Northern Financial Announces Chairman and Chief Executive Offficer Purchases Additional Shares in Non-Brokered Private Placement

NORTHERN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
(TSX-V: NFC)

TORONTO, Nov. 9, 2012 /CNW/ - Northern Financial Corporation (TSX-V: NFC) ("Northern" or the "Company") has closed a non-brokered private placement consisting of 2,000,000 common shares at a price of $0.05 per common share, for gross proceeds of $100,000. Mr. Vic Alboini, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Northern, subscribed for the entire amount of the private placement.

Mr. Alboini now owns or has control over 13,570,332 common shares of Northern. In accordance with applicable securities legislation, the common shares issued will be subject to a hold period of four months plus one day from the date of closing, expiring March 10, 2012.

The Company will be repaying the $200,000 balance of a demand loan outstanding and the proceeds of the private placement will be used for this purpose.  The original amount of the demand loan outstanding as at June 30, 2012, was $400,000, of which $200,000 was repaid on October 9, 2012.

About Northern Financial Corporation

Northern Financial Corporation wholly owns Northern Securities Inc., a full service investment dealer that provides financial advisory services to retail and institutional clients and investment banking services to small capitalization companies.

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SOURCE: Northern Financial Corporation

Vic Alboini
Chairman and CEO
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