Mount Logan Capital Inc. Completes First Step of Transaction with Ovation Partners, LP
02 Mai 2023 - 11:23PM
Mount Logan Capital Inc. (NEO: MLC) (“Mount Logan,” “our,” “we,” or
the “Company”) today announced that it has amended the definitive
agreement with Ovation Partners, LP (“Ovation”) relating to the
previously announced transaction for the management of Ovation’s
alternative income platform by Mount Logan Management LLC (“ML
Management”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mount Logan (the
“Amendment”).
Amendment Highlights
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Until the final closing of the transaction, Ovation will remain the
adviser of the alternative income platform, which is focused on
investments in commercial lending, real estate lending, consumer
finance and litigation finance.
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Certain employees of Ovation received and accepted offers for full
time employment with ML Management effective as of the Amendment
date (the "Transferred Employees"). Remaining employees of Ovation
are expected to transition to ML Management upon the final closing
of the transaction.
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Until the final closing of the transaction, ML Management will
lease the Transferred Employees to Ovation to continue to provide
investment advisory and research services to the alternative income
platform.
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ML Management formally established an office in Austin, Texas
through the assignment of Ovation's existing lease.
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On the Amendment date a portion of the consideration was paid by ML
Management to Ovation as a pre-payment on the purchase price.
Concurrent with the Amendment, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mount
Logan upsized its existing credit facility by $4.5 million.
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Target closing of the transaction in third quarter 2023, subject to
satisfaction of the final closing conditions.
Management Commentary
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Ted Goldthorpe, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of
Mount Logan, noted, “Since announcing the transaction in
January, our confidence in Mike and Ovation continued to grow. We
are already beginning to see the benefits of the collaboration
across the platforms. The transaction with Ovation is consistent
with our strategy of growing semi-permanent third-party capital and
we remain excited about incorporating the Ovation strategy into our
asset management business fully. We welcome the Ovation members to
the Mount Logan team and look forward to closing the transaction in
the summer.”
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Mike Rovner, Managing Partner of Ovation added,
“We are excited about the progress made on the transaction since
announcing in January 2023. The Mount Logan and Ovation teams spent
substantial time together throughout the transaction process and we
remain confident in the size of the opportunity available to us
through the combination of Ovation’s experience in specialized
investing with the operational scale and resources of Mount Logan.
We look forward to finalizing the transaction later this
year.”
About Mount Logan Capital
Inc.
Mount Logan Capital Inc. is an alternative asset
management and insurance solutions company that is focused on
public and private debt securities in the North American market and
the reinsurance of annuity products primarily through its wholly
owned subsidiaries ML Management and Ability Insurance Company
(“Ability”). The Company also actively sources, evaluates,
underwrites, manages, monitors and primarily invests in loans, debt
securities, and other credit-oriented instruments that present
attractive risk-adjusted returns and present low risk of principal
impairment through the credit cycle.
Ability Insurance is a Nebraska domiciled
insurer and reinsurer of long-term care policies acquired by Mount
Logan in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021. Ability is unique
in the insurance industry in that its long-term care portfolio’s
morbidity risk has been largely re-insured to third parties, and
Ability is no longer insuring or re-insuring new long-term care
risk.
About Ovation Partners
Ovation Partners is an investment manager
offering diversified portfolios of private credit investments
within the specialty finance market. Formed in 2011, Ovation has
deployed more than $1.9B into specialty finance and real estate
assets believed to have been largely ignored by traditional banks
and asset managers. Ovation seeks to preserve principal and provide
income distributions.
Cautionary Statement Regarding
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking
statements and information within the meaning of applicable
securities legislation. Forward-looking statements can be
identified by the expressions "seeks", "expects", "believes",
"estimates", "will", "target" and similar expressions. The
forward-looking statements are not historical facts but reflect the
current expectations of the Company regarding future results or
events and are based on information currently available to it.
Certain material factors and assumptions were applied in providing
these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements
discussed in this release include, but are not limited to,
statements relating to the Company’s business strategy, model,
approach and future activities; portfolio composition and size,
asset management activities and related income, capital raising
activities, future credit opportunities of the Company, portfolio
realizations, the protection of stakeholder value, the expansion of
the Company’s loan portfolio, including through the potential
transaction with Ovation, the potential benefits of combining Mount
Logan’s and Ovation’s platform and the transition of Ovation
personnel to Mount Logan. All forward-looking statements in this
press release are qualified by these cautionary statements. The
Company believes that the expectations reflected in forward-looking
statements are based upon reasonable assumptions; however, the
Company can give no assurance that the actual results or
developments will be realized by certain specified dates or at all.
These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to
differ materially from current expectations, including that the
expected synergies of the potential transaction with Ovation may
not be realized as expected; the risk that the Company may not be
successful in integrating the acquired business without significant
use of the Company’s resources and management’s attention; the risk
that the acquired business may require a significant investment of
capital and other resources in order to expand and grow the
business; the Company has a limited operating history with respect
to an asset management oriented business model and the matters
discussed under "Risk Factors" in the most recently filed annual
information form and management discussion and analysis for the
Company. Readers, therefore, should not place undue reliance on any
such forward-looking statements. Further, a forward-looking
statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is
made. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any
such statement or to reflect new information or the occurrence of
future events or circumstances except as required by securities
laws. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of
this press release.
This press release is not, and under no
circumstances is it to be construed as, a prospectus or an
advertisement and the communication of this release is not, and
under no circumstances is it to be construed as, an offer to sell
or an offer to purchase any securities in the Company or in any
fund or other investment vehicle. This press release is not
intended for U.S. persons. The Company’s shares are not registered
under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Company
is not registered under the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940
(the “1940 Act”). U.S. persons are not permitted to purchase the
Company’s shares absent an applicable exemption from registration
under each of these Acts. In addition, the number of investors in
the United States, or which are U.S. persons or purchasing for the
account or benefit of U.S. persons, will be limited to such number
as is required to comply with an available exemption from the
registration requirements of the 1940 Act.
Contacts:Mount Logan Capital
Inc.365 Bay Street, Suite 800Toronto, ON M5H 2V1
Jason RoosChief Financial
OfficerJason.Roos@mountlogancapital.ca
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