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STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION | STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION 2021 Equity Plan A total of 31,900,000 shares of Common Stock are authorized and reserved for issuance under the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Equity Plan”) which provides for the grant of stock options (either incentive or non-qualified), stock appreciation rights (“SARs”), restricted stock, restricted stock units (“RSUs”), performance shares, performance share units and other share-based awards with respect to the Common Stock. Shares associated with underlying awards that are expired, forfeited, or otherwise terminated without the delivery of shares, or are settled in cash, and any shares tendered to or withheld by the Company for the payment of an exercise price or for tax withholding will again be available for issuance under the 2021 Equity Plan. During the six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company granted 3,010,500 performance-based non-qualified stock options (“PBNQSO”) to its executive officers, non-employee directors and other members of senior management under the 2021 Equity Plan. The PBNQSO granted consist of two types of vesting criteria. The Company recognizes compensation costs for PBNQSO granted in the first six months of 2025 based on the estimated fair value of the awards on the date of grant. The Company estimates the grant date fair value, and the resulting stock-based compensation expense, using the Hull-White model or Monte Carlo model, as applicable. The Company records forfeitures as they are incurred. The grant date fair value of the PBNQSO is expensed proportionately for each tranche over the applicable service period. The fair value of PBNQSO is recognized as compensation expense beginning at the time in which the performance conditions are deemed probable of achievement, over the remaining requisite service period. In February 2025, based on the Company’s 2024 performance, the compensation committee verified and determined the Annual Operational Performance per Diluted Share (“AOP”) for 2024 to be $25.02, which was above the maximum vesting AOP target. As of June 30, 2025, there were 17,100,503 PBNQSO outstanding. The exercise prices of these PBNQSO ranged from $2.94 to $13.24 per share and expire ten years from the grant date. The table below summarizes the PBNQSO activity for the six months ended June 30, 2025:
The assumptions used to fair value the PBNQSO granted during the six months ended June 30, 2025 using the Monte Carlo model were as follows:
Non-cash stock-based compensation expense recognized by the Company for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, was $2.2 million and $4.9 million, respectively. Non-cash stock-based compensation expense recognized by the Company for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024 was $3.0 million and $4.7 million, respectively. Compensation expense is recognized based upon probability assessments of PBNQSO that are expected to vest in future periods. Such probability assessments are subject to revision and, therefore, unrecognized compensation expense is subject to future changes in estimates. As of June 30, 2025, there was approximately $26.2 million of total unrecognized compensation expense related to non-vested PBNQSO expected to vest, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.8 years. Founder Advisory Amounts On November 9, 2021, the Company assumed the advisory agreement entered into on December 12, 2019 (“Founder Advisory Agreement”) by EverArc Holdings Limited, a company limited by shares incorporated with limited liability in the British Virgin Islands (“EverArc”), with EverArc Founders, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("EverArc Founder Entity"), pursuant to which the EverArc Founder Entity, for the services provided to the Company, including strategic and capital allocation advice, is entitled to receive both a fixed amount (the “Fixed Annual Advisory Amount”) and a variable amount (the “Variable Annual Advisory Amount,” each an “Advisory Amount” and collectively, the “Advisory Amounts”) until the years ending December 31, 2027 and 2031, respectively. Under the Founder Advisory Agreement, at the election of the EverArc Founder Entity, at least 50% of the Advisory Amounts will be paid in shares of Common Stock and the remainder in cash. The Fixed Annual Advisory Amount will be equal to 2,357,061 shares of Common Stock (1.5% of 157,137,410 Ordinary Shares outstanding on November 9, 2021) for each year through December 31, 2027 and is valued using the period end volume weighted average closing share price of the Company’s Common Stock for ten consecutive trading days. The Variable Annual Advisory Amount for each year through December 31, 2031 is based on the appreciation of the market price of the Company’s Common Stock if such market price exceeds certain trading price minimums at the end of each reporting period and is valued using a Monte Carlo simulation model. Because up to 50% of the Advisory Amounts could be settled through a cash payment, 50% are classified as a liability and the remaining 50% are classified within equity. For Advisory Amounts classified within equity, the Company does not subsequently remeasure the fair value. For the Advisory Amounts classified as a liability, the Company remeasures the fair value at each reporting date. Accordingly, the Company believes that the compensation expense recorded by the Company in the future will depend upon changes in the fair value of the liability-classified Advisory Amounts. As of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the fair value of the Fixed Annual Advisory Amount was calculated to be $96.3 million and $90.8 million, respectively, based on the period end volume weighted average closing share price for ten consecutive trading days of $13.62 and $12.85, respectively. As of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the fair value of the Variable Annual Advisory Amount, determined using a Monte Carlo simulation model, was $416.4 million and $389.3 million, respectively. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company recognized an increase in the compensation expense related to the founders advisory fees - related party due to an increase in fair value for liability-classified Advisory Amounts of $96.9 million and $16.3 million, respectively. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, the Company recognized an increase in the compensation expense related to the founders advisory fees - related party due to an increase in fair value for liability-classified Advisory Amounts of $0.6 million and $68.9 million, respectively.
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