Merchants Bancorp Closes Depositary Share Offering

CARMEL, Ind., Aug. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Merchants Bancorp ( "Merchants") (Nasdaq: MBIN), parent company of Merchants Bank of Indiana, today announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of  5,000,000 depositary shares, each representing a 1/40th interest in a share of its 6.00% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Series B Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, with a liquidation preference of $25.00 per depositary share. As a result, Merchants received proceeds of approximately $120.9 million, net of estimated expenses and underwriting discounts and commissions.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and UBS Securities LLC acted as joint book runners. Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P. acted as co-manager.

A shelf registration statement, including a prospectus, with respect to the offering was previously filed by Merchants with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and was declared effective by the SEC on December 18, 2018. A prospectus supplement relating to the offering has been filed with the SEC. The offering has been made by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus. Copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to these securities may be obtained free of charge by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, or may be obtained from Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10014, Attn: Prospectus Department, Telephone number: 1-866-718-1649 or UBS Securities LLC, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, Attn: Prospectus Specialist, Telephone number: 1-888-827-7275.

About Merchants BancorpMerchants Bancorp is a diversified bank holding company headquartered in Carmel, Indiana operating multiple lines of business, including Federal Housing Administration ("FHA") multi-family housing and healthcare facility financing and servicing, mortgage warehouse financing, retail and correspondent residential mortgage banking, agricultural lending and traditional community banking. Merchants Bancorp, with $5.3 billion in assets and $4.7 billion in deposits as of June 30, 2019, conducts its business through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Merchants Bank of Indiana, Merchants Capital Corp., Farmers-Merchants Bank of Illinois, Merchants Capital Servicing LLC, and Merchants Mortgage, a division of Merchants Bank of Indiana. For more information and financial data, please visit Merchants' Investor Relations page at investors.merchantsbankofindiana.com.

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