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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions Related Party TransactionsThe Company historically leased its office headquarters building from a company 33% beneficially owned by Blake L. Sartini, 5% owned by a trust for the benefit of Mr. Sartini’s immediate family members (including Blake L. Sartini, II) for which Mr. Sartini serves as trustee, and 3% beneficially owned by Stephen A. Arcana. On May 24, 2021 the building was sold to an independent third party, and therefore as of December 31, 2021, this lease was no longer with a related party. The rent expense for the office headquarters building prior to its sale to an independent third party was $0.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, and $1.6 million and $1.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. No
amount was owed to the Company, and no amount was due and payable by the Company, under this lease arrangement as of December 31, 2020. Additionally, a portion of the office headquarters building was sublet to Sartini Enterprises, Inc., a company controlled by Mr. Sartini. Rental income during each of the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 for the sublet portion of the office headquarters building was insignificant. No amount was owed to the Company under such sublease as of December 31, 2021 and 2020. In addition, the Company and Sartini Enterprises, Inc. participate in certain cost-sharing arrangements. No amount was owed by the Company under such arrangements as of December 31, 2021 and the amount due and payable by the Company under such arrangements as of December 31, 2020 was less than $0.1 million. Mr. Sartini serves as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and is co-trustee of The Blake L. Sartini and Delise F. Sartini Family Trust, which is a significant shareholder of the Company. Mr. Arcana serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company.
In November 2018, the Company entered into a lease agreement for office space in a building adjacent to the Company’s office headquarters building to be constructed and owned by a company 33% beneficially owned by Mr. Sartini, 5% owned by a trust for the benefit of Mr. Sartini’s immediate family members (including Blake L. Sartini, II) for which Mr. Sartini serves as trustee, and 3% beneficially owned by Mr. Arcana. The lease commenced in August 2020 and expires on December 31, 2030. The rent expense for the space was $0.3 million and $0.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Additionally, the lease agreement includes a right of first refusal for additional space on the second floor of the building.
The Company previously leased one tavern location from a related party. The location was sold in the second quarter of 2019 to an unrelated third party. As a result, the Company did not incur any rent expense for such tavern location for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020. For the year ended December 31, 2019, for the period in which the location was leased by a related party, the rent expense for such tavern was $0.2 million. No tavern locations were leased from related parties as of December 31, 2021 and 2020.
From time to time, the Company’s executive officers and employees use a private aircraft for Company business purposes. The aircraft is owned by or leased to Sartini Enterprises, Inc., pursuant to aircraft time-sharing, co-user and cost-sharing agreements between the Company and Sartini Enterprises, Inc., all of which have been approved by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. The aircraft time-sharing, co-user and cost-sharing agreements specify the maximum expense reimbursement that Sartini Enterprises, Inc. can charge the Company under the applicable regulations of the Federal Aviation Administration for the use of the aircraft and the flight crew. Such costs include fuel, landing fees, hangar and tie-down costs away from the aircraft’s operating base, flight planning and weather contract services, crew costs and other related expenses. The Company’s compliance department regularly reviews these reimbursements. The Company incurred $0.8 million, $0.5 million and $0.6 million in costs under these arrangements for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The Company owed $0.2 million at December 31, 2021 and no amount was due and payable by the Company under these agreements as of December 31, 2020. No amount was owed to the Company under these agreements as of December 31, 2021 and 2020.
One of the distributed gaming locations at which the Company’s slot machines are located was owned in part by Sean T. Higgins, who previously served as Executive Vice President of Government Affairs of the Company. This agreement was in place prior to Mr. Higgins’s joining the Company on March 28, 2016 and terminated in 2020. Net revenues recorded by the Company from the use of the Company’s slot machines at this location were $0.8 million and $1.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, for the period in which the location was leased from a related party. Gaming expenses related to this location were $0.7 million and $0.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, for the period in which the location was leased by a related party. An insignificant amount was owed to the Company and due and payable by the Company related to this arrangement as of December 31, 2020 and collected in 2021.
On December 22, 2020, the Company repurchased 50,000 shares of its common stock from Lyle A. Berman, then an independent non-employee member of the Company’s Board of Directors, pursuant to its share repurchase program at a price of $19.00 per share, resulting in a charge to accumulated deficit for $1.0 million. This transaction was approved by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors prior to being executed.