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Capital structure and noncontrolling interests
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Noncontrolling Interest [Abstract]  
Capital structure and noncontrolling interests Capital structure and noncontrolling interests
Lineage, Inc. capital structure
(a)Common Stock
Lineage, Inc. has one class of common stock. Each share of common stock entitles the holder to one vote on matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders. Holders of common stock have the right to receive any dividend declared by the Company.
Lineage, Inc. is authorized to issue up to 500,000,000 common shares with a par value of $0.01 per share. As of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, there were 228,717,652 and 228,191,656 common shares issued and outstanding, respectively.
During the six months ended June 30, 2024, the Company repurchased shares of its common stock as authorized by its Board of Directors (“Board”). No shares were repurchased during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 or during the three months ended June 30, 2024. Any repurchased shares are constructively retired and returned to an unissued status. The following table provides the number of shares repurchased, average price paid per share, and total amount paid for share repurchases for the six months ended June 30, 2024, excluding repurchases related to the withholding of common stock for employee taxes related to vested stock-based compensation arrangements described below:
Total number of shares repurchased254,680
Average price paid per share$98.37 
Total consideration paid for share repurchases (in millions)$25 
Operating Partnership capital structure
The Operating Partnership’s capital structure as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 was as follows:
June 30, 2025December 31, 2024
Partnership common units owned by Lineage, Inc.228,717,652 228,191,656 
Partnership common units owned by Non-Company LPs789,649 984,089 
Legacy Class A OP Units and Legacy Class B OP Units owned by Non-Company LPs21,029,599 20,929,599 
Redeemable Legacy Class A OP Units owned by Non-Company LPs— 319,006 
LTIP Units held by Non-Company LPs3,611,143 2,995,153 
Total254,148,043 253,419,503 
Noncontrolling interest in the Operating Partnership relates to the interest in the Operating Partnership owned by investors other than Lineage, Inc. The Company accounts for the partnership common units, Legacy Class A OP Units, and Legacy Class B OP Units (the Legacy Class A OP Units and Legacy Class B OP Units, together the “Legacy OP Units”), and LTIP Units held by investors in Lineage OP other than Lineage, Inc. (“Non-Company LPs”) and BG Cold, an affiliate of Bay Grove Management, based on their relative ownership percentage of the Operating Partnership. Each time the ownership percentage of the Operating Partnership held by Non-Company LPs and BG Cold changes, the Company records an adjustment to Noncontrolling interests with a corresponding adjustment in Additional paid-in capital - common stock to appropriately reflect the new ownership percentage and to reflect the Non-Company LPs’ and BG Cold’s share of all capital contributed to the Operating Partnership. All activity related to these interests held by Non-Company LPs is included within Noncontrolling interests in the condensed consolidated balance sheets and condensed consolidated statements of redeemable noncontrolling interests and equity.
(b)Noncontrolling Interest in Operating Partnership - Partnership common units
Partnership common units include all Operating Partnership capital interests not designated as another class of units in the Operating Partnership’s Agreement of Limited Partnership (the “Operating Partnership Agreement”). Lineage, Inc. holds all partnership common units with the exception of those held by Non-Company LPs. Partnership common units held by Non-Company LPs represent a noncontrolling interest in the Operating Partnership and are included in Noncontrolling interests in the condensed consolidated balance sheets and condensed consolidated statements of redeemable noncontrolling interests and equity. 194,440 partnership common units held by Non-Company LPs were exchanged for an equivalent number of shares of Lineage, Inc. common stock during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025.
(c)Noncontrolling Interest in Operating Partnership - Legacy Class A OP Units, Legacy Class B OP Units, Class A, Class B, and Class C units
Prior to the Company’s initial public offering (“IPO”), which closed on July 26, 2024, Non-Company LPs held certain Class A and Class B units in the Operating Partnership. These units were reclassified into Legacy OP Units as part of certain changes the Company effectuated in its capital structure in connection with the IPO (the “Formation Transactions”). Class A and Class B units were both voting capital interests in the Operating Partnership and were similar to each other in all material respects, except that Class A units held by Non-Company LPs bore a Founders Equity Share (as described below) payable to Class C unit holders, whereas Class B units did not. BG Cold held all outstanding Class C units of the Operating Partnership. Class C units provided BG Cold the right to receive a percentage distribution (“Founders Equity Share”) upon certain distributions made to Non-Company LPs who held Class A units of the Operating Partnership. Class C units also received a distribution upon certain repurchases and redemptions of Class A units of the Operating Partnership held by Non-Company LPs. On a quarterly basis, BG Cold also received an advance distribution (“Advance Distribution”) against its future Founders Equity Share based on a formulaic amount of all capital contributed to the Operating Partnership after August 3, 2020. This Advance Distribution was an advance on the
Class C Founders Equity Share to be paid upon the sale, redemption, liquidation of, or other distributions to, Class A units and would offset subsequent Class C unit Founders Equity Share distributions paid in conjunction with a hypothetical sale, redemption, liquidation, or other distribution.
BG Cold received a total of $12 million and $23 million in Advance Distributions during the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively. Advance Distributions were only payable for the period through the date of the IPO.
Legacy OP Units are generally not redeemable for cash or other consideration but can be reclassified into an equal number of partnership common units at any time at the discretion of BG Lineage Holdings LHR, LLC, which serves as the representative of all Legacy OP Units. No Legacy OP Units were reclassified into partnership common units during the six months ended June 30, 2025.
(d)Noncontrolling Interest in Operating Partnership - LTIP Units
The Company grants interests in the Operating Partnership to certain members of management in the form of LTIP Units. LTIP Units are a form of voting interest in the Operating Partnership which may be subject to vesting requirements. Both vested and unvested LTIP Units are accounted for as Noncontrolling interests in the condensed consolidated balance sheets and condensed consolidated statements of redeemable noncontrolling interests and equity.
Vested LTIP Units may be convertible into partnership common units. LTIP Units are only eligible to be converted into partnership common units if the capital account balance of the LTIP unitholder with respect to such LTIP Units is at least equal to Lineage, Inc.’s capital account balance with respect to an equal number of partnership common units, subject to certain adjustments (“capital account equivalence”). Once the LTIP Units have reached capital account equivalence and become vested, they may be converted into partnership common units on a one-for-one basis. Partnership common units obtained after conversion from the LTIP Units are redeemable in exchange for, at the Company’s option, cash per unit equal to the market price per share of the Company’s common stock at the time of redemption or for shares of the Company’s common stock on a one-for-one basis, in each case subject to certain adjustments. Partnership common units obtained after conversion from LTIP Units may not be redeemed until the 18 month anniversary of the date that the LTIP Units were originally granted (or such longer period as may be provided in the applicable LTIP Unit award agreement).
(e)Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests - Operating Partnership Units
Certain Operating Partnership units held by Non-Company LPs are redeemable at the greater of a fixed redemption amount or fair value if certain liquidation events do not occur. Each reporting period, the Company accretes the changes in the redemption value of the redeemable noncontrolling interest over the period of issuance to the earliest redemption date and records an adjustment if the accreted redemption value is greater than the ASC 810 carrying value. The Company’s adjustments are recorded to Additional paid-in capital - common stock in the condensed consolidated balance sheets and condensed consolidated statements of redeemable noncontrolling interests and equity because the Company is in an accumulated deficit position. These adjustments to equity are not a component of net income (loss), however, they are accounted for in the Company’s calculations of earnings (loss) per share (“EPS”) as disclosed in Note 19, Earnings (loss) per share.
In connection with the acquisition of MTC Logistics Holdings, LLC and certain real property (together with its subsidiaries, “MTC Logistics”) in 2022, the Company issued 319,006 Class A Units of the Operating Partnership with special redemption rights to the sellers of MTC Logistics. In connection with the IPO, the units were reclassified into Legacy Class A-4 OP units with similar redemption rights. These redemption rights, which had to be exercised between March 1, 2025 and April 15, 2025, allowed such holders of Legacy Class A-4 OP units to (1) redeem any or all of the Legacy Class A-4 OP units at a guaranteed floor or (2) receive a one-time top-up paid in cash or through the issuance of new Legacy Class A-4 OP units (or any combination of cash and units) in the amount by which the guaranteed minimum value exceeds the fair market value of the Legacy Class A-4 OP units (after adjusting for prior distributions on the Legacy Class A-4 OP units).
The holder of these units notified the Company of its intent to exercise its redemption rights for 219,006 units in exchange for total cash proceeds of $23 million and waive its redemption rights for the remaining 100,000 units, with a one-time top-up of $5 million paid in cash in relation to these remaining units. The holder’s election became irrevocable on April 15, 2025. As such, during the three months ended June 30, 2025, the Company repurchased 219,006 units of redeemable noncontrolling interest, paying $28 million to the holder, and reclassified the remaining 100,000 units to noncontrolling interests in the Operating Partnership.
In connection with the acquisition of Cherry Hill Joliet, LLC, 279 Marquette Drive, LLC, Joliet Cold Storage, LLC, and Bolingbrook Cold Storage, LLC (collectively, “JCS”) in 2021, the Company issued 941,176 Class A units of the Operating Partnership with special redemption rights to the sellers of JCS. On February 1, 2024, one of the holders of these units elected to exercise their redemption rights for 61,593 units in exchange for total proceeds of $6 million. As a result of the partial redemption, BG Cold received a distribution of $1 million in respect of Founders Equity Share. The holders waived their redemption rights for their remaining 879,583 units, and the units remained outstanding, which resulted in a reclassification of the redeemable noncontrolling interest to noncontrolling interest in the Operating Partnership. The difference between the carrying value of the redeemable noncontrolling interest and the ASC 810 carrying value for the remaining noncontrolling interest was recognized in Additional paid-in capital - common stock in the condensed consolidated statements of redeemable noncontrolling interests and equity for the six months ended June 30, 2024.
LLH Capital Structure
The Operating Partnership owns substantially all outstanding equity interests of LLH except for those held by BG Maverick. Prior to the IPO and Formation Transactions, LLH MGMT Profits, LLC (“LLH MGMT”) and LLH MGMT Profits II, LLC (“LLH MGMT II”) also held equity interests in LLH. The equity interests held by BG Maverick, LLH MGMT, and LLH MGMT II are accounted for as Noncontrolling interests in the condensed consolidated balance sheets and condensed consolidated statements of redeemable noncontrolling interests and equity.
(f)OPEUs
Operating Partnership Equivalent Units (“OPEUs”) are a voting capital interest in LLH which are similar in all material respects to the common units of LLH held by the Operating Partnership. At any time beginning after July 24, 2026, any holder of OPEUs may require that the Operating Partnership exchange the OPEUs for partnership common units on a one-for-one basis. OPEUs are recorded as Noncontrolling interests in the condensed consolidated balance sheets and condensed consolidated statements of redeemable noncontrolling interests and equity based on their relative ownership in LLH.
As of June 30, 2025, there were 1,461,148 OPEUs outstanding, which represents 0.6% ownership in LLH.
Other Noncontrolling interests
Certain subsidiaries of LLH have also issued equity interests to third parties. All of these equity interests are accounted for as Noncontrolling interests in the condensed consolidated balance sheets and condensed consolidated statements of redeemable noncontrolling interests and equity.
(g)Noncontrolling Interests in Other Consolidated Subsidiaries
Noncontrolling interests in Other Consolidated Subsidiaries include entities other than the Operating Partnership in which the Company has a controlling interest but which are not wholly owned by the Company. Third parties own the following interests in the below Other Consolidated Subsidiaries:
June 30, 2025December 31, 2024
Cool Port Oakland Holdings, LLC13.3 %13.3 %
Lineage Jiuheng Logistics (HK) Group Company Ltd.40.0 %40.0 %
Kloosterboer BLG Coldstore GmbH49.0 %49.0 %
Turvo India Pvt. Ltd.1.0 %1.0 %
In addition to the third-party interests detailed above, Noncontrolling interests in Other Consolidated Subsidiaries also include Series A Preferred shares issued by each of the Company’s REIT subsidiaries to third-party investors. The Company’s REIT subsidiaries had an aggregate amount of 373 Series A Preferred shares held by third parties outstanding as of both June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
(h)Convertible Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests - Kloosterboer Preference Shares
In 2021, the Company issued non-voting preferred equity instruments (“Preference Shares”) to the seller (the “Co-Investor”) in connection with the Company’s acquisition of Kloosterboer Group B.V. and its subsidiaries (“Kloosterboer”). As of both June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, there were 2,214,553 Preference Shares outstanding. Upon completion of the IPO, the Preference Shares were reclassified in the condensed consolidated balance sheets from Redeemable noncontrolling interests to Other long-term liabilities based on the fair value of the liability at the time of reclassification. See Note 14, Other long-term liabilities for their carrying value. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, the Company recorded net redeemable noncontrolling interest adjustments, representing the effect of foreign currency on the carrying amount and accrued dividends payable.
(i)Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests - Operating Subsidiaries
In August 2023, the Company acquired a 75.0% ownership in Ha Noi Steel Pipe Joint Stock Company (“SK Logistics”). On each of September 30, 2025 and September 30, 2026, the noncontrolling shareholders have the right to sell the remaining 25.0% of SK Logistics to the Company at a formulaic price based on certain financial metrics of SK Logistics in the preceding calendar year. This right expires, if not exercised, on September 30, 2026.
The noncontrolling shareholders’ interests in SK Logistics are presented within Redeemable noncontrolling interests in the condensed consolidated balance sheets and condensed consolidated statements of redeemable noncontrolling interests and equity. The Company accretes the changes in the redemption value of the redeemable noncontrolling interests over the period of issuance to the earliest redemption date and, if necessary, records an adjustment to the redeemable noncontrolling interests. The Company’s adjustments are recorded to Additional paid-in capital - common stock in the condensed consolidated balance sheets and condensed consolidated statements of redeemable noncontrolling interests and equity. In accordance with ASC 810, the value is adjusted to reflect the lower of the redemption value or the ASC 810 value, which represents the floor. During six months ended June 30, 2025, previously recorded accretion of $4 million was reversed to reflect a decline in redemption value to its ASC 810 value.
Below is a summary of all activity for the Company’s redeemable noncontrolling interests, which are discussed in further detail above.
(in millions)Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests - Operating Partnership UnitsConvertible Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests - Preference SharesRedeemable Noncontrolling Interest - Operating SubsidiariesTotal Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests
Balance as of December 31, 2023$120 $221 $$349 
Distributions(1)— — (1)
Redemption of redeemable noncontrolling interests(6)— — (6)
Expiration of redemption option(92)— — (92)
Redeemable noncontrolling interest redemption value adjustment— — 
Balance as of March 31, 202427 221 256 
Redeemable noncontrolling interest redemption value adjustment— — 
Accretion of redeemable noncontrolling interests— 
Balance as of June 30, 2024$28 $225 $$262 
(in millions)Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests - Operating Partnership UnitsConvertible Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests - Preference SharesRedeemable Noncontrolling Interest - Operating SubsidiariesTotal Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests
Balance as of December 31, 2024$32 $— $11 $43 
Redeemable noncontrolling interest redemption value adjustment— (4)(2)
Balance as of March 31, 202534 — 41 
Redemption of redeemable noncontrolling interests(28)— — (28)
Expiration of redemption option(6)— — (6)
Balance as of June 30, 2025$— $— $$
Below is a summary of all activity for the Company’s noncontrolling interests, which are discussed in further detail above.
(in millions)Operating Partnership UnitsNoncontrolling Interests in Other Consolidated SubsidiariesManagement Profits Interests Class C UnitsTotal Noncontrolling Interests
Balance as of December 31, 2023$598 $15 $$622 
Distributions(11)(1)— (12)
Stock-based compensation— — 
Other comprehensive income (loss)(8)— — (8)
Expiration of redemption option27 — — 27 
Net income (loss)(5)(4)(8)
Reallocation of noncontrolling interests— — 
Balance as of March 31, 2024608 15 630 
Distributions(12)— — (12)
Stock-based compensation— — 
Other comprehensive income (loss)(3)— — (3)
Net income (loss)(8)— (4)(12)
Reallocation of noncontrolling interests— — 
Balance as of June 30, 2024$594 $15 $$614 
(in millions)Operating Partnership UnitsNoncontrolling Interests in Other Consolidated SubsidiariesNoncontrolling Interest in Other Consolidated Subsidiaries - OPEUTotal Noncontrolling Interests
Balance as of December 31, 2024$944 $14 $55 $1,013 
Distributions(13)— (1)(14)
Stock-based compensation21 — — 21 
Other comprehensive income (loss)— — 
Reallocation of noncontrolling interests(6)— — (6)
Balance as of March 31, 2025951 14 54 1,019 
Distributions(12)— (1)(13)
Stock-based compensation— — 
Other comprehensive income (loss)17 — 18 
Expiration of redemption option— — 
Net income (loss)(1)— — (1)
Reallocation of noncontrolling interests(7)— — (7)
OP Units reclassification(7)— — (7)
Balance as of June 30, 2025$954 $14 $54 $1,022 
In the tables above, for the period after the IPO and Formation Transactions, Operating Partnership Units include Partnership common units held by Non-Company LPs, Legacy OP Units held by Non-Company LPs, and LTIP Units held by Non-Company LPs. For the period before the IPO and Formation Transactions, Operating Partnership Units include Class A, Class B, and Class C units of the Operating Partnership held by Non-Company LPs.
Dividends and Distributions
The following table summarizes dividends declared to common stockholders during the current period and dividends accrued as of December 31, 2024.
Quarter EndedRecord DatePayment DateDividend per Common ShareDividend Payment (in millions)
December 31, 2024December 31, 2024January 21, 2025$0.5275 $120 
March 31, 2025March 31, 2025April 21, 2025$0.5275 $120 
June 30, 2025June 30, 2025July 21, 2025$0.5275 $121 
Concurrently with the declaration of the dividend on common stock, Lineage, Inc., as general partner of the Operating Partnership, authorized the Operating Partnership to make distributions to the holders of partnership common units, Legacy OP Units, and LTIP Units. The Operating Partnership also makes tax payments on behalf of its partners, which constitute additional insignificant distributions. The Operating Partnership, as managing member of LLH, authorized LLH to make distributions to the holders of common units in LLH and OPEUs. Additionally, restricted stock units (“RSUs”) accrue dividend equivalents as the Company declares dividends on its common stock, and upon the vesting of the RSUs, the plan participant receives the dividend payment.
In the condensed consolidated balance sheets as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, all unpaid dividend and distribution amounts which will be paid within one year are included in Accrued dividends and distributions, and all unpaid dividend and distribution amounts which will be paid in more than one year are included within Other long-term liabilities. The only amounts which will be payable in more than one year are those payable with respect to dividend equivalents for RSUs which vest in more than one year.
Put Options
In connection with the Formation Transactions, the Company executed a put option agreement, which provides special redemption rights and top-up rights, each as defined below, that mirror the rights of certain classes of BGLH equity interests (the “Put Options”). Pursuant to the Put Options, BGLH has the right to either:
Distribute, in various installments from September 2024 through December 2025 (the “Put Option Exercise Window”) up to 2,036,738 shares of the Company’s common stock held by BGLH to certain holders of BGLH equity interests, and these holders then have the individual right to cause the Company to purchase any or all of these shares for an amount equal to a contractual guaranteed minimum price or, in some cases, if greater, the then-current fair market value of the shares of the Company’s common stock as of a specified date.
In some cases, demand a top-up through a cash payment or through the issuance of additional shares of the Company’s common stock in exchange for no proceeds, or any combination thereof, in an amount equal to the amount by which the contractual guaranteed minimum price exceeds the then current fair market value of shares of the Company’s common stock at specified times during the Put Option Exercise Window.
The contractual guaranteed minimum price will be reduced by any distributions received by the holders of the BGLH equity interests, which are paid by BGLH using funds received by BGLH from payments of dividends by the Company. The Company has assessed the Put Options as freestanding financial instruments which are classified as liabilities under ASC 480, because the Put Options represent written put options on the Company’s common stock which may be net cash settled or net share settled. Upon the execution of the put option agreement, the Company recorded liabilities for the Put Options based on fair value, with an offsetting charge to Retained earnings (accumulated deficit) in the condensed consolidated balance sheets and condensed consolidated statements of redeemable noncontrolling interests and equity during the year ended December 31, 2024. The associated liabilities are recorded in Accounts payable and accrued liabilities in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
A summary of the outstanding Put Options, by Put Option Exercise Window, as of June 30, 2025 is as follows:
(in millions, except number of shares)Shares subject to Put OptionIntrinsic ValueMaximum Redemption Value
June 1, 2025 to June 6, 2025616,022 $50 $78 
September 1, 2025 to September 8, 20251,058,328 78 125 
October 3, 2025 to October 10, 2025111,713 14 18 
Total1,786,063 $142 $221 
In the table above, intrinsic value represents the amount that would be paid as of June 30, 2025 to settle the Put Option. Intrinsic value represents the excess of the contractual guaranteed minimum price over the fair market value of the Company’s common shares, each as defined in the put option agreement. The maximum redemption value represents the maximum amount that the Company could be required to pay to redeem the associated shares, assuming the Company’s common shares had a fair value of $0.
The Company calculates the fair value of the Put Options utilizing a Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the ultimate Company obligation during the Put Option Exercise Window. For each simulated path, the market price of the shares of the Company’s common stock relative to the contractual guaranteed minimum price is estimated during the Put Option Exercise Window, which determines the Company’s obligation under each Put Option. The fair value of the Put Options is the average discounted obligation across all simulation paths. The Company remeasures this liability at fair value on a recurring basis, and adjustments to the fair value are recorded within Acquisition, transaction, and other expense in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss). The following table includes a rollforward of the Put Options classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy.
(in millions)Put Options
Balance as of December 31, 2024$107 
Fair value adjustments
Balance as of March 31, 2025109 
Fair value adjustments26 
Unrealized foreign currency translation adjustment
Reclassification out of Level 3(50)
Balance as of June 30, 2025$92 
During the three months ended June 30, 2025, a Put Option with an Exercise Window of June 1, 2025 to June 6, 2025 was exercised. As such, the related liability was reclassified out of Level 3 fair value hierarchy to Level 1, as it is based on known inputs, including the market price of the shares of the Company’s common stock. This Put Option settled on August 5, 2025. As a result of the settlement, the Company made a cash payment of $78 million, $50 million of which represents the excess of the repurchase proceeds over the fair market value of the Company’s common shares and is a reduction to the Put Option liability.