Prepared Capital and Owens Realty Mortage loan Declare Fruition of Merger

Owens Realty Mortgage, Inc. (NYSE American: ORM) (“ORM”) mutually declared today that they have finished the recently reported merger in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 7, 2018, by and among Ready Capital, ORM and ReadyCap Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware constrained obligation organization and a completely claimed backup of Ready Capital (the “Merger Agreement”). As of toward the beginning of today, ORM stopped to be traded on an open market and its basic stock was suspended from exchanging on the NYSE American. The joined organization will lead business under the name “Prepared Capital Corporation” and will keep on exchanging on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker image “RC.”

Each extraordinary portion of basic stock, standard worth $0.01 per share, of (“ORM Common Stock”) (other than shares held by Ready Capital or Merger Sub or by any entirely possessed backup of Ready Capital, Merger Sub or ORM, which were naturally dropped and resigned and stopped to exist) was changed over into the privilege to get from Ready Capital 1.441 recently gave portions of basic stock, standard worth $0.0001 per share, of Ready Capital (the “Prepared Capital Common Stock”). No partial portions of Ready Capital Common Stock were given in the merger, and the estimation of any fragmentary premiums to which a previous holder of ORM Common Stock is generally entitled will be paid in real money.

Also, according to the Merger Agreement, the size of Ready Capital’s top managerial staff was expanded from six to seven individuals upon the end of the merger, and Gilbert E. Nathan, a free executive of ORM, was selected to Ready Capital’s top managerial staff.

“With the present shutting, we arrive at another significant achievement toward our vision of building a full help stage with scale. The developing broadness of the joined organizations will keep on enabling us to successfully send capital crosswise over alluring resource classes and monetary cycles. This venture approach, which stresses return consistency and drawback insurance, will furnish every one of our investors with the most appealing danger balanced returns over the long haul,” expressed Thomas Capasse, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Safe Harbor Statement

This public statement contains articulations that comprise “forward-looking proclamations,” all things considered term is characterized in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as corrected, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as changed, and such explanations are expected to be secured by the sheltered harbor gave by the equivalent. These announcements depend on current desires and convictions of Ready Capital and ORM and are dependent upon various patterns and vulnerabilities that could make genuine outcomes vary physically from those portrayed in the forward-looking proclamations; neither Ready Capital nor ORM can give any affirmation that its desires will be achieved.

Elements that could make real outcomes vary physically from the Company’s desires incorporate, yet are not restricted with, the impact of the merger on Ready Capital’s working outcomes and organizations by and large; the result of any lawful procedures identifying with the merger; changes in future credit obtaining and creation; the capacity to hold key faculty; accessibility of appropriate venture openings; changes in loan fees; changes in the yield bend; changes in prepayment rates; the accessibility and terms of financing; general monetary conditions; economic situations; conditions in the market for little parity business advances and different speculations; and different components, remembering those set out for the Risk Factors area of Ready Capital’s latest Annual Report on Form 10-K recorded with the SEC, those set out in the Risk Factors segment of ORM’s latest Annual Report on Form 10-K documented with the SEC, those set out in the Risk Factors segment in the authoritative joint intermediary articulation/plan identifying with the merger documented with the SEC on February 15, 2019, and different reports documented by Ready Capital or ORM with the SEC, duplicates of which are accessible on the SEC’s site, www.sec.gov. Neither Ready Capital nor ORM embraces any commitment to refresh these announcements for amendments or changes after the date of this discharge, aside from as legally necessary.

About Ready Capital Corporation

Prepared Capital Corporation (NYSE: RC) is a multi-methodology land account organization that begins, secures, funds and administrations little to medium-sized equalization business advances. Prepared Capital represents considerable authority in credits sponsored by business land, including office multifamily, speculator and scaffold just as SBA 7(a) business advances. Headquartered in New York, New York, Ready Capital utilizes more than 400 loaning experts across the nation. Prepared Capital is remotely overseen and prompted by Waterfall Asset Management, LLC.

About Owens Realty Mortgage, Inc.

Owens Realty Mortgage, Inc., a Maryland organization, is a claim to fame money contract organization sorted out to qualify as a land venture trust (“REIT”) that spotlights on the beginning, speculation, and the executives of business land contract advances. ORM gives tweaked, transient securing and progress funding to little adjust and center market speculators that require speed and adaptability. ORM’s essential target is to furnish speculators with appealing current pay and long haul investor esteem. Owens Realty Mortgage, Inc. is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, and is remotely overseen and exhorted by Owens Financial Group, Inc.