Derivative Instruments

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

General Discussion of Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities [Abstract]

Derivative Instruments

Derivative Instruments

The Company manages exposure to market risk associated with fluctuating interest rates with the use of interest rate derivative financial instruments, namely interest rate swaps. The Company does not use derivatives for trading or speculative purposes. On November 14, 2018, the Company entered into an interest rate swap agreement as part of its interest rate risk management strategy in connection with the term loan (See Note 9). The notional amount for the swap was $410.0 million. The swap was a receive-variable (one-month LIBOR) and pay-fixed (2.9065%) interest rate swap, which expired on December 31, 2020, with settlement date commencing on the last calendar day of each month and reset date on first day of each month beginning December 31, 2018.

The Company applied the hedge accounting provisions of the critical terms match hedge, and formally documented at inception all relationships between hedging instruments and hedged items, as well as its risk management objectives and strategies for undertaking the various hedges. The critical terms of the swap and hedged item coincided (notional amount, interest rate reset dates, interest rate payment dates, and underlying index), the hedge was expected to offset changes in expected cash flows due to fluctuations in one-month LIBOR over the term of the hedge. Therefore, the effectiveness of the hedge relationship was assessed each quarter by comparing the current terms of the swap and the debt to assure they continued to coincide and through an evaluation of the continued ability of the counterparty to the swap to honor its obligations under the swap. Had the critical terms no longer matched exactly, hedge effectiveness (both prospective and retrospective) would have to be assessed by evaluating the cumulative dollar-offset ratio for the actual derivative and the hedged item.

Unrealized changes in the fair value of derivatives accounted for as a critical term match hedge were reported in other comprehensive income (loss) and subsequently reclassified to earnings in the same period or periods during which the hedged forecasted transaction affected earnings. For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, the Company recognized nil, $9.5 million and $2.7 million, respectively, of realized loss related to the hedged transactions that were recorded in interest expense. The interest rate swap contract expired on December 31, 2020 and the settlement value of the interest rate swap liability was reclassified to earnings. The Company had no such interest rate derivative financial instruments during the year ended December 31, 2021.