Related Party Transactions (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Sep. 25, 2015

Schedule Of Ownership Interest In The Consolidated Affiliated Entities

Our interests in these consolidated affiliated entities and the location of the property leased to Dolby Laboratories as of September 25, 2015 is as follows:



Entity Name	Minority Ownership Interest		Location Of Properties
Dolby Properties Brisbane, LLC	49.0	%	Brisbane, California
Dolby Properties Burbank, LLC	49.0	%	Burbank, California
Dolby Properties UK, LLC	49.0	%	Wootton Bassett, England
Dolby Properties, LP	10.0	%	Wootton Bassett, England

Jointly-Owned Real Estate Entities. We lease from our principal stockholder a commercial office building located at 100 Potrero Avenue in San Francisco, California under a term that expires on October 31, 2024, and we lease additional facilities located in California and the U.K. from the jointly-owned real estate entities described above. Related party rent expense included in operating expenses in our consolidated statements of operations was as follows (in thousands):



	Fiscal Year Ended
	September 25, 2015		September 26, 2014		September 27, 2013 (1)
Related party rent expense included in operating expenses	$	3,136	$	2,125	$	2,526


(1)	Related party rent expense recorded during fiscal 2013 from the table above includes a restructuring charge of $1.2 million associated with the exit of a facility. Note that this charge is excluded from our disclosure of rent expense payable to our principal stockholder during fiscal 2013 within Note 12 "Commitments & Contingencies."

Distributions. Distributions made by the jointly-owned real estate entities to our principal stockholder were as follows (in thousands):



	Fiscal Year Ended
	September 25, 2015		September 26, 2014		September 27, 2013
Distributions to principal stockholder	$	5,615	$	—	$	5,039