TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES |
12 Months Ended |
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Dec. 31, 2019 | |
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| 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 which is referred to in this Annual Report as 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 terminated the Transition Services Agreement during the second quarter of 2019 and incurred $0.1 million and $0.4 million in costs for Transition Services during the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and these costs are reported in general and administrative expense on the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
At December 31, 2019, 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 3.6 million shares of the Company’s common stock (Note 11).
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, 2019, 2018 and 2017.
The Company previously leased corporate office space from an affiliate of a member of the Board of Directors. The Company incurred $0.2 million and $1.1 million in rent expense for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, which represents market rates for the office space.
The Company agreed to reimburse an affiliate of a member of our board of directors for services of an employee prior to execution
of an employment agreement. The Company incurred $0.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, which represents market rates for these services.
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