B. Riley Financial, Inc. announced that it has closed an underwritten registered public offering of $200 million aggregate principal amount of 6.00% senior notes due 2028. The Company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $30 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes in connection with the offering. B. Riley Financial and this issuance of notes both received an investment grade rating of BBB+ from Egan-Jones Ratings Company, an independent, unaffiliated rating agency. The notes are expected to begin trading on NASDAQ under the symbol "RILYT" following the closing date of this offering. The offering resulted in net proceeds of approximately $193.7 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, but before expenses. The Company expects to use the net proceeds in excess of $50 million from the sale of the notes for the redemption of all or a portion of its existing 7.50% Senior Notes due 2027 as soon as practicable and the remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes, including funding future acquisitions and investments, repaying indebtedness, making capital expenditures and funding working capital. B. Riley Securities, Ladenburg Thalmann, National Securities Corporation, William Blair and Incapital acted as book-running managers for this offering. Aegis Capital Corp., Boenning & Scattergood, Huntington Capital Markets, Kingswood Capital Markets, division of Benchmark Investments, Inc., Newbridge Securities Corporation and Wedbush Securities acted as co-managers.