secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     WILLIS LEASE FINANCE CORP (WLFC)
CIK:        0001018164
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-03-19T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001018164-25-000034
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Willis Lease Finance renews Executive Chairman Charles F. Willis IV with $1.27M base salary and $8M equity grant
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- New 5-year employment agreement; base salary $1,269,000 retroactive to Jan 1, 2025; target annual bonus 150% of base.
- Sign-On Restricted Stock Award of $8M (38k-55k shares) fully vested on March 19, 2025.
- Option Award for 231,000 shares vesting in three equal annual installments, 5-year term, exercise price at FMV on grant date.
- Severance on without-cause/good reason termination: 3x base salary + 3x avg bonus + immediate equity vesting + 3 years benefits.
- Change-in-control definition expanded to include unapproved majority board composition change.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018164/000101816425000034/0001018164-25-000034-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018164/000101816425000034/wlfc-20250313.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001018164-25-000034

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