10.	SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION PLAN

Management Agreement

In order to align the Manager’s interests with the Company’s, the Company agreed to issue to the Manager restricted common shares equal to 2% of its outstanding common shares at par value of $0.01 per share. Any time additional common shares are issued, the Manager was entitled to receive additional restricted common shares to maintain the number of common shares issued to the Manager at 2% of total outstanding common shares. During the years ended December 31, 2012, the Company issued to the Manager 112,245 restricted shares at an average fair value of $13.73. In December 2012, the Company announced that it would acquire 100% of the shares of the Manager. The acquisition was effective January 10, 2013. In addition to gaining full direct control of the Manager’s operations, the Company is no longer obligated to maintain the Manager’s ownership of the Company’s common shares at 2%. The compensation for the Manager was partly in shares, and the Company issued 1,910,112 new shares related to the acquisition, the shares have a lock up period of one year from issuance.

Equity Incentive Plan 2011

In 2011, the Board of Directors decided to establish a new incentive plan involving a maximum of 400,000 restricted shares of which all 400,000 shares have been allocated among 23 persons employed in the management of the Company, the Manager and the members of the Board of Directors. These allocated shares constituted 0.8% of the outstanding shares of the Company. The vesting period is four year cliff vesting period for 326,000 shares and five year cliff vesting period for 74,000 shares, that is, none of these shares may be sold during the first four or five years after grant, as applicable, and the shares are forfeited if the grantee leaves the Company before that time. The holders of the restricted shares are entitled to receive dividends paid in the period as well as voting rights. The Board considers this arrangement to be in the best interests of the Company.

Of the 400,000 shares of restricted stock awards granted under the equity incentive plan, 326,000 restricted shares were granted on February 23, 2011, at a grant date fair value of $23.88 per share, and 74,000 restricted shares were granted on August 5, 2011, at a grant date fair value of $18.05 per share. The Company repurchased 10,000, 14,500 and 8,500 restricted common shares in 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively. These shares were originally granted on February 23, 2011.

The fair value of restricted shares is estimated based on the market price of the Company’s shares. The fair value of restricted shares granted to employees is measured at grant date and the fair value of unvested restricted shares granted to non-employees is measured at fair value at each reporting date.

The shares are considered restricted as the shares vest after a period of four years and five years from the time of distribution.

The compensation cost for employees, Directors and non-employees is recognized on a straight-line basis over the vesting period and is presented as part of the General and Administrative expenses. The total compensation cost related to restricted shares under the plan for the year ended December 31, 2014 was $1.1 million, compared to 2.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2013 and $1.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2012.

In 2014, 2013 and 2012 respectively, the Company repurchased from employees who had resigned from the Manager 10,000, 14,500 and 8,500 restricted common shares that had a four-year cliff vesting period. The total 33,000 restricted common shares was held as treasury shares as of December 31, 2013, and distributed to new employees in the Manager and Orion in 2014.

In 2013 the Board of Directors amended the vesting requirements for the 174,000 shares allocated to the Manager under the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan and the vesting requirements were lifted. The lifting of the vesting requirements was in relation to the acquisition of Scandic American Shipping Ltd. This resulted in $1.1 million being charged to General and Administrative expense in the first quarter of 2013.

As of December 31, 2014, unrecognized cost related to unvested shares aggregated $ 0.4 million, which will be recognized over a weighted period of 0.6 years. Of the 226,000 restricted shares under the Plan, 193,000 will be fully vested in February 2015.

The tables below summarize the Company’s restricted stock awards as of December 31, 2014:

	Restricted shares -Employees			Weighted-average grant-date fair value - Employees		Restricted shares - Non-employees		Weighted-average grant-date fair value - Non-employees
Non-vested at January 1, 2014		163,000		$	23.88		40,000	$	24.84
Granted during the year		-			-		33,000		9.84
Vested during the year		-			-		-		-
Forfeited during the year		(10,000	)		-		-		-
Non-vested at December 31, 2014		153,000		$	23.88		73,000	$	18.06

The tables below summarize the Company’s restricted stock awards as of December 31, 2013:

	Restricted shares -Employees		Weighted-average grant-date fair value - Employees		Restricted shares - Non-employees			Weighted-average grant-date fair value - Non-employees
Non-vested at January 1, 2013		163,000	$	23.88		228,500		$	22.06
Granted during the year		-		-		-			-
Vested during the year		-		-		(174,000	)		-
Forfeited during the year		-		-		(14,500	)		-
Non-vested at December 31, 2013		163,000	$	23.88		40,000		$	24.84

The total fair value of the shares vested in 2013 was $1.7 million.