Company: RILYN
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-001398
Chunk: 364

Company: B. Riley Financial, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 364
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 compliance and other policies and procedures of certain of its regulated subsidiaries. On November 22, 2024, each of the Company and Mr. Riley received an additional SEC subpoena requesting the production of certain additional documents and information relating to Franchise Group, Inc. (including its holding company, Freedom VCM Holdings, LLC) as well as Mr. Riley’s personal loan and his pledge of shares of the Company’s common stock as collateral for such loan. As previously disclosed on April 23, 2024, the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors, with the assistance of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, the Company’s legal counsel, conducted an internal review, and separately the Audit Committee retained Winston & Strawn LLP, independent legal counsel, to conduct an independent investigation, to review transactions among Mr. Kahn (and his affiliates) and the Company (and its affiliates). The review and the investigation both confirmed that the Company and its 

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executives, including Mr. Riley, had no involvement with, or knowledge of, any alleged misconduct concerning Mr. Kahn or any of his affiliates. The receipt of subpoenas is not an indication that the SEC or its staff has determined that any violations of law have occurred. Both the Company and Mr. Riley are responding to the subpoenas and are fully cooperating with the SEC.On May 2, 2024, a putative class action was filed by Ted Donaldson in the Superior Court for the State of California, County of Los Angeles on behalf of all persons who acquired the Company’s senior notes pursuant to the shelf registration statement filed with the SEC on Form S-3 dated January 28, 2021, and the prospectuses filed and published on August 4, 2021 and December 2, 2021 (the “Note Offerings”). The action asserts claims under §§ 11, 12, and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, against the Company, certain of the Company's officers and directors, and the underwriters of the Note Offerings. The complaint alleged that defendants knew or should have known that Mr. Kahn was engaged in illegal activities, including an alleged conspiracy to commit fraud. On September 27, 2024, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint. The amended complaint also asserts claims under §§ 11, 12, and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and alleges that defendants knew or should have known that the risk to the Company from its investments in businesses affiliated