UNITED STATES

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Common Unitholders Meeting to Be Held on July 25, 2017.

         
    Meeting Information

ATLAS ENERGY GROUP, LLC

 

 

Meeting Type:

For holders as of:

Annual Meeting

May 26, 2017

    Date:    July 25, 2017        Time:    1:30 P.M. Eastern Time
    Location:

The Sofitel Philadelphia
120 S. 17 th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

     

ATLAS ENERGY GROUP, LLC
425 HOUSTON STREET, SUITE 300
FORT WORTH, TX 76102

 

 

 

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Voting Items      

 

The Board of Directors of Atlas Energy Group, LLC recommends that you vote FOR proposals 2 and 3 and FOR the nominee listed for election of director under proposal 1:  

 

1. Proposal 1 – ELECTION OF CLASS II DIRECTOR:

 

Nominee:

 

1a. Edward E. Cohen

 

2. Proposal 2 – Proposal to approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers.

 

3. Proposal 3 – Proposal to ratify the appointment by the Company’s Board of Directors of Grant Thornton LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the 2017 fiscal year.

 

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