Acquisitions, Dispositions and Other Significant Transactions

From 2016 through 2018, the Company disposed of an aggregate of 75 owned communities (50 in 2016, 3 in 2017 and 22 in 2018). The Company also entered into agreements with its largest lessors that restructured a significant portion of its triple-net lease obligations. As a result of the transactions with HCP, Inc. (“HCP”) announced in 2016 and 2017 and Ventas, Inc. (“Ventas”) and Welltower Inc. (“Welltower”) announced in 2018, as well as other lease expirations and terminations, the Company's triple-net lease obligations on an aggregate of 201 communities were terminated from 2016 to 2018 (7 in 2016, 105 in 2017 and 89 in 2018). During this period the Company also sold its ownership interests in seven unconsolidated ventures and acquired six communities that it previously leased or managed. As of December 31, 2018, the Company owned 344 communities, leased 343 communities, managed 18 communities on behalf of unconsolidated ventures, and managed 187 communities on behalf of third parties.

The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the amounts included within the Company's consolidated financial statements for the 276 communities that it disposed through sales and lease terminations for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 through the respective disposition dates:



	Year Ended December 31,
(in thousands)	2018		2017		2016
Resident fees
Independent Living	$	81,280	$	152,190	$	189,205
Assisted Living and Memory Care	205,241		423,302		642,782
CCRCs	15,965		78,392		201,613
Senior housing resident fees	302,486		653,884		1,033,600
Facility operating expense
Independent Living	48,154		90,134		110,014
Assisted Living and Memory Care	145,106		294,528		443,137
CCRCs	14,542		68,702		169,297
Senior housing facility operating expense	207,802		453,364		722,448
Cash lease payments	$	78,264	$	172,442	$	259,114

During the year ending December 31, 2019, the Company expects to close on the dispositions of 13 owned communities classified as held for sale as of December 31, 2018. The closings of the various pending and expected transactions are, or will be, subject to the satisfaction of various closing conditions, including (where applicable) the receipt of regulatory approvals. However, there can be no assurance that the transactions will close or, if they do, when the actual closings will occur.

2018 Welltower Lease and RIDEA Venture Restructuring

On June 27, 2018, the Company announced that it had entered into definitive agreements with Welltower. The components of the agreements include:

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Lease Terminations. The Company and Welltower agreed to early termination of the Company's triple-net lease obligations on 37 communities effective June 30, 2018. The communities were part of two lease portfolios due to mature in 2028 (27 communities) and 2020 (10 communities). The Company paid Welltower an aggregate lease termination fee of $58.0 million. The Company agreed to manage the foregoing 37 communities on an interim basis until the communities have been transitioned to new managers, and such communities are reported in the Management Services segment during such interim period. The Company recognized a $22.6 million loss on lease termination during the year ended December 31, 2018 for the amount by which the aggregate lease termination fee exceeded the net carrying value of the Company's assets and liabilities under operating and capital leases as of the lease termination date.


•	Future Lease Terminations. The parties separately agreed to allow the Company to terminate leases with respect to, and to remove from the remaining Welltower leased portfolio, a number of communities with annual aggregate base rent up to $5.0 million upon Welltower's sale of such communities, and the Company would receive a corresponding 6.25% rent credit on Welltower's disposition proceeds.

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RIDEA Restructuring. The Company sold its 20% equity interest in its existing Welltower RIDEA venture to Welltower, effective June 30, 2018 for net proceeds of $33.5 million (for which the Company recognized a $14.7 million gain on sale). The Company agreed to continue to manage the communities in the venture on an interim basis until the communities have been transitioned to new managers, and such communities are reported in the Management Services segment during such interim period.

The Company also elected not to renew two master leases with Welltower which matured on September 30, 2018 (11 communities). After conclusion of the foregoing lease expirations, the Company continues to operate 74 communities under triple-net leases with Welltower, and the Company's remaining lease agreements with Welltower contain a change of control standard that allows the Company to engage in certain change of control and other transactions without the need to obtain Welltower's consent, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions.

2018 Ventas Lease Portfolio Restructuring

On April 26, 2018, the Company entered into several agreements to restructure a portfolio of 128 communities it leased from Ventas as of such date, including a Master Lease and Security Agreement (the "Ventas Master Lease"). The Ventas Master Lease amended and restated prior leases comprising an aggregate portfolio of 107 communities into the Ventas Master Lease. Under the Ventas Master Lease and other agreements entered into on April 26, 2018, the 21 additional communities leased by the Company from Ventas pursuant to separate lease agreements have been or will be combined automatically into the Ventas Master Lease upon the first to occur of Ventas' election or the repayment of, or receipt of lender consent with respect to, mortgage debt underlying such communities (17 of which have been and four will be combined into the Ventas Master Lease). The Company and Ventas agreed to observe, perform and enforce such separate leases as if they had been combined into the Ventas Master Lease effective April 26, 2018, to the extent not in conflict with any mortgage debt underlying such communities. The transaction agreements with Ventas further provide that the Ventas Master Lease and certain other agreements between the Company and Ventas will be cross-defaulted.

The initial term of the Ventas Master Lease ends December 31, 2025, with two 10-year extension options available to the Company. In the event of the consummation of a change of control transaction of the Company on or before December 31, 2025, the initial term of the Ventas Master Lease will be extended automatically through December 31, 2029. The Ventas Master Lease and separate lease agreements with Ventas, which are guaranteed at the parent level by the Company, provided for total rent in 2018 of $175.0 million for the 128 communities, including the pro-rata portion of an $8.0 million annual rent credit for 2018. The Company will receive an annual rent credit of $8.0 million in 2019, $7.0 million in 2020 and $5.0 million thereafter; provided, that if a change of control of the Company occurs prior to 2021, the annual rent credit will be reduced to $5.0 million. Effective on January 1, 2019 and in succeeding years, the annual minimum rent is subject to an escalator equal to the lesser of 2.25% or four times the Consumer Price Index ("CPI") increase for the prior year (or zero if there was a CPI decrease).

The Ventas Master Lease requires the Company to spend (or escrow with Ventas) a minimum of $2,000 per unit per 24-month period commencing with the 24-month period ending December 31, 2019 and thereafter each 24-month period ending December 31 during the lease term, subject to annual increases commensurate with the escalator beginning with the second lease year of the first extension term (if any). If a change of control of the Company occurs, the Company will be required within 36 months following the closing of such transaction to invest (or escrow with Ventas) an aggregate of $30.0 million in the communities for revenue-enhancing capital projects.

Under the definitive agreements with Ventas, the Company, at the parent level, must satisfy certain financial covenants (including tangible net worth and leverage ratios) and may consummate a change of control transaction without the need for consent of Ventas so long as certain objective conditions are satisfied, including the post-transaction guarantor's satisfying certain enhanced minimum tangible net worth and maximum leverage ratio, having minimum levels of operational experience and reputation in the senior living industry, and paying a change of control fee of $25.0 million to Ventas.

At the Company's option, which must be exercised on or before April 26, 2019, the Company may provide notice to Ventas of the Company's election to direct Ventas to market for sale one or more communities with up to approximately $30.0 million of annual minimum rent. Upon receipt of such notice, Ventas will be obligated to use commercially reasonable, diligent efforts to sell such communities on or before December 31, 2020 (subject to extension for regulatory purposes); provided, that Ventas' obligation to sell any such community will be subject to Ventas' receiving a purchase price in excess of a minimum sale price to be mutually agreed by the Company and Ventas and to certain other customary closing conditions. Upon any such sale, such communities will be removed from the Ventas Master Lease, and the annual minimum rent under the Ventas Master Lease will be reduced by the amount of the net sale proceeds received by Ventas multiplied by 6.25%.

The Company estimated the fair value of each of the elements of the restructuring transactions. The fair value of the future lease payments is based upon historical and forecasted community cash flows and market data, including a management fee rate of 5% of revenue and a market supported lease coverage ratio (Level 3 inputs). The Company recognized a $125.7 million non-cash loss on lease modification in the year ended December 31, 2018, primarily for the extensions of the triple-net lease obligations for communities with lease terms that are unfavorable to the Company given current market conditions on the amendment date in exchange for modifications to the change of control provisions and financial covenant provisions of the community leases.

2017 HCP Master Lease Transaction and RIDEA Ventures Restructuring

On November 2, 2017, the Company announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement for a multi-part transaction with HCP. As part of such transaction, the Company entered into an Amended and Restated Master Lease and Security Agreement ("HCP Master Lease") with HCP effective as of November 1, 2017. The components of the multi-part transaction include:

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Master Lease Transactions. The Company and HCP amended and restated triple-net leases covering substantially all of the communities the Company leased from HCP as of November 1, 2017 into the HCP Master Lease. During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company acquired two communities formerly leased for an aggregate purchase price of $35.4 million and leases with respect to 33 communities were terminated, and such communities were removed from the HCP Master Lease, which completed the terminations of leases as provided in the HCP Master Lease. We agreed to manage communities for which leases were terminated on an interim basis until the communities have been transitioned to new managers, and such communities are reported in the Management Services segment during such interim period. The Company continues to lease 43 communities pursuant to the terms of the HCP Master Lease, which have the same lease rates and expiration and renewal terms as the applicable prior instruments, except that effective January 1, 2018, the Company received a $2.5 million annual rent reduction for two communities. The HCP Master Lease also provides that the Company may engage in certain change in control and other transactions without the need to obtain HCP's consent, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions.

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RIDEA Ventures Restructuring. Pursuant to the multi-part transaction agreement, HCP acquired the Company's 10% ownership interest in one of the Company's RIDEA ventures with HCP in December 2017 for $32.1 million (for which the Company recognized a $7.2 million gain on sale) and the Company's 10% ownership interest in the remaining RIDEA venture with HCP in March 2018 for $62.3 million (for which the Company recognized a $41.7 million gain on sale). The Company provided management services to 59 communities on behalf of the two RIDEA ventures as of November 1, 2017. Pursuant to the multi-part transaction agreement, the Company acquired one community for an aggregate purchase price of $32.1 million in January 2018 and three communities for an aggregate purchase price of $207.4 million in April 2018 and retained management of 18 of such communities. The amended and restated management agreements for such 18 communities have a term set to expire in 2030, subject to certain early termination rights. In addition, HCP will be entitled to sell or transition operations and/or management of 37 of such communities. Management agreements for 31 such communities were terminated by HCP during the year ended December 31, 2018 (for which the Company recognized an $8.7 million non-cash management contract termination gain) and the Company expects the termination of management agreements on the remaining six communities to occur during 2019.

The Company financed the foregoing community acquisitions with non-recourse mortgage financing and proceeds from the sales of its ownership interest in the unconsolidated ventures. See Note 9 for more information regarding the non-recourse first mortgage financing.

In addition, the Company obtained future annual cash rent reductions and waived management termination fees in the multi-part transaction. As a result of the multi-part transaction, the Company reduced its lease liabilities by $9.7 million for the future annual cash rent reductions and recognized a $9.7 million deferred liability for the consideration received from HCP in advance of the termination of the management agreements for the 37 communities.

As a result of the modification of the remaining lease term for communities subject to capital leases, the Company reduced the carrying value of capital lease obligations and assets under capital leases by $145.6 million in 2017. During the year ended December 31, 2018, the results and financial position of the 33 communities for which leases were terminated were deconsolidated from the Company prospectively upon termination of the lease obligations. The Company derecognized the $332.8 million carrying value of the assets under financing leases and the $378.3 million carrying value of financing lease obligations for 20 communities which were previously subject to sale-leaseback transactions in which the Company was deemed to have continuing involvement. The Company recognized a sale for these 20 communities and recorded a non-cash gain on sale of assets of $44.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2018. Additionally, the Company recognized a non-cash gain on lease termination of $1.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2018, for the derecognition of the net carrying value of the Company's assets and liabilities under operating and capital leases at the lease termination date.

Blackstone Venture

On March 29, 2017, the Company and affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors VIII L.P. (collectively, "Blackstone") formed a venture (the “Blackstone Venture”) that acquired 64 senior housing communities for a purchase price of $1.1 billion. The Company had previously leased the 64 communities from HCP under long-term lease agreements with a remaining average lease term of approximately 12 years. At the closing, the Blackstone Venture purchased the 64-community portfolio from HCP subject to the existing leases, and the Company contributed its leasehold interests for 62 communities and a total of $179.2 million in cash to purchase a 15% equity interest in the Blackstone Venture, terminate leases, and fund its share of closing costs. As of the formation date, the Company continued to operate two of the communities under lease agreements and began managing 60 of the communities on behalf of the venture under a management agreement with the venture. Two of the communities were managed by a third party for the venture. The results and financial position of the 62 communities for which leases were terminated were deconsolidated from the Company prospectively upon formation of the Blackstone Venture. The Company accounted for the venture under the equity method of accounting.

Initially, the Company determined that the contributed carrying value of the Company's investment was $66.8 million, representing the amount by which the $179.2 million cash contribution exceeded the carrying value of the Company's liabilities under operating, capital and financing leases contributed by the Company net of the carrying value of the assets under such operating, capital and financing leases. However, the Company estimated the fair value of its 15% equity interest in the Blackstone Venture at inception to be $47.1 million (using Level 3 inputs). As a result, the Company recorded a $19.7 million charge within goodwill and asset impairment expense for the three months ended March 31, 2017 for the amount of the contributed carrying value in excess of the estimated fair value of the Company's investment.

During the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company recorded a $33.4 million non-cash impairment charge within goodwill and asset impairment expense to reflect the amount by which the carrying value of the investment exceeded the estimated fair value (using Level 3 inputs).

Additionally, these transactions related to the Blackstone Venture required the Company to record a significant increase to the Company's existing tax valuation allowance, after considering the change in the Company's future reversal of estimated timing differences resulting from these transactions, primarily due to removing the deferred positions related to the contributed leases. During the three months ended March, 31, 2017, the Company recorded a provision for income taxes to establish an additional $85.0 million of valuation allowance against its federal and state net operating loss carryforwards and tax credits as the Company anticipates these carryforwards and credits will not be utilized prior to expiration. See Note 16 for more information about the Company's deferred income taxes.

During the third quarter of 2018, leases for the two communities owned by the Blackstone Venture were terminated and the Company sold its 15% equity interest in the Blackstone Venture to Blackstone. The Company paid Blackstone an aggregate fee of $2.0 million to complete the multi-part transaction and recognized a $3.8 million gain on sale of assets for the amount by which the net carrying value of the Company's assets and liabilities disposed of exceeded the aggregate transaction cost.

2016 HCP Agreements

On November 1, 2016, the Company announced that it had entered into agreements to, among other things, terminate triple-net leases with respect to 97 communities that it leased from HCP, four of which were contributed to a then existing unconsolidated venture in which the Company holds an equity interest and 64 of which were acquired by the Blackstone Venture described above. In addition to the formation of the Blackstone Venture, the transactions included the following components with respect to 33 communities:

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The Company and HCP agreed to terminate triple-net leases with respect to eight communities. HCP agreed to contribute immediately thereafter four of such communities to a then existing unconsolidated venture with HCP in which the Company has a 10% equity interest. During the three months ended December 31, 2016, the triple-net leases with respect to seven communities were terminated and HCP contributed four of the communities to the unconsolidated venture. The triple-net lease with respect to the remaining community was terminated during January 2017.

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The Company and HCP agreed to terminate triple-net leases with respect to 25 communities. During the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company's triple-net lease obligations with respect to such communities were terminated. The Company agreed to manage communities for which leases were terminated on an interim basis until the communities were transitioned to new managers, and such communities were reported in the Management Services segment during such interim period.

As a result of such transactions, during 2017 the Company derecognized the $145.3 million carrying value of the assets under financing leases and the $156.7 million carrying value of financing lease obligations for 21 communities which were previously subject to sale-leaseback transactions in which the Company was deemed to have continuing involvement for accounting purposes, and recorded an $11.4 million gain on sale of assets.

Completed and Planned Dispositions of Owned Communities

During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company completed the sale of 22 owned communities for cash proceeds of $380.7 million, net of transaction costs, and recognized a net gain on sale of assets of $188.6 million. The Company utilized a portion of the cash proceeds from the asset sales to repay approximately $174 million of associated mortgage debt and debt prepayment penalties. Nineteen of such dispositions were part of the Company's plan announced in 2018, including the sale of Brookdale Battery Park on November 1, 2018 for which the Company received proceeds of approximately $144 million, net of associated debt and transaction costs, and the sale of 18 other communities on December 20, 2018 for which the Company received proceeds of approximately $49 million, net of associated debt and transaction costs.

During the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company completed the sale of three owned communities for cash proceeds of $8.2 million net of associated transaction costs, and during the year ended December 31, 2016, the Company completed the sale of 50 owned communities for cash proceeds of $297.9 million net of associated transaction costs.

As of December 31, 2018, 13 communities were classified as held for sale, resulting in $93.1 million being recorded as assets held for sale and $31.2 million of mortgage debt being included in the current portion of long-term debt within the consolidated balance sheet with respect to such communities. This debt will either be repaid with the proceeds from the sales or be assumed by the prospective purchasers.