Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES

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TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 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 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 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 $0.4 million in costs for Transition Services during the year ended December 31, 2018, and these costs are reported in general and administrative expense on the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
 
 
Amounts incurred under the Management
Agreement
 
 
2017
 
2016
Management fee
 
$
10,210

 
$
10,204

Expense reimbursement to the former Manager
 
500

 
500

Termination payment
 
10,700

 

Incentive compensation
 

 

Total Management fee and termination payment to affiliate
 
$
21,410

 
$
10,704



At December 31, 2018, Fortress, through its affiliates, and principals of Fortress, owned 7.3 million shares of the Company’s common stock and Fortress, through its affiliates, had options relating to an additional 2.7 million shares of the Company’s common stock (Note 11).
At December 31, 2017, due to affiliates was comprised of $1.8 million of 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. These amounts totaled less than $0.1 million for each of the three years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016.

The Company leases corporate office space from an affiliate of a member of the Board of Directors. The Company incurred $1.1 million in rent expense for the year ended December 31, 2018, which represents market rates for the office space.