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Transactions with Affiliates and Affiliated Entities

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Transactions with Affiliates and Affiliated Entities
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2022
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Transactions with Affiliates and Affiliated Entities Transactions with Affiliates and Affiliated Entities
Sunlight has entered into agreements with the following affiliates, including equity members and those who serve on Sunlight’s board of directors.

Founder Shares — In August 2020, 11,500,000 Founder Shares were issued to the Sponsor in exchange for the payment of $25,000 of certain offering costs on behalf of the Company, or approximately $0.002 per share. In October 2020, the Sponsor transferred 50,000 Founder Shares to each of the two independent director nominees at their original purchase price. In November 2020, the Sponsor returned to the Company at no cost an aggregate of 4,312,500 Founder Shares, which the Company cancelled. Also in November 2020, the Company effected a stock dividend on the Class B common stock (which receipt of such dividends was waived by the independent director nominees), resulting in an aggregate of 8,625,000 shares of Class B common stock outstanding. Of the 8,625,000 Founder Shares outstanding, up to 1,125,000 shares were subject to forfeiture to the extent that the over-allotment option was not exercised by the underwriters, so that the Founder Shares would represent 20.0% of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares after the Initial Public Offering. On November 30, 2020, the underwriters fully exercised the over-allotment option; thus, these 1,125,000 shares were no longer subject to forfeiture.

Private Placement Warrants — Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the Private Placement of 9,900,000 Private Placement Warrants, at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant to the Sponsor, generating proceeds of $9.9 million.

Each whole Private Placement Warrant is exercisable for one whole share of the Company’s Class A common stock at a price of $11.50 per share. A portion of the purchase price of the Private Placement Warrants was added to the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering held in the Trust Account. The Private Placement Warrants will be non-redeemable and exercisable on a cashless basis so long as they are held by the Sponsor or its permitted transferees.

Administrative Support Agreement — Commencing on the date the IPO Units were first listed on the NYSE, the Company agreed to pay the Sponsor a total of $10,000 per month for office space, utilities, and secretarial and administrative support. The Company paid the Sponsor $60,000 for such services during the period of January 1, 2021 through July 9, 2021. Upon closing of the Business Combination, the Administrative Support Agreement was terminated.

FTV Management V, LLC (“FTV”) — In May 2018, Sunlight entered into a management agreement with FTV. Under the terms of the agreement, FTV provided strategic financial services to Sunlight in exchange for a management fee of $50,000 per calendar quarter. This management agreement terminated upon closing of the Business Combination.

Hudson SL Portfolio Holdings LLC (“HSPH”) — In February 2018, Sunlight entered into an administrative services agreement with HSPH, indirectly owned by members of Sunlight and SL Investor III LLC, where Sunlight agreed to provide certain services to Solar Loan Management LLC, an affiliate of Hudson Sustainable Investment Management, LLC and HSPH. These services generally include special servicing administration, ongoing accounting work, all calculations related to the purchase and financing of certain Loans under the forward flow agreement and the senior financing, and other services that would be expected of the sponsor of a securitized pool of loans. During the three months ended September 30, 2021, Sunlight was paid $0.0 million for such services. During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, Sunlight was paid $0.1 million for such services. Upon departure of the former member of Sunlight’s board of directors upon closing of the Business Combination, Sunlight no longer considers HSPH a related party.

Tiger Infrastructure Partners (“Tiger”) — In September 2015, Sunlight entered into a management agreement with Tiger. Under the terms of the agreement, Sunlight pays Tiger a management fee of $50,000 per calendar quarter for strategic financial services provided by Tiger to Sunlight. In addition to the management fee, Sunlight reimbursed $0.0 million during the three months ended September 30, 2021. In addition to the management fee, Sunlight reimbursed $0.0 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2021. This management agreement terminated upon closing of the Business Combination.
Financing Program Agreement — In May 2018, Sunlight entered into a financing program agreement with Lumina Solar, Inc. (“Lumina”), pursuant to which Sunlight facilitates financing for consumers that purchase residential solar energy power systems from Lumina. A former member of Sunlight’s board of directors and a former officer of Sunlight are stockholders of, and actively involved in the management of, Lumina. Sunlight received approximately $0.2 million in revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2021. Upon departure of the former member of Sunlight’s board of directors upon closing of the Business Combination, Sunlight no longer considers Lumina a related party.

Estimated Tax Distributions — Sunlight Financial LLC distributes cash to its unitholders using allocations of estimated taxable income it expects to generate. As Sunlight revises its estimate of taxable income or loss, the allocation of taxable income to its unitholders may change, resulting in amounts due to, or from, certain unitholders. As of September 30, 2022, Sunlight Financial LLC no longer expects to generate taxable income during the current tax year and expects to use tax distributions already declared during the current tax year to offset future estimated tax liability distributions, if any. Consequently, Sunlight Financial LLC did not declare any distributions during the three months ended September 30, 2022. Sunlight Financial LLC did not declare any distributions for the three or nine months ended September 30, 2021. Sunlight paid estimated tax distributions of $1.2 million and $7.5 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.