UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

☒     ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016

or

☐    TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from _______ to _________

Commission file number: 001-16073

Great Elm Capital Group, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code  (617) 735-3500

UNWIRED PLANET, INC.

(Former name changed from last report)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Securities registered pursuant to section 12(g) of the Act:

None

The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was approximately $73.1 million as of December 31, 2015. Shares of common stock held by persons who are not directors or executive officers, including persons who own more than 5% of the outstanding shares of common stock, are included in that such persons are not deemed to be affiliates for purpose of this calculation.

As of September 13, 2016, there were 9,466,670 outstanding shares of the registrant’s common stock.

LOCATION OF EXHIBIT INDEX

The exhibit index is located immediately following the signature page to this report.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I

Item 1.  Business.

All references to “Great Elm,” “we,” “us,” “our,” “Company” and words of similar import are to Great Elm Capital Group, Inc. (which was formerly named Unwired Planet, Inc.) and/or our subsidiaries.

Overview

Great Elm has undergone a significant transformation in the last year. We:

Our goal is to build a diversified holding company focused on return on investment and long-term value creation.  We will accomplish this principally through:

Our first investment for long-term value creation is in the asset management business.  In June 2016, we invested $30 million in Great Elm Capital Corp. (GECC). On June 23, 2016, GECC entered into a merger agreement with Full Circle Capital Corporation (Full Circle), a business development company (BDC).  Upon closing the Full Circle merger, we will:

We continue to explore other opportunities in the investment management business including, but not limited to, other BDCs that trade at a discount to their net asset value.

As of June 30, 2016, we had $1.7 billion of net operating loss (NOL) carryforwards for Federal income tax purposes.

In the near term, we expect to begin marketing financial products that will give us and our counter-parties the opportunity to generate after tax returns.  For example, we may acquire real estate projects in exchange for stock of our subsidiaries.

We have a business development effort focused on industries and businesses with attractive long-term value creation prospects where our business, mergers and acquisitions and financial acumen provides a competitive advantage.

Our corporate headquarters are located at 200 Clarendon Street, 51st Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 and our phone number is (617) 735-3500. Our corporate website address is www.greatelmcap.com. The information contained in, or accessible through, our corporate website does not constitute part of this report.  We are a Delaware corporation that was incorporated in 1994 and completed our initial public offering in 1999.

Our Former Patent Business

On April 6, 2016, we entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Optus UP Holdings, LLC (Optis) providing for the sale of the entities that conducted our patent licensing business (the Divestiture).  The Divestiture was completed on June 30, 2016.

In the Divestiture, we received $34.2 million in gross cash proceeds, inclusive of reimbursement of $4.2 million of agreed upon expenses, and may be entitled to up to an additional $10 million cash payment on June 30, 2018. Optis has the right to make claims against that $10 million payment, and we cannot assure you that we will receive any of such amount. Our patent business is reflected in our financial statements as discontinued operations. We remain a party to two lawsuits related to our patent business. See Item 3.

Great Elm Capital Corporation ― Our Business Development Company

We decided to invest in the asset management business because of our assessment of its ability to generate recurring free cash flows, its growth prospects and our board of directors’ industry expertise.

On June 23, 2016, GECC entered into an agreement and plan of merger with Full Circle (the Merger Agreement) and entered into a subscription agreement (the Subscription Agreement) with us and private investment funds (the MAST Funds) managed by MAST Capital Management, LLC (MAST Capital).  We also entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (the MOU) with MAST Capital and some of its partners that provides for us to hire substantially all of the partners and employees of MAST Capital at the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

We contributed $30 million in cash to GECC.  As of June 30, 2016, GECC was our wholly-owned subsidiary and it is consolidated in our June 30, 2016 financial statements.  Before the Merger, the MAST Funds will contribute to GECC a portfolio of debt investments that had a May 31, 2016 fair value of $90 million.  Following the MAST Funds contribution, GECC will elect to be treated as a BDC under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.  Following the BDC election and assuming the conditions to closing under the Merger Agreement are satisfied or waived, Full Circle will merge with and into GECC (the Merger) in exchange for shares of GECC common stock.  GECC’s common stock is expected to be listed on the NASDAQ Global Market.

We have two opportunities to generate free cash flow from GECC:

First, Great Elm Capital Management, Inc., our wholly-owned subsidiary (GECM), will be the external investment manager of GECC.  Under the investment management agreement that is an exhibit to the Subscription Agreement, GECM will be entitled to:

Under the MOU, GECM will share part of this revenue stream with its employees and consultants.

Second, we will own registered Nasdaq-listed shares of GECC that we may hold to generate dividends or sell to redeploy our capital in higher yielding opportunities.  We agreed that we would not sell these shares until one year following the Merger, but we may finance these shares during that holding period to generate liquidity before our contractual holding period expires.

Our Transformation

In addition to divesting our patent business that had never generated positive operating income (other than as a result of the asset sale to Lenovo) and securing our GECC opportunity, since July 1, 2015:

In 2011, investment funds managed by Starboard Value LP took an active interest in our company.  Beginning in 2012, we divested our legacy software and product businesses and focused our business on licensing our patents.  In January

2013, we acquired from Ericsson a portfolio of over 2,000 patents that includes standard essential patents for 2G, 3G and LTE mobile communication systems.  Other than a one-time item patent sale and related license with Lenovo, our intellectual property business was unprofitable.

Competition

We face competition from larger and better financed organizations (both domestic and foreign), including operating companies, global asset managers, investment banks, commercial banks, private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds and state owned enterprises.  Government regulation is a key competitive factor.

Employees

We had 7 employees on June 30, 2016.

Information about Great Elm on the Internet

The following documents and reports are available on or through our website as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such materials with, or furnish to, the SEC:

Our stockholders may also obtain a printed copy of any of these documents or reports free of charge by sending a request to Great Elm Capital Group, Inc., 200 Clarendon Street, 51st Floor, Boston, MA 02116; Attention: Investor Relations, or by calling (617) 375-3500.

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

Our business is subject to a number of risks. You should carefully consider the following risk factors, together with all of the other information included or incorporated by reference in this report, before you decide whether to invest in our securities. The following risks are not the only risks we face. If any of the following risks occur, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected. In such case, the trading price of our common shares could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment.

We are in the midst of a transition and there are a number of uncertain factors. We are in the midst of a transition and there are a number of uncertain factors including, but not limited to:

These and other factors, including the other risk factors described in this document, make it difficult for you and other market participants to value our company and our prospects.  We are unaware of any comparable company that securities analysts can use to benchmark our performance and valuation.  We cannot give any assurance that any of the uncertainties or risk factors in this document will be favorably resolved.

Our growth strategy may not be successful. The process to identify potential investment opportunities and acquisition targets, to investigate and evaluate the future returns therefrom and business prospects thereof and to negotiate definitive agreements with respect to such transactions on mutually acceptable terms can be time consuming and costly. We are likely to encounter intense competition from other companies with similar business objectives to ours, including private equity and venture capital funds, sovereign wealth funds, investment firms with significantly greater financial and other resources and operating businesses competing for acquisitions. Many of these companies are well established, well financed and have extensive experience in identifying and effecting business combinations.

Because we will consider investments in different industries, you have no basis at this time to ascertain the merits or risks of any business that we may ultimately invest in. Our business strategy contemplates investment in one or more operating businesses. We are not limited to acquisitions and/or investments in any particular industry or type of business. Accordingly, there is no current basis for you to evaluate the possible merits or risks of the particular industry in which we may ultimately invest or the target businesses with which we may ultimately invest. We cannot assure you that all of the significant risks present in that opportunity will be properly assessed. Even if we properly assess those risks, some of them may be outside of our control or ability to affect. Except as required under Nasdaq rules and applicable law, we will not seek stockholder approval of any investment that we may pursue, so you will most likely not be provided with an opportunity to evaluate the specific merits or risks of such a transaction before we become committed to the transaction.

We may not correctly assess the management teams of the businesses we invest in. The value of the businesses we invest in is driven by the quality of the leaders of those businesses. When evaluating the desirability of a prospective target business, our ability to assess the target business' management may be limited due to a lack of time, resources or information. Our assessment of the capabilities of the target's management, therefore, may prove to be incorrect and such management may lack the skills, qualifications or abilities we expected. Should the target's management not possess the necessary skills, qualifications or abilities, the operations and profitability of that business will be negatively impacted.

Subsequent to an investment, we may be required to take write-downs or write-offs, restructuring and impairment or other charges that could have a significant negative effect on our financial condition, results of operations and our share price, which could cause you to lose some or all of your investment. Even if we conduct extensive due diligence on a target business that we invest in, we cannot assure you that this diligence will identify all material issues that may be present inside a particular target business, that it would be possible to uncover all material issues through a customary amount of due diligence, or that factors outside of the target business or outside of our control will not later arise. As a result of these factors, we may be forced to later write-down or write-off assets, restructure our operations, or incur impairment or other charges that could result in us reporting losses. Even if our due diligence successfully identifies certain risks, unexpected risks may arise and previously known risks may materialize in a manner not consistent with our preliminary risk analysis. Even though these charges may be non-cash items and not have an immediate impact on our liquidity, the fact that we report charges of this nature could contribute to negative market perceptions about us or our securities. In addition, charges of this nature may cause us to violate net worth or other covenants under our debt agreements. Accordingly, you could suffer a significant reduction in the value of your shares.

Changing conditions in financial markets and the economy could impact us through decreased revenues, losses or other adverse consequences. Global or regional changes in the financial markets or economic conditions could adversely affect our business in many ways, including the following:

We intend to create bespoke financial products. These initiatives may expose us to unexpected market, legal, operational or reputational risks. We intend to create bespoke financial products that will solve challenges for our customers by using our human and financial resources, including our tax profile, and our risk modeling capabilities.  These products may, among other things:

Our business, financial condition and results of operations are dependent upon those of our individual businesses, and our aggregate investment in particular industries. We are a holding company that will make investments in businesses and assets in a number of industries. Our business, financial condition and results of operations are dependent upon our investments. Any material adverse change in one of our investments or in a particular industry in which we invest may cause material adverse changes to our business, financial condition and results of operations. Concentration of capital we devote to a particular investment or industry may increase the risk that such investment could significantly impact our financial condition and results of operations, possibly in a material adverse way.  Our portfolio of investments will change from time to time.

Our ability to successfully grow our new business and to be successful thereafter will be totally dependent upon the efforts of our key personnel. The loss of key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our business. Our ability to successfully effect our growth strategy is dependent upon the efforts of our key personnel. Peter A. Reed is Chief Executive Officer of GECC and is expected to become Chief Investment Officer of GECM upon completion of the Merger.  Richard S. Chernicoff has been our lead independent director, chairman of our board and is now our Chief Executive Officer. Our key personnel realize their importance to our business and may demand increased compensation as a result.  The loss of our key personnel could severely negative impact the operations and profitability of our business. We compete with many other entities for skilled management and staff employees, including entities that operate in different market sectors than us. Delays in recruiting and costs to recruit and retain adequate personnel could materially adversely affect results of operations.

Difficult market conditions can adversely affect our asset management business in many ways, by reducing the value or performance of our funds (including our invested funds and funds invested by third parties) or by reducing the ability of our funds to raise or deploy capital, each of which could negatively impact our income and cash flow and adversely affect our financial condition. The build-out of our asset management business is affected by conditions in the financial markets and economic conditions and events throughout the world, such as interest rates, availability of credit, inflation rates, economic uncertainty, changes in laws and regulations, market perceptions and other factors. In addition, we have substantially invested in GECC. Adverse changes could lead to a reduction in investment income, losses on our own capital invested and lower revenues from asset management fees. Such adverse changes may also lead to a decrease in new capital raised and may cause investors to withdraw their investments and commitments. Even in the absence of a market downturn, below market investment performance by our funds and portfolio managers could reduce asset management revenues and assets under management and result in reputational damage that may make it more difficult to attract new investors or retain existing investors.

We may issue additional shares of common stock or shares of our preferred stock to obtain additional financial resources, as acquisition currency or under employee incentive plans. Any such issuances would dilute the interest of

our stockholders and likely present other risks. Our certificate of incorporation authorizes our board of directors to issue shares of our common stock or preferred stock from time to time in their business judgement up to the amount of our then authorized capitalization. We may issue a substantial number of additional shares of our common stock, and may issue shares of our preferred stock. These issuances:

which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards and could result in the resignation or removal of our present officers and directors; and

We may issue notes or other debt securities, or otherwise incur substantial debt, which may adversely affect our leverage and financial condition and thus negatively impact the value of our stockholders’ investment in us. We may choose to incur substantial debt to finance our growth plans. The incurrence of debt could have a variety of negative effects, including:

If we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Investment Company Act), we may be required to institute burdensome compliance requirements and our activities may be restricted, which may make it difficult for us to execute our growth plans. If we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, our activities may be restricted, including:

each of which may make it difficult for us to run our business.

In addition, the law may impose upon us burdensome requirements, including:

There are conflicts of interest involving MAST Capital and its affiliates. These conflicts of interest, include, among others:

These conflicts of interest may result in arrangements that are not as favorable to us as those available on an arms-length basis.  The significant ownership stake held by the MAST Funds may result in MAST Capital and its partners having undue influence over our affairs.  These conflicts of interests may adversely affect the perception of our company, the value of our common stock or the willingness of new investors to invest in us.

Our officers and directors may become aware of business opportunities which may be appropriate for presentation to us and the other entities to which they owe certain fiduciary or contractual duties. Accordingly, they may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented. These conflicts may not be resolved in our favor and a potential target business may be presented to another entity prior to its presentation to us, subject to their fiduciary duties under applicable law.

We may engage in a business combination with one or more target businesses that may be affiliated with or have relationships with MAST Capital, our executive officers, directors which may raise potential conflicts of interest. In light of the involvement of our executive officers and directors with other entities in the investment management business and otherwise, we may decide to acquire or do business with one or more businesses affiliated with MAST Capital or our executive officers and directors. Our directors also serve as officers and board members for other entities. Such entities may compete with us. We could pursue an affiliate transaction if we determined that such affiliated entity met our criteria for a business combination and such transaction was approved by a majority of our disinterested directors. Potential conflicts of interest may exist and, as a result, the terms of the business combination may not be as advantageous to our public stockholders as they would be absent any conflicts of interest.

Increased competition may adversely affect our revenues, profitability and staffing. All aspects of our business are intensely competitive. We will compete directly with a number of bank holding companies and commercial banks, other brokers and dealers, investment banking firms, BDCs, private equity funds, and other financial institutions. In addition to competition from firms currently in the securities business, there has been increasing competition from others offering financial services, including automated trading and other services based on technological innovations. Increased competition or an adverse change in our competitive position could lead to a reduction of business and therefore a reduction of revenues and profits.

Competition also extends to the hiring and retention of highly skilled employees. A competitor may be successful in hiring away employees, which may result in us losing business formerly serviced by such employees. Competition can also raise our costs of hiring and retaining the employees we need to effectively operate our business.

The financial services industry is subject to extensive laws, rules and regulations. Firms that engage in securities and derivatives trading, wealth and asset management and investment banking must comply with the laws, rules and regulations imposed by national and state governments and regulatory and self-regulatory bodies with jurisdiction over such activities. Such laws, rules and regulations cover all aspects of the financial services business, including, but not limited to, sales and trading methods, trade practices, use and safekeeping of customers’ funds and securities, capital structure, anti-money laundering and anti-bribery and corruption efforts, recordkeeping and the conduct of directors, officers and employees.

Regulators will supervise our business activities to monitor compliance with laws, rules and regulations of the relevant jurisdiction. In addition, if there are instances in which our regulators question our compliance with laws, rules, and regulations, they may investigate the facts and circumstances to determine whether we have complied. At any moment in time, we may be subject to one or more such investigation or similar reviews. There can be no assurance that our operations will not violate such laws, rules, or regulations and such investigations and similar reviews will not result in adverse regulatory requirements, regulatory enforcement actions and/or fines.

We may not be able to generate sufficient taxable income to fully realize our deferred tax asset, which would also have to be reduced if U.S. federal income tax rates are lowered. At June 30, 2016, we have significant deferred tax assets. If we are unable to generate sufficient taxable income, we will not be able to fully realize the recorded amount of the gross deferred tax asset. If we are unable to generate sufficient taxable income prior to the expiration of our Federal NOL carryforwards, the NOLs would expire unused. Our projections of future taxable income required to fully realize the recorded amount of the gross deferred tax asset reflect numerous assumptions about our operating businesses and investments, and are subject to change as conditions change specific to our business units, investments or general economic conditions. Changes that are adverse to us could result in the need to increase the deferred tax asset valuation allowance resulting in a charge to results of operations and a decrease to stockholders’ equity. In addition, if U.S. federal income tax rates are lowered, we would be required to reduce our net deferred tax asset with a corresponding reduction to earnings during the period.

If our tax filing positions were to be challenged by federal, state and local or foreign tax jurisdictions, we may not be wholly successful in defending our tax filing positions. We record reserves for unrecognized tax benefits based on our assessment of the probability of successfully sustaining tax filing positions. Management exercises significant judgment when assessing the probability of successfully sustaining tax filing positions, and in determining whether a contingent tax liability should be recorded and if so estimating the amount. If our tax filing positions are successfully challenged, payments could be required that are in excess of reserved amounts or we may be required to reduce the carrying amount of our gross deferred tax asset, either of which result could be significant to our financial position, cash balances and results of operations.

We may incur losses if our risk management is not effective. We seek to monitor and control our risk exposure. Our risk management processes and procedures are designed to limit our exposure to acceptable levels as we conduct our business.  We intend to develop and apply a comprehensive framework of limits on a variety of key metrics to constrain the risk profile of our business activities. The size of the limit reflects our risk tolerance for a certain activity. The framework is expected to include investment position and exposure limits on a gross and net basis, scenario analysis and stress tests, value-at-risk, sensitivities, exposure concentrations, aged inventory, amount of Level 3 assets, counterparty exposure, leverage, cash capital, and performance analysis. While we intend to employ various risk monitoring and risk mitigation techniques, those techniques and the judgments that accompany their application, including risk tolerance determinations, cannot anticipate every economic and financial outcome or the specifics and timing of such outcomes. As a result, we may incur losses notwithstanding our risk management processes and procedures.

Operational risks may disrupt our business, result in regulatory action against us or limit our growth. Our businesses will be highly dependent on our ability to process, on a daily basis, transactions across numerous and diverse markets, and the transactions we process have become increasingly complex. If any of our financial, accounting or other data processing systems do not operate properly or are disabled or if there are other shortcomings or failures in our internal processes, people or systems, we could suffer an impairment to our liquidity, financial loss, a disruption of our businesses, liability to clients, regulatory intervention or reputational damage. These systems may fail to operate properly or become disabled as a result of events that are wholly or partially beyond our control, including a disruption of electrical or communications services or our inability to occupy one or more of our buildings. The inability of our systems to accommodate an increasing volume of transactions could also constrain its ability to expand its businesses.

Our financial and other data processing systems will rely on access to and the functionality of operating systems maintained by third parties. If the accounting, trading or other data processing systems on which we are dependent are unable to meet increasingly demanding standards for processing and security or, if they fail or have other significant shortcomings, we could be adversely affected. Such consequences may include our inability to effect transactions and manage our exposure to risk.

In addition, our ability to conduct business may be adversely impacted by a disruption in the infrastructure that supports our businesses and the communities in which they are located. This may include a disruption involving electrical, communications, transportation or other services used by us or third parties with which we conduct business.

Our operations will rely on the secure processing, storage and transmission of confidential and other information in our computer systems and networks. Our computer systems, software and networks may be vulnerable to unauthorized access, computer viruses or other malicious code, and other events that could have a security impact. Additionally, if a customer’s computer system, network or other technology is compromised by unauthorized access, we may face losses or other adverse consequences by unknowingly entering into unauthorized transactions. If one or more of such events occur, this potentially could jeopardize our, our customers’ or counterparties’ confidential and other information processed and stored in, and transmitted through, our computer systems and networks.  Furthermore, such events may cause interruptions or malfunctions in our, our customers’, our counterparties’ or third parties’ operations, including the transmission and execution of unauthorized transactions.

We may be required to expend significant additional resources to modify our protective measures or to investigate and remediate vulnerabilities or other exposures, and we may be subject to litigation and financial losses that are either not insured against or not fully covered through any insurance maintained by us. The increased use of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices as well as cloud computing may also heighten these and other operational risks. We and our third party providers are the subject of attempted unauthorized access, computer viruses and malware, and cyber attacks designed to disrupt of degrade service or cause other damage and denial of service. Additional challenges are posed by external parties, including foreign state actors. There can be no assurance that such unauthorized access or cyber incidents will not occur in the future, and they could occur more frequently and on a larger scale. Legal liability arising from such risks may harm our business. Many aspects of our business involve substantial risks of liability.

Recent legislation and new or pending regulation may significantly affect our business. In recent years, there has been significant legislation and increased regulation affecting the financial services industry. These legislative and regulatory initiatives affect us, our competitors, our managed investment products and our customers. These changes could have an effect on our revenue and profitability, limit our ability to pursue business opportunities, impact the value of assets that we hold, require us to change certain business practices, impose additional costs on us, require us to raise and hold additional equity capital and otherwise adversely affect its business. Accordingly, we cannot provide assurance that legislation and regulation will not eventually have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.

Our financial and operational controls may not be adequate. As we expand our business, there can be no assurance that financial controls, the level and knowledge of personnel, operational abilities, legal and compliance controls and other corporate support systems will be adequate to manage our business and growth. The ineffectiveness of any of these controls or systems could adversely affect our business and prospects. In addition, if we acquire new businesses and introduce new products, we face numerous risks and uncertainties integrating their controls and systems, including financial controls, accounting and data processing systems, management controls and other operations. A failure to integrate these systems and controls, and even an inefficient integration of these systems and controls, could adversely affect our business and prospects.

From time to time we are subject to litigation, for which we may be unable to accurately assess our level of exposure and which if adversely determined, may have a significant adverse effect on our consolidated financial condition or results of operations. We are and may become parties to legal proceedings that are considered to be either ordinary, routine litigation incidental to our business or not significant to our consolidated financial position or liquidity. Although our current assessment is that, other than as disclosed in this report, there is no pending litigation that could have a significant adverse impact, if our assessment proves to be in error, then the outcome of litigation could have a significant impact on our financial statements.

We have identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting which could, if not remediated, result in material misstatements in our financial statements. Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over our financial reporting, as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act. As disclosed in Item 9A, management identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting related to the application of ASC 740-20 allocating taxes between continuing operations and discontinued operations. A material weakness is defined as a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial

statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. As a result of this material weakness, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective based on criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organization of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control—An Integrated Framework (2013). We are actively engaged in developing a remediation plan designed to address this material weakness. If our remedial measures are insufficient to address the material weakness, or if additional material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in our internal control are discovered or occur in the future, our consolidated financial statements may contain material misstatements and we could be required to restate our financial results.

Risks Relating to Our Common Stock

Our common stock is subject to transfer restrictions. We have significant NOLs and other tax attributes, the amount and availability of which are subject to certain qualifications, limitations and uncertainties. In order to reduce the possibility that certain changes in ownership could result in limitations on the use of the tax attributes, our certificate of incorporation contains provisions that generally restrict the ability of a person or entity from acquiring ownership (including through attribution under the tax law) of 5% or more of our common stock and the ability of persons or entities now owning 5% or more of our common shares from acquiring additional common shares. The restriction will remain until the earliest of (1) the repeal of Section 382 of the Code or any successor statute if our board of directors determines that the restriction on transfer is no longer necessary or desirable for the preservation of tax benefits, (2) the close of business on the first day of a taxable year as to which our board of directors determines that no tax benefits may be carried forward, (3) such date as our board of directors may fix for expiration of transfer restrictions and (4) January 29, 2018. The restriction may be waived by our board of directors on a case by case basis. You are advised to carefully monitor your ownership of our common shares and consult your own legal advisors and/or us to determine whether your ownership of our common shares approaches the proscribed level.

We also have a tax benefits preservation rights plan that would be triggered if any person acquires 4.99% or more of our common stock without prior approval by our board of directors. Holders of more than 4.99% of our common stock on the day the rights plan was adopted were exempted from this limitation as to the number shares they held at the time of adoption of the rights plan.

Anti-takeover provisions contained in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, as well as provisions of Delaware law, could impair a takeover attempt. Our certificate of incorporation, bylaws and Delaware law contain provisions that could have the effect of rendering more difficult or discouraging an acquisition deemed undesirable by our board of directors. Our corporate governance documents include provisions:

These provisions, alone or together, could delay hostile takeovers and changes in control of our company or changes in our management.

As a Delaware corporation, we are also subject to provisions of Delaware law, including Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which prevents some stockholders holding more than 15% of our outstanding common stock from engaging in certain business combinations without approval of the holders of substantially all of our outstanding common stock.

Any provision of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or bylaws or Delaware law that has the effect of delaying or deterring a change in control could limit the opportunity for our stockholders to receive a premium for their shares of our common stock, and could also affect the price that some investors are willing to pay for our common stock.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments.

None.

Item 2. Properties.

We currently lease office space in Los Altos, California and Reno, Nevada.  We expect to exit those leases as soon as practicable.  We are in the process of relocating our corporate headquarters to the Boston, Massachusetts area where we will co-locate with MAST Capital.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings.

In the case captioned Unwired Planet International Limited, as Claimant, and Huwawei Technologies Co., Limited,  Huawei Technologies (UK) Co., Limited, Samsung Electronics Co., Limited and Samsung Electronics (UK) Limited, as Defendants, in which Unwired Planet, Inc. was named as a party (Case No: HP-2014-00005), in the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, Patents Court of England, the Defendants assert that we violated European Union competition law in entering into a master sale agreement with Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson.  We entered into a joint defense agreement with our divested patent subsidiaries and Optis. Those parties are leading the defense of this case.  We believe the allegations against us are without merit, but we cannot assure you that we will not incur liability under the claims in this case.

We were awarded summary judgement in a breach of contract action captioned Unwired Planet, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation (Civ. 14-967-SLR) in the United States District Court of and for the State of Delaware.  Microsoft has appealed that decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (0:16-cv-03140). If that decision is reversed on appeal and we were to subsequently lose the case, we may be liable for Microsoft’s legal fees in that matter.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.

Not applicable.

PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

Record Holders

As of July 19, 2016, there were 173 record holders of our common stock.

Dividends

We did not pay dividends during the fiscal years ended June 30, 2016, 2015, or 2014. We do not currently intend to pay dividends.  The payment of dividends in the future is subject to the discretion of our board of directors and will depend upon general business conditions, legal and contractual restrictions on the payment of dividends and other factors that our board of directors may deem to be relevant.

Restrictions on Ownership

We have significant NOL carryforwards and other tax attributes, the amount and availability of which are subject to qualifications, limitations and uncertainties. In order to reduce the possibility that certain changes in ownership could result in limitations on the use of our tax attributes, our certificate of incorporation contains provisions which generally restrict the ability of a person or entity from acquiring ownership (including through attribution under the tax law) of five percent or more of the common shares and the ability of persons or entities now owning five percent or more of the common shares

from acquiring additional common shares. We also have a tax benefits preservation rights plan that restricts ownership of 4.99% or more of our outstanding shares of common stock.  Our board of directors has granted a waiver for the MAST Funds to own up to 19.9% of our common stock. Persons that owned more than 4.99% of our common stock when the rights plan was adopted were grandfathered as to their then-current holdings of our common stock.

Trading Prices

Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.  Our common stock traded under the symbol “UPIP” until June 17, 2016 when it began trading under the symbol “GEC.” On January 5, 2016, we effected a one for twelve stock split.  All share numbers in this report have been retroactively restated to give effect to the 1:12 reverse stock split.  The following table shows the high and low trading price during the applicable period as reported by Bloomberg LP.

Performance Graph

Stock Purchases

None

Item 6. Selected Financial Data.

The following selected financial data should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto and with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Item 7.

The following table sets forth selected consolidated statement of operations and consolidated balance sheet data, revised to reflect discontinued operations, for the 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012 fiscal years (in thousands, except per share data):

Item 7.  Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with, and is qualified entirely by, our consolidated financial statements (including Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements) and the other consolidated financial information appearing elsewhere in this report. In addition to historical financial information, the following discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates, and beliefs. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business, includes forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. Actual results and timing of events could differ from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis.

Overview

Until the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016, we conducted an intellectual property licensing business drawing upon a portfolio of approximately 2,500 patent assets with a goal of generating revenue by selling and licensing our patents. In 2013, we combined our legacy intellectual property assets together with over 2,000 patent assets acquired from Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and one of its subsidiaries (collectively, Ericsson).  Our patent licensing operations and holding of the underlying patents were conducted through our wholly-owned subsidiaries.

In April 2016, we entered into an agreement to divest our patent licensing operations. That transaction closed on June 30, 2016. We have restated our financial statements to account for the patent licensing component of our operations as discontinued operations.

Our goal is to build a diversified holding company focused on return on investment and long-term value creation. Our first investment in furtherance of this goal is our transaction with Full Circle. We have invested $30 million in GECC which as of June 30, 2016 was our wholly-owned subsidiary. Our GECM subsidiary will be GECC's external investment advisor, and we expect that costs against GECMs investment management fee stream to be in the range 45% to 65% of revenue which is expected to result in recurring free cash flows and taxable income in the future.

We are embarking on a program of creating bespoke financial products and creating an active pipeline of acquisition opportunities. These efforts are currently constrained by our capital resources and we expect to access the equity and debt markets as opportunities present themselves.

On September 13, 2016, we called our Senior Secured Notes due 2019 (the Notes) for redemption and announced a proposed $45.0 million rights offering (together with a $36.6 million backstop commitment).

Critical Accounting Policies and Judgments

There are several accounting policies that are critical to understanding our historical business, as these policies affected the reported amounts of revenue and other significant areas that involve management judgment and estimates.  A description of the policies requiring significant management judgment and estimation are as follows:

Revenue Recognition

The timing and amount of revenue recognized from each licensee depended upon a variety of factors, including the specific terms of each agreement and the nature of the deliverables and obligations. These agreements can be complex and include multiple elements. These agreements included, without limitation, elements related to the settlement of past patent infringement liabilities, up-front and non-refundable license fees for the use of our patents, patent licensing royalties on covered products sold by customers, and settlement of intellectual property enforcement. We elected to use a lease-based model for revenue recognition associated with term licenses, with revenue being recognized over the expected period of benefit to the licensee. We have received one or a combination of the following forms of payment as consideration for permitting our licensees to use our patented ideas in their applications and products:

Consideration for Past Patent Royalties. Consideration related to a customer’s product sales from prior periods may result from a negotiated agreement with a customer that utilized our patented ideas before signing a patent license agreement with us or in connection with the settlement of patent litigation where there was no prior patent license agreement. In these

cases, we recorded the consideration as revenue when we obtained a signed agreement, identified a fixed or determinable price and determine that collectability was reasonably assured.

Prepaid Royalty Payments. These are up-front, non-refundable royalty payments that fulfill a customer’s obligation to us under a patent license agreement for a specified time period, for sales in certain countries, or a combination thereof. We recognized revenues related to prepaid royalty payments on a straight line basis over the effective term of the license. We utilized the straight-line method because we could not reliably predict in which periods, within the term of a license, the licensee would benefit from the use of our patents. Our customers’ obligations to pay royalties typically extend beyond the exhaustion of their prepayment balance. Once a customer exhausts its prepayment balance, they were required to make current royalty payments.

Current Royalty Payments. These are royalty payments covering a customer’s obligations to us related to authorized making, selling, using, offering for sale, importing or selling of covered products in the current contractual reporting period. Customers that owed us current royalty payments were obligated to provide us with quarterly or semi-annual royalty reports that summarize their royalty bearing products and their related royalty obligations to us. We were entitled to receive these royalty reports subsequent to the period in which our customer’s royalty bearing sales have occurred. Consequently, we believed it was impractical for us to recognize revenue in the period in which the royalty bearing sales occur and we recognized revenue in the period in which the royalty report is received and other revenue recognition criteria are met due to the fact that without royalty reports from our licensees, we could not reasonably estimate our customers’ current royalty obligation for the period.

Payments Received with Refund Provisions. These are payments typically made by a seller of products that utilized our patented inventions, which required a refund of some or all of the payment made to us if specified agreements were entered into between us and specified third parties. We recognized revenue in respect of such payments received with refund provisions when a contingency related to a potential refund event was resolved.

Patent Sales. We recognized revenue from the sales of our intellectual property when there was persuasive evidence of a sales arrangement, the sales price was fixed or determinable, delivery has occurred, and collectability was reasonably assured. These requirements were generally fulfilled upon closing of a patent sale transaction.

Summary of Results for the Fiscal Years ended June 30, 2016, 2015, and 2014

As a result of divestiture of the patent licensing component of our business, the results related to these activities have been reclassified to discontinued operations, inclusive of the recognized gain on the disposal, for all periods presented in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.  The following table illustrates (in thousands) the material items of discontinued operations as reclassified in each fiscal year ended June 30:

Net Revenues, Discontinued Operations

Our recognized revenues for the periods presented were substantially derived from licensing and selling of our intellectual property in two significant transactions with Lenovo that closed in April 2014. The fluctuations in net revenue year over year were the result of timing differences related to recognizing the individual accounting components associated with the Lenovo transaction.  During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016 we recognized net revenue of $27.8 million, representing non-cash revenue equal to all of the remaining deferred revenue of the Lenovo contract, as a result of the disposal of our intellectual property portfolio and corresponding performance obligations.  The 88% decrease for the fiscal year ended

June 30, 2015 from the same period ended 2014 resulted from non-recurring patent sales and past patent royalties recognized in 2014 upon entry into the Lenovo contract.

Patent Licensing Expense, Discontinued Operations

Patent licensing expenses included legal and consulting costs related to technical and economic evaluation, licensing, maintaining, and defending or asserting our patents, as well as salary and benefit expenses and travel expenses for our employees that were engaged in the activities on a full-time basis.  From mid calendar 2013 through the fourth quarter of our 2016 fiscal year, we incurred significant expenses associated with our patent licensing efforts, the majority which related to enforcement litigation.

As it relates to patent licensing for the 2016 fiscal year, the majority of our enforcement and litigation efforts were centered around six trials primarily taking place in the United Kingdom and Germany.  In addition, we continued our breach of contract action against Microsoft domestically.  Our litigation costs and expenses fluctuated in relation to various court rulings outside of our control.

Throughout fiscal 2016 we experienced limited successes abroad resulting in the recognition of litigation fee reimbursements totaling approximately $3.0 million which were immediately offset by rulings in favor of the defendants in trials in the United Kingdom totaling approximately $3.1 million.

On June 15, 2016 we were awarded a summary judgment in our enforcement efforts against Microsoft.  That decision is subject to Microsoft’s pending appeal.  If we are successful at collecting the proceeds from the summary judgements, we will be required to split such proceeds with Ericsson and with Optis.

General and Administrative Expenses, Discontinued Operations

General and administrative expenses of our discontinued operations consisted primarily of labor incurred by the divested subsidiary employees; facilities costs associated with the direct operations of the divested subsidiaries; other costs incurred by the divested subsidiaries not attributable to patent licensing; historical allocations of corporate employees directly related to the affairs of the divested subsidiaries; and other corporate costs associated with the operations of the divested subsidiaries.

General and administrative expenses associated with our discontinued operations were relatively consistent compared to 2015 as a result of very little change in our activities attributable to our subsidiaries that conducted our patent licensing business.  The decrease in 2015 from 2014 is primarily attributable to non-recurring expenses incurred in 2014 associated with entry into the Lenovo contract, including a $2.5 million payment for third party financial advisory services in 2014.

Operating Expenses.

The following table represents operating expenses for the 2016, 2015 and 2014 fiscal years, respectively (dollars in thousands):

General and Administrative Expenses. General and administrative expenses consisted primarily of (1) salary and benefit expenses and travel expenses for employees, including our Chief Executive, and Chief Financial Officer and (2) facility costs for our finance, legal, and information services functions. General and administrative expenses also include outside accounting and legal fees and public company costs.

General and administrative expense for fiscal 2016 increased approximately 22% from the 2015 fiscal year. The increase in general and administrative expense during 2016 compared with the 2015 fiscal year is primarily attributable to increases related to additional consulting expenses associated with our divestiture including obtaining a fairness opinion, additional legal fees, and other consultant engagement. Additionally, we incurred increases in other employee expenses and travel reimbursements in the current period and compensation of our executive management.

During the 2015 fiscal year, general and administrative costs increased 41%, compared to the same period of 2014. The increase is primarily attributable to $1.9 million of expense related to the evaluation of several strategic options including evaluation of a potential acquisition candidate and plans to raise additional capital and additional non-recurring costs associated with turnover in our officers.

Interest Expense, net. Net interest expense totaled $4.9 million, $4.3 million, and $3.6 million for the 2016, 2015, and 2014 fiscal years, respectively. Interest expense for all periods is attributable to interest on our related party notes issued on June 28, 2013 and that mature on June 28, 2019. Interest expense on the Notes consists of in-kind payments and amortization of a discount and deferred issuance costs.  On August 17, 2016 we purchased approximately $7.9 million of our outstanding notes for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $8.2 million, inclusive of interest.  We desire to further retire the Notes, and expect to do so in the first half of fiscal 2017.  If we are unsuccessful in retiring the notes, we will continue to incur interest expense at similar levels, in the form of in-kind payments or pay the interest in cash.

Other Income, net. Other income, net totaled $0.2 million, $0.3 million and $0.6 million for the 2016, 2015 and 2014 fiscal years, respectively.  Other income consists primarily of realized gains on our previously held investments and foreign currency fluctuations.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The following table presents selected financial information and statistics as of June 30, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively (in thousands):

Throughout 2016, we continued to meet our liquidity needs from the $70.0 million of net proceeds received in April 2014 from our patent sale and license agreement with Lenovo.  Upon completion of the Divesture in June 2016, we received initial gross proceeds of approximately $34.2 million consisting of the initial payment of the purchase price of $30.0 million and agreed upon expense reimbursements totaling $4.2 million.

We expect to access the equity and debt markets to raise capital in support of our growth plans.  We may borrow against or otherwise finance our investment in GECC. We agreed with GECC to hold our GECC shares for a period of one year following the Merger.  Structured financial products are likely to involve non-recourse product specific debt as well as the sale of preferred stock or minority ownership stakes in our subsidiaries.  The MOU contemplates that MAST and our employees will own 19.9% of one of our subsidiaries and hold a note issued by that subsidiary.

On September 13, 2016, we called our Notes for redemption and announced a proposed $45.0 million rights offering (together with a $36.6 million backstop commitment).  We intend to use the proceeds from the rights offering for general corporate purposes, including investments and acquisitions.

If additional financing is necessary and we are unable to obtain the additional financing, we may be required to reduce the scope of our growth plans. In the meantime, we will continue to manage our cash and investment portfolio in a manner designed to facilitate adequate cash and cash equivalents to fund our operations as well as future acquisitions, if any.  See “Risk Factors.”

Working Capital and Cash Flows

As of June 30, 2016, we had working capital of approximately $35.9 million, a decrease of approximately $39.5 million.  The decrease primarily resulted from the use of the Lenovo proceeds, received in 2014, to continue to fund our operations and discontinued operations; the reclassification of our related party notes to current totaling $34.6 million; offset by the $34.2 million received from the Divestiture.  The decrease, net of the non-recurring proceeds, is consistent with declines from 2014 into 2015.

Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities.  Cash provided by (used in) operating activities totaled ($34.6) million, ($60.0) million and $74.3 million for the 2016, 2015 and, 2014 fiscal years, respectively.

In the 2016 fiscal year, cash used of approximately $34.6 million, of which $34.3 million related to discontinued operations and $0.3 million related to continuing operations, primarily related to paying on-going obligations included in our net income (operating loss of $9.8 million and a $5.8 million loss from discontinued operations) with no offsetting cash inflows from operations.  The cash payment of our obligations were off-set by non-cash uses including a recognized gain on the Divesture of approximately $29.6 million; non-cash deferred revenue recognition totaling approximately $29.6 million, as reclassified to discontinued operations; partially off-set by non-cash interest payments of approximately $4.9 million; and stock-based compensation of $4.4 million, of which approximately $2.0 million was reclassified to discontinued operations.  We also incurred one-time increases in our accrued legal and compensation expenses associated with the Divestiture.

In the 2015 fiscal year, net cash used in operating activities totaled approximately $60.0 million, of which approximately $52.9 million was reclassified to discontinued operations.  Cash used in operations during 2015, inclusive of items reclassified to discontinued operations, consisted of the on-going payments of expenses primarily from cash proceeds received in prior years; a fee share payment of $19.5 million made to Ericsson related to our former patent licensing business; $3.8 million of in-kind interest payments on our related party note payable; and $2.1 million of stock-based compensation of which $1.3 million was reclassified to discontinued operations; partially offset by a $4.5 million reduction in deferred revenue as reclassified to discontinued operations.

During the 2014 fiscal year we completed the Lenovo transaction which provided proceeds of $90.0 million for the 2014 fiscal year and was related to our discontinued patent licensing operations, of which $19.5 million was accrued as a fee share due to Ericsson.  Additionally, we received $17.0 million of restricted cash related to expired letters of credit for our prior headquarters, which was treated as operating activity as the letters of credit supported operating leases. 

Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities. Cash flows provided by (used in) investing activities during the 2016, 2015, and 2014 primarily consisted of purchases and sales of investments which historically consisted of certificates of deposits, money market funds, and U.S. treasury bills.  In fiscal 2016, we sold the remainder of these investments for total cash proceeds of approximately $11.7 million.  Due to our cash operating needs during fiscal 2016, we did not make any additional investments.

Further, in 2016, cash provided by investing activities included one-time cash payment of $34.2 million in the Divestiture, of which $30.0 million was related to the purchase price and $4.2 million represented discontinued operation expense reimbursements (as included in cash used in operating activities – discontinued operations).

Cash Provided by Financing Activities. Since the completion of our rights offering in fiscal 2014, resulting in net cash proceeds of approximately $11.0 million, we did not participate in material financing activities.  For the 2016 and 2015 fiscal years, our financing activities consisted of the exercise of previously outstanding stock options offset by treasury stock purchases related to tax payments on our management’s restricted stock units.

Related Party Notes Payable 

As of June 30, 2016, our principal long-term debt obligation consisted of our outstanding related party Notes payable obligation initially entered into on June 28, 2013 totaling approximately $34.6 million.  On August 17, 2016 we repurchased approximately $7.9 million of our outstanding Notes for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $8.2 million, inclusive of interest. In September 2016, we called the Notes for redemption, and we expect to make a cash payment of approximately $31.7 million to effect the redemption in the first half of fiscal 2017.

Since June 2015, we have had the option to redeem some or all of the Notes for a cash redemption price equal to 110% of principal and accrued and unpaid interest or redeem some or all of the Notes at a redemption price initially equal to 110% of principal and declining over time plus accrued and unpaid interest.  For our 2017 fiscal year, the redemption price is 106.4375% of principal plus accrued and unpaid interest.

In May of 2015, we were notified that Indaba Capital Fund LP, the initial holder of the notes, sold our Notes in their entirety to the MAST Funds as part of a private transaction. Upon subsequent correspondence, we identified MAST Capital as a significant stockholder. The sale of the Notes did not have any impact on the original terms including the maturity date, in-kind interest accruals, or principal amount.

In December 2015, we and the MAST Funds extended the maturity date of the Notes from June 30, 2018 to June 30, 2019.  Technical amendments to the indenture were required to enable the Divestiture to occur and to enable our initial BDC transaction to be completed.

Contractual Obligations

Our contractual obligations as of June 30, 2016 are presented in the table below (dollars in thousands):

The table above presents estimated in-kind interest payments for the long term debt obligation on our related party Notes and repayment of principal at the maturity of the Notes. We incurred interest in-kind through June 30, 2016.  No adjustments to the obligations table above have been for the principal payment made on August 17, 2016 totaling approximately $7.9 million.

Operating Lease Obligations

As of June 30, 2016, we have two operating leases.  We lease our corporate headquarters in Los Altos, California; and our previous headquarters in Reno, Nevada, which is on a month to month basis.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that are material to investors.

New Accounting Pronouncements

In March 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2016-09 Compensation – Stock Compensation to the Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718.  This standard is intended to simplify the accounting for several aspects of the accounting for equity-based compensation, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification on the statement of cash flows. This ASU is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016 and early adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the effect that adopting this new accounting guidance will have on our consolidated results of operations, cash flows, and financial position.

In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes, which eliminates the current requirement to present deferred tax liabilities and assets as current and noncurrent amounts in a classified statement of financial position. Instead, entities will be required to classify all deferred tax assets and liabilities as noncurrent in a statement of financial position. This standard is effective financial statements issued for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within those annual periods. Early application is permitted. The Company has elected early adoption of this ASU on a prospective basis beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2017, which is not expected have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

Due to the transformation of our business activities, we are evaluating other recent accounting pronouncements to determine future applicability on our expected operations and accounting policies, as then implemented.

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

Foreign Currency Risk

Our discontinued operations paid certain expenses in Euros and British Pounds. Any translation adjustments associated with those foreign currency transactions are reflected as discontinued operations. We no longer have any foreign currency exposures.

Interest Rate Risk

Our primary market risks include fluctuations in interest rates.  As of June 30, 2016, we had cash and cash equivalents, inclusive of restricted cash, totaling $80.7 million.  Through December 31, 2015, when we liquidated our remaining investment portfolio for approximately $11.7 million in cash proceeds, our exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates primarily related to money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and government securities. We placed our investments with high credit quality issuers that have a rating by Moody's of A2 or higher and Standard & Poors of A or higher.  Through this period, we did not have any material losses associated with credit and liquidity risk or defaults by the financial institutions or the inability to trade exchange traded money market funds for an amount equal to financial reporting basis.

Our general policy was to limit the risk of principal loss and ensure the safety of invested funds by limiting market and credit risk. All highly liquid investments with a maturity of less than three months at the date of purchase are considered to be cash equivalents; all investments with maturities of three months or greater are classified as available-for-sale and considered to be short-term investments; all investments with maturities of greater than one year are classified as available-for-sale and considered to be long-term investments.

Since our debt obligations carry a fixed rate, we are not exposed to increases in interest rates, but in a deflationary environment we may repay those obligations in a more valuable currency than the value of the proceeds we received when the debt was issued.

Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

The reports and financial statements listed in the Index to Financial Statements at page F-1 are incorporated by reference.

Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.

None.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management evaluated, with the participation of our principal executive and principal financial officers, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), as of June 30, 2016. Based on their evaluation, our principal

executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that as a result of the material weakness in internal controls of financial reporting described below, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of June 30, 2016.

The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2016 has been audited by Grant Thornton LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which appears on page F-3.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

We completed the Divestiture on June 30, 2016, and the material weakness in internal control over financial reporting described below occurred.

Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

The Company’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Rule 13(a)-15(f) under the Exchange Act.  Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2016 based upon Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO.

A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the Company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

As of June 30, 2016, we did not maintain effective monitoring and oversight of controls over the completeness, existence, accuracy and presentation and disclosure of our accounting for income taxes.  Specifically, as a result of our inadequate supervision of the accounting firm to whom we have outsourced preparation of our income tax provision, we did not comply with ASC 740-20-45 that requires allocation of taxes between continuing operations and discontinued operations.  Such errors were identified and remediated prior the issuance of the financial statements included in this report.

Because of this material weakness, our management concluded that we did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2016 based on the criteria described in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO.

Remediation of the Material Weakness

We are evaluating the material weakness and developing a plan of remediation to strengthen our internal control over accounting for income taxes.  We are discussing the root cause of the ASC 740-20-45 error with the accounting firm to whom we have outsourced the preparation of our tax provision.  We will consider personnel changes within our organization, changes to our processes with our outsourced provider, and changes that our outsourced provider could make to staffing related to their engagement with us.

Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Control

Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent or detect all error and all fraud.  A control system, regardless of how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system will be met.  These inherent limitations, include, among others:

Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no valuation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud have been detected.

Item 9B. Other Information.

None

PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers of the Registrant and Corporate Governance.

All of our directors serve until our next annual stockholders’ meeting or their earlier death, resignation or removal and all of our executive officers are at will employees.  There are no family relationships among any of our directors or executive officers. As of September 1, 2016, our executive officers’ and directors’ biographical information was as follows:

Executive Officers

Richard S. Chernicoff was hired as our Chief Executive Officer on an interim basis in July 2016. Mr. Chernicoff served as one of our directors since March 2014, as our Lead Independent Director from April 2014 to October 2015 and as Chairman of our Board from October 2015 to July 2016. Mr. Chernicoff is a member of the board of directors of Marathon Patent Group, Inc. and Diablo Technologies, Inc. Prior to joining our board, Mr. Chernicoff was President of Tessera Intellectual Property Corp. from July 2011 to January 2013. Mr. Chernicoff was President of Unity Semiconductor Corp. Prior to that, Mr. Chernicoff was with SanDisk Corporation where as Senior Vice President, Business Development, Mr. Chernicoff was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, financings and joint ventures. Previously, Mr. Chernicoff was a mergers and acquisitions partner in the Los Angeles office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, and Mr. Chernicoff was a corporate lawyer in the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Mr. Chernicoff was a member of the staff of the SEC in Washington, DC and a certified public accountant with Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Chernicoff holds a BS in Business Administration from California State University Northridge and a JD from St. John’s University School of Law.

James D. Wheat has been our Chief Financial Officer since November 2, 2015. Mr. Wheat served as the Chief Financial Officer of ASSIA, Inc. from January 2013 to November 2015.  From April 2008 to May 2012, Mr. Wheat served as Chief Financial Officer of Silicon Graphics (formerly Rackable Systems), a global provider of computer, storage, and data center solutions to the scientific, technical, and business communities. Mr. Wheat has 30 years of financial management experience with global technology companies, including Lam Research, Raychem Corporation, and Honeywell. Mr. Wheat holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA in Accounting and Business from the University of Michigan and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in California.

Directors

Richard S. Chernicoff brings to our Board experience as a business leader and with mergers & acquisitions, leveraged finance, accounting and regulatory affairs.

Jess M. Ravich has been a member of our Board effective November 4, 2015. Mr. Ravich has served as a director of ALJ Regional Holdings, Inc. (ALJJ) since June 26, 2006 and the Chairman of its Board of Directors since August 31, 2006. He has also served as the Executive Chairman and Senior Executive Officer of ALJJ since February 20, 2013. Mr. Ravich joined The TCW Group as Group Managing Director in December 2012. Prior to that, Mr. Ravich was Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey since December 2009. Mr. Ravich was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Libra Securities, a Los Angeles-based investment banking firm that focused on capital raising and financial advisory services for middle market corporate clients and the sales and trading of debt and equity securities for institutional investors. Prior to founding

Libra Securities in 1991, Mr. Ravich was an Executive Vice President at Jefferies & Co., Inc. and a Senior Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Ravich has served on the board of directors of Cherokee Inc. since May 1995. Mr. Ravich has also served as chairman of the board of directors of Cherokee Inc. since January 2011. Mr. Ravich has also served on the boards of directors of Spectrum Group International, Inc., A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc., as chairman at TCW BDC and as a board member of TCW Alternative Funds. In addition to his professional responsibilities, Mr. Ravich has also served on the Undergraduate Executive Board of the Wharton School and the Board of Trustees of the Archer School for Girls. Mr. Ravich holds a BS and MS from the Wharton School and a JD from Harvard University. Mr. Ravich brings to our Board his knowledge of mergers & acquisitions, capital markets and corporate transformation. Mr. Ravich’s service as a member of our Board will conclude on the earlier of the Merger or our next annual meeting of stockholders.

Peter A. Reed has served as one of our directors since May 2015. Mr. Reed is a Portfolio Manager and Partner at MAST Capital Management, LLC (MAST), a Boston-based registered investment advisor. Mr. Reed currently serves as a director of International Wire Group Holdings Inc.(ITWG)  and the Chairman of the Board of Nebraska Book Holdings, Inc. Prior to joining MAST in 2004, Mr. Reed was an investment banking analyst at Brown, Gibbons, Lang & Company where he worked on mergers and acquisitions, in-court and out-of-court financial restructurings, and debt and equity private placements for middle market companies. Mr. Reed holds a BS in Finance from Miami University. Mr. Reed brings to our Board knowledge of the capital markets and corporate governance.  Mr. Reed is Chief Executive Officer of our wholly-owned subsidiary, Great Elm Capital Corp. Upon closing of the Merger, Mr. Reed will become GECM’s Chief Investment Officer.  Mr. Reed was nominated to our Board based on the securities purchase agreement we entered into at the time we issued our Notes.

Boris Teksler has served as one of our directors since June 2015 and served as our Chief Executive Officer from June 2015 to July 2016. Mr. Teksler served as the Senior Executive Vice President and President of the Technology Business Group at Technicolor, from June 2013 to May 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Teksler served as the head of Patent Licensing and Strategy at Apple Inc., from 2009 to 2013. Mr. Teksler holds a BS in Computer Science from University of California, Davis. Mr. Teksler brings to our Board significant experience with intellectual property (acquisition, licensing and litigation) and his industry knowledge.  Mr. Teksler’s service as a member of our Board will conclude on the earlier of the Merger or our next annual meeting of stockholders.

Hugh Steven Wilson is Chairman of our Board and has been a member of our Board since January 2016.  Mr. Wilson was a Managing Partner of Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC (TCP) from 2005 to 2012, where he is a member of its advisory board. Mr. Wilson served as Chief Executive Officer of four TCP affiliated registered investment companies. Mr. Wilson served as a Senior Partner at Latham & Watkins, where he was Global Co-Chairman of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group and Chairman of the National Litigation Department. Mr. Wilson has been the Chairman of ITWG since October 20, 2009. He serves as Vice Chairman of Burford Capital Limited. Mr. Wilson holds a BA from the Indiana University, a JD from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the law review and Order of the Coif, and a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School.  Mr. Wilson brings to our Board judgment accumulated over a 40-year career, expertise in the asset management business, with mergers and acquisitions, leveraged finance and legal matters.

Director Nominations Process

Our Nominating and Governance Committee identifies director candidates through recommendations made by members of our Board, management, stockholders and others, including the possibility of a search firm. At a minimum, a Board nominee should have significant management or leadership experience which is relevant to our business, as well as personal and professional integrity.  Our Board believes it is in our and our stockholders’ best interest to identify and select qualified candidates to serve as directors and for our Board to function effectively. We do not award any extra credit to a candidate because he or she would increase diversity among the members of our Board. Recommendations are developed based on each nominee’s knowledge and experience in a variety of fields, and research conducted by our staff at our Nominating and Governance Committee’s direction. Any stockholder recommendation should be directed to the attention of our general counsel and should include the information specified in our bylaws. Our bylaws are available at no charge in our public filings with the SEC, on the Corporate Governance page of our website, or from our General Counsel.

In determining whether to nominate a candidate, whether from an internally generated or stockholder recommendation, our Nominating and Governance Committee will consider the current composition and capabilities of serving board members, as well as additional capabilities considered necessary or desirable in light of our existing and future corporate

needs. Our Nominating and Governance Committee also exercises its independent business judgment and discretion in evaluating the suitability of any recommended candidate for nomination.

Information About Our Audit Committee

Our Board has a separately designated standing Audit Committee. Our Board has determined that Mr. Ravich is an “audit committee financial expert” under the regulations promulgated by the SEC. Our Board has also determined that each of the directors serving on our Audit Committee is “independent” within the meaning of the applicable rules of the SEC and the Nasdaq listing standards.

Since July 2016, we have only had two members of our Audit Committee as permitted by an exemption in the Nasdaq listing standards.  We intend to appoint a third independent member of our Audit Committee who is an “audit committee financial expert” not later than our 2016 annual stockholders meeting.

Code of Business Conduct

Our Board adopted a Code of Business Conduct, which is filed as an exhibit to this report. The Code of Business Conduct applies to our principal executive officers, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, controller and other persons who perform similar functions for us, in addition to our corporate directors and employees.  A copy of our Code of Business Conduct may be obtained by written request directed to our General Counsel at our address shown on the cover of this report.

Non-Employee Director Compensation – Fiscal 2016

In addition, on July 5, 2016, we entered into a consulting agreement with Philip A. Vachon, the former Chairman of our Board. Mr. Vachon agreed to provide consulting services to us through the time of resolution of any claims made by Optis under the purchase agreement for the Divestiture and we paid Mr. Vachon $500,000.

Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

Based solely upon a review of Forms 3, 4 and 5 furnished to us, we believe that during the year ended June 30, 2016 all of our directors, officers and applicable stockholders timely filed these reports, except Mr. Chernicoff filed one late report, Taylor Harmeling, a former member of our Board, filed two late reports, Mr. Ravich filed two late reports, Mr. Reed filed one late report, and Mr. Vachon filed two late reports.

Item 11. Executive Compensation.

Summary Compensation Table