0001209191-17-067295.txt : 20171226 0001209191-17-067295.hdr.sgml : 20171225 20171226203040 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-17-067295 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20171221 FILED AS OF DATE: 20171226 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20171226 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SHAPIRO EDWARD CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001168692 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-35176 FILM NUMBER: 171275134 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 275 GROVE STREET CITY: NEWTON STATE: MA ZIP: 02466 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001512077 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: COMMUNICATION SERVICES, NEC [4899] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6100 CENTER DRIVE STREET 2: SUITE 1020 CITY: LOS ANGELES STATE: CA ZIP: 90045 BUSINESS PHONE: 310-437-6000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6100 CENTER DRIVE STREET 2: SUITE 1020 CITY: LOS ANGELES STATE: CA ZIP: 90045 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Global Eagle Acquisition Corp. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20110203 4 1 doc4.xml FORM 4 SUBMISSION X0306 4 2017-12-21 0 0001512077 Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. ENT 0001168692 SHAPIRO EDWARD 6100 CENTER DRIVE SUITE 1020 LOS ANGELES CA 90045 1 0 0 0 Common Stock 2017-12-21 4 A 0 7788 0.00 A 16878 D Common Stock 2017-12-21 4 A 0 31152 0.00 A 48030 D Stock Option Right to Buy 3.21 2017-12-21 4 A 0 17848 0.00 A 2017-12-21 2024-12-21 Common Stock 17848 17848 D These shares (which were granted as restricted stock units) were backlog "stub" grants for director service from January 1, 2017 through the 2017 annual stockholders' meeting, and became fully vested on December 21, 2017 (the date of the Issuer's 2017 annual stockholders' meeting). These shares were granted as restricted stock units, and will vest in full on the earlier of (i) June 26, 2018 and (ii) the date of the Issuer's 2018 annual stockholders' meeting, subject to continuous service through the vesting date. These stock options were backlog "stub" grants for director service from January 1, 2017 through the 2017 annual stockholders' meeting, and were fully vested on December 21, 2017 (the date of the Issuer's 2017 annual stockholders' meeting). The grants in this Form 4 are "backlog grants" promised to the Reporting Person earlier in 2017, the issuance of which was subject to stockholder approval of our new 2017 Omnibus Long-Term Incentive Plan. Our stockholders approved the new Plan on December 21, 2017. We described this grant in our Schedule 14A filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on November 28, 2017. Exhibit 24.1 - Power of Attorney /s/ Colleen Brooks, Attorney-in-Fact 2017-12-26 EX-24.1 2 attachment1.htm EX-24.1 DOCUMENT

LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
FOR SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS


       The undersigned constitutes and appoints Stephen Ballas, Stephen Chu,
Colleen Brooks,
Joel Rubinstein, Elliott Smith, Daniel Nussen and Lola Olawole-Anjorin, or any
of them acting
singly, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with
full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for the undersigned and in the undersigned's
name, place and
stead, to:

       1. 	prepare, sign, and submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the
" SEC ") on its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (" EDGAR ")
Filer
Management website a Form ID application, including any amendments and exhibits
thereto, and
any other related documents as may be necessary or appropriate, to obtain from
the SEC access
codes to permit filing on the SEC's EDGAR system, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each act
and thing requisite
and necessary to be done as required by any rule or regulation of the SEC and
the EDGAR Filer
Manual as fully and to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and
each of them, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof; and

       2. 	sign any and all SEC statements of beneficial ownership of securities
of Global
Eagle Entertainment Inc. (the " Company ") on Schedule 13D as required under
Section 13 and
Forms 3, 4 and 5 as required under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as
amended, and any amendments thereto, and to file the same with all exhibits
thereto, and other
documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, the Company and any stock
exchange on
which any of the Company's securities are listed, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents,
and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each act and thing
requisite and
necessary to be done under said Section 13 and Section 16(a), as fully and to
all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, may lawfully do or cause to
be done by virtue
hereof.

       A copy of this limited power of attorney shall be filed with the SEC.
This limited power
of attorney replaces any and all previous powers of attorney filed with the SEC.
 This limited
power of attorney shall remain in full force and effect until it is revoked by
the undersigned in a
signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, or if it is
superseded by a new limited
power of attorney regarding the purposes outlined herein.

        The authority granted hereby shall in no event be deemed to impose or
create any duty
on behalf of the attorneys-in-fact with respect to the undersigned's obligations
to file a Form ID,
Schedule 13Ds and Forms 3, 4 and 5 with the SEC.


Dated:  September 19, 2016

								/s/ Edward L. Shapiro
								Edward L. Shapiro