George J. Alburger Jr - May 17, 2022 Form 4 Insider Report for AMERICOLD REALTY TRUST (COLD)

Role: Director
Signature: /s/ James C. Snyder, Jr., attorney-in-fact
Stock symbol: COLD
Transactions as of: May 17, 2022
Transactions value $: $0
Form type: 4
Date filed: 5/18/2022, 04:25 PM
Previous filing: Jun 2, 2021
Next filing: Jun 2, 2022

Derivative Securities (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)

Type	Sym	Class	Transaction	Value $	Shares	Change %	* Price $	Shares After	Date	Underlying Class	Amount	Exercise Price	Ownership	Footnotes
transaction	COLD	Operating Partnership Profits Units	Award	$0	+4.81K		$0.00	4.81K	May 17, 2022	Common Shares of Beneficial Interest	4.81K		Direct	F1, F2

* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Explanation of Responses:

Id	Content
F1	Represents OP Profits Units ("OP Profits Units") of Americold Realty Operating Partnership, L.P. ("Operating Partnership"), which vest on the earlier of first anniversary of the grant date or the date of the next annual meeting of shareholders following the grant date. The OP Profits Units were issued to the reporting person pursuant to the Americold Realty Trust 2017 Equity Incentive Plan.
F2	Conditioned upon minimum allocations to the capital accounts of the OP Profits Units for federal income tax purposes, each vested OP Profits Unit may be converted, at the election of the holder, into a common unit of limited partnership interest in the Operating Partnership (a "Common Unit"). Each Common Unit acquired upon conversion of a vested OP Profits Unit may be presented for redemption, at the election of the holder, for cash equal to the then fair market value of a common share of Americold Realty Trust (the "Company") (the "Common Shares"), except that the Company may, at its election, acquire each Common Unit so presented for one Common Share. The rights to convert vested OP Profits Units into Common Units and redeem Common Units have no expiration dates.

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Represents OP Profits Units ("OP Profits Units") of Americold Realty Operating Partnership, L.P. ("Operating Partnership"), which vest on the earlier of first anniversary of the grant date or the date of the next annual meeting of shareholders following the grant date. The OP Profits Units were issued to the reporting person pursuant to the Americold Realty Trust 2017 Equity Incentive Plan.

Conditioned upon minimum allocations to the capital accounts of the OP Profits Units for federal income tax purposes, each vested OP Profits Unit may be converted, at the election of the holder, into a common unit of limited partnership interest in the Operating Partnership (a "Common Unit"). Each Common Unit acquired upon conversion of a vested OP Profits Unit may be presented for redemption, at the election of the holder, for cash equal to the then fair market value of a common share of Americold Realty Trust (the "Company") (the "Common Shares"), except that the Company may, at its election, acquire each Common Unit so presented for one Common Share. The rights to convert vested OP Profits Units into Common Units and redeem Common Units have no expiration dates.