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TERM LOANS AND REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Term Loans And Revolving Credit Facility [Abstract]  
TERM LOANS AND REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY TERM LOANS AND REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITIES
Targus Credit Agreement
On October 18, 2022, the Company's subsidiary, Tiger US Holdings, Inc. (the “Borrower”), 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 is secured by substantially all Targus assets as collateral defined in the Targus Credit Agreement. 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. 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. On October 31, 2023 and February 20, 2024, the Company entered into Amendment No. 1 and Amendment No. 2 to the Targus Credit Agreement, which, among other things, modified the fixed charge coverage ratio and the minimum earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization requirements which waived the financial covenant breaches for the periods ended September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2023, respectively. The Company is in compliance with the Targus Credit Agreement and no event of default has occurred.
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 March 31, 2024 to March 31, 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, 2023 and 2022, the outstanding balance on the term loan was $17,834 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $366) and $26,021 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $580), respectively, and the outstanding balance on the revolver loan was $43,801 and $52,978, respectively. Interest expense on these loans during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $7,303 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs and unused commitment fees of $664) and $1,322 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs and unused commitment fees of $157), respectively. The interest rate on the term loan was 10.20% and 8.43% and the interest rate on the revolver loan ranged between 8.45% to 11.25% and between 6.03% to 9.25% as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The weighted average interest rate on the revolver loan was 8.53% and 6.68% as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Pathlight Credit Agreement
On September 23, 2022, the Company's subsidiary, BRRII, 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. On January 12, 2023, Amendment No. 2 to the Pathlight Credit Agreement increased the term loan by an additional $78,296. On March 31, 2023, Amendment No. 3 to the Pathlight Credit Agreement increased the term loan by an additional $49,890. On August 21, 2023, in connection with the sale of all of the equity interests in BRRII to Freedom VCM Receivables as more fully described in Note 2(r), the Company was released from all obligations, guarantees and covenants related to the Pathlight Credit Agreement. The Company had been in compliance with all financial covenants in the Pathlight Credit Agreement.
The term loan bore 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%. 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 years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $14,359 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $4,262) and $5,331 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $1,328), respectively.
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 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, 2023 and 2022, the interest rate on the Lingo Credit Agreement was 8.70% and 7.89%, respectively.
The Lingo Credit Agreement is guaranteed by the Company and Lingo's subsidiaries and secured by certain Lingo assets and equity interests as collateral defined in the Lingo Credit Agreement. 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, 2023. On March 15, 2024, the Company received an extension under its credit agreement with Banc of California, N.A. of the time required to deliver its 2023 audited financial statements, which was extended to April 9, 2024, and on April 9, 2024, the Company received further extension of the time required to deliver its 2023 audited financial statements to April 29, 2024.
Principal outstanding is due in quarterly installments starting on March 31, 2023. Quarterly installments 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, 2023 and 2022, the outstanding balance on the term loan was $63,153 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $722) and $71,985 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $1,016), respectively. Interest expense on the term loan during the years ended December 31, 2023 was $6,370 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $293) and $1,619 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $97), respectively.
bebe Credit Agreement
As a result of the Company obtaining a majority ownership interest in bebe on October 6, 2023, bebe's credit agreement with SLR Credit Solutions (the “bebe Credit Agreement”) for a $25,000 five-year term loan with a maturity date of August 24, 2026 is included in the Company's long-term debt. The term loan bears interest on the outstanding principal amount equal to the Term SOFR rate plus a margin of 5.50% to 6.00% per annum, depending on the total fixed charge coverage ratio as defined in the bebe Credit Agreement. As of December 31, 2023, the interest rate on the bebe Credit Agreement was 11.14%.
The bebe Credit Agreement is collateralized by a first lien on all bebe assets and pledges of capital stock including equity interests. 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 bebe 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. The Company is in compliance with all financial covenants in the bebe Credit Agreement as of December 31, 2023.
Principal outstanding is due in quarterly installments through June 30, 2026 in the amount of $313 per quarter and the remaining principal balance of $20,000 is due at final maturity on August 24, 2026.
As of December 31, 2023, the outstanding balance on the term loan was $22,487 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $638). Interest expense on the term loan during the period from October 6, 2023 through December 31, 2023 was $680 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $56).
Nomura Credit Agreement
The Company, and its wholly owned subsidiaries, BR Financial Holdings, LLC, and BR Advisory & Investments, LLC had entered into a credit agreement dated June 23, 2021 (as amended, the “Prior Credit Agreement”) with Nomura Corporate Funding Americas, LLC, as administrative agent, and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as collateral agent, for a four-year $300,000 secured term loan credit facility (the “Prior Term Loan Facility”) and a four-year $80,000 secured revolving loan credit facility (the “Prior Revolving Credit Facility”) with a maturity date of June 23, 2025.
On August 21, 2023, the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, BR Financial Holdings, LLC (the “Borrower”), and certain direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Borrower (the “Guarantors”), entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with Nomura Corporate Funding Americas, LLC, as administrative agent, and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as collateral agent, for a four-year $500,000 secured term loan credit facility (the “New Term Loan Facility”) and a four-year $100,000 secured revolving loan credit facility (the “New Revolving Credit Facility” and together, the “New Credit Facilities”). The purpose of the Credit Agreement was to (i) fund the Freedom VCM equity investment, (ii) prepay in full the Prior Term Loan Facility and Prior Revolving Credit Facility with an aggregate outstanding balance of $347,877, which included $342,000 in principal and $5,877 in interest and fees, (iii) fund a dividend reserve in an amount not less than $65,000, (iv) pay related fees and expenses, and (v) for general corporate purposes. The
Company recorded a loss on extinguishment of debt related to the Prior Credit Agreement of $5,408, which was included in selling, general and administrative expenses on the consolidated statements of operations.
SOFR rate loans under the New Credit Facilities accrue interest at the adjusted term SOFR rate plus an applicable margin of 6.00%. In addition to paying interest on outstanding borrowings under the New Revolving Credit Facility, the Company is required to pay a quarterly commitment fee based on the unused portion, which is determined by the average utilization of the facility for the immediately preceding fiscal quarter.
The Credit Agreement is secured on a first priority basis by a security interest in the equity interests of the Borrower and each of the Borrower’s subsidiaries (subject to certain exclusions) and a security interest in substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and the Guarantors. The borrowing base as defined in the Credit Agreement consists of a collateral pool that includes certain of the Company's loans receivables in the amount of $375,814 and investments in the amount of $786,714 as of December 31, 2023. The Credit Agreement contains certain affirmative and negative covenants customary for financings of this type that, among other things, limit the Company’s and its 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. 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. The Company is in compliance with all financial covenants in the Credit Agreement as of December 31, 2023. On March 26, 2024, the Company received an extension under its existing credit agreement with Nomura Corporate Funding Americas, LLC of the time required to deliver its 2023 audited financial statements, which was extended to April 29, 2024.
Commencing on September 30, 2023, the New Term Loan Facility began to amortize in equal quarterly installments of 0.625% of the principal amount of the term loan as of the closing date with the remaining balance due at final maturity on August 21, 2027. Quarterly installments from March 31, 2024 to June 30, 2027 are in the amount of $3,125 per quarter.
As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the outstanding balance on the term loan was $475,056 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $18,694) and $286,962 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $5,538), respectively. Interest on the term loan during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 was $41,662 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $2,916), $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, 2023 and 2022 was 11.37% and 9.23%, respectively.
The Company had an outstanding balance of zero and $74,700 under the revolving facility as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Interest on the revolving facility during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 was $5,908 (including unused commitment fees of $334 and amortization of deferred financing costs of $754), $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, 2023 and 2022 was 11.37% and 9.23%, 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% 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 VoIP Services, LLC, a Delaware corporation. 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, 2023. On March 15, 2024, the Company received an extension under its credit agreement with Banc of California, N.A. of the time required to deliver its 2023 audited financial statements, which was extended to April 9, 2024, and on April 9, 2024, the Company received further extension of the time required to deliver its 2023 audited financial statements to April 29, 2024.
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, 2023 and 2022, the interest rate on the BRPAC Credit Agreement was 8.46% and 7.65%, respectively.
Principal outstanding under the amended BRPAC Credit Agreement is due in quarterly installments. Quarterly installments from March 31, 2024 to December 31, 2026 are in the amount of $3,485 per quarter, on March 31, 2027 is in the amount of $2,614, and the remaining principal balance is due at final maturity on June 30, 2027.
As of December 31, 2023, and 2022, the outstanding balance on the term loan was $46,621 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $429) and $68,674 (net of unamortized debt issuance costs of $701), respectively. Interest expense on the term loan during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, was $5,201 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $272), $3,478 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $331), and $2,468 (including amortization of deferred debt issuance costs of $300), respectively.
See Note 13 for the aggregate maturities of borrowings as of December 31, 2023 for notes payable, term loans, credit facilities, and senior notes for the next five years.