Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
As previously disclosed, on February 16, 2021, Enable Midstream Partners, LP
(the "Partnership") entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Merger
Agreement") with Energy Transfer LP, a Delaware limited partnership ("Energy
Transfer"), Elk Merger Sub LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a
direct wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Transfer ("LP Merger Sub"), Elk GP
Merger Sub LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned
subsidiary of Energy Transfer ("GP Merger Sub"), Enable GP, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company and the sole general partner of the Partnership (the
"General Partner"), solely for the purposes of Section 2.1(a)(i) therein, LE GP,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and sole general partner of Energy
Transfer, and, solely for purposes of Section 1.1(b)(i) therein, CenterPoint
Energy, Inc., a Texas corporation ("CNP"). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, and
subject to the terms and conditions therein, (i) LP Merger Sub will merge with
and into the Partnership (the "LP Merger"), with the Partnership surviving the
LP Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Transfer, (ii) GP Merger Sub
will merge with and into the General Partner (the "GP Merger" and, together with
the LP Merger, the "Mergers"), with the General Partner surviving the GP Merger
as a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Transfer and (iii) immediately
prior to the effective time of the Merger, (A) CNP will contribute, assign,
transfer, convey and deliver to Energy Transfer, and Energy Transfer will
acquire, assume, accept and receive from CNP, all of CNP's right, title and
interest in each 10% Series A Fixed-to-Floating Non-Cumulative Redeemable
Perpetual Preferred Unit representing a limited partner interest in the
Partnership issued and outstanding at such time in exchange for 0.0265 of a
7.125% Series G Fixed-Rate Reset Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Unit
issued by Energy Transfer, and (B) Energy Transfer will subsequently contribute,
assign, transfer, convey and deliver to a subsidiary of Energy Transfer that is
treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes all or a portion
of such Enable Series A Preferred Units.
As previously announced, the completion of the LP Merger is subject, among other
conditions, to the delivery of written consents representing the affirmative
vote or consent of holders of at least a majority of the outstanding common
units representing limited partner interests in the Partnership (the "Enable
common units"). The board of directors of the General Partner set April 8, 2021
as the record date (the "Record Date") for determining holders of Enable common
units entitled to execute and deliver written consents to (i) approve the Merger
Agreement and (ii) approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation
that will or may become payable to the Partnership's named executive officers in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the
"Transaction-Related Compensation Proposal"). As of the close of business on the
Record Date, there were 435,866,139 Enable common units outstanding and entitled
to consent with respect to the Merger Agreement and the Transaction-Related
Compensation Proposal.
The deadline for the consent solicitation expired at 5:00 p.m. (prevailing
Central Time), on May 7, 2021. The results of the consent solicitation for the
following proposals is set forth below, which includes the consents of CNP and
OGE Energy Corp., an Oklahoma corporation, who collectively own approximately
79% of Enable common units as of April 8, 2021:
1. To approve the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby
were as follows:
APPROVE DISAPPROVE ABSTAIN
379,587,017 2,784,839 2,161,241
2. To approve, on a nonbinding, advisory basis, the Transaction-Related
Compensation Proposal:
APPROVE DISAPPROVE ABSTAIN
375,904,027 6,196,588 2,432,482
Item 8.01 Other Events.
The information set forth in Item 5.07 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is
incorporated by reference into this Item 8.01.
In connection with the proposed Mergers, on March 9, 2021, the Partnership and
Energy Transfer each filed a Notification and Report Form (each, an "HSR
Notification") under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976,
as amended (the "HSR Act") with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S.
Federal Trade
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Commission (the "FTC"). As part of the parties' continuing cooperation with the
regulatory review, in consultation with the Partnership, Energy Transfer
voluntarily withdrew its HSR Notification effective April 8, 2021 and re-filed
its HSR Notification on April 12, 2021 (the "Refiled Notification").
On May 12, 2021, the Partnership and Energy Transfer each received a request for
additional information and documentary material (the "Second Request") from the
FTC in connection with the FTC's review of the transactions contemplated by the
Merger Agreement. The effect of the Second Request is to extend the waiting
period imposed by the HSR Act until 30 days after the Partnership and Energy
Transfer have certified substantial compliance with the Second Request, unless
that period is extended voluntarily by the parties or terminated sooner by the
FTC. Both parties intend to continue to work cooperatively with the FTC in its
review.
Completion of the Mergers remains subject to the expiration or termination of
the waiting period under the HSR Act and the satisfaction or waiver of the other
closing conditions specified in the Merger Agreement. The parties continue to
expect the Mergers to close in the second half of 2021.
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