Company: RILY
Filing Date: 2025-12-15
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001464790-25-000029
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Company: B. Riley Financial, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-15
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 Gain on the exchange of existing senior notes for New Notes was $55.0 million during the six months ended June 30, 2025. Income from equity investments was $25.1 million during the six months ended June 30, 2025. Loss on extinguishment of debt was $20.7 million during the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to a gain of $0.1 million during the six months ended June 30, 2024. Interest expense was $53.9 million during the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to $69.2 million during the six months ended June 30, 2024. The decrease in 

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interest expense was due to lower debt balances during the six months ended June 30, 2025. The decreases in interest expense primarily consisted of $10.2 million from the Nomura Term Loan, $8.5 million from the issuance of New Notes, $2.8 million from the Lingo Term Loan, $1.0 million from the Nomura Revolver, $1.0 million and $0.5 million from the Targus Term Loan and Targus Revolver, respectively, and $0.2 million from the Nogin Note, partially offset by increases in interest expense of $7.8 million from the Oaktree Term Loan, and $1.2 million from the BRPAC Term Loan. 

(Provision for) Benefit from Income Taxes. Provision for income taxes was zero during the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to a benefit from income taxes of $7.9 million during the six months ended June 30, 2024. The effective income tax rate was zero for the six months ended June 30, 2025 as compared to a benefit of 1.6% for the six months ended June 30, 2024.

(Loss) Income from Discontinued Operations, Net of Income Taxes. On October 25, 2024, we and our subsidiary bebe have completed a transaction for our brand assets yielding approximately $236.0 million in cash proceeds. The results have been presented as discontinued operations for the six months ended June 30, 2024. Income from discontinued operations, net of tax for Brands Transaction was $28.7 million during the six months ended June 30, 2024. 

On November 15, 2024, we completed the sale of our Great