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Colony Financial, Inc. Completes Public Offering of Common Stock

^{Published on 2011-04-06 23:20:48 - Market Wire}
 

LOS ANGELES--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Colony Financial, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: CLNY) today announced the completion of the public offering of 14,000,000shares of common stock. The Company sold 13,250,000shares of common stock and selling stockholders sold750,000 shares. The underwriters have been granted a 30-day option by the Company to purchase up to an additional 2,100,000 shares at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions.

The offering generated net proceeds to the Company of approximately $234.5 million, after deducting estimated offering expenses. The Company intends to use the proceeds from the offering to acquire the Company's target assets and for working capital and general corporate purposes.

BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley and UBS Investment Bank acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. RBC Capital Markets, FBR Capital Markets, JMP Securities and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods acted as co-managers.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of any securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

About Colony Financial, Inc.

Colony Financial is a real estate finance company that is focused primarily on acquiring, originating and managing commercial mortgage loans, which may be performing, sub-performing or non-performing loans (including loan-to-own strategies), other commercial real estate-related debt investments, CMBS, REO properties and other real estate-related assets. Colony Financial intends to elect and qualify to be taxed as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

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All forward-looking statements reflect the Company's good faith beliefs, assumptions and expectations, but they are not guarantees of future performance. Furthermore, the Company disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect changes in underlying assumptions or factors, of new information, data or methods, future events or other changes. For a further discussion of these and other factors that could cause the Company's future results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements, see the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the registration statement relating to the Company's underwritten public offering filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March21, 2011, as amended, and the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 7, 2011, and other risks described in documents subsequently filed by the Company from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.