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TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES

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TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Transactions With Affiliates And Affiliated Entity [Abstract]  
TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES
TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES
Agreements with the Former Manager
On December 21, 2017, the Company entered into definitive agreements with the former Manager to internalize the Company’s management (the “Internalization”). In connection with the termination of the existing Management Agreement, the Company made a payment of $10.7 million to the former Manager in December 2017. The Internalization became effective on January 1, 2018.
On December 21, 2017, the Company entered into a Transition Services Agreement, effective as of January 1, 2018, with the former Manager. In order to facilitate the transition of the Company’s management of its operations and provide the Company sufficient time to develop such services in-house or to hire other third-party service providers for such services, under the Transition Services Agreement, the former Manager continues to provide to the Company certain services (“Transition Services”).  The Transition Services primarily include information technology, legal, regulatory compliance, tax and accounting services.  The Transition Services are provided for a fee intended to be equal to the former Manager’s cost of providing the Transition Services, including the allocated cost of, among other things, overhead, employee wages and compensation and out-of-pocket expenses, and will be invoiced on a monthly basis. The Company incurred $0.2 million in costs for Transition Services during the three months ended March 31, 2018, and these costs are reported in general and administrative expense on the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
 
Amounts incurred under the Management Agreement
 
Three Months Ended March 31,
 
2018
 
2017
Management fees
$

 
$
2,552

Expense reimbursement to the Manager

 
125

Incentive compensation

 

Total Management fee to affiliate
$

 
$
2,677



At March 31, 2018, Fortress, through its affiliates, and principals of Fortress, owned 6.8 million shares of the Company’s common stock and Fortress, through its affiliates, had options relating to an additional 3.9 million shares of the Company’s common stock (Note 11).
At December 31, 2017, due to affiliates was comprised of $1.8 million in management fees and expense reimbursements payable to the former Manager.

Other Affiliated Entities
A member of the Board of Directors owned or leased aircraft that the Company chartered from a third-party aircraft operator for business purposes in the course of operations. The Company paid the aircraft operator market rates for the charters.