Company: RILYN
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001464790-25-000011
Chunk: 64

Company: B. Riley Financial, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 64
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6 million of cash proceeds received by the Company, approximately $22.6 million was used to pay interest, fees, and principal on the Credit Facility discussed above. A gain of $52.7 million was recognized in the first quarter of 2025 from this sale.

B. Riley Securities Holdings, Inc. Equity Issuance

On March 10, 2025, the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary B. Riley Securities Holdings, Inc. (“BRSH”) which is comprised of the broker dealer operations within the Capital Markets segment merged with a shell corporation and issued 0.6% of the equity in BRSH to certain investors in the shell corporation and upon completion of the transaction became minority stockholders of BRSH.  Simultaneously with the merger with the shell corporation, BRSH approved the BRSH Stock Incentive Plan (the “BRSH Stock Plan”) and issued restricted stock awards to employees and officers of BRSH which represented 10.0% of the equity of BRSH that vest over a period of four to five years. Assuming the full issuance of the restricted stock awards, the Company continues to own 89.4% of BRSH.

Exchange of Senior Notes

On March 26, 2025, the Company completed a private exchange transaction with an institutional investor pursuant to which the investor exchanged $86.3 million of aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.50% Senior Notes due March 2026 Notes and $36.7 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.00% Senior Notes due December 2026 owned by it for approximately $87.8 million aggregate principal amount of newly-issued 8.00% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2028 (the “New Notes”), whereupon the exchanged notes were cancelled. 

On April 7, 2025, the Company completed a private exchange transaction with a certain institutional investor pursuant to which such investor exchanged approximately $22.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.00% Senior Notes due December 2026, 6.00% Senior Notes due January 2028 and 5.25% Senior Notes due August 2028 for approximately $10.0 million aggregate principal amount of the New Notes.

On May 21, 2025, the Company completed a private exchange transaction with certain institutional investors pursuant to which such investors exchanged approximately $139.1 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.50% Senior Notes due March 2026