Company: RILYN
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001464790-25-000011
Chunk: 54

Company: B. Riley Financial, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 54
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 contributed to a subsidiary and securitization financing vehicle the limited liability company interests held by B. Riley Brand Management in the entities that held certain assets related to six consumer brands and equity method investments for Hurley, Justice and Scotch & Soda. In connection with this transaction, that subsidiary and securitization financing vehicle issued 

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notes and preferred stock secured by those limited liability company interests to a third party purchaser, the proceeds of which were used to fund an upfront payment to the Company of approximately $189.3 million.

•In addition, in October 2024, bebe stores, inc., a majority owned subsidiary of the Company (“bebe”), sold its limited liability company interests in entities that held certain brand assets to a third party purchaser for approximately $46.6 million in net cash proceeds. Upon closing of the bebe Brands sale, proceeds of $22.2 million was used to pay off the outstanding balance of the bebe Credit Agreement in full and $224 of loan-related pay off expenses. The remaining amount of the proceeds were paid as a dividend to the Company. 

•Great American Group: In November 2024, the Company completed a transaction in which (1) it and certain of its subsidiaries contributed all of the interests in the Company’s Appraisal and Valuation Services, Retail, Wholesale & Industrial Solutions and Real Estate businesses to Great American NewCo. and (2) third party investors received all of the outstanding class A preferred limited liability units of Great American NewCo and 52.6% of the class A common limited liability units of Great American NewCo for a purchase price of approximately $203.0 million. After amounts paid to minority stockholders and certain transaction expenses, approximately $167.1 million was distributed to the Company. 

•Atlantic Coast Recycling Transaction: In March 2025, the Company sold all of the issued and outstanding membership interests in subsidiaries engaged in a recycling business to a third party purchaser for a purchase price of approximately $102.5 million, subject to certain adjustments resulting in cash proceeds of $68.6 million to the Company after adjustments for amounts allocated to non-controlling interests, repayment of contingent consideration, transaction costs and other items directly attributable to the closing of the transaction. 

•Wealth Management: In April 2025, the Company sold a portion of the Company's (W-2) Wealth Management business to Stifel Financial Corp. ("Stifel") for net cash consideration of $26.0 million. 

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