11. EQUITY

SLP historically made, and will continue to make, distributions of its net income to the holders of its partnership units for income tax purposes as required under the terms of its Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement and also made, and will continue to make, additional distributions of net income under the terms of its Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement.  Partnership distributions totaled $7,698, $6,773 and $6,205 for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively.   Distributions are included in non-controlling interests in the Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition.  

Pursuant to SLP’s Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement, as amended and restated, partner incentive allocations are treated as distributions of net income. The remaining net income or loss after partner incentive allocations was generally allocated to the partners based on their pro rata ownership. Net income allocation is subject to the recovery of the allocated losses of prior periods. Distributions of partner incentive allocations of net income for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 amounted to $27,199, $24,935 and $21,177, respectively. The distributions are included in non-controlling interests in the Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition and Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017.  The Company treats SLP’s partner incentive allocations as compensation expense and accrues such amounts when earned.  During the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, SLP accrued partner incentive allocations of $27,229, $27,197 and $25,101, respectively.  

Silvercrest—Equity

Silvercrest has the following authorized and outstanding equity:

Silvercrest is dependent on cash generated by SLP to fund any dividends. Generally, SLP will distribute its profits to all of its partners, including Silvercrest, based on the proportionate ownership each holds in SLP. Silvercrest will fund dividends to its stockholders from its proportionate share of those distributions after provision for income taxes and other obligations.

During the year ended December 31, 2019, Silvercrest issued the following shares:

Class A Common Stock

In January 2019, the Company issued 1,516 shares of Class B common stock to certain Principals of Neosho in connection with the Neosho Acquisition.

In March 2019, the Company redeemed from certain existing partners 17,074 shares of Class B common stock in connection with the exchange of a like number of Class B units to Class A common stock pursuant to the resale and registration rights agreement between the Company and its principals.

In May 2019, the Company redeemed from certain existing partners 84,268 shares of Class B common stock in connection with the exchange of a like number of Class B units to Class A common stock pursuant to the resale and registration rights agreement between the Company and its principals.

In May 2019, the Company issued 1,896 shares of Class A common stock and 948 shares of Class B common stock upon the vesting of restricted stock units.

In June 2019, the Company redeemed from certain existing partners 2,386 shares of Class B common stock in connection with the exchange of a like number of Class B units to Class A common stock pursuant to the resale and registration rights agreement between the Company and its principals.

In July 2019, the Company issued 662,713 shares of Class B common stock to certain Principals of Cortina in connection with the Cortina Acquisition.

In August 2019, the Company redeemed from certain existing partners 556,293 shares of Class B common stock in connection with the exchange of a like number of Class B units to Class A common stock pursuant to the resale and registration rights agreement between the Company and its principals.

In August 2019, the Company issued 241,624 shares of Class B common stock upon the vesting of restricted stock units.

In November 2019, the Company redeemed from certain existing partners 16,054 shares of Class B common stock in connection with the exchange of a like number of Class B units to Class A common stock pursuant to the resale and registration rights agreement between the Company and its principals.

In December 2019, the Company redeemed from certain existing partners 133,812 shares of Class B common stock in connection with the exchange of a like number of Class B units to Class A common stock pursuant to the resale and registration rights agreement between the Company and its principals.

The total number of shares of Class B common stock outstanding and held by employee-principals equals the number of Class B units those individuals hold in SLP. Shares of Silvercrest’s Class B common stock are issuable only in connection with the issuance of Class B units of SLP. When a vested or unvested Class B unit is issued by SLP, Silvercrest will issue to the holder one share of its Class B common stock in exchange for the payment of its par value, subject to the holder’s agreement to be bound by the terms of a stockholders’ agreement amongst the Class B stockholders of the Company. Each share of Silvercrest’s Class B common stock will be redeemed for its par value and cancelled by Silvercrest if the holder of the corresponding Class B unit exchanges or forfeits its Class B unit pursuant to the terms of the Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement of SLP, the terms of the 2012 Equity Incentive Plan of Silvercrest, or otherwise.