FFN.PR.A Completes Overnight Offering

Quadravest has announced:

Financial 15 Split Corp. II (the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has completed an overnight offering of 1,955,000 Preferred Shares and 1,955,000 Class A Shares. Total gross proceeds of the offering were $35.2 million, bringing the Company’s net assets to approximately $124.5 million. The shares will trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the existing symbols of FFN.PR.A (Preferred shares) and FFN (Class A shares).

The Preferred Shares were offered at a price of $10.00 per Preferred Share to yield 5.25% on the issue price, and the Class A Shares were offered at a price of $8.00 per Class A Share targeting to yield 15% annually based on the current distribution policy.

The offering was co-led by National Bank Financial Inc., CIBC, RBC Capital Markets and also included BMO Capital Markets, GMP Securities L.P., Canaccord Genuity Corp. and Raymond James.

The net proceeds of the secondary offering will be used by the Company to invest in a high quality portfolio consisting of 15 financial services companies made up of Canadian and U.S. issuers as follows:

Bank of Montreal National Bank of Canada Bank of America Corp.
The Bank of Nova Scotia Manulife Financial Corporation Citigroup Inc.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Sun Life Financial Services of Canada Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Royal Bank of Canada Great-West Lifeco Inc. JP Morgan Chase & Co.
The Toronto-Dominion Bank CI Financial Corp. Wells Fargo & Co.

FFN.PR.A was last mentioned on PrefBlog when shareholders voted for a term extension last May.

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