Company: RILYN
Filing Date: 2025-10-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001213900-25-101228
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Company: B. Riley Financial, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-22
Form: DEF 14A
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 No member of our Compensation Committee or our Board is or has been in 2024 an executive officer of another entity at which one of our executive officers serves or has in 2024 served on either the board of directors or the Compensation Committee. For information about related person transactions involving members of our Compensation Committee, see “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions.” Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions Other than as described below, since the beginning of fiscal year 2024, there were no transactions with respect to which we were a participant or currently proposed transactions with respect to which we are to be a participant in which the amount involved exceeds $120,000 and in which any director, executive officer or beneficial holder of more than 5% of any class of our voting securities or member of such person’s immediate family had or will have a direct or indirect material interest. John Ahn The Company is party to an investment advisory services agreement with Whitehawk Capital Partners, L.P. (“Whitehawk”), a limited partnership controlled by John Ahn, who is the brother of Phil Ahn, the Company’s former Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Ahn resigned effective as of June 3, 2025. Pursuant to this agreement, Whitehawk provided investment advisory services for GACP I, L.P. and GACP II, L.P., limited partnership vehicles which were subsidiaries of the Company. On February 1, 2024, one of the Company’s loans receivable with a principal amount of $4,521,000 was sold to a fund managed by Whitehawk for $4,584,000. During the year ended December 31, 2024, management fees paid for investment advisory services by Whitehawk were $2,272,000. GACP I, L.P. and GACP II, L.P., were wound down in June 2024 and December 2024, respectively.

18 Charlie Riley Charlie Riley is the son of Bryant Riley, the Company’s Chairman and Co -ChiefExecutive Officer, and is employed by the Company’s subsidiary, B. Riley Principal Investments, LLC as an associate. For 2024, the Company paid Charlie Riley total compensation of $246,129 consisting of salary, bonus, and an award of RSUs of 1,460 of our common shares, with a grant date fair value of $24,995, calculated in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 718, that vests ratably over