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Dividend 15 Split Corp. Successful Preferred Share Offering

A high quality portfolio consisting of 15 dividend yielding Canadian Companies

TORONTO, Nov. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dividend 15 Split Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has completed the overnight offering of 1,000,000 Preferred Shares of the Company. Total gross proceeds of the offering were $10.1 million, bringing the Company’s net assets to approximately $894.6 million.

The offering was led by National Bank Financial Inc.

The sales period of the overnight offering has now ended.

The offering is expected to close on or about November 30, 2020 and is subject to certain closing conditions including approval by the TSX.

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The Preferred Shares were offered at a price of $10.10 per Preferred Share to yield 5.45%.

The closing price on the TSX of the Preferred Shares on November 23, 2020 was $10.22.

The net proceeds of the offering will be used by the Company to invest in an actively managed, high quality portfolio consisting of 15 dividend yielding Canadian companies as follows:

Bank of Montreal

Enbridge Inc.

TELUS Corporation

The Bank of Nova Scotia

Manulife Financial Corp.

Thomson Reuters Corp.

BCE Inc.

National Bank of Canada

The Toronto-Dominion Bank

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Royal Bank of Canada

TransAlta Corporation

CI Financial Corp.

Sun Life Financial Inc.

TC Energy

The Company's investment objectives for Preferred Shares are:

  1. to provide holders of the Preferred Shares with fixed, cumulative preferential monthly cash dividends in the amount of 5.50% annually; and

  2. on or about the termination date, currently December 1, 2024 (subject to further 5-year extensions thereafter and it has been extended in the past), to pay the holders of the Preferred Shares $10.00 per Preferred Share.

A prospectus supplement to the Company’s short form base shelf prospectus dated July 3, 2020 containing important detailed information about the Preferred Shares and the Class A Shares being offered will be filed with securities commissions or similar authorities in all provinces of Canada. Copies of the prospectus supplement and the short form base shelf prospectus may be obtained from your registered financial advisor using the contact information for such advisor, or from representatives of the agents listed above. There will not be any sale or any acceptance of an offer to buy the securities being offered until the prospectus supplement has been filed with the Securities Commissions or similar authorities in each of the provinces of Canada.

For further information, please contact Dividend 15 Split Corp. Investor Relations at

416-304-4443 Toll free at 1-877-4-Quadra (1-877-478-2372) or visit www.dividend15.com