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Brompton Group has announced (although not yet on their website and they didn’t send me the usual eMail):

Dividend Growth Split Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce it is undertaking an overnight treasury offering of class A and preferred shares.

The sales period of this overnight offering will end at 9:00 a.m. (ET) tomorrow, March 28, 2017. The offering is expected to close on or about April 6, 2017 and is subject to certain closing conditions including approval by the TSX.

The class A shares will be offered at a price of $8.00 for a distribution rate of 15.0% on the issue price, and the preferred shares will be offered at a price of $10.00 for a yield to maturity of 5.45%. The closing price on the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) for each of the class A and preferred shares on March 24, 2017 was $8.26 and $10.33, respectively. The class A and preferred share offering prices were determined so as to be non-dilutive to the most recently calculated net asset value per unit of the Company (calculated as at March 24, 2017), as adjusted for dividends and certain expenses to be accrued prior to or upon settlement of the offering.

The syndicate of agents for the offering is being led by RBC Capital Markets, CIBC and Scotiabank.

The Company invests in a portfolio of common shares of high quality, large capitalization companies, which have among the highest dividend growth rates of those companies included in the S&P/TSX Composite Index. Currently, the portfolio consists of common shares of the following 20 companies:

Great-West Lifeco Inc.	The Bank of Nova Scotia	CI Financial Corp.	Shaw Communications Inc.
Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc.	Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce	IGM Financial Inc.	TELUS Corporation
Manulife Financial Corporation	National Bank of Canada	Power Corporation of Canada	Canadian Utilities Limited
Sun Life Financial Inc.	Royal Bank of Canada	BCE Inc.	Enbridge Inc.
Bank of Montreal	The Toronto-Dominion Bank	Rogers Communications Inc.	TransCanada Corporation

The investment objectives for the class A shares are to provide holders with regular monthly cash distributions targeted to be $0.10 per class A share and to provide the opportunity for growth in the net asset value per class A share.

The investment objectives for the preferred shares are to provide holders with fixed cumulative preferential quarterly cash distributions, currently in the amount of $0.13125 per preferred share, and to return the original issue price to holders of preferred shares on the Company’s maturity date (November 28, 2019).

It’s getting to be quite the size, with assets of $415-million as of February month-end. Their previous treasury offering was in September 2016.

Update, 2017-03-29: The offering was very successful:

Dividend Growth Split Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce a successful overnight treasury offering of class A and preferred shares. Gross proceeds of the offering are expected to be approximately $86 million. The offering is expected to close on or about April 6, 2017 and is subject to customary closing conditions including approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”). The Company has granted the Agents (as defined below) an over-allotment option, exercisable for 30 days following the closing date of the offering, to purchase up to an additional 15% of the number of class A and preferred shares issued at the closing of the offering.

The class A shares were offered at a price of $8.00 for a distribution rate of 15.0% on the issue price, and the preferred shares were offered at a price of $10.00 for a yield to maturity of 5.45%. The class A and preferred share offering prices were determined so as to be non-dilutive to the most recently calculated net asset value per unit of the Company (calculated as at March 24, 2017), as adjusted for dividends and certain expenses to be accrued prior to or upon settlement of the offering.

Update, 2017-04-06: The offering was very successful:

Dividend Growth Split Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has completed the previously announced treasury offering of class A shares and preferred shares for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $86 million.

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