In connection with the IPO, the Company adopted the Moelis & Company 2014 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) to provide additional incentives to selected officers, employees, Managing Directors, non-employee directors, independent contractors, partners, senior advisors and consultants. The Plan provides for the issuance of incentive stock options (“ISOs”), nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights (“SARs”), restricted stock, RSUs, stock bonuses, other stock-based awards (including partnership interests that are exchangeable into stock upon satisfaction of certain conditions) and cash awards.

Pursuant to the Plan and in connection with the Company’s annual compensation process and ongoing hiring process, the Company issues RSUs and other stock-based awards which generally vest over a service life of four to five years. For the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company recognized expense of $37,067 and $50,963, respectively, in relation to these awards.

The following table summarizes activity related to RSUs for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021.


	Restricted Stock Units
	2022			2021
		Weighted			Weighted
		Average			Average
	Number of	Grant Date		Number of	Grant Date
	Shares	Fair Value		Shares	Fair Value
Unvested Balance at January 1,	8,068,120	$	46.36	8,742,695	$	41.45
Granted	2,761,285		49.91	2,704,521		54.74
Forfeited	(26,800)		47.92	(34,974)		48.44
Vested	(2,828,354)		46.49	(3,528,273)		42.17
Unvested Balance at March 31,	7,974,251	$	47.68	7,883,969	$	46.15

In addition, the Company issues partnership units that are intended to qualify as "profits interest" for U.S. federal income tax purposes ("Partnership Units") that, subject to certain terms and conditions, are exchangeable into shares of Moelis & Company Class A common stock on a one-for-one basis. These Partnership Units are recorded as noncontrolling interests in the Company's condensed consolidated statements of financial condition. Further, these Partnership Units generally vest over a service life of five years, however in certain arrangements the Partnership Units are granted without a service requirement, but do not have exchange rights until the third anniversary of the grant-date. For the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company granted 809,899 and 395,834 Partnership Units with a grant-date fair value of $38,413 and $21,672, respectively.

As of March 31, 2022, the total compensation expense related to unvested RSUs and other stock-based awards not yet recognized was $229,224, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.1 years.