Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

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SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Share-based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]  
SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
2021 Equity Plan
In connection with the Business Combination, the Company's board of directors adopted, and its shareholders approved, the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Equity Plan”). A total of 31,900,000 Ordinary Shares are authorized and reserved for issuance under 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 Ordinary Shares. 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 three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company granted 175,000 performance-based non-qualified stock options ("PBNQSO") that vest based on the achievement of certain performance goals for fiscal years 2022-2026 (the “5-Year Option”) to its independent directors under the 2021 Equity Plan. As of March 31, 2022 there were 8,938,754 PBNQSO’s outstanding. The exercise prices of these PBNQSOs ranged from $10.00 to $14.00 per Ordinary Share and expire ten years from the grant date.
Non-cash share-based compensation expense recognized by the Company for the three months ended March 31, 2022 was $5.7 million. Compensation expense is recognized based upon probability assessments of PBNQSOs 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 estimate. As of March 31, 2022, there was approximately $45.4 million of total
unrecognized compensation expense related to non-vested PBNQSOs expected to vest, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.1 years.
Founder Advisory Amounts
Upon consummation of the Business Combination, the Company assumed the advisory agreement entered into on December 12, 2019 by EverArc ("Founder Advisory Agreement") with EverArc Founders, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("EverArc Founder Entity"), which is owned and operated by William N. Thorndike, Jr., W. Nicholas Howley, Tracy Britt Cool, Vivek Raj and Haitham Khouri ("EverArc Founders"), 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.
The Variable Annual Advisory Amount for each year through December 31, 2031 is based on the appreciation of the market price of Ordinary Shares 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. The Fixed Annual Advisory Amount will be equal to 2,357,061 Ordinary Shares (1.5% of 157,137,410 Ordinary Shares outstanding) for each year through December 31, 2027 and valued using the period end volume weighted average closing share price for ten consecutive trading days of Ordinary Shares. Because up to 50% of the aggregate shares could be settled through a cash payment, 50% are classified as a liability and the remaining 50% is 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 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 March 31, 2022, the fair value of the Variable Annual Advisory Amount was determined to be $308.0 million using a Monte Carlo simulation model and the fair value of the Fixed Annual Advisory Amount was calculated to be $169.2 million based on the period end volume weighted average closing share price for ten consecutive trading days of Ordinary Shares of $11.97.
For the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company recognized a reduction in share-based compensation expense related to a decrease in fair value for liability-classified Advisory Amounts of $59.8 million.