NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS AND REDEEMABLE NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

Equity [Abstract]

NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS AND REDEEMABLE NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS

NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS AND REDEEMABLE NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS

Non-controlling Interests in Operating Partnership

Pursuant to the limited partnership agreement of our Operating Partnership, the unaffiliated third parties who hold Common Units in our Operating Partnership have the right to cause us to redeem their Common Units in exchange for cash based upon the fair value of an equivalent number of our shares of Common Stock at the time of redemption; however, the Company has the option to redeem Common Units with shares of our Common Stock on a one-for-one basis. The number of shares of our Common Stock issuable upon redemption of Common Units may be adjusted upon the occurrence of certain events such as share dividend payments, share subdivisions or combinations. On January 13, 2022 and March 23, 2022, in connection with the NCI Transaction, the Operating Partnership issued 15,864,674 Common Units as partial consideration for the purchase.

At March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, NewcrestImage and other unaffiliated third parties owned 15,989,471 and 124,797 of Common Units of the Operating Partnership, respectively, representing approximately 13% and less than 1% of the Common Units of the Operating Partnership for each period.

We classify outstanding Common Units held by unaffiliated third parties as Non-controlling interests in the Operating Partnership, a component of equity in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The portion of net income allocated to these Common Units is reported on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as Net income attributable to non-controlling interests of the Operating Partnership.

Non-controlling Interests in Joint Venture

In July 2019, the Company entered into a joint venture agreement with GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, to acquire assets that align with the Company’s current investment strategy and criteria. The Company serves as general partner and asset manager of the Joint Venture and intends to invest 51% of the equity capitalization of the limited partnership, with GIC investing the remaining 49%. The Company earns fees for providing services to the Joint Venture and will have the potential to earn incentive fees based on the Joint Venture achieving certain return thresholds. As of March 31, 2022, the Joint Venture owns the 40 hotel properties totaling 5,583 guestrooms in nine states.

The Joint Venture owns the hotel proeprties through master real estate investment trusts (“Master REIT”) and subsidiary REITs (“Subsidiary REIT”). All of the hotel properties owned by the Joint Venture are leased to taxable REIT subsidiaries of the Subsidiary REITs (“Subsidiary REIT TRSs”). To qualify as a REIT, the Master REIT and each Subsidiary REIT must meet all of the REIT requirements summarized under “Note 2 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies - Income Taxes.” Taxable income related to the Subsidiary REIT TRSs is subject to federal, state and local income taxes at applicable tax rates.

We classify the Non-controlling interests in the Joint Venture as a component of equity in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The portion of net income (losses) allocated to these non-controlling interests is reported on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as Net income (losses) attributable to non-controlling interests of the Joint Venture.

Redeemable Non-controlling Interests

In connection with the NCI Transaction, Summit Hotel GP, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership, on its own behalf as general partner of the Operating Partnership and on behalf of the limited partners of the Operating Partnership, on January 13, 2022, entered into the Tenth Amendment (the “Tenth Amendment”) to the First Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of the Operating Partnership, to provide for the issuance of up to 2,000,000 Series Z Preferred Units. The Series Z Preferred Units rank on a parity with the Operating Partnership’s Series E and Series F Preferred Units and holders will receive quarterly distributions at a rate of 5.25% per year. From issuance until the tenth anniversary of their issuance, the Series Z Preferred Units will be redeemable at the holder’s request at any time, or in connection with a change of control of the Company, for, at the Company’s election, cash or shares of the Company’s 5.25% Series Z Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (which will be designated and authorized following notice of redemption by holder of the Series Z Preferred Units) on a one-for-one basis. After the fifth anniversary of their issuance, the Company may redeem the Series Z Preferred Units for cash at a redemption amount of $25 per unit. For a 90-day period immediately following both the tenth and the eleventh anniversaries of their issuance or in connection with a change of control of the Company, the Series Z Preferred Units will be redeemable at the holder’s request for cash at a redemption amount of $25 per unit. On January 13, 2022 and March 23, 2022, in connection with the NCI Transaction, the Operating Partnership issued 2,000,000 Series Z Preferred Units as partial consideration for the purchase. At March 31, 2022, the redeemable Series Z Preferred Units issued in connection with the NCI Transaction are recorded as temporary equity of the Operating Partnership and reflected as Redeemable non-controlling interests in a mezzanine position presentation outside of Equity in our Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2022.