Atlas Financial Appoints Sandler O’Neill as Financial Advisor as Part of Strategic Review Process

Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFH) ("Atlas” or the "Company”) today stated that the Company is continuing to explore strategic alternatives, including, but not limited to, further strengthening its processes, reviewing its capital allocation and opportunities, a potential sale of the Company or certain assets, and balance sheet strengthening options.

To assist the company in its review, Atlas has retained Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L.P. as its financial advisor. In this capacity, the firm will work on behalf of Atlas to manage the exploration and evaluation of a wide range of strategic opportunities with the goal of facilitating shareholder value generation.

As previously announced, the Company’s Board of Directors have formed a Special Committee of independent Directors that will examine the conclusions and recommendations of this work and along with management provide an update by mid-year.

About Atlas
The primary business of Atlas is commercial automobile insurance in the United States, with a niche market orientation and focus on insurance for the "light” commercial automobile sector including taxi cabs, non-emergency para-transit, limousine/livery (including certain transportation network company drivers) and business auto. The business of Atlas is carried on through its subsidiaries American Country Insurance Company, American Service Insurance Company, Inc., Gateway Insurance Company, Global Liberty Insurance Company of New York, Anchor Group Management, Inc., and optOn Insurance Agency Inc. Atlas’ insurance subsidiaries have decades of experience with a commitment to always being an industry leader in these specialized areas of insurance.

For more information about Atlas, please visit www.atlas-fin.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
This release includes forward-looking statements regarding Atlas and its insurance subsidiaries and businesses. Such statements are based on the current expectations of the management of each entity. The words "anticipate,” "expect,” "believe,” "may,” "should,” "estimate,” "project,” "outlook,” "forecast” or similar words are used to identify such forward looking information. The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this release may not occur and could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting the Companies, including risks regarding the insurance industry, economic factors and the equity markets generally and the risk factors discussed in the "Risk Factors” section of the Company’s 2017 Annual Report on Form 10-K. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. Except as required by applicable securities laws, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and Atlas and its subsidiaries undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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