Leases

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2024

The Company and its subsidiaries had a right to use two distinct office spaces in New York and Chicago under separate lease agreements. All of the Company’s leases are classified as operating leases and the Company was not party to any finance lease arrangements as of and during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023. The right of use (“ROU”) asset and lease liability balances as of September 30, 2024 were $3.8 million and $4.1 million, respectively, and the ROU asset and lease liability balances as of December 31, 2023, were $0.5 million and $0.7 million, respectively.

The terms of the operating leases range from three and a half years to five years, from the dates the Company gained access to the spaces, through and to the stated termination dates, which expire in May 2025 and December 2027, respectively. Although the Chicago operating lease agreement contains an option to extend the lease term, the Company is not reasonably certain it will exercise this option. Due to this uncertainty, in the measurement of the lease liability, the Company has excluded the period covered by the renewal option from the lease terms.

The Chicago operating lease agreement contains rent escalation features that are reflected in the Company’s lease liability balances. Since the discount rates implicit in the leases are not readily available, the Company used an incremental borrowing rate to discount the remaining lease payments in measuring the lease liability. The Company did not incur any initial direct costs or make prepayments in connection with its lease arrangements; as such, these amounts are not reflected in the ROU asset.

Lease expense for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 was $0.4 million and $0.1 million, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 was $0.8 million and $0.4 million, respectively. Lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term in operating expenses within the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income. The Company has immaterial variable lease costs and no short-term leases for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.

The following table summarizes the Company’s future minimum lease payment obligations under non-cancelable operating leases as of September 30, 2024:


As of	September 30, 2024
	($ in thousands)
Contractual maturities:
Remaining 2024	$	385
2025	1,421
2026	1,331
2027	1,331
Later years	—
Total undiscounted future minimum lease payments	4,468
Less: Discount impact	325
Total discounted operating lease liability	$	4,143

The weighted average remaining lease term and weighted average discount rate for the Company’s operating leases as of September 30, 2024 were 3.2 years and 4.9%, respectively.

Cash paid for operating leases for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 was $0.5 million and $0.2 million, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 was $0.9 million and $0.6 million, respectively. There were no non-cash additions from new and remeasured leases that resulted in an increase to the ROU asset and lease liability.