Related Party Transactions (Notes)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Transactions Disclosure [Text Block]

Related Party Transactions

During the third quarter of 2010, Stanley K. Tanger, our founder, transferred his general partnership interest in the Tanger Family Limited Partnership, to the Stanley K. Tanger Marital Trust. As discussed in Note 1, the Tanger Family Limited Partnership was the noncontrolling interest in the Company's consolidated financial statements through May 31, 2011. The sole trustee of the Stanley K. Tanger Marital Trust, and thus effectively the general partner of Tanger Family Limited Partnership, was John H. Vernon. Mr. Vernon is a partner at the law firm of Vernon, Vernon, Wooten, Brown, Andrews & Garrett, or the Vernon Law Firm, which has served as the principal outside counsel of the Company and Operating Partnership since their inception in 1993. Based on Mr. Vernon's position as trustee of the Stanley K. Tanger Marital Trust, the general partner of the Tanger Family Limited Partnership, he was considered a related party. However, Mr. Vernon had neither ownership rights nor economic interests in either the Tanger Family Limited Partnership or the Stanley K. Tanger Marital Trust.

Fees paid to the Vernon Law Firm were approximately $275,000 and $1.1 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively, and $743,000 for the six months ended June, 30, 2011. Effective June 1, 2011, upon dissolution of the Tanger Family Limited Partnership, Mr. Vernon was no longer considered a related party.

Prior to its dissolution on June 1, 2011, Tanger Family Limited Partnership received quarterly distributions of earnings which were $2.4 million and $7.0 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively, and $4.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2011.

On June 1, 2011, the Tanger Family Limited Partnership was dissolved in connection with the settling of the estate of Stanley Tanger. Upon dissolution of the Tanger Family Limited Partnership, the units of the Operating Partnership owned by the Tanger Family Limited Partnership were distributed to the Family Limited Partners, who are primarily the descendants of Stanley Tanger (including Steven Tanger, the Company's Chief Executive Officer), their spouses or former spouses or their children and/or trusts for their benefit. Each such individual beneficial owner is now an individual limited partner of the Operating Partnership, and each has the ability to exchange their Operating Partnership units for the Company's common shares in the ratio of one Operating Partnership unit for four Company common shares.

On June 14, 2011, pursuant to an existing registration rights agreement, Steven Tanger made a written request of the Company to effect a registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of the Company's common shares equivalent in number to his holdings of Operating Partnership units as if exchanged in the ratio described above. This request required the Company to give notice of the pending registration to the other Family Limited Partners. Once given notice, all of the other Family Limited Partners notified the Company that they wanted common shares registered in an amount equal to their holdings of the Operating Partnership's units on an as-exchanged basis. On August 12, 2011, in accordance with the registration rights agreement, the Company filed a registration statement with the SEC to register the 12,133,220 Company common shares that were receivable upon the exchange of the Operating Partnership units by the Family Limited Partners.

In August 2011, a total of 160,332 Operating Partnership units were exchanged for 641,328 Company common shares by a Family Limited Partner other than Steven Tanger. At this time, Mr. Tanger, who beneficially owns 1,152,968 Operating Partnership units, which would total 4,611,872 Company common shares on an as-exchanged basis, has not indicated any present intention to exchange the Operating Partnership units that he received upon the dissolution of the Tanger Family Limited Partnership