0001342287-16-000161.txt : 20160120 0001342287-16-000161.hdr.sgml : 20160120 20160120174847 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001342287-16-000161 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20160120 FILED AS OF DATE: 20160120 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160120 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: General Finance CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001342287 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-RETAIL STORES, NEC [5990] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0630 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 39 EAST UNION STREET CITY: PASADENA STATE: CA ZIP: 91103 BUSINESS PHONE: 626-584-9722 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 39 EAST UNION STREET CITY: PASADENA STATE: CA ZIP: 91103 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TASHJIAN LARRY D CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001598557 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-32845 FILM NUMBER: 161351972 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 39 EAST UNION STREET CITY: PASADENA STATE: CA ZIP: 91103 4 1 tashjian4-01202016.xml OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT X0306 4 2016-01-20 0 0001342287 General Finance CORP GFN 0001598557 TASHJIAN LARRY D 39 EAST UNION STREET PASADENA CA 91103 1 0 0 0 9% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock 2016-01-20 4 P 0 185 65.25 A 4475 D Christopher A Wilson, attorney-in-fact for Larry D Tashjian 2016-01-20 EX-24 2 tashjian.txt POWER OF ATTORNEY POWER OF ATTORNEY Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Charles E. Barrantes and Christopher A. Wilson the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to: (1) prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC; (2) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of General Finance Corporation (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder; (3) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and (4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion. The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 28th day of January 2014. /s/ Larry D. Tashjian Name: Larry D. Tashjian