Organization and Description of Business |
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| Organization and Description of Business |
1. Organization and Description of Business
Finance of America Companies Inc. (“FoA,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) was incorporated in Delaware on October 9, 2020. FoA is a financial services holding company which, through its operating subsidiaries, is a modern retirement solutions platform that provides customers with access to an innovative range of retirement offerings centered on the home. In addition, FoA offers capital markets and portfolio management capabilities primarily to optimize the distribution of its originated loans to investors.
FoA has a controlling financial interest in Finance of America Equity Capital LLC (“FoA Equity”). FoA Equity owns all of the outstanding equity interests in Finance of America Funding LLC (“FOAF”). FOAF wholly owns Finance of America Holdings LLC (“FAH”) and Incenter LLC (“Incenter” and collectively, with FoA Equity, FOAF, and FAH, known as “holding company subsidiaries”).
The Company, through its FAH holding company subsidiary, operates a lending company, Finance of America Reverse LLC (“FAR”). Through FAR, the Company originates, purchases, sells, securitizes, and services home equity conversion mortgages, which are insured by the Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”), and non-agency reverse mortgages. The Company, through its Incenter holding company subsidiary, has operating service companies (the “operating service subsidiaries” and together with FAR, the “operating subsidiaries”) which provide capital markets and portfolio management capabilities such as secondary markets advisory services, mortgage trade brokerage, and capital management services.
Organizational Transformation and Realignment of Segments
During the fourth quarter of 2022 and calendar year 2023, the Company entered into a series of transactions, discontinuing certain business lines while enhancing our reverse mortgage loan business, as described in further detail below, in order to transform our business from a vertically integrated, diversified lending and complementary services platform to a modern retirement solutions platform. This transformation included the wind-down of the previously reported Mortgage Originations segment and sale of the previously reported Commercial Originations and Lender Services segments. During 2023, to more closely align with the business strategy, the Company restructured the reporting segments into the following: Retirement Solutions and Portfolio Management. The prior period segment disclosures have been recast to reflect the new structure. Refer to Note 27 - Business Segment Reporting for additional information.
Transactions Relating to Discontinued Business Lines
On October 20, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company authorized a plan to discontinue the operations of the Company’s previously reported Mortgage Originations segment, other than its home improvement lending business, which commenced in the fourth quarter of 2022 and was completed on February 28, 2023. Refer to Note 4 - Discontinued Operations for additional information. On August 31, 2023, the Company’s indirect subsidiary, Finance of America Mortgage LLC (“FAM”), entered into an agreement to sell certain operational assets of the home improvement lending business. This transaction closed on September 15, 2023. In connection with such transaction, the Company began the process of winding down the operations of the home improvement lending business, which is expected to be substantially complete by the end of March 2024. The wind-down of the home improvement lending business is not considered by the Company to be a strategic shift that has or will have a major effect on our operations and financial results. Therefore, the operations of the home improvement lending business are reported as part of the Company’s Retirement Solutions segment rather than as discontinued operations.
On February 1, 2023, Incenter entered into an agreement to sell one hundred percent of (i) the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of Agents National Title Holding Company (“ANTIC”), a direct subsidiary of Incenter and an indirect subsidiary of the Company, and (ii) the issued and outstanding membership interests of Boston National Holdings LLC (“BNT”), a direct subsidiary of Incenter and an indirect subsidiary of the Company. The closing of the ANTIC and BNT sale was completed on July 3, 2023. The Company has historically included the operations of ANTIC and BNT in its previously reported Lender Services segment. On March 30, 2023, the FoA Equity Board authorized a plan to sell assets making up the remainder of the Company’s previously reported Lender Services segment, with the exception of its Incenter Solutions LLC operating service subsidiary. The Company completed the sale of such assets on June 30, 2023. Refer to Note 4 - Discontinued Operations for additional information. During the quarter ended September 30, 2023, the Company ceased the operations of the Company’s Incenter Solutions LLC operating service subsidiary. The wind-down of Incenter Solutions LLC was substantially complete as of December 31, 2023. The operations of Incenter Solutions LLC are reported within Corporate and Other in Note 27 - Business Segment Reporting.
On February 19, 2023, FAH entered into an agreement to sell certain commercial originations operational assets of FAM, operating under the brand Finance of America Commercial (“FACo”). This transaction closed on March 14, 2023. The Company has historically included the commercial originations operations of FACo in its previously reported Commercial Originations segment. In connection with the transaction, the Company discontinued the operations of and wound-down its Commercial Originations segment. Refer to Note 4 - Discontinued Operations for additional information.
American Advisors Group Transaction
On March 31, 2023, FAR acquired a majority of the assets and certain of the liabilities of American Advisors Group, now known as Bloom Retirement Holdings Inc. (“AAG/Bloom” or “Seller”), including, among other things, certain residential reverse mortgage loans and the right to service certain HECM (such acquisition, the “AAG Transaction”). These assets and liabilities were acquired pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement, a Servicing Rights Purchase and Sale Agreement, and a Loan Sale Agreement entered into on December 6, 2022 with AAG/Bloom. The assets, liabilities, and operations acquired by the Company as a result of the AAG Transaction are included in the Company’s Retirement Solutions segment reporting. Refer to Note 3 - Acquisitions for additional information.
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