Leases

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2025

The Company has operating leases for office space and equipment expiring at various dates through 2034. The Company leases its corporate headquarters at 85 Broad Street, New York, New York, which houses its executive management team and many administrative functions for the Company as well as its research, trading, investment banking, and asset management divisions and an office in Troy, Michigan, which among other things, houses its payroll and human resources departments. In addition, the Company has 89 retail branch offices in the United States as well as offices in London, England, St. Helier, Isle of Jersey, Geneva, Switzerland, Tel Aviv, Israel and Hong Kong, China.

The Company is constantly assessing its needs for office space and, on a rolling basis, has many leases that expire in any given year.

Substantially all of the leases are held by the Company's subsidiary, Viner Finance Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet; the Company recognizes lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Most leases include an option to renew and the exercise of lease renewal options is at the Company's sole discretion. The Company did not include the renewal options as part of the right of use assets and liabilities.

The depreciable life of assets and leasehold improvements is limited by the expected lease term. The Company's lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.

As of March 31, 2025, the Company had right-of-use operating lease assets of $131.8 million (net of accumulated amortization of $125.0 million) which are comprised of real estate leases of $129.1 million (net of accumulated amortization of $122.5 million) and equipment leases of $2.7 million (net of accumulated amortization of $2.5 million). As of March 31, 2025, the Company had operating lease liabilities of $171.5 million which are comprised of real estate lease liabilities of $168.9 million and equipment lease liabilities of $2.6 million. The Company had no finance leases as of March 31, 2025.

As most of the Company's leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses the incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments.

The following table presents the weighted average lease term and weighted average discount rate for the Company's operating leases as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively:


	As of
	March 31, 2025	December 31, 2024

Weighted average remaining lease term (in years)	5.97	6.08
Weighted average discount rate	7.40%	7.50%

The following table presents operating lease costs recognized for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, respectively, which are included in occupancy and equipment costs on the condensed consolidated income statements:


(Expressed in thousands)
	For the Three Months Ended March 31,
	2025		2024
Operating lease costs:
Real estate leases - Right-of-use lease asset amortization	$	5,957	$	6,046
Real estate leases - Interest expense	3,129		3,323
Equipment leases - Right-of-use lease asset amortization	424		431
Equipment leases - Interest expense	45		46

The maturities of lease liabilities as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 are as follows:


(Expressed in thousands)
	As of
	March 31, 2025		December 31, 2024
2025	$	32,678	$	42,466
2026	41,896		40,596
2027	39,142		38,151
2028	25,444		24,794
2029	19,426		18,816
After 2030	55,117		52,472
Total lease payments	$	213,703	$	217,295
Less interest	(42,206)		(43,975)
Present value of lease liabilities	$	171,497	$	173,320

As of March 31, 2025, the Company had $3.9 million of additional real estate operating leases that have not yet commenced ($6.9 million as of December 31, 2024).