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Commitments and Contingencies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016
Commitments and Contingencies  
Commitments and Contingencies

 

5.Commitments and Contingencies

 

Line of Credit

 

On December 31, 2013, the Company entered into a credit agreement for a revolving line of credit with an aggregate borrowing commitment not to exceed $37.0 million. On December 31, 2015, the Company amended this credit agreement to reduce the aggregate amount it may borrow to $25.0 million and on July 26, 2016, the Company amended this credit agreement to extend the maturity date through October 1, 2016. No amounts were outstanding as of June 30, 2016 or December 31, 2015.

 

In connection with the Company entering into an operating lease agreement on December 23, 2015, to lease its new office facility in Lanham, Maryland, the Company entered into a standby letter of credit on January 22, 2016 in the amount of $6.0 million as a security deposit for the new leased facilities. In connection with the Company entering into an operating lease agreement on May 11, 2016, to lease its new office facility in Denver, Colorado, the Company entered into a standby letter of credit on June 14, 2016 in the amount of $1.1 million as a security deposit for the new leased facilities. These letters of credit reduced the aggregate amount the Company may borrow under its revolving line of credit to $17.9 million.

 

Under this revolving line of credit, the Company has the option of borrowing funds subject to (i) a base rate, which is equal to 1.5% plus the greater of Comerica Bank’s prime rate, the federal funds rate plus 1% or the 30 day LIBOR plus 1%, or (ii) LIBOR plus 2.5%. For amounts borrowed under the base rate, the Company may make interest-only payments quarterly, and may prepay such amounts with no penalty. For amounts borrowed under LIBOR, the Company makes interest-only payments in periods of one, two and three months and will be subject to a prepayment penalty if such borrowed amounts are repaid before the end of the interest period.

 

Borrowings under the line of credit are collateralized by substantially all of the Company’s assets. The availability of borrowings under this credit line is subject to compliance with reporting and financial covenants, including, among other things, that the Company achieves specified minimum three-month trailing revenue levels during the term of the agreement and specified minimum six-month trailing profitability levels for some client programs, measured quarterly. In addition, the Company is required to maintain a minimum adjusted quick ratio, which measures short-term liquidity, of at least 1.10 to 1.00. As of June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, the Company’s adjusted quick ratio was 7.95 and 7.90, respectively.

 

The covenants under the line of credit also place limitations on the Company’s ability to incur additional indebtedness or to prepay permitted indebtedness, grant liens on or security interests in its assets, carry out mergers and acquisitions, dispose of assets, declare, make or pay dividends, make capital expenditures in excess of specified amounts, make investments, loans or advances, enter into transactions with affiliates, amend or modify the terms of material contracts, or change its fiscal year. If the Company is not in compliance with the covenants under the line of credit, after any opportunity to cure such non-compliance, or it otherwise experiences an event of default under the line of credit, the lenders may require repayment in full of all principal and interest outstanding. If the Company fails to repay such amounts, the lenders could foreclose on the assets pledged as collateral under the line of credit. The Company is currently in compliance with all such covenants.

 

Legal Contingencies

 

From time to time, the Company may become involved in legal proceedings or other contingencies in the ordinary course of its business. The Company is not presently involved in any legal proceeding or other contingency that, if determined adversely to it, would individually or in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on its business, operating results, financial condition or cash flows. Accordingly, the Company does not believe that there is a reasonable possibility that a material loss exceeding amounts already recognized may have been incurred as of the date of the balance sheets presented herein.

 

Program Marketing and Sales Commitments

 

Certain of the agreements entered into between the Company and its clients require the Company to commit to meet certain staffing and spending investment thresholds related to program marketing and sales activities. In addition, certain of the agreements require the Company to invest up to agreed-upon levels in marketing the programs to achieve specified program performance. The Company believes it is currently in compliance with all such commitments.

 

Operating Leases

 

The Company leases office facilities under non-cancelable operating leases in Maryland, New York, California, Colorado, North Carolina, Virginia and Hong Kong. The Company also leases office equipment under non-cancelable leases. As of June 30, 2016, the future minimum lease payments (net of aggregate expected sublease payments of $0.2 million) were as follows (in thousands):

 

2016

 

$

2,187 

 

2017

 

6,228 

 

2018

 

7,702 

 

2019

 

8,186 

 

2020

 

7,952 

 

Thereafter

 

64,765 

 

 

 

 

 

Total future minimum lease payments

 

$

97,020 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The future minimum lease payments due under non-cancelable operating lease arrangements contain fixed rent increases over the term of the lease. Rent expense on these operating leases is recognized over the term of the lease on a straight-line basis. The excess of rent expense over future minimum lease payments due has been reported in non-current liabilities in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. The deferred rent liability related to these leases totaled $0.7 million and $0.6 million as of June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively.

 

Total rent expense from non-cancelable operating lease agreements was $1.1 million (net of sublease income of $0.1 million) for the three months ended June 30, 2016, and $0.8 million (net of sublease income of $0.1 million) for the three months ended June 30, 2015. Total rent expense from non-cancelable operating lease agreements was $2.1 million (net of sublease income of $0.1 million) for the six months ended June 30, 2016, and $1.4 million (net of sublease income of $0.1 million) for the six months ended June 30, 2015.

 

Fixed Payments to Clients

 

The Company is contractually obligated to make fixed payments to certain of its clients in exchange for contract extensions and various marketing and other rights. Currently, the future minimum fixed payments to the Company’s clients in exchange for contract extensions and various marketing and other rights were as follows (in thousands):

 

2016

 

$

573 

 

2017

 

4,478 

 

2018

 

3,875 

 

2019

 

875 

 

2020

 

625 

 

Thereafter

 

5,650 

 

 

 

 

 

Total future minimum program payments

 

$

16,076 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contingent Payments to Clients

 

The Company has entered into specific program agreements under which it would be obligated to make future minimum program payments to a client in the event that certain program metrics, partially associated with programs not yet launched, are not achieved. Due to the dependency of these calculations on future program launches, the amounts of any associated contingent payments cannot be reasonably estimated at this time. As the Company cannot reasonably estimate the amounts of the contingent payments, and because it believes any contingent payments under this agreement would likely be immaterial, the Company has excluded such payments from the table above.