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TERM LOANS AND REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Term Loans And Revolving Credit Facility [Abstract]  
TERM LOANS AND REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY
NOTE 9 — TERM LOANS AND REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY
Nomura Credit Agreement
On June 23, 2021, the Company, and its wholly owned subsidiaries, BR Financial Holdings, LLC (the “Primary Guarantor”), and BR Advisory & Investments, LLC (the “Borrower”) entered into a credit agreement (as amended, the “Credit Agreement”) with Nomura Corporate Funding Americas, LLC, as administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”), and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as collateral agent (the “Collateral Agent”), for a four-year $200,000 secured term loan credit facility (the “Term Loan Facility”) and a four-year $80,000 secured revolving loan credit facility (the “Revolving Credit Facility”).
On December 17, 2021 (the “Amendment Date”), the Company, the Primary Guarantor, and the Borrower entered into a Second Incremental Amendment to Credit Agreement, pursuant to which the Borrower established an incremental facility in an aggregate principal amount of $100,000 (the “Incremental Facility” and the incremental term loans made thereunder, the “Incremental Term Loans”) of secured term loans under the Credit Agreement on terms identical to those applicable to the Term Loan Facility. The Borrower borrowed the full amount of the Incremental Term Loans on the Amendment Date. The Term Loan Facility, Revolving Credit Facility, and Incremental Facility (together, the “Credit Facilities”), mature on June 23, 2025, subject to acceleration or prepayment.
Eurodollar loans under the Credit Facilities accrue interest at the Eurodollar Rate plus an applicable margin of 4.50%. Base rate loans accrue interest at the Base Rate plus an applicable margin of 3.50%. In addition to paying interest on outstanding borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility, the Company is required to pay a quarterly commitment fee based on the unused portion of the Revolving Credit Facility, which is determined by the average utilization of the facility for the immediately preceding fiscal quarter.
Subject to certain eligibility requirements, the assets of certain subsidiaries of the Company that hold credit assets, private equity assets, and public equity assets are placed into a borrowing base, which serves to limit the borrowings under the Credit Facilities. If borrowings under the facilities exceed the borrowing base, the Company is obligated to prepay the loans in an aggregate amount equal to such excess. The Credit Agreement contains certain representations and warranties (subject to certain agreed qualifications) that are customary for financings of this kind.
The Credit Agreement contains certain affirmative and negative covenants customary for financings of this type that, among other things, limit the Company’s, the Primary Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s, and the Borrower’s subsidiaries’ ability to incur additional indebtedness or liens, to dispose of assets, to make certain fundamental changes, to enter into restrictive agreements, to make certain investments, loans, advances, guarantees and acquisitions, to prepay certain indebtedness and to pay dividends or to make other distributions or redemptions/repurchases in respect of their respective equity interests. In addition, the Credit Agreement contains a financial covenant that requires the Company to maintain operating earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (“EBITDA”) of at least $135,000 and the Primary Guarantor to maintain net asset value of at least $1,100,000. The Credit Agreement contains customary events of default, including with respect to a failure to make payments under the credit facilities, cross-default, certain bankruptcy and insolvency events and customary change of control events.
Commencing on September 30, 2022, the Term Loan Facility and Incremental Facility will amortize in equal quarterly installments of 1.25% of the aggregate principal amount of the term loan as of the closing date with the remaining balance due at final maturity. Quarterly installments from September 30, 2022 to March 31, 2025 are in the amount of $3,750 per quarter.
As of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the outstanding balances on the Term Loan Facility and Incremental Facility were $293,676 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $6,324) and $292,650 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $7,350), respectively. Interest on the term loan during the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 was $4,735 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $516) and $236 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $30), respectively. Interest on the term loan during the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 was $8,837 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $1,025) and $236 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $30), respectively. The interest rate on the term loan as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 was 6.65% and 4.72%, respectively.
The Company had an outstanding balance of $80,000 under the Revolving Credit Facility as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021. Interest on the revolving facility during the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 was $1,227 (including amortization of deferred financing costs of $145) and $2,327 (including amortization of deferred financing costs of $288), respectively. The unused commitment fee on the revolving facility for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 was $30 (including amortization of deferred financing costs of $13). The interest rate on the revolving facility as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 was 6.13% and 4.67%, respectively.
The Company is in compliance with all financial covenants in the Credit Agreement as of June 30, 2022.
BRPAC Credit Agreement
On December 19, 2018, BRPI Acquisition Co LLC (“BRPAC”), a Delaware limited liability company, UOL, and YMAX Corporation, Delaware corporations (collectively, the “Borrowers”), indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company, in the capacity as borrowers, entered into a credit agreement (the “BRPAC Credit Agreement”) with the Banc of California, N.A. in the capacity as agent (the “Agent”) and lender and with the other lenders party thereto (the “Closing Date Lenders”). Certain of the Borrowers’ U.S. subsidiaries are guarantors of all obligations under the BRPAC Credit Agreement and are parties to the BRPAC Credit Agreement in such capacity (collectively, the “Secured Guarantors”; and together with the Borrowers, the “Credit Parties”). In addition, the Company and B. Riley Principal Investments, LLC, the parent corporation of BRPAC and a subsidiary of the Company, are guarantors of the obligations under the BRPAC Credit Agreement pursuant to standalone guaranty agreements pursuant to which the shares outstanding membership interests of BRPAC are pledged as collateral.
The obligations under the BRPAC Credit Agreement are secured by first-priority liens on, and first priority security interest in, substantially all of the assets of the Credit Parties, including a pledge of (a) 100% of the equity interests of the Credit Parties, (b) 65% of the equity interests in United Online Software Development (India) Private Limited, a private limited company organized under the laws of India; and (c) 65% of the equity interests in magicJack VocalTec LTD., a limited company organized under the laws of Israel. Such security interests are evidenced by pledge, security, and other related agreements.
The BRPAC Credit Agreement contains certain covenants, including those limiting the Credit Parties’, and their subsidiaries’ ability to incur indebtedness, incur liens, sell or acquire assets or businesses, change the nature of their businesses, engage in transactions with related parties, make certain investments or pay dividends. In addition, the BRPAC Credit Agreement requires the Credit Parties to maintain certain financial ratios. The BRPAC Credit Agreement also
contains customary representations and warranties, affirmative covenants, and events of default, including payment defaults, breach of representations and warranties, covenant defaults and cross defaults. If an event of default occurs, the agent would be entitled to take various actions, including the acceleration of amounts due under the outstanding BRPAC Credit Agreement.
Through a series of amendments, including the most recent Fourth Amendment to the BRPAC Credit Agreement (the “Fourth Amendment”) on June 21, 2022, the Borrowers, the Secured Guarantors, the Agent and the Closing Date Lenders agreed to the following, among other things: (i) the Lenders agreed to make a new $75,000 term loan to the Borrowers, the proceeds of which the Borrowers’ used to repay the outstanding principal amount of the existing terms loans and optional loans and will use for other general corporate purposes, (ii) a new applicable margin level of 3.50% was established as set forth from the date of the Fourth Amendment, (iii) Marconi Wireless Holdings, LLC was added to the Borrowers, (iv) the maturity date of the term loan was set to June 30, 2027, and (v) the Borrowers were permitted to make certain distributions to the parent company of the Borrowers.
The borrowings under the amended BRPAC Credit Agreement bear interest equal to the SOFR rate plus a margin of 2.75% to 3.50% per annum, depending on the Borrowers’ consolidated total funded debt ratio as defined in the BRPAC Credit Agreement. As of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the interest rate on the BRPAC Credit Agreement was 4.66% and 3.17%, respectively.
Principal outstanding under the Amended BRPAC Credit Agreement is due in quarterly installments. Quarterly installments from September 30, 2022 to December 31, 2022 are in the amount of $2,813 per quarter, from March 31, 2023 to December 31, 2023 are in the amount of $4,688 per quarter, from March 31, 2024 to December 31, 2026 are in the amount of $3,750 per quarter, on March 31, 2027 is in the amount of $2,813, and the remaining principal balance is due at final maturity on June 30, 2027.
As of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the outstanding balance on the term loan was $74,140 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $860) and $53,735 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $582), respectively. Interest expense on the term loan during the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 was $578 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $99) and $663 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $77), respectively. Interest expense on the term loan during the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 was $1,080 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $171) and $1,377 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $157), respectively.
The Company is in compliance with all financial covenants in the BRPAC Credit Agreement as of June 30, 2022.