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| Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Text Block] |
Note 7 - 2016 Equity Incentive Plan LTIP Units and Related Accounting Impact Prior to the completion of the initial public offering on July 1, 2016, the Board approved and adopted the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan. The purpose of the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan is to attract and retain qualified persons upon whom, in large measure, our sustained progress, growth and profitability depend, to motivate the participants to achieve long-term company goals and to more closely align the participants’ interests with those of the Company’s other stockholders by providing them with a proprietary interest in the Company’s growth and performance. The Company’s executive officers, employees, employees of our advisor and its affiliates, consultants and non-employee directors are eligible to participate in the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan. A detail of the LTIP units granted under the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan during the year ended December 31, 2016, and the LTIPs remaining to be granted as of December 31, 2016 is as follows:
An aggregate of 414,504 LTIP units were granted during the year ended December 31, 2016 pursuant to the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan via separate LTIP unit grants on December 21, 2016 and July 1, 2016. As of December 31, 2016, an aggregate of 817,893 additional LTIP units were available for future issuance under the Company’s 2016 Equity Incentive Plan, for a total of 1,232,397 LTIP units that can be granted, which represents 7 percent of the fully diluted outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock upon completion of the initial public offering, including the shares sold pursuant to the underwriters’ over-allotment option (a total of 17,605,675 common shares outstanding). Of the 414,504 LTIP units that were granted, 60,400 units vested immediately on July 1, 2016 upon completion of the Company’s initial public offering (the “IPO Units”), 68,900 LTIP units vested on December 1, 2016, and an additional 8,000 LTIP units vested during December 2016. The remaining 277,204 LTIP units (the “Service LTIPs”) consist of 263,454 units granted to employees of the Advisor and its affiliates deemed to be non-employees in accordance with ASC Topic 505 and vest over periods of 36 months, 41 months, and 53 months, respectively, as well as 13,750 units granted to the Company’s independent directors that were deemed to be employees in accordance with ASC Topic 718 and vest over a period of 12 months. Total compensation expense of $1,684,812 related to the Company’s total LTIP units granted during 2016 was recorded for the year ended December 31, 2016 and was classified as “General and Administrative” expense in the Company’s accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations. Total compensation expense recognized for the year ended December 31, 2016, is comprised of $604,000 incurred on the IPO Units, calculated based on a share price of $10.00 per unit, the closing share price for the Company’s common stock at the closing date of the initial public offering on July 1, 2016 and compensation expense of $1,080,812 incurred on the Service LTIPs calculated ratably as the service is performed over the monthly periods described above using the straight-line method, subject to certain terms and conditions, and inclusive of the expense incurred on the 76,900 Service LTIPs that vested on December 1, 2016. Compensation expense incurred related to the Service LTIPs granted to employees of the Advisor and its affiliates deemed to be non-employees was based on a share price of $8.92 per unit, the closing share price for the Company’s common stock on December 31, 2016, except for the 76,000 Service LTIPs that vested on December 1, 2016 for which the expense amount was based on the stock price on December 1, 2016, the vesting date. The Service LTIPs granted to non-employees are revalued each period at their then-current end of period fair value, until the date of vesting when the compensation expense does not change. The compensation expense incurred related to the Service LTIPs granted to the Company’s independent directors that were deemed to be employees was based on a price of $10.00 per unit, the closing share price for the Company’s common stock on the closing date of the initial public offering on July 1, 2016, expensed using the straight-line method over the 12 month vesting period. Shares subject to awards under the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan that are forfeited, cancelled, lapsed, settled in cash or otherwise expired (excluding shares withheld to satisfy exercise prices or tax withholding obligations) will again be available for awards under the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan. The 2016 Equity Incentive Plan is administered by the Company’s compensation committee, which will interpret the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan and have broad discretion to select the eligible persons to whom awards will be granted, as well as the type, size and terms and conditions of each award, including the exercise price of options, the number of shares subject to awards and the expiration date of, and the vesting schedule or other restrictions (including, without limitation, restrictive covenants) applicable to, awards. The 2016 Equity Incentive Plan allows the Company to grant the following types of awards:
Operating Partnership and LTIP Units As disclosed on March 14, 2016, the Company entered into the Agreement of Limited Partnership of Global Medical REIT, L.P. (“Partnership Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, serves as the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership and may not be removed as general partner by the limited partners with or without cause. The Partnership Agreement, as amended, provides, among other things, that the Operating Partnership initially has two classes of limited partnership interests, which are Units of limited partnership interest (“OP Units”), and the Operating Partnership’s LTIP units. In calculating the percentage interests of the partners in the Operating Partnership, LTIP units are treated as OP Units. In general, vested LTIP units will receive the same per-unit distributions as the OP Units. Initially, each LTIP unit will have a capital account balance of zero and, therefore, will not have full parity with OP Units with respect to any liquidating distributions. However, the Partnership Agreement, as amended provides that “book gain,” or economic appreciation, in the Company’s assets realized by the Operating Partnership as a result of the actual sale of all or substantially all of the Operating Partnership’s assets, or the revaluation of the Operating Partnership’s assets as provided by applicable U.S. Department of Treasury regulations, will be allocated first to the holders of LTIP units until their capital account per unit is equal to the average capital account per-unit of the Company’s OP Unit holders in the Operating Partnership. We expect that the Operating Partnership will issue OP Units to limited partners, and the Company, in exchange for capital contributions of cash or property, and will issue LTIP units pursuant to the Company’s 2016 Equity Incentive Plan to persons who provide services to the Company, including the Company’s officers, directors and employees. Pursuant to the Partnership Agreement, as amended, any holders of OP Units, other than the Company or its subsidiaries, will receive redemption rights which, subject to certain restrictions and limitations, will enable them to cause the Operating Partnership to redeem their OP Units in exchange for cash or, at the Company’s option, shares of the Company’s common stock, on a one-for-one basis. The Company has agreed to file, not earlier than one year after the closing of the IPO, one or more registration statements registering the issuance or resale of shares of its common stock issuable upon redemption of the OP Units, including those issued upon conversion of LTIP units to the Manager and the Former Advisor. LTIP units are convertible into OP Units on a one for one basis, subject to certain conditions as set forth in the LTIP Unit Vesting Agreement entered into by each LTIP unit holder. First, the LTIP units must have vested. The existing LTIP Unit Vesting Agreements generally provide for a vesting period of up to five years. Second, the number of vested LTIP units that may be converted into OP Units is limited to the proportion of the "capital account equivalency" that the LTIP units have achieved with the OP Units. The number of vested LTIP units that may be converted generally is equal to the capital account balance of such LTIP units divided by the capital account balance per unit of the OP units held by the General Partner. LTIP unit holders initially receive a capital account with a zero balance and receive priority allocations of certain gains to increase their capital account balances until they equal the capital account balances of OP Unit holders. Upon capital account equalization and vesting, LTIP units are convertible into an equal number of OP Units at the holder’s election with notice to the Operating Partnership. The Operating Partnership, at any time at the election of the General Partner, may also force a conversion of vested LTIP units into OP Units, subject to the capital account equivalency requirement described in this paragraph. LTIP unit holders have the same voting rights as holders of OP Units, with the LTIP units voting as a single class with the OP Units and having one vote per LTIP unit. With certain exceptions, a majority vote of the LTIP unit holders is required to amend the provisions of the Partnership Agreement related to LTIP units. |