B. Riley Financial, Inc. is a financial services platform. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides services, including: investment banking, brokerage, wealth management, asset management, direct lending, business advisory, valuation, and asset disposition. B. Riley’s clients include public and private companies, financial sponsors, investors, financial institutions, and individuals.

B. Riley entered into an agreement to assist the CEO of FRG in leading a management buyout of FRG. The $2.8 billion deal was completed on August 21, 2023.

A recently filed federal securities fraud class action complaint alleges that B. Riley, through certain of its officers and directors, made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company’s business, operations, and prospects including: (1) that the CEO of FRG had been credibly implicated in a conspiracy to defraud investors of millions of dollars; (2) that, in spite of this involvement, B. Riley continued to finance the transaction enabling the CEO and others to take FRG private through complex arrangements; (3) that the foregoing was reasonably likely to draw regulatory scrutiny to B. Riley; and (4) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants’ positive statements about the Company’s business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.

Current long-term B. Riley shareholders can seek corporate reforms, the return of funds spent defending litigation back to the company, and a court approved incentive award, at no cost to them.

If you would like to learn more about this matter, you are encouraged to contact Joshua H. Grabar at [email protected] or Mia R. Heller at [email protected], or call 267-507-6085.