Restricted Shares to Senior Management
As of December 31, 2022, the Company has granted restricted Class A Ordinary Shares to senior management and employees as follows:
On August 21, 2018, the Company granted 391,200 restricted shares to its employees as compensation cost for awards. The fair value of the restricted shares was $2,523,240 based on the closing share price $6.45 at August 21, 2018. These restricted shares will vest over three years with one-third of the shares vesting every year from the grant date. All granted shares under this plan are fully vested on September 3, 2021.
On February 28, 2022, the Company granted 1,642,331 Class A shares to its employees as compensation cost for awards. The fair value of the restricted shares was $1,708,024 based on the closing share price $1.04 at February 28, 2022.These restricted shares will vest over three years with one-third of the shares vesting every year from the grant date. No shares under this plan are vested as the date of this report.
128,672 and nil restricted Class A restricted shares were issued and outstanding for the six months ended December 31, 2021 and 2022, respectively, for all the plans mentioned above.
As of December 31, 2022, the Company has granted restricted Class B Ordinary Shares to senior management as follows:
On December 5, 2021, the Company granted 2,500,000 restricted shares to its management as compensation cost for awards. The fair value of the restricted shares was $4,175,000 based on the fair value of the share price $1.67 at December 5, 2021. These restricted shares vested immediately on the grant date. All granted shares under this plan are issued and outstanding on December 5, 2021.
On February 28, 2022, the Company granted 1,600,000 restricted shares to its management as compensation cost for awards. The fair value of the restricted shares was $1,694,000 based on the fair value of share price $1.06 at February 28, 2022. These restricted shares vested immediately on the grant date. All granted shares under this plan are issued and outstanding on February 28, 2022.
2,500,000 and nil restricted Class B restricted shares were issued and outstanding for the six months ended December 31, 2021 and 2022, respectively, for all the plans mentioned above.
The share-based compensation expense recorded for restricted shares issued for management was ¥27,375,871 and ¥1,796,417 ($260,414) for the six months ended December 31, 2021 and 2022, respectively. The total unrecognized share-based compensation expense of restricted shares issued for management and employees as of December 31, 2022 was approximately ¥8.5 million ($1.2 million), which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 2.16 years.
Restricted Shares for service
As of December 31, 2022, the Company has granted restricted Class A Ordinary Shares to consultant as follows:
On November 10, 2021, the Company signed a service agreement with Starry. As the service consideration, the Company should issue 500,000 restricted Class A Ordinary Shares which vested in equal monthly amounts through the end of December 31, 2021. Half of the restricted Class A Ordinary Shares was valued based on the closing share price of $1.60 on December 10, 2021 and the other half was valued based on the closing share price of $1.31 on December 31, 2021. 250,000 restricted Class A Ordinary Shares were issued on December 10, 2021 and the remaining 250,000 restricted Class A Ordinary Shares were issued in January 2022.
On January 5, 2022, the Company signed a consulting agreement with Lintec Information Ltd (the “Consultant”). As the service consideration, the Company issued 1,050,000 restricted Class A Ordinary Shares with a value of $1,354,500 based on the closing share price of $1.29 on January 5, 2022 to the Consultant on January 5, 2022 as payment for being the Company’s investment and financial advisor for a period of one year. The vesting period of these shares was one year from the date of contract. All of the restricted shares were issued under this plan on January 5, 2022 and all of the granted shares under this plan was vested as of December 31, 2022.
250,000 and nil restricted Class A restricted shares were issued and outstanding for the six months ended December 31, 2021 and 2022, respectively, for all the plans mentioned above.