LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2017-- Colony NorthStar, Inc. ('Colony NorthStar' or the 'Company') (NYSE:CLNS)today announced that its Board of Directors has declared: (i) a quarterly cash dividend of $0.54688 per share of 8.75% series A cumulative redeemable preferred stock, (ii) a quarterly cash dividend of $0.51563 per share of 8.25% series B cumulative redeemable preferred stock, (iii) a quarterly cash dividend of $0.55469 per share of 8.875% series C cumulative redeemable preferred stock, (iv) a quarterly cash dividend of $0.53125 per share of 8.500% series D cumulative redeemable preferred stock, and (v) a quarterly cash dividend of $0.54688 per share of 8.75% series E cumulative redeemable preferred stock, in each case, payable on February 15, 2017 to shareholders of record on February 10, 2017.

About Colony NorthStar, Inc.

Colony NorthStar, Inc. (NYSE:CLNS) is a leading global real estate and investment management firm. The Company resulted from the January 2017 merger between Colony Capital, Inc., NorthStar Asset Management Group Inc. and NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. The Company has significant property holdings in the healthcare, industrial and hospitality sectors, opportunistic equity and debt investments and an embedded institutional and retail investment management business. The Company currently has assets under management in excess of $58 billion and manages capital on behalf of its stockholders, as well as institutional and retail investors in private funds, non-traded and traded real estate investment trusts and registered investment companies. In addition, the Company owns NorthStar Securities, LLC, a captive broker-dealer platform which raises capital in the retail market. The firm maintains principal offices in Los Angeles and New York with more than 500 employees in offices located across 17 cities in ten countries. The Company will elect to be taxed as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes. For additional information regarding the Company and its management and business, please refer to www.clns.com.

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Colony NorthStar cautions investors not to unduly rely on any forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release. Colony NorthStar is under no duty to update any of these forward-looking statements after the date of this press release, nor to conform prior statements to actual results or revised expectations, and Colony NorthStar does not intend to do so.

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