Reedland Capital Partners Joins Merriman Capital's Financial Entrepreneur Platform

San Francisco - January 5, 2016 - Merriman Capital, Inc. ("Merriman"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: MERR), today announced the addition of the highly respected boutique investment bank Reedland Capital Partners ("Reedland") to its Financial Entrepreneur Platform ("FEP").
 
Founded in 1998, by Robert Schachter and David Schachter, Reedland has successfully completed over $3 billion dollars in corporate debt and equity financings and advisory assignments for middle market companies and emerging growth companies, with loans typically ranging in size from $10M to $150M+.  The firm has structured and arranged debt financings in over a dozen different industries, including healthcare, technology, IT services, education, energy/clean-tech, real estate, manufacturing, distribution, retail, lodging, gaming and entertainment.  Over the past few years, Reedland has expanded its focus on larger transactions internationally, specifically with respect to Asia, Europe and Canada, to complement its existing domestic corporate debt advisory practice. 
 
Reedland has established extensive relationships in the United States and internationally, with commercial banks, asset-based lenders, cash flow-based lenders, specialty finance companies and other industry-specific niche lenders, insurance companies, private debt funds and other non-traditional sources of capital.  This extensive lender network can provide more flexibility to companies from a pricing, structure and/or dollar availability standpoint, providing a significant advantage to corporate clients that might otherwise only be working directly with a smaller number of nationally-recognized lenders.
 
"I've known the founders of Reedland for over a decade and have always admired their creativity and aggressiveness when it comes to developing capital markets solutions for their clients," said Jon Merriman, founder and CEO of Merriman. "Their deep expertise in institutional debt financing, and their extensive array of corporate debt advisory services has made them a very effective resource for companies with revenues under $750M, especially given larger banks' lack of interest when it comes to middle market lending needs. Reedland is effectively addressing a very large and underserved potential marketplace, especially with their expansion into Asia, Europe and Canada, and their clarity of focus, experience and deep contacts will add immediately and significantly to our capabilities. Their addition to our Financial Entrepreneur Platform is a game changer for Merriman Capital. I'm very pleased to welcome Rob, David and the rest of the team on board."

Reedland founder/CEO Rob Schachter commented, "In today's competitive capital markets environment I think it's very seldom you can create a strong combination where "1 + 1 = 3". I'm very excited that our new partnership with Merriman will be just such a collaboration, enabling us to thrive and grow with the support of the Merriman Financial Entrepreneur Platform, and for the first time, truly provide our corporate clients with fully integrated capital markets solutions."
 
About Reedland Capital Partners
Founded in 1998, Reedland Capital Partners specializes in structuring, arranging and negotiating corporate and real estate debt, primarily for middle-market and emerging growth companies, including asset-based loans, cash flow-based loans, venture debt, royalty financing, project financing, bridge loans, purchase order financing, and DIP financing.  The principals of Reedland have provided investment banking and consulting services, including raising capital, for both public and private companies for over 20 years each and have arranged in excess of $3 billion in financings.  For additional information, please go to http://www.reedland.com.
 
About Merriman Capital, Inc.
Merriman Capital, Inc. ("MC") is a full service investment bank and broker-dealer providing comprehensive advisory, fund raising and M&A services for fast growing public and private companies, and equity and options executions services to sophisticated investors. The firm is also a leader in providing entrepreneurial, independent investment banking teams with a compliant, flexible and highly collegial platform. Merriman Capital facilitates capital formation through its proprietary digital network (http://www.digitalcapitalnetwork.com - the "DCN"), a private placement marketplace that enables highly targeted, diligent and compliant execution of transactions primarily targeted toward Family Offices.
 
Merriman Capital, Inc. is the wholly owned brokerage subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: MERR).The Digital Capital Network, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc.  All securities are offered through Merriman Capital, Inc, a registered broker-dealer and member of The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) http://www.finra.org/ and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) http://www.sipc.org/.
 
Note to Investors
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements based on our current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties. This release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of offers to buy any securities of any entity. Forward-looking statements in this release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof. Our actual results may differ materially from those stated or implied in such forward-looking statements, due to risks and uncertainties associated with our business, which include the risk factors disclosed in our Form 10-K filed on March 31, 2015. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding our expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future and can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," and "would" or similar words. We assume no obligation to update the information included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. The Form 10-K filed on March 31, 2015, together with this press release and the financial information contained herein, are available on our website, www.merrimanco.com.  Please click on "Investor Relations."

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At Merriman:
Adriana Piltz
Chief Operating Office
(646) 292-1424
[email protected]

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