Lineage Inc

(10)Derivative instruments and hedging activities

(a)Risk management objective of using derivatives

The Company is exposed to certain risks arising from both its business operations and economic conditions. The Company principally manages its exposures to a wide variety of business and operational risks through management of its core business activities. The Company manages economic risks, including interest rate, foreign currency, liquidity, and credit risk, primarily by managing the amount, sources, and duration of its assets and liabilities and with the use of derivative financial instruments.

(b)Cash flow hedges of interest rate and foreign currency risk

The Company’s objectives in using interest rate derivatives are to manage its exposure to interest rate movements and to mitigate the potential volatility to interest expense. To accomplish this objective, the Company primarily uses interest rate swaps and caps as part of its interest rate risk management strategy. Interest rate swaps involve the receipt of variable amounts from a counterparty in exchange for the Company making fixed-rate payments over the life of the agreements without exchange of the underlying notional amount. Interest rate caps involve the receipt of variable amounts from a counterparty if interest rates rise above the strike rate on the contract in exchange for a premium. The Company’s designated interest rate swaps and caps hedge variable-rate interest payments using a first payments approach. The first payments approach allows an entity to hedge interest payments on a designated principal amount, rather than a specific, named debt issuance. Refer to Note 9, Debt for additional information.

In addition, the Company enters into derivative financial instruments to manage exposures that arise from business activities that result in the receipt or payment of future cash amounts due to changes in foreign currency rates.

(c)Designated hedges

As of September 30, 2024, the Company had the following outstanding interest rate and foreign currency derivatives that were designated as cash flow hedging instruments:

The tables below presents the effect of the Company’s derivatives that are designated as hedging instruments on the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss) (in millions).

The estimated net amount of existing gains (losses) that are reported in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) as of September 30, 2024 that is expected to be reclassified into earnings within the next 12 months is $70 million.

(d)Non-designated hedges

As of September 30, 2024, the Company had the following outstanding derivatives that were not designated as hedging instruments:

The notional value of the Company’s non-designated foreign currency derivatives isimmaterial. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company recognized nominal earnings on non-designated interest rate derivatives. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recognized in Interest expense, net, $(2) million and $1 million, respectively, of gain (loss) on non-designated interest rate derivative contracts.

The table below presents the fair value of the Company’s derivative financial instruments as well as their classification in the condensed consolidated balance sheets as of:

Refer to Note 12, Fair value measurements for further information on the valuation of the Company’s derivatives.