July 2024 and November 2024, respectively, and disposed of their holdings as of October 1, 2024, and as such, held none of the Series 2022 Bonds as of December 31, 2024. The Company has paid approximately $1.1 million and $1.2 million in interest expense for the years ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, to these former executives.
Training Expenses and Charter Rentals
For the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company earned $0.4 million in revenues from services performed on an aircraft under the ownership of Mr. Timothy Sheehy, the Company’s founder and former Chief Executive Officer, President, and director. For the years ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company incurred $0.9 million and $0.5 million, respectively, in training expenses provided by an entity in which Mr. Timothy Sheehy has a partial ownership with $0.1 million in related outstanding accounts payable as of December 31, 2024. For the years ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company earned $0.2 million and $0.1 million, respectively, in revenues related to charter rentals of the Company’s aircraft by the U.S. Senate campaign for Mr. Timothy Sheehy.
April 2024 Registered Direct Offering
On April 17, 2024, the Company completed a registered direct offering (the “Registered Direct Offering”) of an aggregate of 2,183,366 shares of the Company’s common stock pursuant to its effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3. 808,080 of the shares were sold to certain directors and executive officers of the Company at an offering price of $4.95 per share, which was the closing bid price for shares of the Common Stock on Nasdaq on April 15, 2024. The remaining 1,375,286 Shares were sold in the Registered Direct Offering at an offering price of $4.25 per Share.
November 2023 Services Agreement with MAB Funding, LLC
On November 17, 2023, the Company entered into a series of agreements designed to facilitate the purchase and return to service of the Spanish Scoopers originally awarded to our wholly-owned subsidiary, Bridger Aerospace Europe, S.L.U. (“BAE”), in September 2023 via a public tender process from the Government of Spain for €40.3 million. Under the terms of the agreements, we agreed to sell the entire outstanding equity interest in BAE to MAB Funding, LLC (“MAB”) and purchase $4.0 million of non-voting Class B units of MAB. ASSF Holdings LP (“Avenue Investor”) made capital contributions totaling $13.0 million in exchange for 13,031 voting Class A Units of MAB. Avenue Investor holds approximately 10% of Bridger’s outstanding convertible Series A Preferred Stock which represents approximately 6.6% interest in BAER Common Stock on a fully diluted basis.
Sponsor Agreement
On August 3, 2022, in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, JCIC, JCIC Sponsor Persons and Bridger entered into JCIC Sponsor Agreement, pursuant to which, among other things, JCIC Sponsor agreed to a forfeiture, effective as of immediately prior to the Closing, of the number of JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares equal to the sum of (a) 8,550,000 minus the number of Available Sponsor Shares (as defined therein), and (b) if the amount in JCIC’s trust after redemptions is less than $20,000,000, (i) the excess of the aggregate of fees and expenses for legal counsel, accounting advisors, external auditors and financial advisors incurred by JCIC in connection with the transactions prior to Closing, but excluding any deferred underwriting fees, over $6,500,000, if any, divided by (ii) $10.00. In accordance with such provisions, JCIC Sponsor forfeited 4,306,811 shares of JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares immediately prior to Closing.
In addition, pursuant to JCIC Sponsor Agreement, JCIC Sponsor agreed to subject the Earnout Shares to a performance-based vesting schedule such that 50% of the Earnout Shares will vest on the first date during the Earnout Period (as defined therein) on which the VWAP of our Common Stock is greater than $11.50 for a period of at least twenty (20) days out of thirty (30) consecutive trading days and 50% of the Earnout Shares will vest on the first date during the Earnout Period on which the volume-weighted average closing sale price of a share of our Common Stock is greater than $13.00 for a period of at least twenty (20) days out of thirty (30) consecutive trading days.
Immediately prior to Closing, each of JCIC and JCIC Sponsor converted the outstanding loan balance under the Promissory Note between JCIC and JCIC Sponsor, under which $1,150,000 had been drawn, into 115,000 shares of JCIC Class A Ordinary Shares immediately prior to Closing.