Austin C. Willis - Jan 2, 2025 Form 4 Insider Report for WILLIS LEASE FINANCE CORP (WLFC)

Signature
/s/ Austin C. Willis
Stock symbol
WLFC
Transactions as of
Jan 2, 2025
Transactions value $
$3,421,200
Form type
4
Date filed
1/6/2025, 04:29 PM
Previous filing
Dec 30, 2024

Transactions Table

Type Sym Class Transaction Value $ Shares Change % * Price $ Shares After Date Ownership Footnotes
transaction WLFC Common Stock Award $1.66M +7.77K +4.84% $212.96 168K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F1
transaction WLFC Common Stock Sale -$25.1K -124 -0.07% $202.20 168K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F2, F3
transaction WLFC Common Stock Sale -$79.9K -393 -0.23% $203.38 168K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F2, F4
transaction WLFC Common Stock Sale -$61.4K -300 -0.18% $204.62 168K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F2, F5
transaction WLFC Common Stock Sale -$60.5K -294 -0.18% $205.64 167K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F2, F6
transaction WLFC Common Stock Sale -$71.5K -346 -0.21% $206.79 167K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F2, F7
transaction WLFC Common Stock Sale -$124K -598 -0.36% $208.06 166K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F2, F8
transaction WLFC Common Stock Sale -$31.4K -150 -0.09% $209.14 166K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F2, F9
transaction WLFC Common Stock Sale -$176K -836 -0.5% $209.98 165K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F2, F10
transaction WLFC Common Stock Sale -$23.7K -112 -0.07% $211.27 165K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F2, F11
transaction WLFC Common Stock Sale -$47.2K -222 -0.13% $212.57 165K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F2, F12
transaction WLFC Common Stock Sale -$16K -75 -0.05% $213.75 165K Jan 2, 2025 Direct F2
holding WLFC Common Stock 5.42K Jan 2, 2025 Son F13
holding WLFC Common Stock 5.42K Jan 2, 2025 Daughter F14
holding WLFC Common Stock 20.9K Jan 2, 2025 Brother F15
holding WLFC Common Stock 2.65K Jan 2, 2025 Austin C. Willis 2019 Irrevocable Trust F16
holding WLFC Common Stock 8.69K Jan 2, 2025 CFW V 2016 Trust F17
holding WLFC Common Stock 233K Jan 2, 2025 2019 Willis Family Trust F18, F19
holding WLFC Common Stock 405K Jan 2, 2025 CFW Partners F20

Derivative Securities (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)

Type Sym Class Transaction Value $ Shares Change % * Price $ Shares After Date Underlying Class Amount Exercise Price Ownership Footnotes
transaction WLFC Performance-based Restricted Stock Award Award $2.48M +11.7K $212.96 11.7K Jan 2, 2025 Common Stock 11.7K Direct F21
* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Buy Plan / Sale Plan: These are also open market purchases/sales of shares, but in this case the transaction is part of a trading plan. Rule 10b5-1 allows insiders to setup a trading plan to buy/sell stocks over a certain period of time. Since the purchases/sales are predetermined, this protects the insiders from violating insider trading law.

Transaction was made pursuant to a contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of equity securities of the issuer that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c).

Explanation of Responses:

Id Content
F1 Restrictive Stock Grant vesting over three years.
F2 The sales reported in this Form 4 were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the reporting person on September 5, 2024.
F3 This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $202.01 to $ 203.00, inclusive. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in footnote (3) of this Form 4.
F4 This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $203.01 to $ 203.905, inclusive. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in footnote (4) of this Form 4.
F5 This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $204.105 to $ 205.01, inclusive. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in footnote (5) of this Form 4.
F6 This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $205.20 to $ 206.12, inclusive. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in footnote (6) of this Form 4.
F7 This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $206.33 to $ 207.30, inclusive. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in footnote (7) of this Form 4.
F8 This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $207.665 to $ 208.63, inclusive. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in footnote (8) of this Form 4.
F9 This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $208.67 to $ 209.62, inclusive. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in footnote (9) of this Form 4.
F10 This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $209.69 to $ 210.495, inclusive. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in footnote (10) of this Form 4.
F11 This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $210.84 to $ 211.395, inclusive. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in footnote (11) of this Form 4.
F12 This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $212.43 to $ 213.00, inclusive. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in footnote (12) of this Form 4.
F13 Rooster A. Willis 2019 Trust, Austin Willis Trustee.
F14 Wilder Grace Willis 2019 Trust, Austin Willis Trustee.
F15 Charles F. Willis V 2019 Trust, Austin Willis Trustee.
F16 Austin C. Willis 2019 Irrevocable Trust, Mary Willis Trustee.
F17 Charles F. Willis V 2016 Trust, Austin Willis Trustee.
F18 2019 Willis Family Trust, Austin Willis Trustee.
F19 Includes 213,415 shares having shared voting power of CFW Partners with Charles F. Willis IV.
F20 Shared voting power of CFW Partners with Charles F. Willis IV.
F21 Grant of performance-based restricted stock award ("PSA") subject to performance-based and time-based vesting over two years. Performance-based vesting criteria include a combination of profitability of the Issuer's services businesses, growth of the Issuer's leasing portfolio and the viability of the Issuer's Sustainable Aviation Fuel initiative. Each PSA represents a contingent right to receive one share of the Issuer's common stock to the extent the performance-based criteria is met. Reported amount assumes 100% performance-based vesting, but actual number of PSAs earned may be 25% more or less than the reported amount, depending on the extent to which the performance-based vesting criteria are met or not met.