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You could use the $90 million to diversify your real estate assets or pay down your debt.

It's entirely possible it was in a contract.

For a large commerical real estate deal, the termination fee is always negotiated as part of the lease contract.

The early cancellation payout was probably part of the original lease agreement. Big commercial contracts are dense and cover a lot of contingencies.

You can usually find a public company's leases in SEC fillings. I couldn't find one for Pinterest, but I found Dropbox's 200+ page lease agreement here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001467623/000119312...

(it's a 15 year lease, with the cost increasing from $45 million/year to $68 million/years over the 15 years. Hope there's some option to re-negotiate in there)