Derivatives and Hedging Activities

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2022

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]

Risk Management Objective of Using Derivatives

The Company may use derivative financial instruments, including interest rate swaps, caps, options, floors and other interest rate derivative contracts, to hedge all or a portion of the interest rate risk associated with its borrowings. The principal objective of such arrangements is to minimize the risks and costs associated with the Company’s operating and financial structure as well as to hedge specific anticipated transactions. The Company does not intend to utilize derivatives for

speculative or other purposes other than interest rate risk management. The use of derivative financial instruments carries certain risks, including the risk that the counterparties to these contractual arrangements are not able to perform under the agreements. To mitigate this risk, the Company only enters into derivative financial instruments with counterparties with high credit ratings and with major financial institutions with which the Company and its related parties may also have other financial relationships. The Company does not anticipate that any of the counterparties will fail to meet their obligations.

The Company entered into an interest rate swap on September 1, 2020 in a notional amount of $125.0 million. The interest rate swap became effective on October 13, 2020, and fixed the interest rate on a mortgage loan that was refinanced on September 4, 2020. The interest rate swap fixed interest on the mortgage at an effective interest rate of 3.27% and was to expire in July 2026. This interest rate swap was terminated in the fourth quarter of 2021 when the mortgage loan was repaid and the Company received $2.1 million as a result of the termination. Following the termination, the Company reclassified approximately $2.1 million from AOCI (as defined below) as a reduction to interest expense in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations in the fourth quarter of 2021. As a result, the Company had no derivative financial instruments outstanding as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021

Cash Flow Hedges of Interest Rate Risk

As of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 the Company did not have any derivatives that were designated as cash flow hedges of interest rate risk, however, the Company did have derivative activity (see table below) during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021.

The Company’s objectives in using interest rate derivatives have historically been to add stability to interest expense and to manage its exposure to interest rate movements. To accomplish this objective, the Company primarily uses interest rate swaps as part of its interest rate risk management strategy. Interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges involve the receipt of variable-rate amounts from a counterparty in exchange for the Company making fixed-rate payments over the life of the agreements without exchange of the underlying notional amount. The changes in the fair value of derivatives designated and that qualify as cash flow hedges are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive loss (“AOCI”) and are subsequently reclassified into earnings in the period that the hedged forecasted transaction affects earnings. Amounts reported in accumulated other comprehensive income related to derivatives are reclassified to interest expense as interest payments are made on the Company’s variable-rate debt.

The table below details the location in the financial statements of the gain or loss recognized on interest rate derivatives designated as cash flow hedges for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021:


	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
(In thousands)	2022		2021		2022		2021
Amount of (loss) gain recognized in AOCI on interest rate derivatives	$	—	$	(502)	$	—	$	1,919
Amount of (loss) reclassified from AOCI into income as interest expense	$	—	$	(71)	$	—	$	(134)
Total amount of interest expense presented in the consolidated income statements	$	28,329	$	20,361	$	52,069	$	39,695

Non-Designated Derivatives

As of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the Company did not have any outstanding derivatives that were not designated as hedges under qualifying hedging relationships.

These derivatives have historically been used to manage the Company’s exposure to interest rate movements, but do not meet the strict hedge accounting requirements to be classified as hedging instruments. These derivatives also include other instruments that do not qualify for hedge accounting. Changes in the fair value of derivatives not designated in hedging relationships are recorded directly in earnings.

The Company recorded an immaterial loss on non-designated hedging relationships during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021. The Company did not record any gains or losses during the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 since the Company did not have any derivatives that were not designated as hedges in qualifying hedging relationships.

Embedded Derivative

The purchase and sale agreement for the CIM Portfolio Acquisition (see Note 3 — Real Estate Investments for more information) included the planned issuance of shares of the Company’s Class A common stock or Class A Units in the OP of

$50.0 million in value at issuance ($53.4 million of value subject to repurchase). The Company ultimately issued 6,450,107 shares of Class A common stock to the Seller in the first and second closings of the CIM Portfolio Acquisition during the three months ended March 31, 2022.

The number of shares issued at the applicable closing were based on the value of the shares or units that may be issued at such closing divided by the per-share volume weighted average price of the Company’s Class A common stock measured over a five-day consecutive trading period immediately preceding (but not including) the date on which written notice for the closing was delivered, indicating the seller’s election to receive either shares or units, to the OP (the price of which was to be limited by a 7.5% collar in either direction from the per share volume weighted-average price of the Company’s Class A common stock measured over a ten-day consecutive trading period immediately preceding (but not including) the effective date of the purchase and sale agreement), which was $8.34 per share. The Company had concluded that as of December 31, 2021, this arrangement constituted an embedded derivative which required separate accounting. The initial value of the embedded derivative was an asset upon the signing of the purchase and sale agreement of $1.7 million, and was a liability of $2.3 million as of December 31, 2021. The shares were issued in two closings in the three months ending March 31, 2022 at contract prices within the collar. Accordingly, the value of the embedded derivative was considered to be zero immediately prior to closing. During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company reduced the prior liability at December 31, 2021 to zero at closing and recorded a gain on non-designated derivatives of $2.3 million in the consolidated statements of operations.