RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

12. RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Asset Management and Other Fees to Related Parties

Asset Management Fees—CIM Urban and CIM Capital, LLC, an affiliate of CIM REIT and CIM Group (“CIM Capital”), have an investment management agreement, pursuant to which CIM Urban engaged CIM Capital to provide certain services to CIM Urban (the “Investment Management Agreement”). CIM Capital has assigned its duties under the Investment Management Agreement to its four wholly-owned subsidiaries: CIM Capital Securities Management, LLC, a securities manager, CIM Capital RE Debt Management, LLC, a debt manager, CIM Capital Controlled Company Management, LLC, a controlled company manager, and CIM Capital Real Property Management, LLC, a real property manager. The “Operator” refers to CIM Capital and its four wholly-owned subsidiaries.

CIM Urban pays asset management fees to the Operator on a quarterly basis in arrears. The fee is calculated as a percentage of the daily average adjusted fair value of CIM Urban’s assets (dollar amounts in thousands):


Daily Average Adjusted Fair Value of CIM Urban’s Assets
				Quarterly Fee Percentage
From Greater of		To and Including

$	—	$	500,000	0.2500%
$	500,000	$	1,000,000	0.2375%
$	1,000,000	$	1,500,000	0.2250%
$	1,500,000	$	4,000,000	0.2125%
$	4,000,000	$	20,000,000	0.1000%

Asset management fees are included in asset management and other fees to related parties in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

In lieu of cash payment of the asset management fee during the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company issued to the Operator shares of its Common Stock and shares of its Series A Preferred Stock. Subject to applicable laws and regulations under Nasdaq and the TASE and the agreement of the Operator, it is likely that the Company will seek to pay some or part of the asset management fees for part of 2021 in shares of Series A Preferred Stock.

Property Management Fees and Reimbursements—CIM Management, Inc. and certain of its affiliates (collectively, the “CIM Management Entities”), all affiliates of CIM REIT and CIM Group, provide property management, leasing, and development services to CIM Urban. Property management fees earned by the CIM Management entities and onsite management costs incurred on behalf of CIM Urban are included in rental and other property operating expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. Leasing commissions earned are capitalized to deferred charges on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Construction management fees are capitalized to investments in real estate on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

Administrative Fees and Expenses—CIM Commercial and its subsidiaries have a master services agreement (the “Master Services Agreement”) with CIM Service Provider, LLC (the “Administrator”), an affiliate of CIM Group, pursuant to which the Administrator provides, or arranges for other service providers to provide, management and administration services to CIM Commercial and its subsidiaries. Pursuant to the Master Services Agreement, the Company appointed an affiliate of CIM Group as the administrator of Urban Partners GP, LLC. Under the Master Services Agreement, CIM Commercial paid a base service fee (the “Base Service Fee”) to the Administrator initially set at $1.0 million per year (subject to an annual escalation by a specified inflation factor beginning on January 1, 2015), payable quarterly in arrears. On May 11, 2020, the Master Services Agreement was amended to replace the Base Service Fee with an incentive fee (the “Incentive Fee”) pursuant to which the Administrator receives, on a quarterly basis, 15.00% of CIM Commercial’s quarterly core funds from operations in excess of a quarterly threshold equal to 1.75% (i.e., 7.00% on an annualized basis) of CIM Commercial’s average adjusted common stockholders’ equity (i.e., common stockholders’ equity plus accumulated depreciation and amortization) for such quarter. The amendment is effective as of April 1, 2020. The Base Service Fee is included in asset management and other fees to related parties in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

In addition, pursuant to the terms of the Master Services Agreement, the Administrator may receive compensation and or reimbursement for performing certain services for CIM Commercial and its subsidiaries that are not covered by the Base Service Fee or the Incentive Fee, as the case may be. During the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, such services performed by the Administrator and its affiliates included accounting, tax, reporting, internal audit, legal, compliance, risk management, IT, human resources, corporate communications, and from and after September 2018, operational and on-going support in connection with the Company’s offering of Preferred Stock. The Administrator’s compensation is based on the salaries and benefits of the employees of the Administrator and or its affiliates who performed these services (allocated based on the percentage of time spent on the affairs of CIM Commercial and its subsidiaries). The expense for such services is included in expense reimbursements to related parties—corporate in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

Lending Segment Expenses—The Company has a Staffing and Reimbursement Agreement with CIM SBA Staffing, LLC (“CIM SBA”), an affiliate of CIM Group, and the Company’s subsidiary, PMC Commercial Lending, LLC. The agreement provides that CIM SBA will provide personnel and resources to the Company and that the Company will reimburse

CIM SBA for the costs and expenses of providing such personnel and resources. The expense for such services is included in expense reimbursements to related parties—lending segment in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

Offering-Related Fees—The Company had an Amendment, Assignment and Assumption Agreement (the “Assignment Agreement”) with CCO Capital, LLC (“CCO Capital”). CCO Capital is a registered broker dealer and is under common control with the Operator and the Administrator. As a result of the Assignment Agreement, CCO Capital became the exclusive dealer manager for the Company’s public offering of the Series A Preferred Units effective as of May 31, 2019. The Company’s offering of the Series A Preferred Units ended at the end of January 2020. On January 28, 2020, the Company entered into the Second Amended and Restated Dealer Manager Agreement, pursuant to which CCO Capital acts as the exclusive dealer manager for the Company’s public offering of its Series A Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock. Thereunder, the Company agreed to pay CCO Capital, as the dealer manager for the offering, (1) an upfront dealer manager fee of up to 1.25% of the selling price of each share of Preferred Stock sold, (2) selling commissions of up to 5.50% of the selling price of each share of Series A Preferred Stock sold (with no selling commissions payable in respect of shares of Series D Preferred Stock sold) and (3) a trailing dealer manager fee that accrues daily in an amount equal to 1/365th of 0.25% per annum of the selling price of each share of Preferred Stock sold. CCO Capital, in its sole discretion, may reallow to another broker-dealer authorized by it to sell shares in the offering a portion of the upfront dealer manager fee earned by it in respect of shares sold by such broker-dealer.

On April 9, 2020, the Company entered into Amendment No. 1 to the Second Amended and Restated Dealer Manager Agreement, pursuant to which the selling commissions were increased from up to 5.50% to up to 7.00% of the selling price of each share of Series A Preferred Stock sold thereafter. The Company has been informed that CCO Capital generally reallows 100% of the selling commissions on sales of Series A Preferred Stock and generally reallows substantially all of the upfront dealer manager fee on sales of Series A Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock, to participating broker-dealers.

The Company recorded fees and expense reimbursements as shown in the table below for services provided by related parties related to the services described above during the periods indicated (in thousands):


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020
Asset Management Fees:
Asset management fees (1)	$	2,259	$	2,363
Property Management Fees and Reimbursements:
Property management fees	$	403	$	427
Onsite management and other cost reimbursement	$	809	$	969
Leasing commissions	$	15	$	40
Construction management fees	$	13	$	170
Administrative Fees and Expenses:
Base service fee (2)	$	—	$	282
Expense reimbursements to related parties - corporate	$	605	$	812
Lending Segment Expenses:
Expense reimbursements to related parties - lending segment	$	731	$	682
Offering-Related Fees:
Upfront dealer manager and trailing dealer manager fees	$	150	$	241
Non-issuance specific offering costs (3)	$	21	$	24

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(1)For the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company issued to the Operator 203,349 shares of Common Stock, in lieu of cash payment of the asset management fee for the first quarter of 2020.

(2)For the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company issued to the Administrator 11,273 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, in lieu of cash as payment of the Base Service Fee for the first quarter of 2020.

(3)As of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, $1.7 million and $1.5 million, respectively, was included in deferred costs as reimbursable expenses incurred pursuant to the Master Services Agreement and the then applicable dealer manager agreement with CCO Capital. These non-issuance specific costs are allocated against the gross proceeds from the sale of the Series A Preferred Stock and the Series D Preferred Stock on a pro rata basis for each issuance as a percentage of the total offering.

As of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, due to related parties consisted of the following (in thousands):


	March 31, 2021		December 31, 2020
Asset management fees	$	2,227	$	2,386
Property management fees and reimbursements	1,753		1,662
Expense reimbursements - corporate	846		647
Expense reimbursements - lending segment	612		690
Upfront dealer manager and trailing dealer manager fees	541		493
Non-issuance specific offering costs	723		668
Other amounts due to the CIM Management Entities and certain of its affiliates	216		160
Total due to related parties	$	6,918	$	6,706

Other

During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company’s President, Jan F. Salit, retired effective as of September 16, 2020. Mr. Salit received a $450,000 payment, representing one year of his base salary, upon the satisfaction of certain conditions specified therein, including the execution of an agreement with the Company that contains, among other things, mutual release and non-disparagement provisions. Related to this payment, $287,000 was borne by the Company based on the time that Mr. Salit devoted to the Company relative to other matters relating to CIM Group. As of March 31, 2021, the $287,000 remained due to CIM Group.

On October 1, 2015, an affiliate of CIM Group entered into a five-year lease renewal with respect to a property owned by the Company. The lease was amended to a month-to-month term in February 2019 and was terminated in October 2020. The Company recorded rental and other property income related to this tenant of $0 and $29,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

On May 15, 2019, CIM Group entered into an approximately 11-year lease for approximately 32,000 rentable square feet with respect to a property owned by the Company. The lease was amended on August 7, 2019 to reduce the rentable square feet to approximately 30,000 rentable square feet. The Company recorded rental and other property income related to this tenant of $370,000 for both of the three month periods ended March 31, 2021 and 2020