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FaZe Clan Owners Prepare to Jump Ship

B.Riley, FaZe Clan’s leadership and founding team, and others offer ownership for sale.

Tobias SeckbyTobias Seck
May 10, 2023
in Money
Reading Time: 4 mins read
Credit: FaZe Clan

Credit: FaZe Clan

Update: In response to this article, FaZe Clan CEO Lee Trink shared on Twitter, that he has no plans to sell his stake in the company. FaZe Clan co-founder Richard “FaZe Banks” Bengtson II made a similar comment, saying that he and his co-founders have not listed their shares. The reporting in this article is based on an update to FaZe Clan’s original S-1 registration, which outlines an offering of existing shares as of May 4, 2023. While the prospectus demonstrates ownership distribution after a complete resale of shares included in the offering, such a sale has not been initiated through the filing and potential sales are at their shareholder’s discretion. In the context of FaZe Clan’s current operational and financial situation, finding a new majority owner could be one of many options to remedy its situation.

Original Story: Hollywood-based esports and lifestyle organization FaZe Clan has produced a Titanic-esque storyline, and now its owners are preparing to abandon the sinking ship. According to FaZe Clan’s latest filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company’s founders, leadership team, and largest investors put their stake in the company up for sale. With up to 62.54% of FaZe Clan’s current outstanding shares up for sale, the organization could be taken over by a new majority owner.

FaZe Clan was founded in 2010, revolutionized personality-focused content creation, quickly became popular in the gaming and esports community, and celebrated several esports championships over the years. The organization’s leadership aspired to create the first billion-dollar esports company and went public on the Nasdaq in July 2022 with an approximately $725M USD valuation. Despite uncertainty about the company’s financial health, FaZe Clan’s market capitalization broke through the $1B barrier and peaked at $1.86B on Aug. 30, 2022. However, once investors found out about FaZe Clan’s financial struggles including its $168.5M net loss for 2022, the stock collapsed and is currently trading below $0.50 or at a market capitalization of approximately $35.5M (roughly the price of a League of Legends European Championship [LEC] franchise slot).

In its prospectus, FaZe Clan outlines the potential issuance of up to 5.92M new shares and resale of up to 46.98M existing shares currently held by B. Riley, FaZe Clan founders and leadership, and other investors. While FaZe Clan would be able to receive up to $68M in proceeds for the issuance of new shares, the issuance event is highly unlikely as it is related to the exercise of outstanding warrants at $11.50 per share—a premium of more than $11 per share compared to the current market price. The unpromising situation of warrant exercises is reflected in FaZe Clan’s warrants currently trading below $0.03 apiece and a statement in the prospectus warning that its warrants may expire worthless.

FaZe Clan will not receive any proceeds from the potential resale of existing shares, which have been offered for sale by all significant FaZe Clan owners, including its largest shareholder B. Riley, its CEO Lee Trink, and some of its founders including Yousef “FaZe Apex” Abdelfattah, Richard “FaZe Banks” Bengtson II, Thomas “FaZe Temperrr” Alves De Oliveira, and Nordan “FaZe Rain” Shat. In case of a successful resale of all offered shares, only four people of FaZe Clan’s leadership and founding team will remain minority investors in the company, its former Chief Legal Officer Tamara Brandt, Director Nick Lewin, Chairman of the Board Daniel Shribman, and Director Ross Levinsohn.

The following is the full list of investors offering their FaZe Clan ownership:

Name of Selling HolderNumber of Shares OfferedNumber of Shares after the Offering
B. Riley Principal Investments, LLC11,184,152—
Lee Trink and Affiliates5,299,760—
TF US 2 AS4,998,580—
Yousef Abdelfattah4,354,686—
AEV Esports, LLC3,842,359—
Richard Bengtson II3,337,642—
Thomas Alves De Oliveira3,337,642—
Noordin Shat3,253,219—
Nick Lewin1,392,817317,197
Amit Bajaj954,537—
Tamara Brandt954,272415,000
Kainoa Henry882,784—
Zach Katz877,677—
Daniel Shribman564,80320,000
Ross Levinsohn304,33320,000
Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Cordozar Broadus Jr.299,264—
Bryant R. Riley200,000—
Ed Wilson118,519—
McBride Capital LLC101,558—
Nicholas Hammerschlag101,558—
CAZ Barbell Aggregator, L.P.100,000—
CAZ Private Equity Access Fund II, L.P. – Onshore  Series85,635—
STOCKS LLC50,000—
John B. Berding40,000—
SNI LLC30,000—
CAZ Private Equity Access Fund II, L.P. – Onshore Series26,536—
CAZ PEA2 Blocker Company23,834—
Martin Bernstein22,459—
Mandy Lindly22,459—
Barry Lee Engle III22,459—
Alexkper Safarov22,459—
Bond E. Oman21,608—
MC Opportunities Fund GP LLC20,000—
Steven T. and Lisa J. Almrud20,000—
Dean Family Grandchildren Trust15,000—
John B. Berding Irrevocable Children’s Trust11,952—
Dillon, Itz & Williams, L.P.10,000—
Walter R. Corson10,000—
CAZ Private Equity Access Fund II, L.P. – Non-Conduit Series9,641—
Alan N. Forman7,500—
William H. and Rhoda J. Wheeler5,000—
Michael Scanlin5,000—
James J. Nawrocki5,000—
CAZ PEA 2 Nonconduit Blocker Company4,354—
Ashley D. Killpack 2011 Exempt Trust4,000—
John A Hellwig Jr. Annual Gift Trust4,000—
Jennifer D. Brummett 2011 Exempt Trust4,000—
Lynn Sperandeo and Gary Michel3,000—
Lisa Giacobetti2,500—
Jared T. Stack2,500—
Myles Scott2,500—
Ron Kaplan2,500—
Henry and Tina Kaplan2,500—
Charles Riley2,093—

While FaZe Clan’s owners are looking to sell the company—a process during which the company could be taken private if a majority buyer is found—the company is also preparing for a reverse stock split to regain Nasdaq listing rules and avoid being delisted from the securities market.

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Tobias Seck is a journalist and business analyst who spent more than seven years at The Esports Observer (TEO) as a business analyst. He was one of the first employees of the publication, having joined in 2015. In October 2018 he shifted to the role of business analyst and journalist, writing analysis and helping fellow TEO writers understand the world of finance as a supplemental editor when needed. He continued in that role when TEO was rolled into Sports Business Journal (SBJ), where he worked until February 2023.

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