal to (i) the product of • (a) 12, multiplied by (b) the actual base management fee for the month immediately prior to the month in which the Advisory Agreement is terminated, plus (ii) the product of (x) four multiplied by (y) the actual variable management fee for the quarter immediately prior to the quarter in which the Advisory Agreement is terminated, plus, (iii) without duplication, the annual increase in the base management fee resulting from the cumulative net proceeds of any equity issued by the Company and its subsidiaries in respect of the fiscal quarter immediately prior to the fiscal quarter in which the Advisory Agreement is terminated. In connection with the termination or expiration of the Advisory Agreement, the Advisor will be entitled to receive (in addition to any termination fee) all amounts then accrued and owing to the Advisor, including an amount equal to then-present fair market value of its shares of the Company’s common stock and interest in the OP. |