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12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

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NOTES PAYABLE

Asset Based Credit Facility

The Company is party to a credit agreement (as amended, the “Credit Agreement”) governing its asset-based credit facility with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (“Wells Fargo Bank”) with a maximum borrowing limit of $200,000 and a maturity date of April 20, 2027. Cash advances and the issuance of letters of credit under the credit facility are made at the lender’s discretion. The letters of credit issued under this facility are furnished by the lender to third parties for the principal purpose of securing minimum guarantees under liquidation services contracts. All outstanding loans, letters of credit, and interest are due on the expiration date which is generally within 180 days of funding. The credit facility is secured by the proceeds received for services rendered in connection with liquidation service contracts pursuant to which any outstanding loan or letters of credit are issued and the assets that are sold at liquidation related to such contract. The interest rate for each revolving credit advance under the Credit Agreement is subject to certain terms and conditions, equal to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) plus a margin of 2.25% to 3.25% depending on the type of advance and the percentage such advance represents of the related transaction for which such advance is provided. The credit facility provides for success fees in the amount of 1.0% to 10.0% of the net profits, if any, earned on the liquidation

engagements funded under the Credit Agreement as set forth therein. The credit facility also provides for funding fees in the amount of 0.05% to 0.20% of the aggregate principal amount of all credit advances and letters of credit issued in connection with a liquidation sale. Interest expense totaled $183, $435, and $639 during the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively. There is no outstanding balance on this credit facility as of December 31, 2022 and 2021. As of December 31, 2022 and 2021, there were no open letters of credit outstanding.

The Company is in compliance with all financial covenants in the asset-based credit facility as of December 31, 2022.

Other Notes Payable

As of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the outstanding balance for the other notes payable was $25,263 and $357, respectively. Interest expense was $1,125, $21, and $51 during the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively. Notes payable consisted of additional deferred cash consideration owed to the sellers of FocalPoint as of December 31, 2022. Notes payable to a clearing organization for one of the Company’s broker dealers, which accrued interest at the prime rate plus 2.00%, matured on January 31, 2022 and was repaid during the year ended December 31, 2022.

TERM LOANS AND REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY

Targus Credit Agreement

On October 18, 2022, the Company's subsidiary, Tiger US Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, among others, entered into a credit agreement (“Targus Credit Agreement”) with PNC Bank, National Association (“PNC”), as agent and security trustee for a five-year $28,000 term loan and a five-year $85,000 revolver loan, which was used to finance part of the acquisition of Targus.

The Targus Credit Agreement contains certain covenants, including those limiting the Borrower’s 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. The Targus 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 outstanding under the Targus Credit Agreement. The Company is in compliance with all financial covenants in the Targus Credit Agreement as of December 31, 2022.

The term loan bears interest on the outstanding principal amount equal to the Term SOFR rate plus an applicable margin of 3.75%. The revolver loan consists of base rate loans that bear interest on the outstanding principal amount equal to the base rate plus an applicable margin of 1.00% to 1.75% and term rate loans that bear interest on the outstanding principal amount equal to the revolver SOFR rate plus an applicable margin of 2.00% to 2.75%.

Principal outstanding is due in quarterly installments starting on December 31, 2022. Quarterly installments from December 31, 2022 to September 30, 2027 are in the amount of $1,400 per quarter and the remaining principal balance is due at final maturity on October 18, 2027.

As of December 31, 2022, the outstanding balance on the term loan was $26,021 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $580) and the outstanding balance on the revolver loan was $52,978. Interest expense on these loans during the year ended December 31, 2022 was $1,322 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs and unused commitment fees of $157). The interest rate on the term loan was 8.43% and the interest rate on the revolver loan ranged between 6.03% to 9.25% as of December 31, 2022.

Pathlight Credit Agreement

On September 23, 2022, the Company's subsidiary, B. Riley Receivables II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Borrower”), entered into a credit agreement (the “Pathlight Credit Agreement”) by and among PLC Agent, LLC in the capacity as administrative agent and Pathlight Capital Fund I LP, Pathlight Capital Fund II LP, and Pathlight Capital Fund III LP as the lenders (collectively, “Pathlight”) for a five-year $148,200 term loan. The Pathlight Credit Agreement was entered in connection with the purchase of the 2022 Badcock Receivable discussed in Note 3. On January 12, 2023, Amendment No. 2 to the Pathlight Credit Agreement increased the term loan by an additional $78,296. The term

loan bears interest on the outstanding principal amount equal to the Term SOFR rate plus an applicable margin of 6.50%. As of December 31, 2022, the interest rate on the Pathlight Credit Agreement was 11.01%.

The Pathlight Credit Agreement contains certain covenants, including those limiting the Borrower’s 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. The Pathlight 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 Pathlight Credit Agreement. The Company is in compliance with all financial covenants in the Pathlight Credit Agreement as of December 31, 2022.

Principal outstanding under the Pathlight Credit Agreement is repaid based on collections of the 2022 Badcock Receivable less other application of payments as defined in the Pathlight Credit Agreement and the remaining principal balance is due at final maturity on September 23, 2027. As of December 31, 2022, the outstanding balance on the term loan was $118,437 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $2,377). Interest expense on the term loan during the year ended December 31, 2022 was $5,331 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $1,328).

Lingo Credit Agreement

On August 16, 2022, the Company's subsidiary, Lingo, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Borrower”), entered into a credit agreement (the “Lingo Credit Agreement”) by and among the Borrower, the Company as the secured guarantor, and Banc of California, N.A. in its capacity as administrative agent and lender, for a five-year $45,000 term loan. This loan was used to finance part of the purchase of Bullseye by Lingo. On September 9, 2022, Lingo entered into the First Amendment to the Lingo Credit Agreement with Grasshopper Bank (the “New Lender”) for an incremental term loan of $7,500, increasing the principal balance of the term loan to $52,500. On November 10, 2022, Lingo entered into the Second Amendment to the Lingo Credit Agreement with KeyBank National Association for an incremental term loan of $20,500, increasing the principal balance of the term loan to $73,000.

The term loan bears interest on the outstanding principal amount equal to the Term SOFR rate plus a margin of 3.00% to 3.75% per annum, depending on the consolidated total funded debt ratio as defined in the Lingo Credit Agreement, plus applicable spread adjustment. As of December 31, 2022, the interest rate on the Lingo Credit Agreement was 7.89%.

The agreement contains certain covenants, including those limiting the Borrower’s 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 agreement requires the Borrower to maintain certain financial ratios. The 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 agreement. The Company is in compliance with all financial covenants in the Lingo Credit Agreement as of December 31, 2022.

Principal outstanding is due in quarterly installments starting on March 31, 2023. Quarterly installments from March 31, 2023 to December 31, 2023 are in the amount of $2,281 per quarter, from March 31, 2024 to December 31, 2024 are in the amount of $2,738 per quarter, from March 31, 2025 to June 30, 2027 are in the amount of $3,650, and the remaining principal balance is due at final maturity on August 16, 2027.

As of December 31, 2022, the outstanding balance on the term loan was $71,985 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $1,016). Interest expense on the term loan during the year ended December 31, 2022 was $1,619 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $97).

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 prior to the Second Amendment (as defined below) 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 (the “Second Amendment”), by and among the Company, the Primary Guarantor, the Borrower, each of the subsidiary guarantors signatory thereto, each of the lenders party thereto, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, 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, (“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 specified 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 and the Second Amendment contain certain representations and warranties (subject to certain agreed qualifications) that are customary for financings of this kind.

The Credit Agreement and the Second Amendment contain 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 and the Second Amendment contain a financial covenant that requires the Company to maintain Operating EBITDA of at least $135,000 and the Primary Guarantor to maintain net asset value of at least $1,100,000. The Credit Agreement and the Second Amendment contain 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. The Company is in compliance with all financial covenants in the Nomura Credit Agreement as of December 31, 2022.

Commencing on September 30, 2022, the Term Loan Facility and Incremental Facility is amortizing 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 on June 23, 2025. Quarterly installments from March 31, 2023 to March 31, 2025 are in the amount of $3,750 per quarter.

As of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the outstanding balance on the Term Loan Facility and Incremental Facility was $286,962 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $5,538) and $292,650 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $7,350), respectively. Interest on the term loan during the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, was $21,310 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $2,085) and $5,907 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $766), respectively. The interest rate on the term loan as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 was 9.23% and 4.72%, respectively.

The Company had an outstanding balance of $74,700 and $80,000 under the Revolving Credit Facility as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Interest on the revolving facility during the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 was $5,441 (including unused commitment fees of $13 and amortization of deferred financing costs of $586) and $1,915 (including unused commitment fees of $76 and amortization of deferred financing costs of $305), respectively. The interest rate on the revolving facility as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 was 9.23% and 4.67%, respectively.

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) 100.00% 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. The Company is in compliance with all financial covenants in the BRPAC Credit Agreement as of December 31, 2022.

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 (“Marconi Wireless”) 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 Term 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 December 31, 2022 and 2021, the interest rate on the BRPAC Credit Agreement was 7.65% and 3.17%, respectively.

Principal outstanding under the Amended BRPAC Credit Agreement is due in quarterly installments. Quarterly installments 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 December 31, 2022, and 2021, the outstanding balance on the term loan was $68,674 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $701) and $53,735 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $582), respectively. Interest expense on the term loan during the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, was $3,478 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $331), $2,468 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $300), and $2,369 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $278), respectively.