Legacy Education Alliance, Inc. Files Form 10 Registration Statement

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Legacy takes important step forward as a publicly traded company

Will provide additional transparency to shareholders and the investment community

CAPE CORAL, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Legacy Education Alliance, Inc. (OTCQB: LEAI) (www.legacyeducationalliance.com), a leading international provider of practical, high-quality, and value-based educational training on the topics of personal finance, entrepreneurship, real estate, and financial markets investing strategies and techniques, today voluntarily filed a Form 10 Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to register its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. A copy of the Form 10 Registration Statement is available on the Company’s website at (http://ir.legacyeducationalliance.com/all-sec-filings).

"The filing of the Form 10 Registration Statement is an important milestone in our evolution as a public company,” said Anthony C. Humpage, CEO of LEAI. “Our Form 10 filing and our ongoing SEC filings will provide additional transparency to our stockholders and the investment community.”

In another significant corporate action executed in the first quarter of 2017, the Board of Directors of LEAI approved the adoption of a Rights Agreement between the Company and VStock Transfer, LLC, as Rights Agent (as amended from time to time, the “Rights Agreement”). The Company entered into the Rights Agreement on February 16, 2017. The Plan is intended to ensure that the Board of Directors has sufficient time to consider any proposal from a third party that might result in a change in control of the Company, make sure that all stockholders receive fair and equal treatment in the event of any such a proposal, and encourage any potential acquirer to negotiate with the Board of Directors. In addition, the Plan will guard against partial tender offers, open market accumulations and other coercive tactics aimed at gaining control of the Company without paying all stockholders a full control premium for their shares. The Plan was not adopted in response to any specific takeover offer. Refer to Form 8-K dated February 17, 2017 for additional information.

In addition, we announced that on February 14, 2017, Tigrent Inc. ("TIGE"), then our largest stockholder, had completed the distribution of 15,998,326 shares of Common Stock in Legacy approved by the Board of Directors of TIGE on October 4, 2016. Pursuant to the distribution, 1.00105 shares of Legacy Common Stock were distributed for each share of stock held in TIGE.

About Legacy Education Alliance Inc.

Legacy Education Alliance, Inc. (http://www.legacyeducationalliance.com) is a leading international provider of practical, high-quality, and value-based educational training on the topics of personal finance, entrepreneurship, real estate, and financial markets investing strategies and techniques. Legacy Education Alliance was founded in 1996, today we are a global company with approximately 200 employees that has cumulatively served more than two million students from more than 150 countries and territories over the course of our operating history.

We offer our training through a variety of brands including Rich Dad® Education; Rich Dad® Stock Education; Making Money from Property with Martin Roberts^TM; Brick Buy Brick^TM; Building Wealth; Robbie Fowler Property Academy^TM; Women in Wealth^TM; The Independent Woman^TM; Trade Up Investor Education^TM; and Elite Business Star^TM. For more information, please visit our website at (www.legacyeducationalliance.com).

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") (which Sections were adopted as part of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995). Statements preceded by, followed by or that otherwise include the words “believe,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” “prospects,” “outlook,” and similar words or expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as “will,” “should,” “would,” “may,” and “could” are generally forward-looking in nature and not historical facts. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any anticipated results, performance or achievements. The Company disclaims any intention to, and undertakes no obligation to, revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, a future event, or otherwise. For additional risks and uncertainties that could impact the Company’s forward-looking statements, please see the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K (including but not limited to the discussion under “Risk Factors” therein) filed with the SEC on March 31, 2017 and which may be viewed at (http://www.sec.gov).