Success Fee If at any time while you are serving as Chief Executive Officer pursuant to that certain Employment Agreement dated on even date herewith (the “Employment Agreement”) (or during the six (6) month period after termination of your service as Chief Executive Officer if such service shall have been terminated without Cause (as defined in the Employment Agreement)) and prior to the Success Fee Expiration Date (defined below), a Covered Transaction (as defined in the Employment Agreement) that either (a) meets the Price Minimum (defined below) or (b) for which the Ambit board of directors (the “Board”) has waived the Price Minimum, shall have been consummated, you shall be eligible to receive, subject to the terms of this letter agreement, a payment (the “Success Fee”) in an amount equal to your Vested Equity Percentage Interest (defined below) multiplied by the Aggregate Gross Proceeds (defined below) actually paid or distributed pursuant to such Covered Transaction to Ambit’s stockholders and holders of options, warrants or other rights to Preferred Stock or Common Stock by reason of their ownership thereof and/or paid or distributed directly to Ambit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the amount of any Success Fee payable to you shall be reduced dollar- for-dollar by any Aggregate Gross Proceeds actually paid to you pursuant to such Covered Transaction by reason of your equity position in Ambit, whether by common stock ownership, the exercise or cash-out of stock options or otherwise, including but not limited to any Bonus Option Substitute Benefits (as defined in the Employment Agreement), if applicable. In no event will the Success Fee be payable with respect to any Covered Transaction other than the first Covered Transaction that occurs following the date of this letter agreement.
Monthly Management Fee Payment On the first business day of each month, each class of each Fund shall pay the management fee to the Investment Manager for the previous month. The fee for the previous month shall be the sum of the Daily Management Fee Calculations for each calendar day in the previous month.
CONTINGENT FEE AGREEMENT A. The Attorneys shall advance all expenses in the Litigation. The Client is not liable to pay any of the expenses of the Litigation, whether attorneys' fees or costs. Recovery of costs and other expenses is contingent upon a recovery being obtained. If no recovery is obtained, Client will owe nothing for costs and other expenses. In the event that an order is entered awarding costs and expenses in favor of defendants, Attorneys will be responsible for such costs and expenses, not the Client.
B. If there is a recovery in the Litigation, whether by settlement or judgment, the Attorneys shall be compensated via payment of a reasonable percentage of any recovery as approved by the Court, which amount shall include attorneys’ fees plus reasonable disbursements in the Litigation. “Disbursements” shall include, but not be limited to, costs of travel, telephone, copying, fax transmission, depositions, investigators, messengers, mediation expenses, computer research fees, court fees, expert fees, other consultation fees and paralegal expenses. Any recovery in the Litigation shall first be used to reimburse disbursements.
Base Management Fee The Base Management Fee shall be calculated at an annual rate of 2.0% of the Company’s average gross assets. The Base Management Fee shall be payable quarterly in arrears, and shall be calculated based on the average value of the Company’s gross assets at the end of the two most recently completed calendar quarters. All or any part of the Base Management Fee not taken as to any quarter shall be deferred without interest and may be taken in such other quarter as the Adviser shall determine. The Base Management Fee for any partial month or quarter shall be appropriately pro rated.
Acquisition Fee Subject to Section 12(b), the Company shall pay an Acquisition Fee to the Advisor or its assigns as compensation for services rendered in connection with the investigation, selection and acquisition (by purchase, investment or exchange) of each Investment. If the Advisor is terminated without Cause pursuant to Section 18(b)(1), the Advisor or its assigns shall be entitled to an Acquisition Fee for any Investments acquired after the Termination Date for which a contract to acquire the applicable Investment had been entered into at or prior to the Termination Date. The total Acquisition Fee payable to the Advisor or its assigns shall be equal to 1.5% of (1) the Contract Purchase Price of each Investment and (2) the amount advanced for a Loan or other investment. The purchase price allocable for an Investment held through a Joint Venture shall equal the product of (i) the Contract Purchase Price of the Investment, multiplied by (ii) the direct or indirect ownership percentage in the Joint Venture held directly or indirectly by the Company or the Operating Partnership. For purposes of this Section 11(a), “ownership percentage” shall be the percentage of capital stock, membership interests, partnership interests or other equity interests owned directly or indirectly by the Company or the Operating Partnership, without regard to classification of such equity interests. The Company shall pay any Acquisition Fee due hereunder promptly upon the closing of the Investment. In addition, if during the period ending two years after the close of the initial Primary Offering, the Company sells an Investment and then reinvests the net proceeds in a new Investment(s), the Company shall pay to the Advisor or its assigns 1.0% of the Contract Purchase Price of the new Investment(s).
Fee Payment To pay the required Commission filing fees relating to the Notes within the time period required by Rule 456(b)(1) of the Rules and Regulations without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rule 456(b) and 457(r) of the Rules and Regulations;
Management Fee For all services to be rendered, payments to be made and costs to be assumed by you as provided in sections 2, 3, and 4 hereof, the Trust on behalf of the Fund shall pay you in United States Dollars on the last day of each month the unpaid balance of a fee equal to the excess of (a) 1/12 of .55 of 1 percent of the average daily net assets as defined below of the Fund for such month; provided that, for any calendar month during which the average of such values exceeds $250,000,000 the fee payable for that month based on the portion of the average of such values in excess of $250,000,000 shall be 1/12 of .52 of 1 percent of such portion; provided that, for any calendar month during which the average of such values exceeds $1,000,000,000, the fee payable for that month based on the portion of the average of such values in excess of $1,000,000,000 shall be 1/12 of .50 of 1 percent of such portion; provided that, for any calendar month during which the average of such values exceeds $2,500,000,000, the fee payable for that month based on the portion of the average of such values in excess of $2,500,000,000 shall be 1/12 of .48 of 1 percent of such portion; provided that, for any calendar month during which the average of such values exceeds $5,000,000,000, the fee payable for that month based on the portion of the average of such values in excess of $5,000,000,000 shall be 1/12 of .45 of 1 percent of such portion; provided that, for any calendar month during which the average of such values exceeds $7,500,000,000, the fee payable for that month based on the portion of the average of such values in excess of $7,500,000,000 shall be 1/12 of .43 of 1 percent of such portion; provided that, for any calendar month during which the average of such values exceeds 10,000,000,000, the fee payable for that month based on the portion of the average of such values in excess of $10,000,000,000 shall be 1/12 of .41 of 1 percent of such portion; and provided that, for any calendar month during which the average of such values exceeds 12,500,000,000, the fee payable for that month based on the portion of the average of such values in excess of $12,500,000,000 shall be 1/12 of .40 of 1 percent of such portion; over (b) any compensation waived by you from time to time (as more fully described below). You shall be entitled to receive during any month such interim payments of your fee hereunder as you shall request, provided that no such payment shall exceed 75 percent of the amount of your fee then accrued on the books of the Fund and unpaid.
Brokers’ Fees; Transaction Fees Except for fees payable to Agent and Lenders, none of the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries has any obligation to any Person in respect of any finder’s, broker’s or investment banker’s fee in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
Base Fee The Company shall pay to the Advisor a quarterly base fee (the “Base Fee”) payable in arrears in cash, for services provided by the Advisor in the preceding quarter. For purposes of this Agreement, the “Base Fee” will be equal to 0.70% per annum of the Total Market Capitalization of the Company, subject to the payment of a minimum quarterly base fee (“Minimum Base Fee”), if applicable. For purposes of this Agreement, “Total Market Capitalization” shall be calculated on a quarterly basis as (i) the average of the volume-weighted average price per share of Ashford Prime’s common stock for each trading day of the preceding quarter multiplied by the average number of shares of Ashford Prime’s common stock outstanding during such quarter, on a fully-diluted basis (assuming all common units and long term incentive partnership units in the Operating Partnership which have achieved economic parity with common units in the Operating Partnership have been converted to common stock in the Company), plus (ii) the quarterly average of the aggregate principal amount of the Company’s consolidated indebtedness (including the Company’s proportionate share of debt of any entity that is not consolidated but excluding the Company’s joint venture partners’ proportionate share of consolidated debt), plus (iii) the quarterly average of the liquidation value of the Company’s outstanding preferred equity. The Minimum Base Fee for each quarter will be equal to the greater of (i) 90% of the Base Fee paid for the same quarter in the prior year and (ii) the G&A Ratio multiplied by the Company’s Total Market Capitalization. For purposes of this Agreement, the “G&A Ratio” will be calculated as the simple average of the ratios of total general and administrative expenses, less any non-cash expenses but including any dead deal costs, paid in the applicable quarter by each member of a select peer group set forth in Exhibit A (each, a “Peer Group Member” and collectively, the “Peer Group”), divided by the total enterprise value of such Peer Group Member (calculated in the same manner as the Company’s Total Market Capitalization). The G&A Ratio for each Peer Group Member will be calculated based on the financial information presented in such Peer Group Member’s Form 10-Q or 10-K periodic filings with the SEC following the end of each quarter. The Peer Group may be modified from time to time by mutual written agreement of the Advisor and a majority of the Independent Directors, negotiating in good faith. The Base Fee, as calculated above, shall be payable in arrears no later than the 15th day following the end of each quarter (i.e., one-fourth of 0.70% of the Total Market Capitalization of the Company). The Minimum Base Fee shall be calculated as soon as practicable following the end of the quarter, and to the extent the Minimum Base Fee exceeds the Base Fee paid to the Advisor with respect to any quarter, the Company will pay the Advisor the difference between Minimum Base Fee and the Base Fee within 5 business days of final calculation of the Minimum Base Fee. For purposes of payment of the Base Fee for a partial quarter relating to the first quarter in which this Agreement is effective or for the last quarter in which this Agreement is terminated, the Base Fee shall be calculated as 0.70% of the Total Market Capitalization of the Company, calculated using each trading day of such partial quarter prior to termination, multiplied by the number of days in the applicable quarter in which this Agreement is in effect divided by 365 or 366 days, as applicable. The Minimum Base Fee shall be similarly reduced proportionately based on the number of days in the applicable quarter in which this Agreement is in effect divided by 365 or 366 days, as applicable.
Structuring Fee In consideration for the time, effort and expense involved in the preparation, negotiation and execution of this Agreement, at the time of the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company and Prudential, the Company will pay to Prudential in immediately available funds a fee (the “Structuring Fee”) in the amount of $25,000.
