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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2019

The accompanying consolidated financial statements of the Company and the operating partnership are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) applicable to interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Certain information and footnote disclosures required for annual financial statements have been condensed or excluded pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and regulations. Accordingly, the interim financial statements do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, the accompanying interim financial statements reflect all adjustments of a normal and recurring nature that are considered necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods presented. References to number of properties and square feet are not covered by the auditor’s review procedures.

The results of operations for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ended December 31, 2019. The interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements in the 2018 Annual Report on Form 10-K of Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. and Hudson Pacific Properties, L.P. and the notes thereto.

Principles of Consolidation

The unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the Company include the accounts of the Company, the operating partnership and all wholly owned and controlled subsidiaries. The consolidated financial statements of the operating partnership include the accounts of the operating partnership and all wholly owned and controlled subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in the consolidated financial statements.

Under the consolidation guidance, the Company first evaluates an entity using the variable interest model, then the voting model. The Company ultimately consolidates all entities that the Company controls through either majority ownership or voting rights, including all variable interest entities (“VIEs”) of which the Company is considered the primary beneficiary. The Company

accounts for all other unconsolidated joint ventures using the equity method of accounting. In addition, the Company continually evaluates each legal entity that is not wholly owned for reconsideration based on changing circumstances.

VIEs are defined as entities in which equity investors do not have:

•the characteristics of a controlling financial interest;

•sufficient equity at risk for the entity to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support from other parties; and/or

•the entity is structured with non-substantive voting rights.

The entity that consolidates a VIE is known as its primary beneficiary and is generally the entity with both the power to direct the activities that most significantly affect the VIE’s economic performance and the right to receive benefits from the VIE or the obligation to absorb losses of the VIE that could be significant to the VIE. As of June 30, 2019, the Company has determined its operating partnership and six joint ventures met the definition of a VIE. Four of the joint ventures are consolidated and two of the joint ventures are unconsolidated.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of commitments and contingencies at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates its estimates, including those related to acquiring, developing and assessing the carrying values of its real estate properties, determining the incremental borrowing rate used in the present value calculations of its new or modified operating lessee agreements, its accrued liabilities and its performance-based equity compensation awards. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience, current market conditions and various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results could materially differ from these estimates.

Lessee Accounting

The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. The Company’s operating lease agreements relate to ground lease assets and are reflected in operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

ROU assets represent the Company’s right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent its obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. ROU assets and liabilities are recognized at the commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. Variable lease payments are excluded from the ROU assets and lease liabilities and are recognized in the period in which the obligation for those payments is incurred. As the Company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date, or the date of the ASC 842 adoption, in determining the present value of lease payments. The weighted average incremental borrowing rate used to calculate the ROU assets and liabilities was 5.7%. ROU assets also include any lease payments made and exclude lease incentives. Many of the Company’s lessee agreements include options to extend the lease, which we do not include in its minimum lease terms unless the option is reasonably certain to be exercised. Rental expense for lease

payments related to operating leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. The weighted average remaining lease term, as of June 30, 2019, was 32 years.

Lessor Accounting

As a lessor, the Company’s recognition of revenue remained consistent with previous guidance, apart from the narrower definition of initial direct costs that can be capitalized. With the election of the lessor practical expedient, the presentation of revenues on the Consolidated Statement of Operations has changed to reflect a single lease component that combines rental, tenant recoveries, and other tenant-related revenues for the office portfolio. For the Company’s rentals at the studio properties, total lease consideration is allocated to lease and non-lease components on a relative standalone basis. The recognition of revenues related to lease components is governed by ASC 842, while revenue related to non-lease components is be subject to ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”).

The new standard defines initial direct costs as only the incremental costs of signing a lease. Internal direct compensation costs and external legal fees related to the execution of successful lease agreements that no longer meet the definition of initial direct costs under ASC 842 are accounted for as office operating expense or studio operating expense in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations. Additionally, the Company may elect the practical expedients only for leases that have commenced before the effective date of the adoption of ASC 842. As a result of the adoption, the Company recognized $1.8 million as a cumulative adjustment to accumulated deficit for costs associated with leases that have not commenced as of January 1, 2019, that were previously capitalized and no longer meet the definition of initial direct costs in accordance with ASC 842. The Company recognized $0.3 million as cumulative adjustments to accumulated deficit related to other transition adjustments.

Revenue Recognition

The Company’s 2018 rental revenues are accounted for under ASC 840. The Company continues to recognize rental revenue from tenants on a straight-line basis over the lease term when collectability is probable and the tenant has taken possession of or controls the physical use of the leased asset.

The Company recognizes tenant recoveries related to reimbursement of real estate taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance, and other operating expenses are recognized as revenue in the period during which the applicable expenses are incurred. The reimbursements are recognized and presented gross, as the Company is generally the primary obligor with respect to purchasing goods and services from third-party suppliers, has discretion in selecting the supplier and bears the associated credit risk.

Other tenant-related revenues includes parking stipulated in lease agreements as must-take parking rentals. These revenues are recognized over the term of the lease.

Ancillary revenues and guest parking revenues have been accounted for under ASC 606 since the Company adopted this standard on January 1, 2018. These revenues have single performance obligations and are recognized at the point in time when services are rendered.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Changes to GAAP are established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) in the form of Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”). The following ASUs were adopted by the Company in 2019:

Standard

Description

Effect on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters

ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842)

ASU 2019-01, Leases (Topic 842): Codification Improvements

ASU 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842): Targeted Improvements

ASU 2018-10, Codification Improvements to Topic 842, Leases

ASU 2018-01, Leases (Topic 842): Land Easement Practical Expedient for Transition to Topic 842

Issued on February 5, 2016, ASU 2016-02 amends the accounting guidance for leases and sets out the principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of leases for both parties to a lease agreement (i.e., lessees and lessors).

The Company adopted ASC 842 during the first quarter of 2019 using the modified retrospective transition method with a cumulative adjustment to accumulated deficit. Refer to Lease Accounting section above for details.

ASU 2018-16, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Inclusion of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) Overnight Index Swap (OIS) Rate as a Benchmark Interest Rate for Hedge Accounting Purposes

The amendments in this update permits use of the OIS rate based on SOFR as a U.S. benchmark interest rate for hedge accounting purposes under Topic 815 in addition to the UST, the LIBOR swap rate, the OIS rate based on the Fed Funds Effective Rate, and the SIFMA Municipal Swap Rate.

The Company adopted this guidance during the first quarter of 2019 using the prospective approach. The adoption did not have an impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements since LIBOR is still in use, however, this is expected to have an impact in later periods once SOFR is adopted.

Standard

Description

Effect on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters

ASU 2018-02, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income

The amendments in this update allow a reclassification from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings for stranded tax effects resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Consequently, the amendments eliminate the stranded tax effects resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and will improve the usefulness of information reported to financial statement users. However, because the amendments only relate to the reclassification of the income tax effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the underlying guidance that requires that the effect of a change in tax laws or rates be included in income from continuing operations is not affected. The amendments in this Update also require certain disclosures about stranded tax effects.

The Company adopted this guidance during the first quarter of 2019 on a prospective basis. The adoption did not have an impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Other Recently Issued ASUs

The Company considers the applicability and impact of all ASUs. The following table lists the recently issued ASUs that have not been disclosed in the Company’s 2018 Annual Report on Form 10-K and have not been adopted by the Company. The list excludes those ASUs that are not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Standard

Description

Effective Date

Effect on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters

ASU 2019-05, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Targeted Transition Relief

The amendments in this update provide an option to irrevocably elect the fair value option for certain financial assets previously measured at amortized cost basis. For those entities, the targeted transition relief will increase comparability of financial statement information by providing an option to align measurement methodologies for similar financial assets. Furthermore, the targeted transition relief also may reduce the costs for some entities to comply with the amendments in Update 2016-13 while still providing financial statement users with decision-useful information.

For entities that have not yet adopted the amendments in Update 2016-13, the effective date and transition methodology for the amendments in this Update are the same as in Update 2016-13. Therefore, effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15 2019, including interim periods within those years.

The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this update.

ASU 2019-04, Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses, Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, and Topic 825, Financial Instruments

The FASB amended its standards on credit losses, hedging, and recognizing and
measuring financial instruments to clarify them and address implementation issues.

Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020, and interim periods within those fiscal years.

The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this update.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, which changes the impairment model for most financial instruments by requiring companies to recognize an allowance for expected losses, rather than incurred losses as required currently by the other-than-temporary impairment model. The accounting standard will apply to our investments, U.S. Government securities and the Company’s receivables related to service revenues. This standard applies to net investments in leases resulting from sales-type or direct financing leases recognized by a lessor and does not apply to the receivables arising from operating leases, which are accounted for under ASC 842. The accounting standard is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted, and will be applied as a cumulative adjustment to retained earnings as of the effective date. The effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements will largely depend on the composition and credit quality of our financial investments and the economic conditions at the time of adoption.