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STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

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STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Equity [Abstract]  
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
PREFERRED STOCK
As of March 31, 2022, the Company had a total of 5,181,027 depositary shares outstanding, or approximately 51,810 whole shares of its 7.375% Series A Preferred Stock. See Note 18 ("Subsequent Events") for further information regarding the declaration of a dividend on the 7.375% Series A Preferred Stock.
COMMON STOCK
As of March 31, 2022, the Company had a total of 14,960,628 common shares issued and outstanding. See Note 18 ("Subsequent Events") for further information regarding the declaration of a dividend on the Common Stock.
CLASS B COMMON STOCK
As of March 31, 2022, the Company had a total of 683,761 Class B common shares issued and outstanding.
On June 29, 2021, the stockholders approved (i) the issuance of Class B Common Stock upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock issuable pursuant to the terms of the Crimson Transaction, which effectively will make the Crimson Class A-2 Units exchangeable directly for Class B Common Stock of the Company following receipt of CPUC approval, and (ii) the issuance of Class B Common Stock pursuant to the terms of the Internalization. On July 6, 2021, the Company issued 683,761 Class B common shares to the contributors of Corridor InfraTrust Management, LLC as partial consideration for the Internalization transaction.
NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST
As disclosed in Note 3 ("Acquisitions") as part of the Crimson Transaction, the Company and the Grier Members entered into the Third LLC Agreement of Crimson. Pursuant to the terms of the Third LLC Agreement, the Grier Members and the Company's interests in Crimson are summarized in the table below:
As of
March 31, 2022
Grier Members CorEnergy
(in units, except as noted)
Economic ownership interests in Crimson Midstream Holdings, LLC
Class A-1 Units 1,650,245  — 
Class A-2 Units 2,460,414  — 
Class A-3 Units 2,450,142  — 
Class B-1 Units —  10,000 
Voting ownership interests in Crimson Midstream Holdings, LLC
Class C-1 Units 505,000  495,000 
Voting interests of C-1 Units (%) 50.50  % 49.50  %
Equity interests of C-1 Units (%) 50.62  % 49.38  %
In June 2021, the final working capital adjustment was made for the Crimson Transaction which resulted in an increase in the assets acquired of $1,790,455 (as further described above in Note 3 ("Acquisitions")). This resulted in 37,043 Class A-1 Units being issued to the Grier Members for their 50.50% equity ownership interest. The newly issued units resulted in an increase in non-controlling interest of $882,726. After the working capital adjustment and paid-in-kind dividends, the Grier Members' equity ownership interest is 50.62 percent as of March 31, 2022.
After working capital adjustments, the fair value of the Grier Members' noncontrolling interest, which is represented by the A-1, A-2 and A-3 Units listed above, was $116.2 million. As described further below, the A-1, A-2 and A-3 Units may eventually be exchanged for shares of the Company's common and preferred stock subject to the approval of the CPUC ("CPUC Approval"), which is expected to occur in 2022. The A-1, A-2 and A-3 Units held by the Grier Members and the B-1 Units held by the Company represent economic interests in Crimson while the Class C-1 Units represent voting interests.
Upon CPUC Approval, the parties will enter into a Fourth Amended and Restated LLC Agreement of Crimson ("Fourth LLC Agreement"), which will, among other things, (i) give the Company control of Crimson and its assets, in connection with an anticipated further restructuring of the Company's asset ownership structure and (ii) provide the Grier Members and Management Members (as defined below) the right to exchange their entire interest in Crimson for securities of the Company as follows:

•Class A-1 Units will become exchangeable for up to 1,755,579, (which includes the addition of 37,043 shares as a result of the working capital adjustment) of the Company's depositary shares, each representing 1/100th of a share of the Company's 7.375% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock ("Series A Preferred")

•Class A-2 units will become exchangeable for up to 8,762,158 shares of the Company's non-listed Class B Common Stock, and

•Class A-3 Units will become exchangeable for up to 2,450,142 shares of the Company's non-listed Class B Common Stock.
Class B Common Stock will eventually be converted into the Common Stock of the Company ("Common Stock") on the occurrence of the earlier of the following: (i) the occurrence of the third anniversary of the closing date of the Crimson Transaction or (ii) the satisfaction of certain conditions related to an increase in the relative dividend rate of the Common Stock.
Prior to exchange of the Crimson Class A-1, A-2 and A-3 Units into corresponding CORR securities (and after giving effect to the changes to the CORR securities into which the Class A-1 and A-2 Units may be exchanged, as described above), the Grier Members only have the right to receive distributions to the extent that the Company's Board of Directors determines dividends would be payable if they held the shares of Series A Preferred (for the Class A-1 Units), Series B Preferred (for the Class A-2 Units prior to July 7, 2021), and Class B Common Stock (for the Class A-2 Units (on and after July 7, 2021) and Class A-3 Units), respectively, regardless of whether the securities are outstanding. If the respective shares of Series A Preferred, Series B
Preferred and Class B Common Stock are not outstanding, the Company's Board of Directors must consider that they would be outstanding when declaring dividends on the Common Stock. Following CPUC Approval, the terms of the Fourth LLC Agreement provide that such rights will continue until the Grier Members elect to exchange the A-1, A-2 and A-3 Units for the related securities of the Company. The following table summarizes the distributions payable under the A-1, A-2 and A-3 Units as if the Grier Members held the respective underlying Company securities. The A-1, A-2 and A-3 Units are entitled to the distribution regardless of whether the corresponding Company security is outstanding.
Units Distribution Rights of CorEnergy Securities Liquidation Preference Annual Distribution per Share
A-1 Units
7.375% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock(1)
$ 25.00  $ 1.84 
A-2 Units
Class B Common Stock(2)
N/A
Varies(2)
A-3 Units
Class B Common Stock(3) (4)
N/A
Varies(2)(3)
(1) On June 29, 2021, the Board of the Company authorized management to enter into an agreement to convert the right to receive the Company’s 9.00% Series C Preferred Stock into 7.375% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock.
(2) On July 7, 2021, the Company converted the right that holders of Class A-2 Units would have had to exchange such units for shares of the Company’s 4.00% Series B Preferred Stock into a right to exchange such units for shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock with the effective date, for dividend purposes, of June 30, 2021.
(3) (A) For the fiscal quarters of the Company ending June 30, 2021, September 30, 2021, December 31, 2021 and March 31, 2022, the Common Stock Base Dividend Per Share shall equal $0.05 per share per quarter; (B) for the fiscal quarters of the Company ending June 30, 2022, September 30, 2022, December 31, 2022 and March 31, 2023, the Common Stock Base Dividend Per Share shall equal $0.055 per share per quarter; and (C) for the fiscal quarters of the Company ending June 30, 2023, September 30, 2023, December 31, 2023 and March 30, 2024, the Common Stock Base Dividend Per Share shall equal $0.06 per share per quarter. The Class B Common Stock dividend is subordinated based on a distribution formula described in footnote (4) below.
(4) For each fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2021 through and including the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2024, each share of Class B Common Stock will be entitled to receive dividends (the "Class B Common Stock Dividends"), subject to Board approval, equal to the quotient of (i) difference of (A) CAFD of the most recently completed quarter and (B) 1.25 multiplied by the Common Stock Base Dividend, divided by (ii) shares of Class B Common Stock issued and outstanding multiplied by 1.25.
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, distributions in the amount of $809,212 were paid to the Grier Members for the Class A-1 Units. No distributions were paid to the Class A-2 or A-3 Units as no distributions were declared on the Class B Common Stock. See Note 18 ("Subsequent Events") for further information regarding the declaration of distributions related to the Class A-1.
SHELF REGISTRATION STATEMENTS
On October 30, 2018, the Company filed a shelf registration statement with the SEC, pursuant to which it registered 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock for issuance under its dividend reinvestment plan ("DRIP"). As of March 31, 2022, the Company has issued 173,866 shares of Common Stock under its DRIP pursuant to the shelf, resulting in remaining availability of approximately 826,134 shares of Common Stock.
On September 16, 2021, the Company had a resale shelf registration statement declared effective by the SEC, pursuant to which it registered the following securities that were issued in connection with the Internalization for resale by the Contributors: 1,837,607 shares of Common Stock (including both (i) 1,153,846 shares of Common Stock issued at the closing of the Internalization and (ii) up to 683,761 additional shares of Common Stock which may be acquired by the Contributors upon the conversion of outstanding shares of our unlisted Class B Common Stock issued at the closing of the Internalization) and 170,213 depositary shares each representing 1/100th fractional interest of a share of 7.375% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share issued at the closing of the Internalization.
On November 3, 2021, the Company filed a new shelf registration statement to replace its prior shelf registration statement, which was declared effective by the SEC on November 17, 2021 and permits the Company to publically offer additional debt or equity securities with an aggregate offering price of up to $600.0 million. As of March 31, 2022, the Company has not issued any securities under this new shelf registration statement, so total availability remains at $600.0 million.