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Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust Completes $300 Million Public Equity Offering

Downtown Toronto

Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (“Allied”), a leading owner, manager and developer of urban office environments operating in Canada’s major cities, recently completed a $300 million public equity offering of units.

On August 17, 2017, Allied completed an offering of 7,695,000 units (inclusive of 770,000 units issued pursuant to the exercise in full of the underwriters’ over-allotment option) at a price of $39.00 per unit for gross proceeds of just over $300 million. Allied intends to use the net proceeds from this offering: (a) to repay amounts drawn on its unsecured revolving operating facility used for general capital funding relating to Allied’s capital improvements, acquisitions and intensification projects; (b) to fund capital investment over the remainder of 2017; and (c) for general trust purposes.

Aird & Berlis LLP represented Allied with a team comprised of Margaret Nelligan, Sherri Altshuler, Anne Miatello, Melanie Cole, Daniel Everall and Tyler Brent (corporate and securities), Mike Smith and Aaron Silver (real estate), and Barbara Worndl (tax).