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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions
13.
Related Party Transactions

See the description of the Merger Agreement between the Company and JHC in Note 8 above, pursuant to which the Company acquired JHC in the Merger and JHC became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company on October 1, 2018.

Before completion of the Merger, the Company’s portfolio of aircraft assets were managed and administered under the terms of a management agreement with JMC (the “Management Agreement”), which is  an integrated aircraft management, marketing and financing business.  Certain officers of the Company were also officers of JHC and JMC and held significant ownership positions in both JHC and the Company, and JHC was also a significant stockholder of AeroCentury.  Under the Management Agreement, JMC received a monthly management fee based on the net asset value of the Company’s assets under management.  JMC also received an acquisition fee for locating assets for the Company.  Acquisition fees were included in the cost basis of the asset purchased.  JMC also received a remarketing fee in connection with the re-lease or sale of the Company’s assets.  Remarketing fees were amortized over the applicable lease term or included in the gain or loss on sale. 

In April 2018, subsequent to the execution of the Merger Agreement, the Company, JHC and JMC entered into a waiver and reimbursement agreement (the “Waiver/Reimbursement Agreement”), pursuant to which JHC and JMC agreed to waive their right to receive Contract Fees otherwise owed by the Company to JMC pursuant to the Management Agreement for all periods after March 31, 2018 and until the consummation of the Merger, and in return, the Company agreed to reimburse JMC for expenses (“Management Expense”) incurred in providing management services set forth under the Management Agreement.  As a result, the Company has been responsible for all expenses incurred by JMC in managing the Company’s assets beginning April 1, 2018 and will continue to be responsible for all such expenses in all periods after the Merger, and no Contract Fees have been or will be payable by the Company to JMC for the period from April 1 through September 30, 2018.

Notwithstanding the Waiver/Reimbursement Agreement, the Company accrued as an expense the Contract Fees that would have been due under the Management Agreement through September 30, 2018.  For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, Contract Fees exceeded the Management Expense by $1,023,000 of management fees and $494,000 of acquisition fees (collectively, the “JMC Margin”).  The amount of the JMC Margin payable was waived and included in the acquisition accounting for the calculation of the settlement loss that the Company recognized upon closing the Merger (see Note 8).

Contract Fees incurred during the 2018 and 2017 were as follows:

  
For the Years Ended December 31,
 
  
2018
  
2017
 
Management fees
 
$
4,482,800
  
$
6,109,200
 
Acquisition fees
  
494,400
   
850,500
 
Remarketing fees
  
-
   
51,100
 

In March 2017, the Company exchanged one of its engines for 150,000 shares of common stock of AeroCentury held by a holder of more than 5% of AeroCentury’s then-outstanding common stock. The Company recorded no gain or loss related to the exchange.