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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 at the meeting will be available for examination by any stockholder, for any purpose related to the meeting, via a secure link that will be provided during the virtual meeting. The link will provide a protected PDF version of our registered stockholders list. IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS FOR THE 2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON DECEMBER 1, 2025. Under rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), the Company is making this proxy statement and the Company’s 2024 Annual Report to Stockholders (the “2024 Annual Report”) available on the Internet instead of mailing a printed copy of these materials to each stockholder. We are sending to our stockholders a copy of the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (the “Notice”), which will instruct you as to how you may access and review the proxy materials online. The Notice will be mailed, and this proxy statement will first be made available, to stockholders on or about October 22, 2025. If you would prefer to receive a printed copy of the Company’s proxy materials, please follow the instructions for requesting printed copies included in the Notice. Copies of this proxy statement and our 2024 Annual Report to stockholders are still also available online at:
https://web.viewproxy.com/brileyfin/2025. 3

PROPOSAL NO. 1
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS The Company’s board of directors has nominated each of Robert L. Antin, Tammy Brandt, Robert D’Agostino, Thomas J. Kelleher, Renée E. LaBran, Randall E. Paulson, Bryant R. Riley, and Mimi K. Walters to be elected as a director at the Company’s Annual Meeting. If elected, the nominees will serve as directors until the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders in 2026, or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified or their earlier death, resignation, or removal. Michael J. Sheldon will not stand for re -electionat the Annual Meeting, and his term will end at the commencement of the Annual Meeting. Mr. Sheldon’s decision not to stand for re -electionat the annual meeting was not due to any disagreement with the Company on any matters related to the Company’s operations, policies or practices. If any of the nominees declines to serve or becomes unavailable for any reason, or if a vacancy occurs before the election (although the Company knows