Company: RILYN
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-001398
Chunk: 196

Company: B. Riley Financial, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 196
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 its Badcock Home Furniture & more business to Conn’s. The commencement of the Chapter 11 Cases constitute an event of default that accelerated the obligations under the Term Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of December 18, 2023 (the “Conn’s Term Loan”), among Conn’s, W.S. Badcock LLC, as borrowers, and an affiliate of the Company, as administrative agent, collateral agent, and lender. As of the date of the filing of the Chapter 11 Cases, $93.0 million in outstanding borrowings existed under the Conn’s Term Loan. Any efforts to enforce payment obligations under the Conn’s Term Loan are automatically stayed as a result of the Chapter 11 Cases and the Company’s rights of enforcement in respect of the Conn’s Term Loan are subject to the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code.

On November 3, 2024, FRG, its operating businesses, and certain other affiliates, including Freedom VCM, filed voluntary petitions for relief (the “FRG Chapter 11 Cases”) under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. As a result, on November 4, 2024, we concluded that we are required to record an additional impairment of with respect to the Freedom VCM Investment and the Vintage Loan Receivable. The additional non-cash impairments of the Freedom VCM Investment and the Vintage Loan Receivable are $118.0 million in the aggregate as of November 4, 2024. As a result of such additional impairment we have ascribed no value to the Freedom VCM Investment and the Vintage Loan Receivable was valued at $2,250 at September 30, 2024. Subsequent to September 30, 2024, the fair value of the underlying collateral for this loan, which is comprised of other public securities, decreased to a fair value of $2,006 at December 20, 2024. As of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, we are in compliance with our Nomura credit agreement notwithstanding the aforementioned events.

Critical Accounting Estimates

The preparation of our condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect reported amounts of assets and liabilities, related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities, and reported amounts of revenue and expense during the reporting period. The estimates and assumptions are based on historical experience and on other factors that management believes to be reasonable. Actual results may differ from those estimates. Critical accounting estimates represent the areas where more significant