Employee Benefit Plans (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

Schedule of Restricted Stock Activity

Restricted stock transactions under the Black Knight Omnibus plan for the periods presented are as follows:

	Shares		Weighted average grant date fair value
Balance December 31, 2015	3,914,344		*
Granted	844,646		$	28.56
Forfeited	(57,484	)	*
Vested	(1,793,132	)	*
Balance December 31, 2016	2,908,374		*
Granted	982,764		$	38.31
Forfeited	(127,801	)	$	34.23
Vested	(2,181,626	)	*
Balance, December 31, 2017	1,581,711		$	34.48
Granted	1,146,586		$	46.27
Forfeited	(22,515	)	$	42.71
Vested	(628,517	)	$	34.90
Balance, December 31, 2018	2,077,265		$	40.77

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* The converted shares were originally BKFS LLC profits interests units with a weighted average grant date fair value of $2.10 per unit. The fair value of the restricted shares at the date of conversion, May 20, 2015, was $24.50 per share. The original grant date fair value of the forfeited and vested restricted shares, which were originally granted as profits interests units, ranges from $2.01 to $3.77 per unit.

A summary of restricted shares granted is as follows:

Date	Number of shares granted	Grant date fair value per share		Vesting period (in years)	Vesting criteria
December 21, 2015	318,000	$	32.37	3.0	Service and Performance
February 3, 2016	247,437	$	28.29	3.0	Service and Performance
February 3, 2016	552,311	$	28.29	4.0	Service and Performance
Various other 2016 dates	44,898	$ 32.74 - $34.84		4.0	Service
February 3, 2017	203,160	$	37.90	3.0	Service and Performance
February 3, 2017	681,410	$	37.90	4.0	Service and Performance
Various other 2017 dates	98,194	$ 41.90 - $42.25		2.0	Service
February 9, 2018	772,642	$	45.85	3.0	Service and Performance
April 2, 2018	159,915	$	46.90	3.0	Service and Performance
April 2, 2018	200,427	$	46.90	2.3	Service
Various other 2018 dates	13,602	$ 50.15 - $53.70		3.0	Service and Performance