Related Party Disclosures

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Disclosures

21. Related Party Disclosures

StockCross

StockCross and the Company were under common ownership, and prior to January 1, 2020, StockCross served as one of the clearing broker-dealers for the Company. The StockCross clearing agreement with the Company provided that StockCross passed through all revenue and charged the Company for related clearing expenses. Outside of the clearing agreement, the Company had an expense sharing agreement with StockCross for its Beverly Hills and Jersey City branch offices, and StockCross paid some vendors for miscellaneous expenses which it passed through to the Company.

In January 2019, the Company purchased approximately 15% of StockCross’ outstanding shares from an outside party. Effective January 1, 2020, the Company acquired the remaining 85% of StockCross in exchange for 3,298,774 shares of the Company’s common stock and StockCross was merged with and into MSCO. Upon the closing of this transaction on January 1, 2020, all receivables and payables between the Company and StockCross as well as any loss from the Company’s equity method investment in StockCross was eliminated upon consolidation.

Kennedy Cabot Acquisition, LLC

KCA is an affiliate of the Company and is under common ownership with the Company. To gain efficiencies and economies of scale with billing and administrative functions, KCA serves as a paymaster for the Company for payroll and related functions, the entirety of which KCA passes through to the subsidiaries of the Company proportionally. In addition, KCA has purchased the naming rights of the Company for the Company to use.

KCA sponsors a 401(k)-profit sharing plan which covers substantially all of the Company’s employees. In January 2020, MSCO sold approximately $288,000 worth of a private equity security to KCA at cost.

Park Wilshire Companies, Inc.

PWC brokers the insurance policies for related parties. Revenue for PWC from related parties was $73,000 and $69,000 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.

Gloria E. Gebbia and John J. Gebbia

The Company has entered into various debt agreements with Gloria E. Gebbia, the Company’s principal stockholder. See “Note 12 – Notes Payable - Related Party” for additional detail.

In addition, the Company’s obligations under its agreement with East West Bank are guaranteed pursuant to a guarantee agreement by and among, John J. Gebbia, individually and as a co-trustee of the John and Gloria Living Trust, U/D/T December 8, 1994 (the “Trust”), and Gloria E. Gebbia, individually and as a co-trustee of the Trust. See “Note 11 – Long-Term Debt” for additional detail.

Gloria E. Gebbia has extended loans to certain Company employees for the purchase of the Company’s shares. These transactions have not materially impacted the Company’s financial statements.

Gebbia Sullivan County Land Trust

The Company operates on a month-to-month lease agreement for its branch office in Omaha, Nebraska with the Gebbia Sullivan County Land Trust, the trustee of which is a relative of the Gebbia Family. For both years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, rent expense was $60,000 for this branch office.