February 2016: Origin Merchant Securities Inc. Acts as Financial Advisor to Widewaters Group on its USD $52.6 Million Private Placement

February 2016: Origin Merchant Securities Inc. Acts as Financial Advisor to Widewaters Group on its USD $52.6 Million Private Placement

By Tracey Lamping's

All Transactions, Real Estate Advisory

February 1, 2016

Origin Merchant Securities Inc. is pleased to announce that Widewaters Group (“Widewaters”) has completed a private placement of mezzanine debt for gross proceeds of USD $52,600,000. Net proceeds will be used for the development of a 299 room Hilton Curio hotel to be constructed at 218 SW Jefferson St. in downtown Portland, Oregon.

Origin Merchant Securities Inc. acted as financial advisor to Widewaters with respect to this transaction.

Widewaters Group is a vertically integrated real estate organization with over 30 years of development, construction, management and investment experience. Widewaters continues to develop and acquire quality real estate across North America. Widewaters has developed or acquired over 11.3 million square feet of retail, office, residential and hospitality projects including 27 hotels totaling more than 3,600 rooms in eleven US states and two Canadian Provinces. Widewaters is based in Syracuse, New York.

Origin Merchant Securities Inc. (“OMSI”) is a wholly-owned affiliate of Origin Merchant Partners. OMSI is an exempt market dealer that will agent private placements of debt and equity securities to finance the acquisition capital, growth capital or recapitalization needs of our clients. OMSI is registered as an Exempt Market Dealer with the Ontario Securities Commission.

Origin Senior Lead: Glenn Shyba