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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001018164-25-000138"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WLFC"
cik: "0001018164"
company_name: "WILLIS LEASE FINANCE CORP"
filed_at: "2025-11-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T19:38:15.167057+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# WLFC grants Executive Chairman Charles F. Willis IV option to purchase 300,000 shares

## Summary
- Non-qualified stock option for 300,000 shares granted on Nov 10, 2025.
- Vests in equal annual installments over four years, subject to continued service.
- Exercise price set at greater of grant date FMV or five-day VWAP post-grant.
- Option term of six years; accelerates upon change in control or certain terminations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001018164-25-000138
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WLFC
- cik: 0001018164
- company_name: WILLIS LEASE FINANCE CORP
- filed_at: 2025-11-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018164/000101816425000138/0001018164-25-000138-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018164/000101816425000138/wlfc-20251110.htm

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