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| COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES | NOTE 5 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Operating Lease
In November 2021, the Company entered into a leasing arrangement with a third party for an aircraft to be used in the Company’s operations. The lease term is for 60 months, expiring November 2026, and requires monthly lease payments. At any time during the lease term, the Company has the option to purchase the aircraft from the lessor at the aircraft’s fair market value at that time.
The lease agreement also requires the Company to hold a liquidity reserve of $500,000 in a separate bank account as well as a maintenance reserve of approximately $690,000 for the duration of the lease term. The liquidity reserve is held in a bank account owned by the Company. As such, this is classified as restricted cash and is included in cash and cash equivalents in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. The maintenance reserve are funds held by the lessor to be used for reasonable maintenance expenses in excess of those covered by the airframe and engine maintenance programs maintained by the Company. These maintenance programs are designed to fully cover the Company’s aircraft’s maintenance costs, both scheduled and unscheduled, and therefore the Company does not expect these funds will be drawn upon. If funds from the maintenance reserve are expended by the lessor, the Company is required to replenish the maintenance reserve account up to the required reserve amount. Any funds remaining at the end of the Lease term will be returned to the Company. The maintenance reserve is included within deposits and other assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. In connection with this leasing arrangement, the Company agreed to pay an arrangement fee of $70,500 to a separate third party.
On April 4, 2022, the Company entered into an additional leasing arrangement with a third party for an aircraft to be used in the Company’s operations, substantially identical to the terms of the November 2021 agreement. The lease term was for 60 months, expiring April 4, 2027, and required monthly lease payments. At any time during the lease term, the Company had the option to purchase the aircraft from the lessor at the aircraft’s fair market value at that time. The lease agreement also required the Company to maintain its existing liquidity reserve of $500,000 in a separate bank account as well as an additional maintenance reserve of approximately $690,000 for the duration of the lease term. The liquidity reserve is required to be held in a bank account owned by the Company. Any funds remaining at the end of the Lease term would be returned to the Company. In May 2022, the Company exercised the option to purchase the aircraft from the lessor and in June 2022 sold the aircraft.
Total lease expense for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $1,192,184 and $863,824, respectively, which is included within cost of revenues in the accompanying statement of operations.
JET.AI, INC. NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Right-of-use lease assets and lease liabilities for our operating lease was recorded in the consolidated balance sheet as follows:
As of December 31, 2023, the weighted average remaining lease term was 3.0 years, and the weighted average discount rate was 3%.
As of December 31, 2023, future minimum required lease payments due under the non-cancellable operating lease are as follows:
Share Purchase Agreement
Jet Token executed a Share Purchase Agreement, dated as of August 4, 2022, with GEM Yield LLC SCS and GEM Yield Bahamas Limited (together with GEM Yield LLC SCS, “GEM”), which was automatically assumed by the Company in connection with the Business Combination. In connection with the Business Combination, the Company has the right to periodically issue and sell to GEM, and GEM has agreed to purchase, up to $ aggregate value of shares of the Company’s common stock during the 36-month period following the date of listing.
In consideration for these services, the Company has agreed to pay GEM a commitment fee equal to $ payable in cash or freely tradable shares of the Company’s common stock, payable on or prior to the first anniversary of the date of listing. Pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement, the Company issued to GEM a warrant granting it the right to purchase up to shares of common stock of the Company on a fully diluted basis. The warrant has an exercise price of $ and a term of .
The Company has also entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with GEM, obligating the Company to file a registration statement with respect to resales of the shares of common stock issuable to GEM under the Share Purchase Agreement and upon exercise of the warrant. Because such registration statement was not declared effective by October 23, 2023 (the “Effectiveness Deadline”), the Company must pay to GEM an amount equal to $10,000 for each day following the Effectiveness Deadline until the registration statement has been declared effective. The fee payable under the GEM Registration Rights Agreement will not exceed $300,000 if such delay in the declaration of effectiveness of the registration statement is caused by delays in SEC review of the registration statement or the SEC’s refusal to declare the registration statement effective. The Company has accrued $300,000 as of December 31, 2023 with respect to this agreement.
On October 23, 2023, the Company entered into a warrant amendment agreement, retroactively effective as of August 10, 2023 (the “GEM Warrant Amendment”). The GEM Warrant Amendment provides that GEM can elect to limit the exercisability of its warrant (the “GEM Warrant”) to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $ per share (“Common Stock”), such that it is not exercisable to the extent that, after giving effect to the exercise, GEM and its affiliates, to the Company’s actual knowledge, would beneficially own in excess of 4.99% of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such exercise. On October 23 2023, GEM provided a notice to the Company electing to have this limit apply to the GEM Warrant effective as of August 10, 2023. GEM may revoke this election notice by providing written notice to the Company of such revocation, which revocation would not be effective until the sixty-first (61st) day after such notice is delivered to the Company.
JET.AI, INC. NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Forward Purchase Agreement
On August 6, 2023, Oxbridge entered into an agreement with (i) Meteora Capital Partners, LP (“MCP”), (ii) Meteora Select Trading Opportunities Master, LP (“MSTO”), and (iii) Meteora Strategic Capital, LLC (“MSC” and, collectively with MCP and MSTO, “Seller”) (the “Forward Purchase Agreement”) for OTC Equity Prepaid Forward Transactions. For purposes of the Forward Purchase Agreement, Oxbridge is referred to as the “Counterparty” prior to the consummation of the Business Combination, while Jet.AI is referred to as the “Counterparty” after the consummation of the Business Combination. Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Forward Purchase Agreement.
Pursuant to the terms of the Forward Purchase Agreement, the Seller intended, but was not obligated, to purchase up to (the “Purchased Amount”) Class A ordinary shares, par value $ per share, of Oxbridge (“Oxbridge Shares”) concurrently with the Closing pursuant to the Seller’s FPA Funding Amount PIPE Subscription Agreement (as defined below), less the number of Oxbridge Shares purchased by the Seller separately from third parties through a broker in the open market (“Recycled Shares”). No Seller was required to purchase an amount of Oxbridge Shares such that following such purchase, that Seller’s ownership would exceed % of the total Oxbridge Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such purchase, unless the Seller, at its sole discretion, waived such % ownership limitation. The number of shares subject to the Forward Purchase Agreement is subject to reduction following a termination of the Forward Purchase Agreement with respect to such shares as described under “Optional Early Termination” in the Forward Purchase Agreement.
The Forward Purchase Agreement provided for a prepayment shortfall in an amount in U.S. dollars equal to $1,250,000 (the “Prepayment Shortfall”); provided that Seller shall pay one half (1/2) of the Prepayment Shortfall to Counterparty on the Prepayment Date (which amount shall be netted from the Prepayment Amount) (the “Initial Shortfall”) and, at the request of Counterparty, the other one half (1/2) of the Prepayment Shortfall (the “Future Shortfall”) on the date that the SEC declares the Registration Statement effective (the “Registration Statement Effective Date”), provided the VWAP Price is greater than $ for any 45 trading days during the prior 90 consecutive trading day period and average daily trading value over such period equals at least four times the Future Shortfall. Seller in its sole discretion may sell Recycled Shares at any time following the Trade Date and at any sales price, without payment by Seller of any Early Termination Obligation until such time as the proceeds from such sales equal 100% of the Initial Shortfall and 100% of the Future Shortfall actually paid to Counterparty (as set forth under Shortfall Sales in the Forward Purchase Agreement) (such sales, “Shortfall Sales,” and such Shares, “Shortfall Sale Shares”). A sale of Shares is only (a) a “Shortfall Sale,” subject to the terms and conditions herein applicable to Shortfall Sale Shares, when a Shortfall Sale Notice is delivered under the Forward Purchase Agreement, and (b) an Optional Early Termination, subject to the terms and conditions of the forward Purchase Agreement applicable to Terminated Shares, when an OET Notice is delivered under the Forward Purchase Agreement, in each case the delivery of such notice in the sole discretion of the Seller (as further described in the “Optional Early Termination” and “Shortfall Sales” sections in the Forward Purchase Agreement).
The Forward Purchase Agreement provided that the Seller would be paid directly an aggregate cash amount (the “Prepayment Amount”) equal to (x) the product of (i) the number of shares as set forth in a Pricing Date Notice and (ii) the redemption price per share as defined in Article 49.5 of Oxbridge’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, effective as of August 11, 2021, as amended from time to time (the “Initial Price”), less (y) the Prepayment Shortfall.
The Seller agreed to waive any redemption rights with respect to any Recycled Shares in connection with the Business Combination, as well as any redemption rights under Oxbridge’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association that would require redemption by Oxbridge. Such waiver reduced the number of Oxbridge Shares redeemed in connection with the Business Combination, which may have altered the perception of the potential strength of the Business Combination.
JET.AI, INC. NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The shares initially held by Seller consisted of shares it purchased from third parties through a broker in open market transactions or by reversing previously submitted redemption requests and waived its redemption rights with respect to these shares. Furthermore, Seller purchased “Additional Shares” directly from the Company for a per share price of $ pursuant to a subscription agreement entered into on August 6, 2023 (the “FPA Funding Amount PIPE Subscription Agreement”). Of the shares it purchased, shares represented Share Consideration to Seller under the Forward Purchase Agreement and are not subject to the terms of the Forward Purchase Agreement, meaning that Seller is free to sell such shares and retain all proceeds therefrom. Netting out the Share Consideration, the total “Number of Shares” initially subject to the terms of the Forward Purchase Agreement was , comprising “Recycled Shares” and Additional Shares. Following the Closing of the Business Combination, approximately $7.4 million remained in the trust account pursuant to the Forward Purchase Agreement. The Company paid Seller $6,805,651, representing amounts payable by us to Seller under the Forward Purchase Agreement, net of the aggregate purchase price of the total number of Additional Shares issued to Seller under the FPA Funding Amount PIPE Subscription Agreement; and Seller paid the Company one-half (1/2) of the Prepayment Shortfall, or $625,000.
On August 31, 2023 and October 2, 2023, the Company entered into an amendment and a second amendment, respectively (together, the “Amendments”) to its Forward Purchase Agreement.
The combined effect of the Amendments was to:
The Forward Purchase Agreement, as amended, provides for a cash settlement following the Valuation Date, at which time Seller is obligated to pay the Company an amount equal to the “Number of Shares” subject to the Forward Purchase Agreement (provided such Shares are registered for resale or freely transferrable pursuant to an exemption from registration) multiplied by a per share price reflecting the Company’s volume weighted average trading price over a number of days following the Valuation Date, subject to alternate calculations in certain circumstances and Meteora’s option to early terminate the Forward Purchase Agreement. The Forward Purchase Agreement was determined to be a freestanding equity-linked financial instrument under ASC 480. The FPA does not include an obligation to issue warrants. As such, the FPA shares were classified as equity and net payments made to the company were recorded to additional paid in capital as part of the recapitalization.
Pursuant to the terms of the Forward Purchase Agreement, in December 2023, Meteora sent Optional Early Termination Notices to the Company informing the Company that it had elected to terminate the transaction with respect to all outstanding shares and paid the Company an aggregate $921,945. As a result of the foregoing, the net proceeds received by the Company from the issuance of additional common stock pursuant to the Forward Purchase Agreement and the FPA Funding Amount PIPE Subscription Agreement are $1,221,945 and the facility was terminated.
FPA Funding Amount PIPE Subscription Agreements
On August 6, 2023, Oxbridge entered into a subscription agreement (the “FPA Funding Amount PIPE Subscription Agreement”) with Seller.
Pursuant to the FPA Funding PIPE Subscription Agreement, Seller agreed to subscribe for and purchase, and Oxbridge agreed to issue and sell to Seller, on the Closing Date, an aggregate of up to Oxbridge Shares, less the Recycled Shares in connection with the Forward Purchase Agreement.
JET.AI, INC. NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Maxim Settlement Agreement
On August 10, 2023, the Company entered into a settlement agreement (“Maxim Settlement Agreement”) with Maxim Group LLC, the underwriter for the Company’s initial public offering (“Maxim”). Pursuant to the Maxim Settlement Agreement, the Company issued shares of Jet.AI Common Stock to settle the payment obligations of the Company under the underwriting agreement dated on or about August 11, 2021, by and between the Company and Maxim, which shares of Jet.AI Common Stock are subject to a Registration Rights Agreement. The Company also issued shares of 8% Series A Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock in an amount equal in value to $1,127,000 (the “Series A Preferred Shares”). The shares of Jet.AI Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares are subject to mandatory redemption on August 10, 2024, which will be automatically extended by an additional three (3) month period if the Company has not as of such date closed upon one or more equity financings that, in total, result in gross proceeds to the Company of $10.0 million or greater. If the Company raises equity capital, % of the net proceeds must be used to redeem the Series A Preferred Shares.
Sponsor Settlement Agreement
On August 10, 2023, the Company entered into a settlement agreement (“Sponsor Settlement Agreement”) with Sponsor. Pursuant to the Sponsor Settlement Agreement, the Company issued shares of the Company’s 5% Series A-1 Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series A-1 Preferred Shares”) to settle the payment obligations of the Company under a promissory note in the principal amount of $575,000 dated November 14, 2022 in favor of Sponsor. The shares of Jet.AI Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series A-1 Preferred Shares are subject to mandatory redemption on August 10, 2024, which will be automatically extended by an additional three (3) month period if the Company has not as of such date closed upon one or more equity financings that, in total, result in gross proceeds to the Company of $10.0 million or greater. If the Company raises equity capital, % of the net proceeds must be used to redeem the Series A Preferred Shares. Cumulative preferred stock dividends on Series A-1 preferred shares were $46,587 at December 31, 2023.
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