Related Party Transactions |
9 Months Ended |
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Sep. 30, 2020 | |
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| Related Party Transactions | Related Party Transactions The following summary provides disclosure of the material transactions with affiliates of the Company.
Through August 14, 2020, the Company was externally managed and advised by PRCM Advisers under the terms of a Management Agreement between the Company and PRCM Advisers. The Company terminated the Management Agreement effective August 14, 2020 for “cause” in accordance with Section 15(a) thereof. On August 15, 2020, the Company completed its transition to self-management and directly hired the senior management team and other personnel who had historically provided services to the Company.
Prior to the termination of the Management Agreement, PRCM Advisers was responsible for administering the Company’s business activities and day-to-day operations, at all times subject to the supervision and oversight of the Company’s board of directors. Under the Management Agreement, PRCM Advisers was required to provide the Company with its personnel, including its executive officers, investment professionals and other support personnel. The Company did not have its own employees. Each of the Company’s executive officers was an employee or partner of an affiliate of Pine River. The Company paid PRCM Advisers a management fee equal to 1.5% per annum, calculated and payable quarterly in arrears, of the Company’s stockholders’ equity, and reimbursed it for certain expenses, as described below.
For purposes of calculating the management fee, the Company’s stockholders’ equity represented the sum of the net proceeds from all issuances of the Company’s equity securities since inception (allocated on a pro rata daily basis for such issuances during the fiscal quarter of any such issuance), plus the Company’s retained earnings at the end of the most recently completed calendar quarter (without taking into account any non-cash equity compensation expense incurred in current or prior periods), less the consolidated stockholders’ equity of Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc. and its subsidiaries, or Granite Point, during the time Granite Point was consolidated on the Company’s balance sheet (i.e. prior to the Company’s distribution of its shares of Granite Point common stock to the Company’s common stockholders in 2017), the weighted average cost basis of Granite Point common stock purchased by the Company, the outstanding principal balance of the promissory note due from the sale of Granite Point preferred stock and any amount that the Company has paid for repurchases of its common stock since inception, and excluding any unrealized gains, losses or other items that do not affect realized net income (regardless of whether such items are included in other comprehensive income or loss, or in net income). In connection with the Company’s acquisition of CYS Investments, Inc., or CYS, effective July 31, 2018, the Management Agreement was amended to reduce the base management fee with respect to the additional equity under management resulting from the merger from 1.5% to 0.75% from the effective time of the merger through the first anniversary of the effective time. Effective July 31, 2019, the management fee reduction on the equity acquired in the CYS transaction expired. The base management fee was subject to other adjustments from time to time, as described in the Management Agreement.
In accordance with the Management Agreement, the Company incurred $5.8 million and $31.7 million as a management fee to PRCM Advisers for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, respectively, and $16.8 million and $42.6 million as a management fee to PRCM Advisers for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019, respectively.
Additionally, prior to the termination of the Management Agreement, the Company reimbursed PRCM Advisers for (i) the Company’s allocable share of the compensation paid by PRCM Advisers to its personnel serving as the Company’s principal financial officer and general counsel and personnel employed by PRCM Advisers as in-house legal, tax, accounting, consulting, auditing, administrative, information technology, valuation, computer programming and development and back-office resources to the Company, and (ii) any amounts for personnel of PRCM Advisers’ affiliates arising under a shared facilities and services agreement. In accordance the Management Agreement, expense reimbursements to PRCM Advisers were required to be made in cash on a quarterly basis following the end of each quarter. The Company reimbursed PRCM Advisers for direct and allocated costs incurred by PRCM Advisers on behalf of the Company of approximately $3.2 million and $19.3 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, respectively, and $4.8 million and $23.0 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019, respectively.
Subsequent to the transition to self-management, the Company no longer pays a management fee to, or reimburses the expenses of, PRCM Advisers. Expenses for which the Company previously reimbursed PRCM Advisers are now borne directly by the Company. The Company is also now responsible for the compensation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer and investment professionals, which was previously the responsibility of PRCM Advisers.
The Company recognized $2.9 million and $7.5 million of compensation during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, respectively, and $2.2 million and $6.5 million of compensation during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019, respectively, related to restricted common stock issued to employees providing significant services to the Company and the Company’s independent directors pursuant to the Plan. See Note 18 - Equity Incentive Plan for additional information.
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