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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
12 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Related Party Transactions
 
Quadrant Management Inc. and Everest Hill Group, Inc. (formerly known as Brean Murray Carret Group, Inc.)
 
ARC, Everest Hill Group, QMI, and QMT are under common control. Prior to the ARC acquisition of QMT and AFT, QMI, through Everest Hill Group, owned 74.0% of the membership interests of QMT. As a result of the ARC acquisition of QMT and AFT, Everest Hill Group became the controlling shareholder of ARC. Specifically, Everest Hill Group controls 100% of the ownership interests of QMI, as well as, via certain wholly-owned intermediaries, 59.9% of the shares of ARC.

In addition, the following officers and directors of ARC are also affiliated with QMI and Everest Hill Group:

Mr. Jason Young, the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has been a Managing Director at QMI since 2005, where he is responsible for making investments in U.S. and emerging market companies, and where he frequently serves in active management or director-level roles.

Mr. Theodore Deinard, who served as the Company's Interim Chief Executive Officer and as a director of the Company until he resigned from these positions on April 29, 2013, is a Principal of QMI and serves as Chief Executive Officer of ARC Wireless, Inc. Mr. Deinard is also related by marriage to an officer of QMI.

Mr. Young and Mr. Deinard are each deemed to share voting and investment power over the shares beneficially owned by Everest Hill Group.

Mr. Jason Young and Mr. Alan Quasha, an officer of QMI, each serve on the Board of Directors of QMT and receive fees for such services.
 
Pursuant to the original terms of the ARC Advisory Agreement entered into on January 21, 2009, (the “ARC Advisory Agreement”), QMI provided ARC financial advisory and business consulting services, including restructuring services.  The ARC Advisory Agreement expired on December 31, 2013, and was not extended.

As a result of the closing of the QMT and AFT acquisitions on August 8, 2012, a fee of $1.6 million was paid to QMI.
 
In addition, QMI and QMT entered into a non-exclusive financial advisory agreement, (the “QMT Financial Advisory Agreement”), whereby QMI performed ongoing consulting and advisory services for QMT through QMI personnel (acting at all times as independent contractors to QMT). The scope of such services included business consulting services, financial advisory services, and other services. In consideration for such services, on April 1, 2012, QMT commenced paying an annual cash fee to QMI of $250 thousand to be paid in quarterly installments. The QMT Financial Advisory Agreement continued in effect following the acquisition of QMT by the Company until December 31, 2013, when it terminated.
 
As a result of the accounting for the Reverse Merger, the statement of operations reflect only the fees earned by QMI for financial advisory services provided to QMT prior to August 8, 2012, and subsequent to August 8, 2012, fees earned by QMI for financial advisory services provided to ARC and QMT.
  
Fees earned by QMI for the years ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, were approximately $835 thousand and $650 thousand, respectively.
 
FloMet Receivable

During fiscal year ended June 30, 2012, FloMet loaned its president, Mr. Robert Marten, $303 thousand as represented by a promissory note dated July 1, 2011 (the “FloMet Loan”). The Company had a balance of notes receivable in the amount of $0 and $272 thousand at June 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. The FloMet Loan was terminated on September 25, 2013, and the $272 thousand remaining principal of the promissory note owed to the Company by Mr. Marten was canceled.
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