Company: CODI-PB
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001345126-25-000015
Chunk: 316

Company: Compass Diversified Holdings
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 316
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 the costs and expenses of our Manager pursuant to any offsetting management services agreements entered into between our Manager and one of our businesses. In addition, Sostratus LLC, as holder of the Allocation Interests, will be entitled to receive profit allocations. While it is difficult to quantify with any certainty the actual amount of any such payments in the future, we do expect that such amounts could be substantial. See the section entitled Part 3, Item 13. “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence” for more information about these payment obligations of the Company. The management fees and profit allocation will be payment obligations of the Company and, as a result, will be paid, along with other Company obligations, prior to the payment of distributions to shareholders. As a result, the payment of these amounts may significantly reduce the amount of earnings and cash available for distribution to our shareholders.

Our Manager’s influence on conducting our operations, including on our conducting of transactions, gives it the ability to increase its fees, which may reduce the amount of earnings and cash available for distribution to our shareholders.

Under the terms of the Management Services Agreement, the Company will pay our Manager a base management fee and, if specified performance measure is met under certain circumstances, an incentive management fee. The base management fee is calculated as a percentage (which varies based on our size) of the Company’s adjusted net assets for certain items and is unrelated to net income or any other performance base or measure. Our Manager controls and may advise us to consummate transactions, incur third party debt or conduct our operations in a manner that, in our Manager’s reasonable discretion, are necessary to the future growth of our businesses and are in the best interests of our shareholders. These transactions, however, may increase the amount of fees paid to our Manager. Our Manager’s ability to increase its fees, through the influence it has over our operations, may increase the compensation paid by our Manager. Our Manager’s ability to influence the management fee paid to it by us could reduce the amount of earnings and cash available for distribution to our shareholders.

Our profit allocation may induce our Manager to make suboptimal decisions regarding our operations.

Sostratus LLC, as holder of our Allocation Interests, will receive a profit allocation based on ongoing cash flows and capital gains in excess of a hurdle rate. Certain persons who are employees and partners of our Manager are owners of Sostratus LLC. In this respect, a calculation and payment of profit allocation may be triggered upon the sale of one of our businesses. As a result