significant liabilities; or require the Company to seek licenses from others. Furthermore, legal actions could cause an existing customer or strategic partner to cease making royalty or other payments to the Company, or to challenge the validity and enforceability of patents owned by the Company’s subsidiaries or the scope of license agreements with the Company’s subsidiaries, and could significantly damage the Company’s relationship with such customer or strategic partner and, as a result, prevent the adoption of the Company’s other technologies by such customer or strategic partner. Litigation could also severely disrupt or shut down the business operations of customers or strategic partners of the Company’s subsidiaries, which in turn would significantly harm ongoing relations with them and cause the Company to lose royalty revenue.
The costs associated with legal proceedings are typically high, relatively unpredictable, and not completely within the Company’s control. These costs may be materially higher than expected, which could adversely affect the Company’s operating results and lead to volatility in the price of its common stock. Whether or not determined in the Company’s favor or ultimately settled, litigation diverts managerial, technical, legal, and financial resources from the Company’s business operations.
NOTE 13 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS AND NET PARENT COMPANY INVESTMENT
The Condensed Combined Financial Statements have been prepared on a standalone basis and are derived from the consolidated financial statements and accounting records of Parent. The following disclosure summarizes activity between the Company and Parent, including the affiliates of Parent that are not part of the planned spin-off transaction.
Allocation of Corporate expenses
The Condensed Combined Financial Statements include expenses for certain management and support functions which are provided on a centralized basis within Parent, as described in Note 1 – The Company and Basis of Presentation. These management and support functions include, but are not limited to, executive management, sales and marketing, finance, legal, information technology, employee benefits administration, stock-based compensation, treasury, risk management, procurement and other shared services. These allocations were made on a direct usage basis when identifiable, with the remainder allocated on a pro rata basis of billing, revenue, headcount or other measures of the Company and Parent. The amount of these allocations from Parent was $15 million, which included $1.2 million for depreciation expenses and $13.8 million for selling, general and administrative for the 3 months ended March 31, 2022, and $15.2 million, which included $1.2 million for depreciation expenses and $13.9 million for selling, general and administrative for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
Management believes these cost allocations are a reasonable reflection of the utilization of services provided to, or the benefit derived by, the Company during the periods presented. The allocations may not, however, be indicative of the actual expenses that would have been incurred had the Company operated as a standalone public company. Actual costs that may have been incurred if the Company had been a standalone public company would depend on a number of factors, such as the chosen organizational structure, whether functions were outsourced or performed by Company’s employees, and strategic decisions made in areas such as selling, information technology and infrastructure.
Net Parent company investment
Net Parent company investment on the Condensed Combined Balance Sheets and Statements of Equity represents Parent’s historical investment in the Company, the net effect of transactions with and allocations from Parent and the Company’s accumulated earnings and deficit and cumulative effect adjustments from the adoption of new accounting standards.
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