HOUSTON, July 23,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Midstream Partners,
LP (NYSE: SMLP) ("Summit," "SMLP" or the "Partnership") announced
today the results and the pricing terms of the previously announced
cash tender offer (the "Tender Offer") by Summit Midstream
Holdings, LLC ("Holdings") and Summit Midstream Finance
Corp. (together with Holdings, the "Issuers"), which are
subsidiaries of the Partnership, to purchase any and all of their
outstanding 8.500% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2026 (the
"Notes") from holders thereof (the "Holders"). The Tender Offer
expired at 5:00 P.M., New York City
Time, on July 23, 2024 (the
"Expiration Time"). As of the Expiration Time, $649,805,000 or 85.00% of the $764,464,000 outstanding aggregate principal
amount of the Notes had been validly tendered and not validly
withdrawn in the Tender Offer. The principal amount tendered
excludes $113,000 aggregate principal
amount of the Notes tendered pursuant to the guaranteed delivery
procedures described in the Offer to Purchase (as defined below)
and the related Notice of Guaranteed Delivery provided in
connection therewith, which remain subject to the Holders'
performance of the delivery requirements under such procedures.

The settlement date for the Notes validly tendered (and not
validly withdrawn) at or prior to the Expiration Time and accepted
for purchase in the Tender Offer, including Notes submitted using
the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, is expected to occur on
July 26, 2024 (the "Settlement
Date").
The Issuers intend to fund the Purchase Price (as defined below)
with net proceeds Holdings receives from the sale of $575,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of
Holdings' 8.625% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2029 (the
"New Financing"). The consummation of the Tender Offer and the
Issuers' obligation to pay for Notes validly tendered and accepted
pursuant to the Tender Offer is subject to the satisfaction or
waiver of the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated
July 17, 2024 (the "Offer to
Purchase"), including the consummation of the New Financing, the
receipt of net proceeds therefrom and certain other customary
conditions.
The consideration to be paid under the Tender Offer will be
$1,029.64 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (the "Purchase
Price") validly tendered and accepted for purchase pursuant to the
Tender Offer, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not
including, the Settlement Date, which was determined in the manner
described in the Offer to Purchase by reference to the fixed spread
for the Notes specified below plus the yield based on the bid-side
price of the U.S. Treasury Reference Security specified below, as
quoted on the Bloomberg Bond Trader FIT3 series of pages, at
2:00 P.M., New York City time, on July 23, 2024.
Certain information regarding the Notes and the pricing terms is
set forth in the table below.
Title of
Security (1)
|
|
CUSIP
Numbers
|
|
Aggregate
Principal
Amount
Outstanding
|
|
U.S. Treasury
Reference
Security
|
|
Bloomberg
Reference
Page
|
|
Reference
Yield
|
|
Fixed
Spread
|
|
Total
Purchase
Price (2)
|
|
Aggregate
Principal
Amount Tendered
and Accepted for
Purchase (3)
|
8.500% Senior
Secured Second
Lien Notes due
2026
|
|
144A:
86614WAE6
Reg S:
U8604TAB2
|
|
$764,464,000
|
|
0.625% U.S.
Treasury due
October 15,
2024
|
|
FIT3
|
|
5.376 %
|
|
0 bps
|
|
$1,029.64
|
|
$649,805,000
|
|
(1)
|
The interest rate was
increased to 9.500% on April 1, 2024.
|
(2)
|
Per $1,000 principal
amount. Excludes accrued and unpaid interest.
|
(3)
|
The principal amount
tendered excludes $113,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes
tendered pursuant to the guaranteed delivery procedures described
in the Offer to Purchase and the related Notice of Guaranteed
Delivery provided in connection therewith, which remain subject to
the Holders' performance of the delivery requirements under such
procedures.
|
The Tender Offer was made pursuant to the Offer to Purchase and
the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, which set forth the complete
terms and conditions of the Tender Offer. The Tender Offer was made
only by and pursuant to the terms set forth in the Offer to
Purchase and the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, and the information
in this press release is qualified by reference to such document.
In connection with the Tender Offer, the Issuers retained RBC
Capital Markets, LLC as the Dealer Manager. Questions regarding the
Tender Offer should be directed to RBC Capital Markets, LLC at
liability.management@rbccm.com, Attn: Liability Management or by
calling collect at (212) 618-7843 or toll-free at (877) 381-2099.
Copies of the Offer to Purchase may be requested from the tender
agent for the Tender Offer, D.F. King & Co., Inc., at
(866) 342-4883 (Toll-Free) or (212) 269-5550, or by email at
smlp@dfking.com, and may be accessed online
at www.dfking.com/smlp.
This press release is for informational purposes only and is
neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell
any Notes.
About Summit Midstream Partners, LP
SMLP is a value-driven limited partnership focused on
developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure
assets that are strategically located in the core producing areas
of unconventional resource basins, primarily shale formations, in
the continental United States.
SMLP provides natural gas, crude oil and produced water gathering,
processing and transportation services pursuant to primarily
long-term, fee-based agreements with customers and counterparties
in four unconventional resource basins: (i) the Williston Basin, which includes the Bakken and
Three Forks shale formations in North
Dakota; (ii) the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which includes
the Niobrara and Codell shale
formations in Colorado and
Wyoming; (iii) the
Fort Worth Basin, which includes
the Barnett Shale formation in Texas; and (iv) the Piceance Basin, which
includes the Mesaverde formation as well as the Mancos and Niobrara shale formations in Colorado. SMLP has an equity method investment
in Double E Pipeline, LLC, which provides interstate natural gas
transportation service from multiple receipt points in the
Delaware Basin to various delivery
points in and around the Waha Hub in Texas. SMLP is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes certain statements concerning
expectations for the future that are forward-looking within the
meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements
include, without limitation, any statement that may project,
indicate or imply future results, events, performance or
achievements and may contain the words "expect," "intend," "plan,"
"anticipate," "estimate," "believe," "will be," "will continue,"
"will likely result," and similar expressions, or future
conditional verbs such as "may," "will," "should," "would," and
"could," including, but not limited to, statements regarding the
expected closing of the New Financing and the intended use of the
net proceeds therefrom and the anticipated Settlement Date. In
addition, any statement concerning future financial performance
(including future revenues, earnings or growth rates), ongoing
business strategies and possible actions taken by SMLP or its
subsidiaries are also forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements also contain known and unknown risks and uncertainties
(many of which are difficult to predict and beyond management's
control) that may cause SMLP's actual results in future periods to
differ materially from anticipated or projected results. An
extensive list of specific material risks and uncertainties
affecting SMLP is contained in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2023,
which the Partnership filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") on March 15,
2024, as amended and updated from time to time, including by
the Partnership's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly
period ended March 31, 2024, which
the Partnership filed with the SEC on May 6,
2024, and by Exhibit 99.1 to the Partnership's Current
Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 3, 2024. Any forward-looking statements in
this press release are made as of the date of this press release
and SMLP undertakes no obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statements to reflect new information or
events.
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