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Investment in CT Legacy Asset, at Fair Value
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
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Investment in CT Legacy Asset, at Fair Value

8. INVESTMENT IN CT LEGACY ASSET, AT FAIR VALUE

As a result of the merger effective on March 22, 2013, we began consolidating CT Legacy Partners and its subsidiary, CT Legacy Asset. Previously, we accounted for CT Legacy Asset on a non-consolidated basis, and as of December 31, 2012, our consolidated balance sheet included a net investment in CT Legacy Asset of $132.0 million. We had elected the fair value option of accounting for CT Legacy REIT’s investment in CT Legacy Asset due to our determination that the fair value of the investment in CT Legacy Asset, as a net liquidating portfolio of assets, was more meaningful and indicative of our interests in CT Legacy Asset than equity method accounting. Following its consolidation, the loans receivable and repurchase obligations of CT Legacy Partners, as well as its other assets and liabilities, are included in our consolidated balance sheet. Refer to Note 3 for additional discussion of the consolidation of CT Legacy Partners and Note 5 and Note 10 for further discussion of CT Legacy Partners’ loans receivable and repurchase obligation, respectively.

CT Legacy Partners

CT Legacy Partners holds a portion of our legacy portfolio, which we had previously transferred to CT Legacy REIT (the predecessor of CT Legacy Partners) in connection with our March 2011 Restructuring. CT Legacy Partners is beneficially owned 52% by us and 48% by our former lenders. In addition, CT Legacy Partners has issued class B common shares, a subordinate class of equity that entitles its holders to receive approximately 25% of the dividends that would otherwise be payable to us on our equity interest in CT Legacy Partners, after aggregate cash distributions of $50.0 million have been paid to all other classes of common equity. Further, CT Legacy Partners has issued class A preferred shares that entitle their holder to cumulative preferred distributions in an amount generally equal to the greater of (i) 2.5% of certain of CT Legacy Partners’ assets, and (ii) $1.0 million per annum.

Our equity interest in CT Legacy Partners is composed of 4,393,750 class A-1 common shares, 775,000 class

A-2 common shares, and 118,651 class B common shares. The outstanding common shares of CT Legacy Partners are composed of 4.4 million class A-1 common shares, 5.6 million class A-2 common shares, and 1.5 million class B common shares. The equity interests of other members of CT Legacy Partners are reflected as non-controlling interests on our consolidated balance sheets.