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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): May 6, 2024

 

 

GENESIS ENERGY, L.P.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   1-12295   76-0513049
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
 

(Commission

File Number)

  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

 

811 Louisiana, Suite 1200, Houston, Texas   77002
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

(713) 860-2500

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240-14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading

Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Common Units   GEL   NYSE

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 


Item 1.01

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Underwriting Agreement

On May 6, 2024, Genesis Energy, L.P. (“Genesis”), Genesis Energy Finance Corporation (together with Genesis, the “Issuers”) and certain subsidiary guarantors of Genesis entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with RBC Capital Markets, LLC, as representative of a group of underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement, in connection with the Issuers’ public offering of senior notes (the “Offering”). The Offering closed on May 9, 2024.

The Underwriting Agreement provides for, among other things, the issuance and sale by the Issuers of $700 million in aggregate principal amount of 7.875% senior unsecured notes due 2032 (the “Notes”), guaranteed by certain subsidiary guarantors of Genesis (such guarantees, together with the Notes, the “Securities”).

The Issuers received net proceeds from the Offering, after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions, and estimated expenses, of approximately $687.8 million. Genesis intends to use a portion of the net proceeds from the Offering to redeem all of its 6.250% senior unsecured notes due 2026 (the “2026 Notes”) and the remainder for general partnership purposes, including repaying a portion of the borrowings outstanding under our credit facility.

The Underwriting Agreement provides that the obligations of the underwriters to purchase the Notes are subject to receipt of legal opinions by counsel and to other customary conditions. The Issuers have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or to contribute to payments the underwriters may be required to make because of any of those liabilities.

The Securities have been registered under the Securities Act, pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-278743), as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement dated May 6, 2024, relating to the Offering, filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act.

The Underwriting Agreement contains representations, warranties and other provisions that were made only for purposes of the Underwriting Agreement and as of specific dates and were solely for the benefit of the parties thereto. Accordingly, investors and securityholders should not rely on such representations and warranties as characterizations of the actual state of facts or circumstances.

This summary of the Underwriting Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Underwriting Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated into this Item 1.01 by reference.

Affiliates of certain of the underwriters are lenders under our credit facility, and as such may be entitled to be repaid with the net proceeds of the Offering that are used to repay a portion of the borrowings outstanding under the credit facility and may receive their pro rata portion of such repayment. Certain of the underwriters or their affiliates are holders of our 2026 Notes and, accordingly, may receive a portion of the proceeds of the Offering in any redemption of the 2026 Notes.

 

Item 7.01

Regulation FD Disclosure.

On May 6, 2024, Genesis issued a press release announcing the commencement of the Offering of the Securities. On May 6, 2024, Genesis issued a press release announcing the pricing of the Notes. Copies of the press releases are furnished as Exhibit 99.1 and Exhibit 99.2, respectively.

In accordance with General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the information in Item 7.01 and the press releases are deemed to be “furnished” and shall not be deemed “filed” for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall such information and the Exhibits be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.


Item 8.01

Other Events.

Genesis is filing exhibits 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 23.1, 23.2 and 23.3 in Item 9.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K in connection with the offering of the Securities. The Securities have been registered under the Securities Act pursuant to Genesis’ effective Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-278743), as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement dated May 6, 2024, relating to the offering of the Securities, filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act.

 

Item 9.01.

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

The following materials are filed as exhibits to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description

 1.1    Underwriting Agreement dated May 6, 2024 among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the subsidiary guarantors named therein and RBC Capital Markets, LLC, as representative of the several underwriters named therein.
 4.1    Indenture, dated as of May 21, 2015, among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the subsidiary guarantors named therein and the Trustee (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 21, 2015, File No. 001-12295).
 4.2    Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 9, 2024, among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the subsidiary guarantors named therein and the Trustee.
 5.1    Opinion of Paul Hastings LLP regarding the legality of the specified Securities.
 5.2    Opinion of Liskow & Lewis, A Professional Law Corporation, concerning certain matters of Louisiana law.
 5.3    Opinion of Law Office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, concerning certain matters of Alabama law.
23.1    Consent of Paul Hastings LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
23.2    Consent of Liskow & Lewis, A Professional Law Corporation (included in Exhibit 5.2).
23.3    Consent of Law Office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (included in Exhibit 5.3).
99.1    Press release of Genesis Energy, L.P. dated May 6, 2024.
99.2    Press release of Genesis Energy, L.P. dated May 6, 2024.
104    Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL).


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

     

GENESIS ENERGY, L.P.

(A Delaware Limited Partnership)

    By:  

GENESIS ENERGY, LLC, as its

sole general partner

Date: May 9, 2024     By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

      Kristen O. Jesulaitis
      Chief Financial Officer and Chief Legal Officer

Exhibit 1.1

Execution Version

GENESIS ENERGY, L.P.

GENESIS ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION

$700,000,000

7.875% Senior Notes due 2032

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

May 6, 2024

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

200 Vesey Street

New York, New York 10281

As Representative of the Underwriters

set forth on Schedule A hereto

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Introductory. Genesis Energy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), and Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Finance Corp.” and, together with the Partnership, the “Issuers”), propose to issue and sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (the “Underwriters”), acting severally and not jointly, the respective amounts set forth in such Schedule A of $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Partnership’s 7.875% Senior Notes due 2032 (the “Notes”). RBC Capital Markets, LLC has agreed to act as the representative of the several Underwriters (the “Representative”) in connection with the offering and sale of the Notes and the Guarantees (as defined below), which are collectively referred to herein as the “Securities.”

The Securities will be issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of May 21, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), among the Issuers, certain subsidiaries of the Partnership named therein as guarantors and U.S. Bank, National Association, a national banking association and the original trustee under such indenture (the “Original Trustee”), as amended by the Agreement of Resignation, Appointment and Acceptance, dated September 30, 2020 (the “Trustee Replacement Agreement”) pursuant to which the Original Trustee resigned as trustee thereunder and Regions Bank, an Alabama banking corporation, became the successor trustee thereunder (the “Trustee”), and as further amended and supplemented by the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, to be dated as of May 9, 2024 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), among the Issuers, the Guarantors (as defined below) and the Trustee (the Base Indenture, as so amended and supplemented, being referred to herein as the “Indenture”). The payment of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the Notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis, jointly and severally, by (i) the entities listed on the signature pages hereof as “Guarantors” (collectively, the “Guarantors”) and (ii) any Subsidiary (as defined below) of the Partnership formed or acquired after the Closing Date (as defined in Section 2(b)) that executes a supplemental indenture in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, and their respective successors and assigns, pursuant to their guarantees included in the Indenture (the “Guarantees”). The Issuers and the Guarantors are herein collectively referred to as the “Obligors.”

 


The Notes will be issued in book-entry form in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of The Depository Trust Company (the “Depositary”), pursuant to a letter of representations dated November 17, 2010 (the “DTC Agreement”) from the Issuers to the Depositary. This agreement (this “Agreement”), the DTC Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities are referred to herein collectively as the “Transaction Documents.”

The Obligors have prepared and filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-278743), which contains a base prospectus, dated April 16, 2024 (the “Base Prospectus”), to be used in connection with the public offering and sale of debt securities, including the Securities, and other securities of the Obligors under the Securities Act of 1933 (as amended, the “Securities Act,” which term, as used herein, includes the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder), and the offering thereof from time to time in accordance with Rule 415 under the Securities Act. Such registration statement, including the financial statements, exhibits and schedules thereto, in the form in which it or any part thereof became effective under the Securities Act, as amended at or prior to such effective date, and including any required information deemed to be a part thereof at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430B under the Securities Act, is called the “Registration Statement.” The term “Prospectus” shall mean the final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities, together with the Base Prospectus, that is first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act after the date and time that this Agreement is executed (the “Execution Time”) by the parties hereto. The term “Preliminary Prospectus” shall mean any preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Securities, together with the Base Prospectus, that is first filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act. Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents that are or are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act prior to 4:01 p.m., Eastern Time, on May 6, 2024 (the “Time of Sale”). All references in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendments or supplements to any of the foregoing, shall include any copy thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (“EDGAR”).

All references herein to financial statements and schedules and other information that is “contained,” “included” or “stated” (or other references of like import) in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Preliminary Prospectus shall be deemed to mean and include all such financial statements and schedules and other information that is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, prior to the Time of Sale; and all references herein to amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to include the filing of any document under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended, the “Exchange Act,” which term, as used herein, includes the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder), which is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, after the Time of Sale (all such documents incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Preliminary Prospectus are referenced herein as the “Incorporated Documents”).

 

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Each of the Obligors hereby confirms its agreements with the Underwriters as follows:

SECTION 1. Representations and Warranties. Each Obligor, jointly and severally, hereby represents, warrants and covenants to each Underwriter that, as of the date hereof, as of the Time of Sale and as of the Closing Date (in each case, a “Representation Date”) as follows:

(a) Compliance with Registration Requirements.

(i) The Obligors meet the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act. The Registration Statement became effective under the Securities Act upon filing with the Commission. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued under the Securities Act and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or, to any Obligor’s knowledge, are contemplated or threatened by the Commission. In addition, the Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (as amended, the “Trust Indenture Act,” which term, as used herein, includes the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder).

(ii) At each Representation Date, the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto (A) complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Trust Indenture Act, and (B) did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. At each Representation Date, neither the Prospectus, nor any amendments or supplements thereto included or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the representations and warranties in this Section 1(a)(ii) shall not apply to (x) that part of the Registration Statement that constitutes the Trustee’s Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 under the Trust Indenture Act and (y) statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto or the Prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto made in reliance upon and in conformity with the information furnished to the Partnership in writing by the Representative on behalf of any Underwriter expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the Representative on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in the penultimate sentence of Section 8(b).

 

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(iii) Each Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, at the time each was filed with the Commission, complied in all material respects with the Securities Act, and the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with the offering of the Securities will, at the time of such delivery, be identical to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.

(b) The Pricing Disclosure Package. The term “Pricing Disclosure Package” shall mean (i) the Preliminary Prospectus dated May 6, 2024, (ii) the issuer free writing prospectuses as defined in Rule 433 of the Securities Act (each, an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”), if any, identified in Annex I hereto, and (iii) any other free writing prospectus that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the Pricing Disclosure Package. As of the Time of Sale, the Pricing Disclosure Package did not contain or represent an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the Pricing Disclosure Package made in reliance upon and in conformity with the information furnished to the Partnership in writing by the Representative on behalf of any Underwriter expressly for use in the Pricing Disclosure Package, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the Representative on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in the penultimate sentence of Section 8(b).

(c) Incorporated Documents and Partnership SEC Documents. The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (i) at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the Commission, complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and (ii) when read together with the other information in the Pricing Disclosure Package, at the Time of Sale, and when read together with the other information in the Prospectus, at the date of the Prospectus and at the Closing Date, did not or will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Partnership has timely filed with the Commission all forms, registration statements, reports, schedules and statements required to be filed by it under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act (all such documents filed on or prior to the date of this Agreement, but specifically excluding any documents “furnished,” collectively, the “Partnership SEC Documents”).

(d) Partnership is a Well-Known Seasoned Issuer. (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act (regardless of whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), (iii) at the time any of the Obligors or any person acting on an Obligor’s behalf (within the meaning, for this clause (iii) only, of Rule 163(c) of the Securities Act) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the exemption of Rule 163 of the Securities Act, and (iv) as of the Execution Time, each of the Issuers was and is a “well known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

 

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The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement,” as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act, that automatically became effective not more than three years prior to the Execution Time; the Issuers have not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the Securities Act objecting to use of the automatic shelf registration statement form and the Issuers have not otherwise ceased to be eligible to use the automatic shelf registration statement form.

(e) Partnership Not Ineligible Issuer. (i) At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Partnership or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) of the Securities Act) and (ii) as of the Time of Sale (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (ii)), neither the Partnership nor Finance Corp. was and is an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act, without taking account of any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 of the Securities Act that it is not necessary that the Issuers be considered an “ineligible issuer.”

(f) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the completion of the offering of Securities under this Agreement or until any earlier date that the Partnership notified or notifies the Representative as described in the next sentence, did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus. If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicts or would conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, the Partnership will promptly notify the Representative and amend or supplement, at its own expense and subject to the approval of the Representative, such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict. The foregoing two sentences do not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Partnership in writing by the Representative on behalf of any Underwriter expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the Representative on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in the penultimate sentence of Section 8(b).

(g) Issuer Additional Written Communications. None of the Obligors have distributed or will distribute, prior to the later of the Closing Date and the completion of the Underwriters’ distribution of the Securities, any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities, other than (i) the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus reviewed and consented to by the Representative and included in Annex I hereto or (ii) any electronic road show or other written communications reviewed and consented to by the Representative and listed on Annex II hereto (such information described in this Section 1(g)(ii) shall be referred to as an “Issuer Additional Written Communication”). Each such Issuer Additional Written Communication, when taken together with the Pricing Disclosure Package, did not as of the Time of Sale, and at the Closing Date will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact

 

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necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Additional Written Communication made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Partnership in writing by the Representative on behalf of any Underwriter expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the Representative on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in the penultimate sentence of Section 8(b).

(h) No Applicable Registration or Other Similar Rights. There are no persons with registration or other similar rights to have any equity or debt securities registered for sale under the Registration Statement or included in the offering contemplated by this Agreement, except for such rights as have been duly waived.

(i) Authorization of this Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Obligors.

(j) Authorization of the DTC Agreement. The DTC Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by, and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of, each of the Issuers, enforceable against each of the Issuers in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles.

(k) Authorization of the Indenture and the Guarantees. The Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act. The Base Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Obligors that are parties thereto and, assuming due authorization and execution thereof by the Original Trustee and the due authorization and execution of the Trustee Replacement Agreement by the Trustee, constitutes a valid and binding agreement of such Obligors, enforceable against each of such Obligors in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles. The Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized by each of the Obligors and, at the Closing Date, will have been duly executed and delivered by each of the Obligors, and, assuming due authorization and execution of the Supplemental Indenture by the Trustee, will constitute a valid and binding agreement of each of the Obligors, enforceable against each of the Obligors in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles. Assuming due authorization and execution of the Base Indenture by the Original Trustee, and due authorization and execution of the Trustee Replacement Agreement and the Supplemental Indenture by the Trustee, upon execution and delivery of the Supplemental Indenture, the Indenture will constitute a valid and binding agreement of each of the Obligors, enforceable against each of the Obligors in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles.

 

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(l) Authorization of the Notes. The Notes to be purchased by the Underwriters from the Issuers will on the Closing Date be in the form contemplated by the Indenture, have been duly authorized by the Issuers for issuance and sale pursuant to this Agreement and the Indenture and, at the Closing Date, will have been duly executed by each of the Issuers and, when authenticated in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor, will constitute valid and binding obligations of each of the Issuers, enforceable against each of the Issuers in accordance with their terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

(m) Description of the Transaction Documents. The Transaction Documents conform or will conform in all material respects to the respective statements relating thereto contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(n) Independent Accountants. Each of (i) Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”), which expressed its opinion with respect to the financial statements (which term as used in this Agreement includes the related notes thereto) and supporting schedules as of December 31, 2022, and for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2022, as filed with the Commission and included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus and (ii) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), which (x) expressed its opinion with respect to the financial statements and supporting schedules as of December 31, 2023 for the year then ended and (y) reviewed the financial statements and supporting schedules as of and for the three month period ended March 31, 2024, each as filed with the Commission and included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Partnership within the meaning of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and any non-audit services provided by either EY or PwC to any of the Obligors has been approved by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the General Partner (as defined below).

(o) Preparation of the Financial Statements.

(i) The financial statements, together with the related schedules and notes, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus comply with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act in all material respects and present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the entities to which they relate as of and at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and cash flows for the periods specified. Such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States (“GAAP”), applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as may be expressly stated in the related notes thereto. The financial data set forth in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus fairly present the information set forth therein on a basis consistent with that of the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus.

 

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The statistical and market-related data and forward-looking statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Issuers and their Subsidiaries believe to be reliable and accurate in all material respects and represent their good faith estimates that are made on the basis of data derived from such sources.

(p) Incorporation and Good Standing of the Issuers and the Guarantors.

(i) The Partnership (A) is a limited partnership duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, (B) has all requisite limited partnership power and authority, and has all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals, necessary to own its properties and carry on its business as its business is now being conducted as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated under each of the Transaction Documents, except where the failure to obtain such licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (as defined below) or a material and adverse effect on the ability of the Obligors to meet their obligations under the Transaction Documents, and (C) is qualified to do business in all jurisdictions in which the nature of the business conducted by it makes such qualifications necessary, except where failure to so qualify would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. As used herein, the term “Material Adverse Effect” means any material and adverse effect on the prospects, assets, liabilities, financial condition, business or operations of the Partnership and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. As used herein, the term “Subsidiary” means as to any person or entity, any corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity controlled by such person or entity directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries. For purposes of this definition, “control” of a person or entity means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such person or entity, whether by contract or otherwise. Notwithstanding the above, for purposes of this definition and this Agreement, T&P Syngas Supply Company, a Delaware general partnership (“T&P Syngas”), Poseidon Oil Pipeline Company, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“Poseidon”), Neptune Pipeline Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Neptune”), Odyssey Pipeline L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“Odyssey”), Independence Hub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Independence Hub”), Nautilus Pipeline Company, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“Nautilus”), Manta Ray Offshore Gathering Company, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“Manta Ray Offshore”), Atlantis Offshore, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Atlantis”), and Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline Company, LLC (“CHOPS” and, together with T&P Syngas, Poseidon, Neptune, Odyssey, Independence Hub, Nautilus, Manta Ray Offshore and Atlantis, the “Joint Venture Entities”), shall not be Subsidiaries. Schedule B attached hereto contains a complete and accurate list of all of the Partnership’s Subsidiaries on the date hereof.

 

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(ii) Finance Corp. (A) is a corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and (B) has all requisite corporate power and authority, and has all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals, necessary to perform its obligations under each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated thereby, except where the failure to obtain such licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a material and adverse effect on the ability of the Obligors to meet their obligations under the Transaction Documents.

(iii) Each of the Subsidiaries has been duly incorporated or formed, as applicable, and is validly existing as a corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation, as applicable, and has corporate, partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and, in the case of each of the Guarantors, to enter into and perform its obligations under each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated thereby. Each of the Subsidiaries has all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals, necessary to own its properties and carry on its business as its business is now being conducted as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and to perform its obligations under each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated thereby, except where the failure to obtain such licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a material and adverse effect on the ability of the Obligors to meet their obligations under the Transaction Documents. Each of the Subsidiaries is duly qualified as a foreign corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except for such jurisdictions where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(iv) Schedule C attached hereto contains a complete and accurate list of all of the Partnership’s “significant subsidiaries” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Act) as of December 31, 2023.

(q) Capitalization.

(i) The Partnership’s capitalization is as set forth under the caption “Summary – Ownership Structure” in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The only issued and outstanding general partner interests of the Partnership are the interests of Genesis Energy, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the general partner of the Partnership (the “General Partner”), described in the Partnership’s Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership, dated as of December 28,

 

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2010 (as amended, the “Partnership Agreement”). All of the outstanding Common Units—Class A representing limited partnership interests of the Partnership (the “Common Units”), Common Units—Class B (“Class B Units”), and Class A Convertible Preferred Units (the “Preferred Units”) have been duly authorized and validly issued in accordance with applicable law and the Partnership Agreement and are fully paid (to the extent required by applicable law and under the Partnership Agreement) and non-assessable (except as such non-assessability may be affected by Sections 17-303, 17-607 and 17-804 of the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the “Delaware LP Act”)).

(ii) Other than the Genesis Energy, L.P. 2010 Long-Term Incentive Plan and the Genesis Energy 2018 Long-Term Incentive Plan, the Partnership has no equity compensation plans that contemplate the issuance of Common Units or any other class of equity (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Units or any other class of equity). The Partnership has no outstanding indebtedness having the right to vote (or convertible into or exchangeable for securities having the right to vote) on any matters on which the unitholders of the Partnership may vote. Except as set forth in the first sentence of this Section 1(q)(ii) or as disclosed in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no outstanding or authorized (A) options, warrants, preemptive rights, subscriptions, calls or other rights, convertible securities, agreements, claims or commitments of any character obligating any of the Obligors to issue, transfer or sell any partnership interests or other equity interests in any of the Obligors or securities convertible into or exchangeable for such partnership interests or other equity interests, (B) obligations of any of the Obligors to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any partnership interests or other equity interests in any of the Obligors or any such securities or agreements listed in clause (A) of this section or (C) voting trusts or similar agreements to which any of the Obligors is a party with respect to the voting of the equity interests of any of the Obligors.

(iii) The Partnership, directly or indirectly, owns (A) 100% of the partnership interests in Genesis Crude Oil, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”) (including the General Partner’s ownership of 0.01% of the partnership interests in the Operating Partnership), (B) 100% of the partnership interests in each of Genesis Pipeline Texas, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, Genesis Pipeline USA, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, and Genesis Syngas Investments, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Limited Partnership Subsidiaries”), (C) 100% of the equity interests in Finance Corp. and each other Guarantor not listed in clauses (A) or (B) of this Section 1(q)(iii), (D) 50% of the general partnership interests in T&P Syngas, (E) 64% of the equity interests in Poseidon, (F) 29% of the equity interests in Odyssey, (G) 80% of the equity interests in Independence Hub, (H) 25.67% of the equity interests in Neptune (which as of the date of this Agreement owns 100% of the equity interests in each of Nautilus and Manta Ray Offshore (which as of the date of this Agreement owns 50% of the equity interests in Atlantis)), and (I) 64% of the equity interests in CHOPS, in each case free and clear of any Liens (except for (1) such restrictions as may exist under applicable law, (2) such Liens as may be imposed under the Partnership Credit

 

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Agreement (as defined below) or the Partnership’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ credit facilities filed as exhibits to the Partnership SEC Documents, and (3) such Liens as may be imposed under that certain Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of June 1, 2023, by and among Poseidon, as the company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, ABN AMRO Capital USA LLC, BMO Capital Markets Corp., DNB Markets, Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, and each of the lenders party thereto (as amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time, the “Poseidon Credit Agreement”)), and all such ownership interests have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid (to the extent required by applicable law and the organizational documents of the Partnership’s Subsidiaries and Joint Venture Entities, as applicable) and non-assessable (except as non-assessability may be affected by the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act, Sections 17-303, 17-607 and 17-804 of the Delaware LP Act, Sections 18-607 and 18-804 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the “Delaware LLC Act”) or any analogous statute in the jurisdiction of formation of any Subsidiary of the Partnership, or the organizational documents of the Partnership’s Subsidiaries and Joint Venture Entities, as applicable) and free of preemptive rights, with no personal liability attaching to the ownership thereof, and except for the Joint Venture Entities, Paloma Pipe Line Company, a Delaware corporation, and LyondellBasell Industries N.V., a public company with limited liability in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, neither the Partnership nor any of its Subsidiaries owns directly or indirectly any shares of capital stock or other securities of, or interest in, any other person or entity (other than a Subsidiary listed on Schedule B), or is obligated to make any capital contribution to or other investment in any other person or entity. “Lien,” as used herein, means any interest in Property securing an obligation owed to, or a claim by, a person or entity other than the owner of the Property, whether such interest is based on the common law, statute or contract, and whether such obligation or claim is fixed or contingent, and including the lien or security interest arising from a mortgage, charge, encumbrance, pledge, security agreement, conditional sale or trust receipt or a lease, consignment or bailment for security purposes; provided, however, the term Lien shall not include a security interest in the equity interest in a joint venture that is required to be pledged under the joint venture’s organizational documents to the other equityholders of the joint venture. “Property,” as used herein, means any interest in any kind of property or assets, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible.

(iv) The General Partner is the sole general partner of the Partnership and each Limited Partnership Subsidiary, with a non-economic general partner interest in the Partnership and a non-economic general partner interest in each such Limited Partnership Subsidiary. Such general partner interests have been duly authorized and validly issued in accordance with applicable law, the Partnership Agreement and the partnership agreements of each such Limited Partnership Subsidiary and are fully paid (to the extent required by applicable law and under the Partnership Agreement and the partnership agreements of each such Limited Partnership Subsidiary) and non-assessable (except as such non-assessability may be affected by Sections 17-303, 17-607 and 17-804 of the Delaware LP Act).

 

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(r) Non-Contravention of Existing Instruments; No Further Authorizations or Approvals Required. Neither Issuer nor any of their respective Subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its charter, bylaws or other constitutive document or (ii) in default (or, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, would be in default) (“Default”) under any indenture, mortgage, loan or credit agreement, note, contract, franchise, lease or other instrument to which either Issuer or any of their respective Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of them may be bound (including, without limitation, the Partnership’s Sixth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 17, 2023, among the Partnership, as borrower, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent and issuing bank, and Bank of America, N.A., as syndication agent, and the lenders and other parties party thereto (as amended, the “Partnership Credit Agreement”)), or to which any of the property or assets of either Issuer or any of their respective Subsidiaries is subject (each, an “Existing Instrument”), except, in the case of clause (ii) above, for such Defaults as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the Issuers and the Guarantors party thereto, and the issuance and delivery of the Securities, and consummation of the transactions contemplated under each of the Transaction Documents and by the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus (x) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, limited partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, action and will not result in any violation of the provisions of the charter, bylaws or other constitutive document of either of the Issuers or any of their respective Subsidiaries, (y) will not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or Default or a Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any property or assets of either of the Issuers or any of their respective Subsidiaries pursuant to, or require the consent of any other party to, any Existing Instrument, except for Liens as may be imposed under the Partnership Credit Agreement or an Issuer’s or its respective Subsidiary’s credit facilities filed as exhibits to the Partnership SEC Documents or such conflicts, breaches, Defaults, Debt Repayment Trigger Events and Liens as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect and (z) will not result in any violation of any law, administrative regulation or administrative or court decree applicable to either of the Issuers or any of their respective Subsidiaries, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. No consent, approval, authorization or other order of, or registration or filing with, any court or other governmental or regulatory authority or agency is required for the execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by any of the Obligors to the extent a party thereto, or the issuance and delivery of the Securities, or consummation of the transactions contemplated under each of the Transaction Documents and by the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, such as have been obtained or made by the Issuers and are in full force and effect, or such as may be required under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or the applicable securities laws of the several states of the United States and any foreign jurisdictions. As used herein, a “Debt Repayment Triggering Event” means any event or condition which gives, or with the giving of notice or lapse of time would give, the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by either of the Issuers or any of their respective Subsidiaries.

 

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(s) No Material Actions or Proceedings. Except as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no actions, suits, claims, investigations or proceedings pending or, to any Obligor’s knowledge, threatened or contemplated to which any of the Obligors or any of their Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors or officers is or would be a party or of which any of their respective properties is or would be subject at law or in equity, before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency, or before or by any self-regulatory organization or other non-governmental regulatory authority (including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”)), except any such action, suit, claim, investigation or proceeding which, if resolved adversely to any of the Obligors or any of their Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors or officers or properties, would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no legal or governmental actions, suits or proceedings pending, or to any Obligor’s knowledge, threatened or contemplated that are required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus and are not so disclosed.

(t) Intellectual Property Rights. Each of the Issuers and their respective Subsidiaries owns or possesses all inventions, patent applications, patents, trademarks (both registered and unregistered), trade names, service names, copyrights, trade secrets and other proprietary information described in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Issuer Additional Written Communication (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing), as being owned or licensed by it or which is necessary for the conduct of, or material to, its businesses (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”), except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect or adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein, and none of the Obligors are aware of any claim to the contrary or any challenge by any other person to the rights of either Issuer or any of their respective Subsidiaries with respect to the Intellectual Property. To the knowledge of the Obligors, none of the Issuers or their respective Subsidiaries has infringed or is infringing the intellectual property of a third party, and none of the Issuers or any of their respective Subsidiaries has received notice of a claim by a third party to the contrary.

(u) All Necessary Permits, etc. Each of the Issuers and each of their respective Subsidiaries possess such valid and current certificates, authorizations or permits issued by the appropriate state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct their respective businesses, and neither the Issuers nor any of their respective Subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of, or non-compliance with, any such certificate, authorization or permit which, individually or in the aggregate, if not in the possession of the Issuers or their respective Subsidiaries or the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(v) Title to Properties. Each of the Issuers and each of their respective Subsidiaries has good and marketable title to all the properties (real and personal) described in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Issuer Additional Written Communication (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing) as being owned by any of them, in each case free and clear of any Liens, equities, claims and other defects (except as may exist under applicable law and as may be imposed under the Partnership Credit Agreement or an Issuer’s or its respective Subsidiary’s credit facilities filed as exhibits to the Partnership SEC Documents or the Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 17, 2022, by and among GA ORRI, LLC, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as collateral agent, and the purchasers listed therein or do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Issuers and their respective Subsidiaries); all the property described in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Issuer Additional Written Communication (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing) as being held under lease by any of the Issuers or any of their respective Subsidiaries is held thereby under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(w) Tax Law Compliance.

(i) The Partnership met for the taxable year ended December 31, 2023, and the Partnership expects to meet for the taxable year ending December 31, 2024, the gross income requirements of Section 7704(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as amended from time to time, the “Code,” which term, as used herein, includes the regulations and published interpretations thereunder), and accordingly the Partnership is not, and does not reasonably expect to be, taxed as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes or for applicable tax purposes.

(ii) All tax returns required to be filed by the Issuers or any of their respective Subsidiaries have been timely filed, except for such failure to file which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, and all taxes and other assessments of a similar nature (whether imposed directly or through withholding) including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto due or claimed to be due from such entities have been timely paid, other than those being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been provided or where such failure to pay would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(x) Issuers and Guarantors Not an Investment Company. None of the Obligors is, or after receipt of payment for the Securities and the application of the proceeds as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus will be, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (as amended, the “Investment Company Act,” which term, as used herein, includes the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder).

 

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(y) Insurance. Each of the Issuers and each of their respective Subsidiaries are insured with policies in such amounts and with such deductibles and covering such risks as the Partnership believes in its sole discretion to be prudent for its businesses taken as a whole. The Issuers have no reason to believe that they or any of their respective Subsidiaries will not be able to (i) renew their existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (ii) obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct their respective businesses as now conducted, except where such non-renewal or inability to obtain comparable coverage would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(z) No Price Stabilization or Manipulation. None of the Issuers or their Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors, officers, Affiliates or controlling persons has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of either of the Issuers to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.

(aa) Solvency. Each of the Obligors is, and immediately after the Closing Date, will be, Solvent. As used herein, the term “Solvent” means, with respect to any person on a particular date, that on such date (i) the fair market value of the assets of such person is greater than the total amount of liabilities (including contingent liabilities) of such person, (ii) the present fair salable value of the assets of such person is greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liabilities of such person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (iii) such person is able to realize upon its assets and pay its debts and other liabilities, including contingent obligations, as they mature and (iv) such person does not have unreasonably small capital.

(bb) Obligors Accounting System. The Obligors maintain a system of internal accounting controls that is in compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act,” which term, as used herein, includes the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder) and is sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (v) the interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

(cc) Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Partnership has established and maintains and evaluates “disclosure controls and procedures” (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act); such disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Partnership, including its consolidated Subsidiaries, is made known to the General Partner’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer by others within those entities, and such disclosure controls and

 

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procedures are effective to perform the functions for which they were established; the Partnership’s independent auditors and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the General Partner have been advised of: (i) all significant deficiencies, if any, in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the Partnership’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data; and (ii) all fraud, if any, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a role in the Partnership’s internal controls; all material weaknesses, if any, in internal controls have been identified to the Partnership’s independent auditors; since the date of the most recent evaluation of such disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls, there have been no significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses; the principal executive officers (or their equivalents) and principal financial officers (or their equivalents) of the Partnership have made all certifications required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the statements contained in each such certification are complete and correct; the Partnership, its Subsidiaries and the Partnership’s directors and officers are each in compliance in all material respects with all applicable effective provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission and the NYSE promulgated thereunder.

(dd) Regulations T, U or X. Neither Issuer nor any of their respective Subsidiaries nor any agent thereof acting on their behalf has taken, and none of them will take, any action that might cause this Agreement or the issuance or sale of the Securities to violate Regulation T, Regulation U or Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

(ee) Compliance with and Liability Under Environmental Laws. The Issuers and their Subsidiaries and their respective properties, assets and operations are in compliance with, and each of the Issuers and their respective Subsidiaries hold all permits, authorizations and approvals required under, Environmental Laws (as defined below), except to the extent that failure to so comply or to hold such permits, authorizations or approvals would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; there are no past, present or, to any Obligor’s knowledge, reasonably anticipated future events, conditions, circumstances, activities, practices, actions, omissions or plans that could reasonably be expected to give rise to any material costs or liabilities to any of the Issuers or their respective Subsidiaries under, or to interfere with or prevent compliance by any of the Issuers or their respective Subsidiaries with, Environmental Laws, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; none of the Issuers or their respective Subsidiaries (i) is the subject of any investigation, (ii) has received any notice or claim, (iii) is a party to or affected by any pending or, to any Obligor’s knowledge, threatened action, suit or proceeding, (iv) is bound by any judgment, decree or order or (v) has entered into any agreement, in each case relating to any alleged violation of any Environmental Law or any actual or alleged release or threatened release or cleanup at any location of any Hazardous Materials (as defined below) except as described in the Partnership SEC Documents or that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect (as used herein, “Environmental Law” means any federal, state, local or foreign law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, decree, judgment, injunction, permit, license, authorization or other binding requirement, or common law, relating to health, safety or the protection, cleanup or restoration of the environment or natural resources, including those

 

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relating to the distribution, processing, generation, treatment, storage, disposal, transportation, other handling or release or threatened release of Hazardous Materials, and “Hazardous Materials” means any material (including, without limitation, pollutants, contaminants, hazardous or toxic substances or wastes) that is regulated by or may give rise to liability under any Environmental Law).

(ff) ERISA Compliance. The Obligors and any “employee benefit plan” (as defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (as amended, “ERISA,” which term, as used herein, includes the regulations and published interpretations thereunder) established, maintained, sponsored, contributed to or required to be contributed to, by the Obligors or their ERISA Affiliates (as defined below) or with respect to which any of the foregoing has or could reasonably be expected to have any liability (other than a Multiemployer Plan (as defined below)) are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable laws, including the Code and ERISA and, to the knowledge of the Obligors, each “multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 4001 of ERISA) to which the Obligors or an ERISA Affiliate (as defined below) contributes, is required to contribute or with respect to which any of the foregoing has or could have any liability (a “Multiemployer Plan”) is in compliance in all material respects with all applicable laws, including the Code and ERISA, except in each case for such noncompliance as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. “ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to any of the Obligors, any entity that would be considered a single employer with such Obligor under Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code. No “reportable event” (as defined under ERISA) has occurred within the last six years, is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any “employee benefit plan” established, maintained, sponsored, contributed to or required to be contributed to, by any of the Obligors or any of their ERISA Affiliates or with respect to which any of the foregoing has or could reasonably be expected to have any liability (other than a Multiemployer Plan) or, to the knowledge of the Obligors, is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Multiemployer Plan. None of the Obligors or any of their ERISA Affiliates has within the last six years incurred any unsatisfied liability or reasonably expects to incur any liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “employee benefit plan” or (ii) Sections 412, 4971, 4975 or 4980B of the Code, except for such liability as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Each “employee benefit plan” established, maintained, sponsored, contributed to or required to be contributed to, by any of the Obligors or any of their ERISA Affiliates or with respect to which any of the foregoing has or could reasonably be expected to have any liability (other than a Multiemployer Plan) that is intended to be qualified under Section 401 of the Code is so qualified, to the knowledge of the Obligors, each Multiemployer Plan is so qualified and, to the knowledge of the Obligors, nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, which could reasonably be expected to cause the loss of such qualification with respect to any of the foregoing.

(gg) Compliance with Labor Laws. None of the Obligors is engaged in any unfair labor practice; except for matters which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) there is (A) no unfair labor practice complaint pending or, to the Obligors’ knowledge, threatened against any of the Obligors before the National Labor Relations Board, and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under collective bargaining

 

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agreements is pending or, to the Obligors’ knowledge, threatened, (B) no strike, labor dispute, slowdown or stoppage pending or, to the Obligor’s knowledge, threatened against any of the Obligors and (C) no union representation dispute currently existing concerning the employees of any of the Obligors, (ii) to the Obligors’ knowledge, no union organizing activities are currently taking place concerning the employees of any of the Obligors and (iii) there has been no violation of any federal, state, local or foreign law relating to discrimination in the hiring, promotion or pay of employees, any applicable wage or hour laws or any provision of ERISA concerning the employees of any of the Obligors.

(hh) No Unlawful Contributions or Other Payments. Neither of the Issuers nor any of their Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Obligors, any director, officer, agent, affiliate, employee or other person acting on behalf of the Issuers or any of their Subsidiaries is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that has resulted or would result in (i) the use of any funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity, (ii) the making or taking of an act in furtherance of an offer, promise or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government or regulatory official or employee, including of any government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office, (iii) a violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder, or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws or (iv) the making, offering, requesting or taking of, or the agreement to take, an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment or benefit. The Partnership has instituted, maintains and enforces, and will continue to maintain and enforce policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote and ensure compliance with all applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws.

(ii) No Conflict with Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Issuers and their Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines issued, administered or enforced by any governmental applicable agency, in each case having the force and effect of law (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Issuers or their Subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Obligors, threatened.

(jj) No Conflict with Sanctions Laws. None of the Issuers or any of their Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Obligors, any director, officer, agent, affiliate, employee or other person acting on behalf of the Issuers or their Subsidiaries currently is an individual or entity that is, or that is owned or controlled by persons that are, (i) the subject of any sanctions enforced or administered by the United States (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department or the U.S. Department of

 

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State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or His Majesty’s treasury (collectively, the “Sanctions”) or (ii) located, organized, or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of comprehensive Sanctions, currently, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, the Crimea regions of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria (collectively, “Sanctioned Countries”); and the Issuers will not directly or, knowingly, indirectly use the proceeds of the sale of the Securities, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (A) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any person or entity that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the target of any Sanctions, (B) to fund or facilitate any activities of or any business in any Sanctioned Country or (C) in any other manner that could result in a violation by any person or entity (including any person participating in the offering and sale of Securities, whether as Underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of any applicable Sanctions. For the past ten years, the Obligors have not engaged in, are not now to their knowledge engaged in, and will not engage in, any dealings or transactions with any person or entity that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the target of any Sanctions or with or in any Sanctioned Country.

(kk) Certain Statements. The statements set forth in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus under the captions “Description of Notes,” “Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations,” “Description of Certain Other Indebtedness,” “Material Income Tax Consequences,” and “Investment in the Notes by Employee Benefit Plans and IRAs,” as updated, amended or supplemented by the statements made or incorporated by reference in each of the Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein, are accurate, complete and fair.

(ll) Accuracy of Exhibits. There are no franchises, contracts or documents that are required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or the documents incorporated by reference therein or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement that have not been so described or filed as required.

(mm) No Adverse Events or Material Changes in Operation of Business.

(i) Neither the Partnership nor any of its Subsidiaries has sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus; and, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, there has not been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Partnership or any of its Subsidiaries or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Partnership and its Subsidiaries, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus.

 

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(ii) Except as set forth in the Partnership SEC Documents or described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, since December 31, 2022, the Partnership and each of its Subsidiaries has conducted its business in the ordinary course, consistent with past practice, and there has been no (i) change that has had or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) acquisition or disposition of any material asset by the Partnership or any of its Subsidiaries or any contract or arrangement therefor, otherwise than for fair value in the ordinary course of business, (iii) material change in the Partnership’s accounting principles, practices or methods or (iv) incurrence of material indebtedness.

(nn) Marine Subsidiaries. Genesis Marine, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Genesis Marine”), is a citizen of the United States within the meaning of 46 U.S.C. Sec. 50501 for the purpose of operating the vessels in the trades in which Genesis Marine operates its vessels as described in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus; after giving effect to the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and the sale of the Securities by the Underwriters, Genesis Marine will remain a citizen of the United States within the meaning of 46 U.S.C. Sec. 50501 and qualified to engage in the coastwise trade of the United States.

(oo) IT Systems. Except as would not be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Partnership’s and its Subsidiaries’ information technology assets and equipment, computers, systems, networks, hardware, software, websites, applications, and databases (collectively, “IT Systems”) operate and perform as required in connection with the operation of the business of the Partnership and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted, free and clear of, to the knowledge of the Partnership, all bugs, errors, defects, Trojan horses, time bombs, malware and other corruptants. Except as would not be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) the Partnership and its Subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable controls, policies, procedures, and safeguards to maintain and protect their material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and all personal data and sensitive, confidential or regulated data maintained or processed by the Partnership and its Subsidiaries in connection with their businesses (collectively, the “Confidential Data”), and (ii) to the knowledge of the Partnership, there have been no breaches, violations, outages or unauthorized uses of or accesses to such Confidential Data, except for those that have been remedied without material cost or liability or the duty to notify any other person. Except as would not be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, to the knowledge of the Obligors, the Partnership and its Subsidiaries are presently in compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all applicable judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, and all internal policies and contractual obligations of the Partnership and its Subsidiaries, governing the privacy and security of IT Systems and Confidential Data and the protection of such IT Systems and Confidential Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification.

 

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Any certificate signed by an officer of any Obligor and delivered to the Underwriters or to counsel for the Underwriters shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the applicable Obligor to each Underwriter as to the matters set forth therein.

SECTION 2. Purchase, Sale and Delivery of the Securities.

(a) The Securities. Each of the Obligors agrees to issue and sell to the Underwriters, severally and not jointly, all of the Securities, and, subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Underwriters agree, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Obligors the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their names on Schedule A, at a purchase price of 98.500% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, from May 9, 2024, payable on the Closing Date, in each case, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, and upon the terms herein set forth.

(b) The Closing Date. Delivery of certificates for the Securities in global form to be purchased by the Underwriters and payment therefor shall be made at the offices of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP at 600 Travis, Suite 4200, Houston, Texas 77002 at 9:00 a.m., Central Time, on May 9, 2024, or at such other place, time or date as the Underwriters, on the one hand, and the Issuers, on the other hand, may agree upon, unless postponed as contemplated by the provisions of Section 17 hereof (such time and date of delivery against payment being herein referred to as the “Closing Date”).

(c) Public Offering of the Securities. The Representative hereby advises the Partnership that the Underwriters intend to offer for sale to the public, as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, their respective portions of the Securities as soon after the Execution Time as the Representative, in its sole judgment, has determined is advisable and practicable. The Underwriters have not offered or sold and will not offer or sell, without the Partnership’s consent, any Securities by means of any “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Act) that is required to be filed by the Underwriters with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433 under the Act, other than a Permitted Free Writing Prospectus; provided that (i) no such consent shall be required with respect to any such issuer information contained in any document filed by the Issuers with the Commission prior to the use of such free writing prospectus and (ii) “issuer information,” as used in this Section 2(c), shall not be deemed to include information prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter on the basis of or derived from issuer information.

(d) Payment for and Delivery of the Securities. The Partnership shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, through the facilities of the Depositary, to the Representative for the accounts of the several Underwriters certificates for the Securities at the Closing Date against the irrevocable release of a wire transfer of immediately available funds for the amount of the purchase price therefor. The certificates for the Securities shall be in global form and in such denominations and registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of the Depositary, pursuant to the DTC Agreement, and shall be made available for inspection on the business day preceding the Closing Date at a location in New York City, as the Representative may designate. Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified in this Agreement is a further condition to the obligations of the Underwriters.

 

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SECTION 3. Additional Covenants.

(a) Each of the Obligors further covenants and agrees, jointly and severally, with each Underwriter as follows:

(i) Compliance with Securities Regulations and Commission Requests. The Issuers, subject to Section 3(a)(ii), shall comply with the requirements of Rule 430B of the Securities Act, and shall promptly notify the Representative, and confirm the notice in writing, of (i) the effectiveness during the Prospectus Delivery Period (as defined below) of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or the filing of any supplement or amendment to the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, other than a Current Report on Form 8-K disclosing the terms of this Agreement and containing exhibits to the Registration Statement, (ii) the receipt of any comments from the Commission during the Prospectus Delivery Period, (iii) any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or for additional information, and (iv) the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the use of the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, or of the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes. The Obligors shall effect the filings required pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b), and shall take such steps as the Partnership deems necessary to ascertain promptly whether the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus transmitted for filing under Rule 424 were received for filing by the Commission and, in the event that any of them was not, the Issuers shall promptly file such document. The Obligors shall use their reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order referred to above and, if any such stop order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment.

(ii) Filing of Amendments. During the period beginning on the Execution Date and ending on the later of the Closing Date or such date as, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, the Prospectus is no longer required by law to be delivered in connection with sales of the Securities by an Underwriter or dealer, including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172 under the Securities Act (the “Prospectus Delivery Period”), the Issuers shall give the Representative notice of its intention to file or prepare any amendment to the Registration Statement, or any amendment, supplement or revision to the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, whether pursuant to the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, other than a Current Report on Form 8-K disclosing the terms of this Agreement and containing exhibits to the Registration Statement, shall furnish the Representative with copies of any such documents a reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing or use, as the case may be, and shall not file or use any such document to which the Representative or counsel for the Underwriters shall reasonably object in writing (unless the Partnership is advised by counsel that it is required by law to make such filing).

 

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(iii) Delivery of Registration Statements. The Issuers have furnished or will deliver to the Representative upon request a reasonable number of copies of the Registration Statement, as initially filed with the Commission, and of all amendments thereto (including all exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein) and sufficient copies of the foregoing (other than exhibits) for distribution of a copy to each of the other Underwriters. The Registration Statement and each amendment thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.

(iv) Delivery of Prospectuses. The Issuers shall deliver to each Underwriter, without charge, as many copies of the Preliminary Prospectus as such Underwriter may reasonably request (exclusive of Incorporated Documents), and the Issuers hereby consent to the use of such copies for purposes permitted by the Securities Act. The Issuers shall furnish to each Underwriter, without charge, during the Prospectus Delivery Period, such number of copies of the Prospectus (exclusive of Incorporated Documents) as such Underwriter may reasonably request. The Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto furnished to the Underwriters shall be identical to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.

(v) Continued Compliance with Securities Laws. The Obligors shall comply with the Securities Act and the Exchange Act so as to permit the completion of the distribution of the Securities as contemplated in this Agreement and in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. If at any time during the Prospectus Delivery Period, any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which it is necessary, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters or for the Partnership, to amend the Registration Statement in order that the Registration Statement will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or to amend or supplement the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus in order that the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may be, will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at the Time of Sale or at the time it is delivered or conveyed to a purchaser, not misleading, or if it shall be necessary, in the opinion of either such counsel, at any such time to amend the Registration Statement or amend or supplement the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus in order to comply with the requirements of any law, the Issuers shall (i) notify the Representative of any such event, development or condition and (ii) promptly prepare and file with the Commission, subject to Section 3(a)(ii), such amendment or supplement as may be necessary to correct such statement or omission or to make the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus comply with such law, and the Issuers shall furnish to the Underwriters, without charge, such number of copies of such amendment or supplement as the Underwriters may reasonably request.

 

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(vi) Blue Sky Compliance. Each of the Obligors shall cooperate with the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters to qualify or register (or to obtain exemptions from qualifying or registering) all or any part of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities laws of the several states of the United States or any other jurisdictions reasonably designated by the Representative, shall comply with such laws and shall continue such qualifications, registrations and exemptions in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Securities. None of the Obligors shall be required to qualify as a foreign entity or to take any action that would subject it to general service of process in any such jurisdiction where it is not presently qualified or where it would be subject to taxation as a foreign entity. The Obligors shall advise the Representative promptly of the suspension of the qualification or registration of (or any such exemption relating to) the Securities for offering, sale or trading in any jurisdiction or any initiation or threat of any proceeding for any such purpose, and in the event of the issuance of any order suspending such qualification, registration or exemption, each of the Obligors shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal thereof at the earliest possible moment.

(vii) Use of Proceeds. The Issuers shall apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities in the manner described under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(viii) The Depositary. The Issuers shall cooperate with the Underwriters and use their reasonable best efforts to permit the Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through the facilities of the Depositary.

(ix) Periodic Reporting Obligations. During the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Issuers shall file, on a timely basis, with the Commission and the NYSE all reports and documents required to be filed under the Exchange Act.

(x) Agreement Not To Offer or Sell Additional Securities. During the period of 60 days following the date hereof, the Issuers shall not, without the prior written consent of the Representative (which consent may be withheld at the sole discretion of the Representative), directly or indirectly, sell, offer, contract or grant any option to sell, pledge, transfer or establish an open “put equivalent position” within the meaning of Rule 16a-1 under the Exchange Act, or otherwise dispose of or transfer, or announce the offering of, or file any registration statement under the Securities Act in respect of, any debt securities of the Partnership or securities exchangeable for or convertible into debt securities of the Partnership (other than as contemplated by this Agreement with respect to the Securities), except for the filing of a universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3 to register Common Units or other Partnership securities, provided that the Partnership shall not issue any debt securities or securities exchangeable for or convertible into any debt securities thereunder until expiration of such 60 day period.

 

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(xi) Final Term Sheet. The Issuers shall prepare a final term sheet in a form approved by the Representative and attached as Annex III hereto, and shall file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act within the time required by such rule (such term sheet, the “Final Term Sheet”). Any such Final Term Sheet is an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus for purposes of this Agreement.

(xii) Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses. Each of the Obligors represents that it has not made, and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior written consent of the Representative, it shall not make, any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) required to be filed by such Obligor with the Commission or retained by such Obligor under Rule 433 under the Securities Act; provided that the prior written consent of the Representative shall be deemed to have been given in respect of any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses included in Annex I to this Agreement. Any such free writing prospectus consented to or deemed to be consented to by the Representative is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” Each of the Obligors agrees that (i) it has treated and shall treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and (ii) has complied and shall comply, as the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping.

(xiii) Notice of Inability to Use Automatic Shelf Registration Statement Form. If at any time during the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Issuers receive from the Commission a notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act or otherwise cease to be eligible to use the automatic shelf registration statement form, the Issuers shall (i) promptly notify the Representative, (ii) promptly file a new registration statement or post-effective amendment on the proper form relating to the Securities, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Representative, (iii) use their respective best efforts to cause such registration statement or post-effective amendment to be declared effective and (iv) promptly notify the Representative of such effectiveness. The Issuers shall take all other action reasonably necessary or appropriate to permit the public offering and sale of the Securities to continue as contemplated in the registration statement that was the subject of the Rule 401(g)(2) notice or for which the Issuers have otherwise become ineligible. References herein to Registration Statement shall include such new registration statement or post-effective amendment, as the case may be.

(xiv) Filing Fees. The Issuers agree to pay the required Commission filing fees relating to the Securities within the time required by and in accordance with Rules 456(b)(1) and 457(r) under the Securities Act.

(xv) Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act. During the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Obligors shall comply, in all material respects, with all applicable securities laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and use their commercially reasonable efforts to cause the directors and officers of the each of the Obligors, in their capacities as such, to comply, in all material respects, with such laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

 

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(xvi) Earnings Statement. As soon as practicable, the Partnership will make generally available to its security holders and the Underwriters an earnings statement (which need not be audited) satisfying the requirements of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 of the rules and regulations of the Commission thereto.

(xvii) No Manipulation of Price. None of the Obligors shall take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or result in, or that has constituted or might reasonably be expected to constitute, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any securities of any Obligor to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.

The Representative, on behalf of the several Underwriters, may, in its sole discretion, waive in writing the performance by any Obligor of any one or more of the foregoing covenants or extend the time for their performance.

SECTION 4. Payment of Expenses. Each of the Obligors agrees jointly and severally to pay all costs, fees and expenses incurred in connection with the performance of its obligations hereunder and in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, (i) all expenses incident to the issuance and delivery of the Securities (including all printing and engraving costs), (ii) all necessary issue, transfer and other stamp taxes in connection with the original issuance and sale of the Securities to the Underwriters, (iii) all fees and expenses of the Obligors’ counsel, independent public or certified public accountants and other advisors, (iv) all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, printing, filing, shipping and distribution of the Registration Statement (including financial statements, exhibits, schedules, consents and certificates of experts, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, and all amendments and supplements thereto, and the Transaction Documents), (v) all filing fees and expenses incurred by the Obligors or the Underwriters in connection with qualifying or registering (or obtaining exemptions from the qualification or registration of) all or any part of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities laws of the several states of the United States, the provinces of Canada or other jurisdictions reasonably designated by the Underwriters (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters related to such qualification and registration and the cost of preparing, printing and mailing preliminary and final blue sky or legal investment memoranda and any related supplements to the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus), (vi) the fees and expenses of the Trustee, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Trustee in connection with the Indenture and the Securities, (vii) any fees payable in connection with the rating of the Securities with the ratings agencies, (viii) any reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters in an amount that is not greater than $20,000 in connection with, the review, if any, by FINRA of the terms of the sale of the Securities, (ix) all fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) of the Obligors in connection with approval of the Securities by the Depositary for “book-entry” transfer, and the performance by the Obligors of their respective other obligations under this Agreement, (x) all expenses incident to the “road show” for the offering of the Securities, and (xi) one-half the cost

 

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of any airplane used in connection with the “road show.” Except as provided in this Section 4 and Sections 6, 8 and 9 hereof, the Underwriters shall pay their own expenses, including the fees and disbursements of their counsel and reimburse the Obligors for the other half of the cost of any airplane used in connection with the “road show” for the offering of the Securities incurred by the Obligors for which the Obligors are not responsible under clause (xi) above.

SECTION 5. Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Securities as provided herein on the Closing Date shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Obligors set forth in Section 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date as though then made and to the timely performance by the Obligors of their respective covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to each of the following additional conditions:

(a) Effectiveness of Registration Statement. (i) The Registration Statement shall have become effective under the Securities Act and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the Securities Act and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or be pending or threatened by the Commission, (ii) any request on the part of the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with, to the reasonable satisfaction of counsel for the Underwriters, and (iii) the Issuers shall not have received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act objecting to use of the automatic shelf registration statement form. The Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in accordance with Rule 424(b) (or any required post-effective amendment providing such information shall have been filed and declared effective in accordance with the requirements of Rule 430A under the Securities Act). The Final Term Sheet, and any other material required to be filed by the Issuers pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings under such Rule 433.

(b) Accountants’ Comfort Letter. On the date hereof, the Underwriters shall have received from (i) EY, the previous independent registered public accounting firm for the Partnership, and (ii) PwC, the current independent registered public accounting firm for the Partnership, a “comfort letter” dated the date hereof addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, covering the financial information in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus with respect to the Partnership and its Subsidiaries and other customary matters. In addition, on the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received from EY and PwC a “bring-down comfort letter” dated the Closing Date addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, in the form of the “comfort letter” delivered by such accounting firm on the date hereof, except that procedures shall be brought down to a date no more than three days prior to the Closing Date.

 

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(c) No Material Adverse Effect or Ratings Agency Change. For the period from and after the date of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date:

(i) there has been no change or any development involving a prospective change in the business, properties, management, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Partnership and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, the effect of which change or development is, in the sole judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering, sale or the delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in this Agreement and in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and

(ii) there shall not have occurred any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a possible change that does not indicate the direction of the possible change, in the rating accorded any of the Obligors or any of their respective securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act.

(d) Opinion of Counsel for the Issuers. On the Closing Date the Underwriters shall have received the favorable opinions of each of Paul Hastings LLP, counsel for the Issuers, Liskow & Lewis, a Professional Law Corporation, counsel for TDC, L.L.C., and the General Counsel of the Partnership, each addressed to the Underwriters and dated as of such Closing Date, and in substantially the form and substance as set forth in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2 and Exhibit A-3 hereto, respectively, and as otherwise reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters.

(e) Opinion of Counsel for the Underwriters. On the Closing Date the Underwriters shall have received the favorable opinion of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such Closing Date, with respect to such matters as may be reasonably requested by the Representative.

(f) Officer’s Certificate. On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received a written certificate, dated as of the Closing Date, of each of the Obligors’ Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer or any executive or senior vice president, or any other person with an office of equal or greater status than any of the foregoing, to the effect set forth in Section 5(c)(ii) hereof, and further to the effect that:

(i) for the period from and after the date of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date there has not occurred any Material Adverse Effect;

(ii) the representations, warranties and covenants of the Obligors set forth in Section 1 hereof were true and correct as of the Time of Sale and are true and correct as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as though expressly made on and as of the Closing Date; and

(iii) the Obligors have complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date.

 

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(g) Indenture. Each of the Obligors and the Trustee shall have executed and delivered the Indenture, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, and the Underwriters shall have received executed copies thereof.

(h) Additional Documents. On or before the Closing Date, the Underwriters and counsel for the Underwriters shall have received such information, documents and opinions as they may reasonably require for the purposes of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated herein, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations and warranties, or the satisfaction of any of the conditions or agreements, herein contained.

If any condition specified in this Section 5 is not satisfied when and as required to be satisfied, this Agreement may be terminated by the Representative by notice to the Partnership at any time on or prior to the Closing Date, which termination shall be without liability on the part of any party to any other party, except that Sections 4, 6, 8, 9 and 16 hereof shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.

SECTION 6. Reimbursement of Underwriters Expenses. If this Agreement is terminated by the Representative pursuant to Section 5 or 10 hereof, including if the sale to the Underwriters of the Securities on the Closing Date is not consummated because of any refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Obligors to perform any agreement herein or to comply with any provision hereof, each of the Obligors agrees jointly and severally to reimburse the Underwriters, in the case of termination pursuant to Section 5 or 10 hereof, severally, upon demand for all out-of-pocket expenses that shall have been reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in connection with the proposed purchase and the offering and sale of the Securities, including, without limitation, fees and disbursements of counsel, printing expenses, travel expenses, postage, facsimile and telephone charges.

SECTION 7. Effectiveness of this Agreement. This Agreement shall not become effective until the execution of this Agreement by the parties hereto.

SECTION 8. Indemnification.

(a) Indemnification of the Underwriters. Each of the Obligors, jointly and severally, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, directors, officers and employees, and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense, as incurred, to which such Underwriter, affiliate, director, officer, employee or controlling person may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other federal or state statutory law or regulation, or at common law or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation, if such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Partnership), insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or expense (or actions in respect thereof as contemplated below) arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Issuer Additional Written Communication or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing), or (ii) the omission

 

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or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein (in the case of the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Issuer Additional Written Communication or the Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading; and to reimburse each Underwriter and each such affiliate, director, officer, employee or controlling person for any and all expenses (including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by the Representative) as such expenses are reasonably incurred by such Underwriter or such affiliate, director, officer, employee or controlling person in connection with investigating, defending, settling, compromising or paying any such loss, claim, damage, liability, expense or action; provided, however, that the foregoing indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense to the extent, but only to the extent, arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Partnership by such Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Issuer Additional Written Communication or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing), it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the Representative on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in the penultimate sentence of Section 8(b). The indemnity agreement set forth in this Section 8(a) shall be in addition to any liabilities that the Obligors may otherwise have.

(b) Indemnification of the Obligors. Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless each of the Obligors, each of their respective directors and each person, if any, who controls an Obligor within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense, as incurred, to which an Obligor or any such director or controlling person may become subject, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, or other federal or state statutory law or regulation, or at common law or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation, if such settlement is effected with the written consent of such Underwriter), insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or expense (or actions in respect thereof as contemplated below) arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Issuer Additional Written Communication or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing), or (ii) the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein (in the case of the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Issuer Additional Written Communication or the Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading; and to reimburse each Obligor and each such director or controlling person for any and all expenses (including the fees and disbursements of counsel) as such expenses are reasonably incurred by each Obligor or such director or controlling person in connection with investigating, defending, settling, compromising or paying any such loss, claim, damage, liability, expense or action; in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Issuer Additional Written Communication or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing), in reliance upon

 

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and in conformity with written information furnished to the Partnership by such Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Issuer Additional Written Communication or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing). Each of the Obligors hereby acknowledge that the only information that the Underwriters through the Representative have furnished to the Partnership expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Issuer Additional Written Communication or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing) are the statements set forth in the table in the first paragraph, the first and third sentences of the third paragraph and the third sentence of the ninth paragraph under the caption “Underwriting” in Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus. The indemnity agreement set forth in this Section 8(b) shall be in addition to any liabilities that each Underwriter may otherwise have.

(c) Notifications and Other Indemnification Procedures. Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under this Section 8, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; provided that the failure to so notify the indemnifying party will not relieve it from any liability that it may have to any indemnified party under this Section 8 except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced by such failure (through the forfeiture of substantive rights and defenses) and shall not relieve the indemnifying party from any liability that the indemnifying party may have to an indemnified party other than under this Section 8. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party and such indemnified party seeks or intends to seek indemnity from an indemnifying party, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate in and, to the extent that it shall elect, jointly with all other indemnifying parties similarly notified, by written notice delivered to the indemnified party promptly after receiving the aforesaid notice from such indemnified party, to assume the defense thereof with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party; provided, however, if the defendants in any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that a conflict may arise between the positions of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party in conducting the defense of any such action or that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties that are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, the indemnified party or parties shall have the right to select separate counsel to assume such legal defenses and to otherwise participate in the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified party or parties. Upon receipt of notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of such indemnifying party’s election so to assume the defense of such action and approval by the indemnified party of counsel, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section 8 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof (other than the reasonable costs of investigation) unless (i) the indemnified party shall have employed separate counsel in accordance with the proviso to the immediately preceding sentence (it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel (together with local counsel (in each jurisdiction)), which shall be selected by the Representative (in the case of counsel representing the Underwriters or their related persons), representing the indemnified parties who are parties to such action) or (ii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of commencement of the action, in each of which cases the fees and expenses of counsel shall be at the expense of the indemnifying party.

 

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(d) Settlements. The indemnifying party under this Section 8 shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, which will not be unreasonably withheld, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this Section 8, the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request or disputed in good faith the indemnified party’s entitlement to such reimbursement prior to the date of such settlement. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement, compromise or consent to the entry of judgment in any pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity was or could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such action, suit or proceeding and (ii) does not include any statements as to or any findings of fault, culpability or failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

SECTION 9. Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in Section 8 hereof is for any reason held to be unavailable to or otherwise insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate amount paid or payable by such indemnified party, as incurred, as a result of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to therein (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Obligors, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Obligors, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions or inaccuracies in the representations and warranties herein that resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Obligors, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Issuers and the total discount received by the Underwriters bear to the aggregate initial offering price of the Securities. The relative fault of the Obligors, on the one hand, and

 

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the Underwriters, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact or any such inaccurate or alleged inaccurate representation or warranty relates to information supplied by the Obligors, on the one hand, or the Underwriters, on the other hand, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission or inaccuracy.

The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 8 hereof, any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim. The provisions set forth in Section 8 hereof with respect to notice of commencement of any action shall apply if a claim for contribution is to be made under this Section 9; provided, however, that no additional notice shall be required with respect to any action for which notice has been given under Section 8 hereof for purposes of indemnification.

The Obligors and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 9 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 9.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 9, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the discount received by such Underwriter in connection with the Securities distributed by it. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11 of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 9 are several, and not joint, in proportion to their respective commitments as set forth opposite their names in Schedule A. For purposes of this Section 9, each affiliate, director, officer and employee of an Underwriter and each person, if any, who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each director of any Obligor, and each person, if any, who controls any Obligor within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Obligors, as applicable.

SECTION 10. Termination of this Agreement. Prior to the Closing Date, this Agreement may be terminated by the Representative by notice given to the Partnership if at any time: (i) trading or quotation in any of the Partnership’s securities shall have been suspended or materially limited by the Commission or by the NYSE, or trading in securities generally on either the Nasdaq Stock Market or the NYSE shall have been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices shall have been generally established on any of such quotation system or stock exchange by the Commission or FINRA; (ii) a general banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal, New York or Delaware authorities; or (iii) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of national or international hostilities involving the United States or any crisis or calamity, or any change in the United States or international financial markets, or any substantial change or development in United States’ or international political, financial or economic conditions, if the effect of any such event specified in clauses (i) through

 

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(iii) is, in the sole judgment of the Representative, so material or adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering, sale or the delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in this Agreement and in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. Any termination pursuant to this Section 10 shall be without liability on the part of (i) any Obligor to any Underwriter, except that the Obligors shall be obligated to reimburse the expenses of the Underwriters pursuant to Sections 4 and 6 hereof, (ii) any Underwriter to any Obligor, or (iii) any party hereto to any other party except that the provisions of Sections 4, 6, 8, 9 and 16 hereof shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.

SECTION 11. Representations and Indemnities to Survive Delivery. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Obligors, their respective officers and the several Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, any Obligor or any of their partners, officers or directors or any controlling person, as the case may be, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Securities sold hereunder and any termination of this Agreement.

SECTION 12. Notices. All communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed, hand delivered, or couriered and confirmed to the parties hereto as follows:

If to the Underwriters:

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

Three World Trade Center

200 Vesey Street, 8th Floor

New York, NY 10281

Attention: High Yield Capital Markets

with a copy to:

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

600 Travis, Suite 4200

Houston, Texas 77002

Attention: G. Michael O’Leary and Henry Havre

Email: moleary@huntonak.com and hhavre@huntonak.com

If to the Issuers or the Guarantors:

Genesis Energy, L.P.

811 Louisiana, Suite 1200

Houston, Texas 77002

Attention: Chief Executive Officer

Facsimile: (713) 860-2647

 

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with a copy to:

Paul Hastings LLP

600 Travis Street, 58th Floor

Houston, Texas 77002

Attention: Chris Centrich

 

 

Patrick Hurley

Facsimile: (713) 353-3100

Any party hereto may change the address or facsimile number for receipt of communications by giving written notice to the others.

SECTION 13. Successors. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto, and to the benefit of the indemnified parties referred to in Sections 8 and 9 hereof, and in each case their respective successors, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder. The term “successors” shall not include any subsequent purchaser or other purchaser of the Securities as such from any of the Underwriters merely by reason of such purchase.

SECTION 14. Authority of the Representative. Any action by the Underwriters hereunder may be taken by the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters, and any such action taken by the Representative shall be binding upon the Underwriters.

SECTION 15. Partial Unenforceability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any section, paragraph or provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other section, paragraph or provision hereof. If any section, paragraph or provision of this Agreement is for any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there shall be deemed to be made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as are necessary to make it valid and enforceable.

SECTION 16. Governing Law Provisions.

(a) THE VALIDITY AND INTERPRETATION OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

(b) Consent to Jurisdiction. Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby (“Related Proceedings”) may be instituted in the federal courts of the United States of America located in the City and County of New York or the courts of the State of New York in each case located in the City and County of New York (collectively, the “Specified Courts”), and each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction (except for suits, actions, or proceedings instituted in regard to the enforcement of a judgment of any Specified Court in a Related Proceeding, as to which such jurisdiction is non-exclusive) of the Specified Courts in any Related Proceeding. Service of any process, summons, notice or document by mail to such party’s address set forth above shall be effective service of process for any Related Proceeding brought in any Specified Court. The

 

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parties irrevocably and unconditionally waive any objection to the laying of venue of any Related Proceeding in the Specified Courts and irrevocably and unconditionally waive and agree not to plead or claim in any Specified Court that any Related Proceeding brought in any Specified Court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Each party not located in the United States irrevocably appoints CT Corporation System as its agent to receive service of process or other legal summons for purposes of any Related Proceeding that may be instituted in any Specified Court.

SECTION 17. Default of One or More of the Several Underwriters. If any one or more of the several Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Securities that it or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on the Closing Date, and the aggregate number of Securities which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase does not exceed 10% of the aggregate number of the Securities to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated, severally, in the proportions that the number of Securities set forth opposite their respective names on Schedule A bears to the aggregate number of Securities set forth opposite the names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as may be specified by the Underwriters with the consent of the non-defaulting Underwriters, to purchase the Securities which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on the Closing Date. If any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Securities and the aggregate number of Securities with respect to which such default occurs exceeds 10% of the aggregate number of Securities to be purchased on the Closing Date, and arrangements satisfactory to the Underwriters and the Partnership for the purchase of such Securities are not made within 48 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate without liability of any party to any other party except that the provisions of Sections 4, 6, 8, 9 and 16 hereof shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination. In any such case either the Underwriters or the Issuers shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date, as the case may be, but in no event for longer than seven days in order that the required changes, if any, to the Prospectus or any other documents or arrangements may be effected.

As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” shall be deemed to include any person substituted for a defaulting Underwriter under this Section 17. Any action taken under this Section 17 shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.

SECTION 18. No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility. Each of the Obligors acknowledges and agrees that: (i) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement, including the determination of the public offering price of the Securities and any related discounts and commissions, is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Obligors, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters, on the other hand, and each of the Obligors is capable of evaluating and understanding and understands and accepts the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; (ii) in connection with each transaction contemplated hereby and the process leading to such transaction each Underwriter is and has been acting solely as a principal and is not the financial advisor, agent or fiduciary of any Obligor or its affiliates, equityholders, creditors or employees or any other party; (iii) no

 

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Underwriter has assumed or will assume an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of any Obligor with respect to any of the transactions contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the any Obligor on other matters) and no Underwriter has any other obligation to any Obligor with respect to the offering contemplated hereby except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement; (iv) the several Underwriters and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Obligors, and the several Underwriters have no obligation to disclose any of such interests by virtue of any fiduciary, agency or advisory relationship; and (v) the Underwriters have not provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the offering contemplated hereby, and the Obligors have consulted their own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent they deemed appropriate.

This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Obligors and the several Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof. The Obligors hereby waive and release, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that they may have against the several Underwriters with respect to any breach or alleged breach of fiduciary duty.

SECTION 19. Research Analyst Independence. Each of the Obligors acknowledges that the Underwriters’ research analysts and research departments are required to be independent from their respective investment banking divisions and are subject to certain regulations and internal policies, and that such Underwriters’ research analysts may hold views and make statements or investment recommendations and/or publish research reports with respect to the Partnership, its Subsidiaries and/or the offering of the Securities that differ from the views of their respective investment banking divisions. Each Obligor hereby waives and releases, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any claims that such Obligor may have against the Underwriters with respect to any conflict of interest that may arise from the fact that the views expressed by their independent research analysts and research departments may be different from or inconsistent with the views or advice communicated to the any Obligor by such Underwriters’ investment banking divisions. Each of the Obligors acknowledges that each of the Underwriters is a full service securities firm and as such from time to time, subject to applicable securities laws, may effect transactions for its own account or the account of its customers and hold long or short positions in debt or equity securities of the companies that may be the subject of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

SECTION 20. Waiver of Jury Trial. The Obligors and each of the Underwriters hereby irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

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SECTION 21. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes.

(a) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity (as defined below) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime (as defined below), the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

(b) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate (as defined below) of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights (as defined below) under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

(c) For purposes of this Section 21: (i) a “BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k); (ii) a “Covered Entity” means any of the following: (A) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (B) “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (C) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b); (iii) “Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable; and (iv) “U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (A) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (B) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

SECTION 22. Compliance with USA PATRIOT Act. In accordance with the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law on October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Obligors, which information may include the name and addresses of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.

SECTION 23. General Provisions. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties to this Agreement and supersedes all prior written or oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each one of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Agreement and any certificate, agreement or other document to be signed in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including, without limitation, the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. For the purpose of this Section 22, “Electronic Signature” means any electronic symbol or process (including, without limitation, DocuSign and AdobeSign) attached to, or associated with,

 

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a contract or other record and adopted by a person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record. This Agreement may not be amended or modified unless in writing by all of the parties hereto, and no condition herein (express or implied) may be waived unless waived in writing by each party whom the condition is meant to benefit. The section headings herein are for the convenience of the parties only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to the Partnership the enclosed copies hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all counterparts hereof, shall become a binding agreement in accordance with its terms.

 

Very truly yours,
ISSUERS:
GENESIS ENERGY, L.P.
By:   Genesis Energy, LLC,
  its general partner
By:  

/s/ Grant E. Sims

  Name:   Grant E. Sims
  Title:   Chief Executive Officer
GENESIS ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION
By:  

/s/ Grant E. Sims

  Name:   Grant E. Sims
  Title:   Chief Executive Officer

Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement


GUARANTORS:
GENESIS CRUDE OIL, L.P.
GENESIS PIPELINE TEXAS, L.P.
GENESIS PIPELINE USA, L.P.
GENESIS SYNGAS INVESTMENTS, L.P.
By:   Genesis Energy, LLC,
  its general partner
By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

  Name:   Kristen O. Jesulaitis
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
GEL CHOPS I, L.P.
GEL CHOPS II, L.P.
By:   GEL CHOPS GP, LLC,
  its general partner
By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

  Name:   Kristen O. Jesulaitis
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
CAMERON HIGHWAY PIPELINE I, L.P.
By:   CAMERON HIGHWAY PIPELINE GP, L.L.C., its general partner
By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

  Name:   Kristen O. Jesulaitis
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
GENESIS ALKALI WYOMING, LP
By:   GENESIS ALKALI HOLDINGS, LLC, its general partner
By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

  Name:   Kristen O. Jesulaitis
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer

Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement


AMERICAN NATURAL SODA ASH CORP.
AP MARINE, LLC
BR PORT SERVICES, LLC
CASPER EXPRESS PIPELINE, LLC
CAMERON HIGHWAY PIPELINE GP, L.L.C.
DAVISON PETROLEUM SUPPLY, LLC
DAVISON TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, INC.
DAVISON TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, LLC
DEEPWATER GATEWAY, L.L.C.
FLEXTREND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.L.C.
GEL CHOPS GP, LLC
GEL DEEPWATER, LLC
GEL IHUB, LLC
GEL LOUISIANA FUELS, LLC
GEL ODYSSEY, LLC
GEL OFFSHORE, LLC
GEL OFFSHORE PIPELINE, LLC
GEL PALOMA, LLC
GEL PIPELINE OFFSHORE, LLC
GEL POSEIDON, LLC
GEL SEKCO, LLC
GEL SYNC LLC
GEL TEX MARKETING, LLC
GEL TEXAS PIPELINE, LLC
GEL WYOMING, LLC
GENESIS ALKALI HOLDINGS COMPANY, LLC
GENESIS ALKALI HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS ALKALI, LLC
GENESIS BR, LLC
GENESIS CHOPS I, LLC
GENESIS CHOPS II, LLC
GENESIS DAVISON, LLC
GENESIS DEEPWATER HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS ENERGY, LLC
GENESIS FREE STATE HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS GTM OFFSHORE OPERATING COMPANY, LLC
GENESIS IHUB HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS MARINE, LLC
GENESIS NEJD HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS ODYSSEY, LLC
GENESIS OFFSHORE, LLC
GENESIS OFFSHORE HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS PIPELINE ALABAMA, LLC

Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement


GENESIS POSEIDON, LLC
GENESIS POSEIDON HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS RAIL SERVICES, LLC
GENESIS SAILFISH HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS SEKCO, LLC
GENESIS SMR HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS TEXAS CITY TERMINAL, LLC
HIGH ISLAND OFFSHORE SYSTEM, L.L.C.
MANTA RAY GATHERING COMPANY, L.L.C.
MATAGORDA OFFSHORE, LLC
MILAM SERVICES, INC.
POSEIDON PIPELINE COMPANY, L.L.C.
RED RIVER TERMINALS, L.L.C.
SAILFISH PIPELINE COMPANY, L.L.C.
SEAHAWK SHORELINE SYSTEM, LLC
SOUTHEAST KEATHLEY CANYON PIPELINE COMPANY, L.L.C.
SYNC PIPELINE LLC
TDC SERVICES, LLC
TDC, L.L.C.
TEXAS CITY CRUDE OIL TERMINAL, LLC
THUNDER BASIN HOLDINGS, LLC
By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

  Name: Kristen O. Jesulaitis
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement


The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted by the Underwriters as of the date first above written.

RBC CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC,

Acting on behalf of itself and

as Representative of the several Underwriters

 

By:  

/s/ Charles D. Smith

  Name:   Charles D. Smith
  Title:   Managing Director, Head of Leveraged Finance

Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement


SCHEDULE A

 

Underwriters

   Aggregate
Principal
Amount of
Securities to be
Purchased
 

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

   $ 126,602,000  

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

   $ 59,577,000  

Capital One Securities, Inc.

   $ 55,846,000  

Regions Securities LLC

   $ 55,846,000  

SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.

   $ 55,846,000  

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

   $ 46,543,000  

BofA Securities, Inc.

   $ 46,543,000  

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

   $ 46,543,000  

Citizens JMP Securities, LLC

   $ 46,543,000  

Fifth Third Securities, Inc.

   $ 46,543,000  

Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.

   $ 46,543,000  

Truist Securities, Inc.

   $ 46,543,000  

Comerica Securities, Inc.

   $ 20,482,000  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 700,000,000  


SCHEDULE B

SUBSIDIARIES

AMERICAN NATURAL SODA ASH CORP.

AP MARINE, LLC

BR PORT SERVICES, LLC

CAMERON HIGHWAY PIPELINE GP, L.L.C.

CAMERON HIGHWAY PIPELINE I, L.P.

CASPER EXPRESS PIPELINE, LLC

DAVISON PETROLEUM SUPPLY, LLC

DAVISON TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, INC.

DAVISON TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, LLC

DEEPWATER GATEWAY, L.L.C.

FLEXTREND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.L.C.

GA ORRI, LLC

GA ORRI HOLDINGS, LLC

GEL CHOPS GP, LLC

GEL CHOPS I, L.P.

GEL CHOPS II, L.P.

GEL DEEPWATER, LLC

GEL IHUB, LLC

GEL LOUISIANA FUELS, LLC

GEL ODYSSEY, LLC

GEL OFFSHORE PIPELINE, LLC

GEL OFFSHORE, LLC

GEL PALOMA, LLC

GEL PIPELINE OFFSHORE, LLC

GEL POSEIDON, LLC

GEL SEKCO, LLC

GEL SYNC LLC

GEL TEX MARKETING, LLC

GEL TEXAS PIPELINE, LLC

GEL WYOMING, LLC

GENESIS ALKALI, LLC

GENESIS ALKALI HOLDINGS COMPANY, LLC

GENESIS ALKALI HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS ALKALI WYOMING, LP

GENESIS BR, LLC

GENESIS CHOPS I, LLC

GENESIS CHOPS II, LLC

GENESIS CRUDE OIL, L.P.

GENESIS DAVISON, LLC


GENESIS DEEPWATER HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION

GENESIS ENERGY, LLC

GENESIS FREE STATE HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS GTM OFFSHORE OPERATING COMPANY, LLC

GENESIS IHUB HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS MARINE, LLC

GENESIS NEJD HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS ODYSSEY, LLC

GENESIS OFFSHORE, LLC

GENESIS OFFSHORE HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS PIPELINE ALABAMA, LLC

GENESIS PIPELINE TEXAS, L.P.

GENESIS PIPELINE USA, L.P.

GENESIS POSEIDON, LLC

GENESIS POSEIDON HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS RAIL SERVICES, LLC

GENESIS SAILFISH HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS SEKCO, LLC

GENESIS SMR HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS SYNGAS INVESTMENTS, L.P.

GENESIS TEXAS CITY TERMINAL, LLC

HIGH ISLAND OFFSHORE SYSTEM, L.L.C.

MANTA RAY GATHERING COMPANY, L.L.C.

MATAGORDA OFFSHORE, LLC

MILAM SERVICES, INC.

POSEIDON PIPELINE COMPANY, L.L.C.

RED RIVER TERMINALS, L.L.C.

SAILFISH PIPELINE COMPANY, L.L.C.

SEAHAWK SHORELINE SYSTEM, LLC

SOUTHEAST KEATHLEY CANYON PIPELINE COMPANY, L.L.C.

SYNC PIPELINE LLC

TDC AMERICAS, LLC

TDC CHILE, SPA

TDC ENERGY CANADA, LTD.

TDC PERU S.A.C.

TDC SOUTH AMERICA, L.L.C.

TDC SERVICES, LLC

TDC, L.L.C.

TEXAS CITY CRUDE OIL TERMINAL, LLC

THUNDER BASIN HOLDINGS, LLC


SCHEDULE C

SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARIES

AMERICAN NATURAL SODA ASH CORP.

GENESIS CRUDE OIL, L.P.

GENESIS CHOPS I, LLC

CAMERON HIGHWAY PIPELINE I, L.P.

GENESIS CHOPS II, LLC

GEL CHOPS GP, LLC

GEL CHOPS I, L.P.

GEL CHOPS II, L.P.

CAMERON HIGHWAY PIPELINE GP, L.L.C.

GENESIS MARINE, LLC

SOUTHEAST KEATHLEY CANYON PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC

GEL SEKCO, LLC

GENESIS SEKCO, LLC

MANTA RAY GATHERING COMPANY, L.L.C.

GENESIS SMR HOLDINGS, LLC

TDC, L.L.C.

GENESIS DAVISON, LLC

DAVISON PETROLEUM SUPPLY, LLC

GENESIS ALKALI WYOMING, LP

GENESIS ALKALI HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS ALKALI HOLDINGS COMPANY, LLC

GENESIS ALKALI, LLC

GA ORRI, LLC

GA ORRI HOLDINGS, LLC

POSEIDON PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC

GENESIS OFFSHORE HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS POSEIDON HOLDINGS, LLC

GENESIS POSEIDON, LLC

GEL POSEIDON, LLC


EXHIBIT A-1

Opinion of counsel for the Issuers to be delivered pursuant to Section 5 of the Underwriting Agreement.

 

  1.

(a) The General Partner is validly existing as a limited liability company and is in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.

(b) The Partnership is validly existing as a limited partnership and is in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. Finance Corp is validly existing as a corporation and is in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.

(c) Each of Manta Ray Gathering Company, L.L.C. (“Manta Ray”), Matagorda Offshore, LLC and Seahawk Shoreline System, LLC (collectively, the “Texas LLCs”) is validly existing as a limited liability company with the right to transact business in the State of Texas under the laws of the State of Texas.

(d) Each Guarantor, other than any of the Non-Covered Entities and the Texas LLCs, and, to the extent not constituting a Guarantor, each Material Subsidiary is validly existing as a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership, as applicable, in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.

(e) Each of the Partnership Entities is duly qualified (or, in the case of the State of Texas has the right to transact business) as a foreign corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership, as applicable, in the jurisdictions so identified on Exhibit B attached hereto. Each of the Partnership Entities has all requisite entity power to own its respective properties and conduct its business, in each case in all material respects, as described in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Final Prospectus Supplement. The Partnership has the partnership power and authority necessary to execute and deliver, incur and perform any obligations it may have under any of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and the Partnership Agreement. Finance Corp. has the corporate power and authority necessary to execute and deliver, incur and perform any obligations it may have under any of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party. Each of the Guarantors (other than the Non-Covered Entities) has the corporate or other entity power and authority necessary to execute and deliver, incur and perform any obligations it may have under any of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party. The General Partner has the limited liability company power and authority necessary to act as the general partner of the Partnership.

 

  2.

As of the date hereof, the issued and outstanding limited partner interests of the Partnership consist of 122,424,321 Common Units – Class A (the “Common Units”), 39,997 Common Units – Class B (the “Class B Units”) and 23,111,918 Class A Convertible Preferred Units (the “Preferred Units”). All outstanding Common Units, Class B Units and Preferred Units and, in each case, the limited


  partner interests represented thereby have been duly authorized and validly issued in accordance with the Partnership Agreement, and are fully paid (to the extent required under the Partnership Agreement) and nonassessable (except as such nonassessability may be affected by Sections 17-303, 17-607 and 17-804 of the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the “Delaware LP Act”)).

 

  3.

The General Partner (i) is the sole general partner of the Partnership and owns (of record) a non-economic general partner interest in the Partnership and (ii) is the sole general partner of Genesis Crude Oil, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), and owns (of record) a 0.01% general partner interest in the Operating Partnership. Other than the general partner interests described in the preceding sentence, with respect to each Material Subsidiary, the respective “Owning Entity” or “Owning Entities”, as applicable, specified on Schedule B attached hereto next to such Material Subsidiary owns or collectively own, as applicable (of record), 100% of the limited partner interest, limited liability company interest or other equity interest in such Material Subsidiary. Each such general partner interest, limited partner interest, limited liability company interest and other equity interest has been duly authorized and validly issued in accordance with the Constitutive Documents of the Partnership and each such respective Material Subsidiary, is fully paid (to the extent required under its respective Constitutive Documents) and non-assessable (except (x) with respect to those Material Subsidiaries that are Delaware limited partnerships, as such nonassessability may be affected by Sections 17-303, 17-607 and 17-804 of the Delaware LP Act, (y) with respect to those Material Subsidiaries that are Delaware limited liability companies, as such nonassessability may be affected by Sections 18-607 and 18-804 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the “Delaware LLC Act”), or (z) with respect to Manta Ray, as such nonassessability may be affected by Sections 101.206 and 101.613 of the Texas Business Organizations Code (the “Texas BOC”)). The limited partner interests, limited liability company interests or other equity interests in each Material Subsidiary are owned as specified in the first two sentences of this paragraph and on Schedule B attached hereto, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, security interests, charges or claims (i) in respect of which a financing statement (x) under the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of Delaware naming the General Partner or any respective Owning Entity that is a Delaware limited liability company or limited partnership as a “debtor” was on file as of May 6, 2024 in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware or (y) under the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of Texas naming any respective Owning Entity that is a Texas limited liability company as a “debtor” was on file as of May 6, 2024 in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas or (ii) otherwise known to us, in the case of (i) and (ii), other than those (A) created under the Delaware LP Act, the Delaware LLC Act or the Texas BOC, (B) created in connection with the Partnership’s or the Material Subsidiaries’ credit facilities constituting SEC Documents, (C) created by the Constitutive Documents of the Partnership Entities or (D) as disclosed in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Final Prospectus Supplement.


  4.

Except as described in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Final Prospectus Supplement or, in the case of transfer restrictions, options to purchase, other rights to subscribe or to purchase, voting restrictions and preemptive rights, created by the Constitutive Documents of any Partnership Entity, there are no options, warrants, preemptive rights or other rights to subscribe for or to purchase, nor any restriction upon the voting or transfer of, any equity interests in any Partnership Entity pursuant to any Constitutive Document of any Partnership Entity or any other SEC Document, other than those restrictions upon the transfer of equity interests created in connection with the Partnership’s or the Material Subsidiaries’ credit facilities and indentures (including supplemental indentures thereto) constituting SEC Documents. Neither (i) the filing of the Registration Statement nor (ii) the offering or sale of the Notes as contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement gives rise under any SEC Document to any preemptive right, right of first refusal or other similar right to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Partnership or Finance Corp.

 

  5.

The Partnership has all requisite partnership power and authority to issue, sell and deliver the Notes, in accordance with and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Underwriting Agreement and the Partnership Agreement. Finance Corp has all requisite corporate power and authority to issue, sell and deliver the Notes, in accordance with and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Underwriting Agreement.

 

  6.

(a)The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents by each of the Covered Entities party thereto and the performance by each of the Covered Entities of its respective obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or entity action, as applicable, on the part of each of such Covered Entities.

(b) Each of the Transaction Documents has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Covered Entities that is a party to such Transaction Document.

 

  7.

The Partnership Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the General Partner and is a valid and legally binding agreement of the General Partner, enforceable against the General Partner in accordance with its terms.

 

  8.

None of the offering, issuance and sale by the Issuers of the Notes, the execution, delivery and performance by any of the Specified Entities of any of the Transaction Documents to which such Specified Entity is a party or the performance of the actions required to be taken by any of the Specified Entities pursuant to any of the Transaction Documents to which such Specified Entity is a party conflicts or will


  conflict with or constitute or will constitute a breach or violation of or a default (or an event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default) under, or results or will result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge, claim, encumbrance or other security interest upon any property or assets of any of the Partnership Entities (other than those created in connection with the Partnership’s or the Material Subsidiaries’ credit facilities constituting SEC Documents) pursuant to, (i) any Constitutive Document of any of the Covered Entities, (ii) any SEC Document, (iii) the Included Laws (including Regulations T, U and X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) or (iv) any order, judgment, decree or injunction of any court or governmental agency or body known to us directed to any of the Partnership Entities or any of their properties in a proceeding to which any of them or their property is a party; provided, however, that no opinion is expressed pursuant to this paragraph with respect to federal securities laws and other anti-fraud laws.

 

  9.

No permit, consent, approval, authorization, order, registration, filing or qualification (“consent”) of or with any court or governmental agency or body under the Included Laws is required in connection with the offering, issuance and sale by the Issuers of the Notes, the execution, delivery and performance by any of the Specified Entities of any of the Transaction Documents to which such Specified Entity is a party or the performance of the actions required to be taken by any of the Specified Entities pursuant to any of the Transaction Documents to which such Specified Entity is a party, other than (i) such consents required under state securities or “Blue Sky” laws, (ii) such consents that have been obtained or made and (iii) filings with the Commission or other consents required in the performance by each of the Specified Entities of its obligations under Sections 3(a)(i), 3(a)(ii), 3(a)(v), 3(a)(ix), 3(a)(xi) and 3(a)(xiii) of the Underwriting Agreement.

 

  10.

The statements set forth in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Final Prospectus Supplement under the captions “Description of Notes,” “Description of Certain Other Indebtedness” and “Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations,” insofar as they summarize any agreement, statute or regulation or refer to statements of law or legal conclusions, are accurate and fair summaries in all material respects. The Notes conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Final Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Description of Notes.”

 

  11.

None of the Specified Entities is, either before or immediately after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Notes and the receipt of payment for the Notes on the date hereof as described in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Final Prospectus Supplement, required to be registered as an “investment company,” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act.

 

  12.

The Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act (the “TIA”). The Indenture conforms in all material respects with the requirements of the TIA.


  13.

The Notes, when authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, will be valid and legally binding obligations of the Issuers, entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and enforceable against the Issuers in accordance with their respective terms under the Laws of the State of New York.

 

  14.

The Indenture (including, with respect to the Guarantors, when the Notes have been duly and validly authenticated in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and duly and validly paid for by and delivered to the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the guarantee of the Guarantors in respect of the Notes provided for in Article XIV of the Base Indenture and Article Nine of the Supplemental Indenture) constitutes the valid and legally binding obligation of the Guarantors, enforceable against the Guarantors in accordance with its terms under the Laws of the State of New York.

 

  15.

The Registration Statement was automatically effective under the Act on April 16, 2024. To our knowledge, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or threatened by the SEC; and any required filing of the Final Prospectus Supplement pursuant to Rule 424(b) has been made in the manner and within the time period required by such Rule.

For purposes of this letter, we have assumed the information in the Final Prospectus Supplement of the type referred to in Rule 430B(f)(1) of the General Rules and Regulations under the Act was deemed to be a part of and included in the Registration Statement pursuant to such Rule 430B(f)(1) as of the date of the Underwriting Agreement; such date (the “Specified Effective Date”), in accordance with said Rule 430B(f), constitutes a new effective date with respect to such portions of the Registration Statement as provided for therein. Our identification of documents and information as part of the Disclosure Package has been at your request and with your approval. Such identification is for the limited purpose of making the statements set forth in this letter and is not the expression of a view by us as to whether any such information has been or should have been conveyed to investors generally or to any particular investors at any particular time or in any particular manner.

Because the primary purpose of our professional engagement was not to establish or confirm factual matters or financial and accounting information, and because many determinations involved in the preparation of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Final Prospectus Supplement are of a wholly or partially non-legal character, except as expressly set forth in paragraph (10) of this letter, we are not passing upon and do not assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus Supplement, and we make no representation that we have independently verified the accuracy, completeness or fairness of such statements.


However, in the course of our acting as counsel to the Partnership in connection with the preparation of the Registration Statement, the Final Prospectus Supplement and the Disclosure Package, we have reviewed each such document and have participated in conferences and telephone conversations with representatives of the Partnership, representatives of the independent public accountants for the Partnership, representatives of the Underwriters and representatives of the Underwriters’ counsel, during which conferences and conversations the contents of such documents and related matters were discussed.

Based on our participation in such conferences and conversations, our review of the documents described above, our understanding of the U.S. federal securities laws and the experience we have gained in our practice thereunder, we advise you that:

(a) Each of the Registration Statement (as of the date of the Underwriting Agreement), the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement (as of its date) and the Final Prospectus Supplement (as of its date) appeared on its face to be appropriately responsive in all material respects with the requirements of the Act except that we express no view as to the antifraud provisions of the Act or the financial statements, the notes and schedules thereto and other financial and accounting information included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement or the Final Prospectus Supplement and the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of the Trustee on Form T-1. The Incorporated Documents, at the time that they were filed (other than the financial statements, the notes and schedules thereto and other financial and accounting information included in the Incorporated Documents, as to which we express no opinion), appear on their face to comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act except that we express no view as to the antifraud provisions of the Exchange Act. We have no knowledge of any documents that are required to be filed under the Act (but are not filed) as exhibits to the Registration Statement, or of any documents that are required under the Act to be (but are not) summarized in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement or the Final Prospectus Supplement, except, in each case, we express no view as to (i) the antifraud provisions of the Act and (ii) the financial statements, the notes and schedules thereto and other financial and accounting information so required to be filed or summarized and the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of the Trustee on Form T-1.

(b) No information has come to our attention that causes us to believe that (i) the Registration Statement as of the Specified Effective Date contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; (ii) the Disclosure Package, as of 4:01 p.m. (New York time) on May 6, 2024 (which you have informed us is a time prior to the time of the first sale of the Notes by any Underwriter), contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading or (iii) the Final Prospectus Supplement, as of its date and as of the Closing Date, contained or contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that in the case of each of clauses (i)-(iii) above, we do not express any view as to the financial statements, the notes and schedules thereto and other financial and accounting information contained or incorporated by reference therein and the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of the Trustee on Form T-1.


EXHIBIT A-2

Opinion of local counsel for TDC, L.L.C. to be delivered pursuant to Section 5 of the Underwriting Agreement.

(i) TDC, L.L.C. is validly existing as a limited liability company and is in good standing under the laws of the State of Louisiana.

(ii) TDC, L.L.C. has the limited liability power and authority to own its respective properties and conduct its business, in each case in all material respects as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus Supplement.

(iii) The execution of the Underwriting Agreement by the Partnership, and the consummation of the transactions by the Partnership contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement does not constitute a breach of, or default under, the articles of organization of TDC, L.L.C. or the Operating Agreement of TDC, L.L.C. as a subsidiary of the Partnership.

(iv) The membership interests of TDC, L.L.C. are validly authorized, issued, fully paid, non-assessable equity interests (except as such non-assessability may be affected by the provisions on additional capital contributions contained in the Operating Agreement of TDC, L.L.C. or in connection with the obligation of a member of a Louisiana limited liability company to return any wrongful distributions under La. R.S. 12:1328).

(v) The execution of the Underwriting Agreement by the Partnership, and the consummation of the transactions by the Partnership contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement do not create any security interest in, or lien, claim, charge or encumbrance upon, any property or assets, pursuant to the articles of organization of TDC, L.L.C. or the laws of the State of Louisiana.

(vi) The execution of the Underwriting Agreement by the Partnership and the consummation of the transactions by the Partnership contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement, as applicable to TDC, L.L.C., do not constitute a breach of, or default under, any State of Louisiana statute, rule, or regulation of general applicability which, in our experience, is normally applicable to transactions of the type contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement; provided, we express no opinion as to (a) laws of any counties, cities, towns, municipalities and special political subdivisions, and any agencies thereof, (b) laws relating to land use, zoning and building code issues, taxes, environmental issues, intellectual property laws, antitrust issues, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and Federal Reserve Board margin regulation issues, (c) laws, rules and regulations relating to the regulation of the conduct of the businesses of TDC, L.L.C., including, without limitation, refining services, gathering, transporting (by barge, pipeline, ship, truck or other modes of transportation), terminalling, storing, producing, acquiring, developing, exploring for, processing, dehydrating, marketing, trading, fractionating, mining and otherwise handling hydrocarbons (including crude oil, natural gas, condensate, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas and refined petroleum products), sulfur, sodium chloride, carbon dioxide, sodium hydrosulfide, caustic soda, trona and soda ash,


including constructing pipeline, platform, dehydration, processing and other related facilities, and activities, services or derivative products related or ancillary thereto, (d) laws, rules or regulations relating to the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder, (e) matters administered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and (f) state and federal securities laws.

(vii) The execution and delivery of each of the Underwriting Agreement and the Indenture by TDC, L.L.C. and the performance by TDC, L.L.C. of its obligations under the Underwriting Agreement and the Indenture (including its Guarantee pursuant thereto) have been duly authorized by all necessary limited liability company action.

(viii) Each of the Underwriting Agreement and the Indenture has been duly and validly executed and delivered by TDC, L.L.C.


EXHIBIT A-3

Opinion of general counsel for the Partnership to be delivered pursuant to Section 5 of the Underwriting Agreement.

(i) To my knowledge, there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or threatened to which any of the Issuers or their Subsidiaries is a party or to which any of their respective properties is subject that are required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Issuer Additional Written Communication, or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing) but are not so described as required.

 


ANNEX I

Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses

Final Term Sheet dated May 6, 2024

 

Annex I-1


ANNEX II

Issuer Additional Written Communication

Electronic (Netroadshow) road show of the Partnership used in connection with the offering of the Securities.

 

Annex II-1


ANNEX III

Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, dated May 6, 2024

Filed Pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act of 1933

Registration No. 333-278743

Pricing Term Sheet

Genesis Energy, L.P.

Genesis Energy Finance Corporation

$700,000,000 7.875% Senior Notes due 2032

May 6, 2024

 

Issuers:    Genesis Energy, L.P. and Genesis Energy Finance Corporation
Title of Securities:    7.875% Senior Notes due 2032
Aggregate Principal Amount:    $700,000,000 (upsized from $500,000,000)
Final Maturity Date:    May 15, 2032
Issue Price:    100.000%, plus accrued interest, if any, from May 9, 2024
Interest Rate:    7.875%
Yield to Maturity:    7.875%
Interest Payment Dates:    May 15 and November 15, beginning on November 15, 2024
Interest Record Dates:    May 1 and November 1
Gross Proceeds:    $700,000,000
Optional Redemption:    Make-whole call at T+50 until May 15, 2027
   On or after May 15, 2027 at the prices set forth below for the twelve-month period beginning on May 15 of the years indicated below, plus accrued and unpaid interest:

 

Year

   Percentage  

2027

     103.938

2028

     101.969

2029 and thereafter

     100.000

 

Equity Clawback:    Up to 35% at 107.875% prior to May 15, 2027
Joint Book-Running Managers:   

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Capital One Securities, Inc.

Regions Securities LLC

SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

BofA Securities, Inc.

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Citizens JMP Securities, LLC

Fifth Third Securities, Inc.

Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.

Truist Securities, Inc.

Co-manager:    Comerica Securities, Inc.
Trade Date:    May 6, 2024

 

Annex III-1


Settlement Date:    May 9, 2024 (T+3)
Denominations:    $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof
Distribution:    SEC Registered
CUSIP / ISIN Numbers:   

CUSIP: 37185LAQ5

ISIN: US37185LAQ59

Changes to Preliminary Prospectus Supplement    At March 31, 2024, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the application of the net proceeds of this offering as described herein, we would have had approximately $3.5072 billion of total indebtedness (excluding $4.5 million in respect of outstanding letters of credit), approximately $46.6 million of which (excluding $4.5 million in respect of outstanding letters of credit) would be secured indebtedness to which the notes would be effectively junior (to the extent of the value of the collateral securing such indebtedness), and we would have had approximately $798.9 million of borrowing capacity available under our $850 million senior secured credit facility, subject to compliance with financial covenants, for additional secured borrowings, which would be effectively senior to the notes. In the pro forma column under “Capitalization” at page S-23, the amount of cash and cash equivalents is $7 million, the revolving credit facility is $46.6 million, the amount of the 2032 Notes offered hereby is $700 million, the amount of total long-term debt is $3.5072 billion and the total capitalization is $5.2336 billion. Our net proceeds from the offering are approximately $687.8 million

General

This Pricing Term Sheet is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, dated May 6, 2024. The information in this Pricing Term Sheet supplements the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and supersedes the information in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement to the extent it is inconsistent with the information in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement. Capitalized terms used in this Pricing Term Sheet but not defined have the meanings given them in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.

The issuers have filed a registration statement (including a preliminary prospectus supplement and a prospectus) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for this offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the preliminary prospectus supplement for this offering as supplemented hereby, the issuers’ prospectus in that registration statement and any other documents the issuers have filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuers and this offering. You may get these documents for free by searching the SEC online data base (EDGAR) on the SEC web site at http://www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuers, any underwriter or any dealer participating in this offering will arrange to send you the prospectus supplement and prospectus if you request it by calling RBC Capital Markets, LLC toll-free at 1-866-375-6829.

 

Annex III-2

Exhibit 4.2

Execution Version

GENESIS ENERGY, L.P.

GENESIS ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION

AND

THE GUARANTORS NAMED ON THE SIGNATURE PAGES HEREOF

7.875% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2032

TWENTY-FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of May 9, 2024

REGIONS BANK,

As Trustee


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE ONE ISSUE AND DESCRIPTION OF NOTES

     2  

Section 1.01

  Designation and Amount; Ranking Payments; Denomination      2  

Section 1.02

  Form of Notes      3  

Section 1.03

  Additional Notes      3  

Section 1.04

  Execution and Authentication      4  

Section 1.05

  Non-Business Day Payments      4  

ARTICLE TWO DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     4  

Section 2.01

  Definitions      5  

Section 2.02

  Other Definitions      36  

Section 2.03

  Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act      36  

Section 2.04

  Rules of Construction      36  

ARTICLE THREE REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT

     37  

Section 3.01

  Notices to Trustee      37  

Section 3.02

  Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed      37  

Section 3.03

  Notice of Redemption      38  

Section 3.04

  Effect of Notice of Redemption      39  

Section 3.05

  Deposit of Redemption Price      39  

Section 3.06

  Notes Redeemed in Part      40  

Section 3.07

  Optional Redemption      40  

Section 3.08

  Mandatory Redemption      41  

Section 3.09

  Offer to Purchase by Application of Excess Proceeds      41  

Section 3.10

  No Limit on Other Purchases      43  

ARTICLE FOUR COVENANTS

     43  

Section 4.01

  Payment of Notes      43  

Section 4.02

  Maintenance of Office or Agency      44  

Section 4.03

  Reports      44  

Section 4.04

  Compliance Certificate      45  

Section 4.05

  Taxes      46  

Section 4.06

  Stay, Extension and Usury Laws      46  

Section 4.07

  Limitation on Restricted Payments      46  

Section 4.08

  Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries      51  

Section 4.09

  Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred Stock      53  

Section 4.10

  Limitation on Asset Sales      57  

Section 4.11

  Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates      59  

Section 4.12

  Limitation on Liens      61  

Section 4.13

  Additional Subsidiary Guarantees      62  

 

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Section 4.14

  Existence      62  

Section 4.15

  Offer to Repurchase Upon Change of Control      62  

Section 4.16

  No Inducements      65  

Section 4.17

  Permitted Business Activities      65  

Section 4.18

  Sale and Leaseback Transactions      65  

Section 4.19

  Covenant Termination      66  

Section 4.20

  Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries      66  

ARTICLE FIVE SUCCESSORS

     67  

Section 5.01

  Merger, Consolidation, or Sale of Assets      67  

Section 5.02

  Successor Substituted      69  

ARTICLE SIX DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

     69  

Section 6.01

  Events of Default      69  

Section 6.02

  Acceleration      72  

Section 6.03

  Other Remedies      72  

Section 6.04

  Waiver of Past Defaults      73  

Section 6.05

  Control by Majority      73  

Section 6.06

  Limitation on Suits      73  

Section 6.07

  Rights of Holders of Notes to Receive Payment      74  

Section 6.08

  Collection Suit by Trustee      74  

Section 6.09

  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim      74  

Section 6.10

  Priorities      75  

Section 6.11

  Undertaking for Costs      75  

ARTICLE SEVEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

     75  

Section 7.01

  Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance      75  

Section 7.02

  Legal Defeasance and Discharge      76  

Section 7.03

  Covenant Defeasance      76  

Section 7.04

  Conditions to Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance      77  

Section 7.05

  Deposited Money and Government Securities to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions      78  

Section 7.06

  Repayment to Issuers      79  

Section 7.07

  Reinstatement      79  

ARTICLE EIGHT AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER

     79  

Section 8.01

  Without Consent of Holders of Notes      79  

Section 8.02

  With Consent of Holders of Notes      81  

Section 8.03

  Compliance with Trust Indenture Act      82  

Section 8.04

  Effect of Consents      82  

Section 8.05

  Notation on or Exchange of Notes      82  

Section 8.06

  Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc.      83  

Section 8.07

  Effect of Supplemental Indentures      83  

 

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ARTICLE NINE GUARANTEES

     83  

Section 9.01

  Subsidiary Guarantees      83  

Section 9.02

  Limitation on Guarantor Liability      84  

Section 9.03

  Subsidiary Guarantee Evidenced by Indenture; No Notation of Subsidiary Guarantee      85  

Section 9.04

  Guarantors May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms      85  

Section 9.05

  Releases of Guarantors      86  

ARTICLE TEN SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

     86  

Section 10.01

  Satisfaction and Discharge      86  

ARTICLE ELEVEN MISCELLANEOUS

     88  

Section 11.01

  Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders of Notes      88  

Section 11.02

  Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent      88  

Section 11.03

  Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion      88  

Section 11.04

  Governing Law      89  

Section 11.05

  Trust Indenture Act Controls      89  

Section 11.06

  Successors      89  

Section 11.07

  Severability      89  

Section 11.08

  Counterparts      90  

Section 11.09

  No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Unitholders      90  

Section 11.10

  Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.      90  

Section 11.11

  No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements      90  

Section 11.12

  Scope of this Supplemental Indenture      90  

Section 11.13

  Ratification and Incorporation of Base Indenture      91  

Section 11.14

  Covenants Not Applicable      91  

Section 11.15

  Patriot Act      91  

Section 11.16

  Benefits of Supplemental Indenture      91  

 

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Exhibits:

 

Exhibit A    FORM OF NOTE
Exhibit B    FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

 

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THIS TWENTY-FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “Supplemental Indenture”), dated as of May 9, 2024, is among Genesis Energy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (referred to herein as the “Company”), Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (referred to herein as “Finance Corp.” and, together with the Company, the “Issuers”), the guarantors listed on the signature pages hereof and Regions Bank, as trustee (the “Trustee”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the meanings set forth in the Base Indenture (as defined below).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Issuers, certain Subsidiaries of the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as predecessor trustee (the “Prior Trustee”), executed and delivered that certain indenture, dated as of May 21, 2015 (the “Original Indenture” and, as supplemented by the Trustee Succession Agreement referred to below, the “Base Indenture”), to provide for the issuance from time to time of the Issuers’ unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (the “Securities”) to be issued in one or more series;

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 611 of the Original Indenture and that certain Agreement of Resignation, Appointment and Acceptance, dated as of September 30, 2020 (the “Trustee Succession Agreement”), among the Issuers, the Trustee, and the Prior Trustee, the Trustee succeeded to the Prior Trustee as the “Trustee” under the Base Indenture;

WHEREAS, Section 901 of the Base Indenture provides that the Issuers and the Guarantors, when authorized by a resolution of their respective Boards of Directors, and the Trustee may, without the consent of the Holders of the Securities, enter into a supplemental indenture to (i) in accordance with clause (7) thereof, establish the form or terms of Securities of any series and any Guarantees as permitted by Section 201 and Section 301 of the Base Indenture or (ii) in accordance with clause (5) thereof, add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of the Base Indenture in respect of all or any Securities of any series or any Guarantees thereof; provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series or Guarantee thereof created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no such Security Outstanding;

WHEREAS, the Issuers have duly authorized the issue of 7.875% Senior Notes due 2032 (as they may be issued from time to time under this Supplemental Indenture, including any Additional Notes issued pursuant to Section 301 of the Base Indenture and Section 1.03 of this Supplemental Indenture, the “Notes”), initially in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $700,000,000, and in connection therewith, there being no Notes Outstanding at the time of execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, the Issuers and the Initial Guarantors have duly determined to make, execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture to set forth the terms and provisions of the Notes as required by the Base Indenture and to add to, change and eliminate certain provisions of the Base Indenture in respect of the Notes;

 

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WHEREAS, the Issuers and the Initial Guarantors have determined that this Supplemental Indenture is authorized or permitted by Section 901 of the Base Indenture and the Issuers have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate, and each of the Initial Guarantors has delivered a Guarantor’s Officers’ Certificate, to the effect that all conditions precedent provided for in the Base Indenture to the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture have been complied with;

WHEREAS, the form of Notes, the Trustee’s “Certificate of Authentication” to be borne by each Note, the form of “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” and the “Assignment Form” to be borne by the Notes are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided for;

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Issuers and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent, as in the Base Indenture provided, and to make the Subsidiary Guarantees of each of the Guarantors as set forth herein, when the Notes have been so executed, authenticated and delivered, the valid and legally binding obligations of the Issuers and the Guarantors, respectively, have been done; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement according to its terms, and a valid and legally binding amendment of, and supplement to, the Base Indenture, have been done.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of each other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes:

Article One

Issue and Description of Notes

Section 1.01 Designation and Amount; Ranking Payments; Denomination. The Notes shall be designated as the “7.875% Senior Notes due 2032.” The Notes are hereby established as a series of Securities under the Base Indenture. The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture is not limited. The aggregate principal amount of Notes initially authorized for authentication and delivery pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture is limited to $700,000,000 (except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of other Notes pursuant to Section 3.06, Section 3.09(i), Section 4.15(a)(viii) and Section 8.05 hereof and Section 304, Section 305 and Section 306 of the Base Indenture). The Issuers may, and shall be entitled to, from time to time, without notice to or the consent of the Holders of the Notes, in accordance with Section 1.03 below increase the principal amount of Notes and issue such increased principal amount (or any portion thereof) of Notes as “Additional Notes” under this Supplemental Indenture.

Payments of the principal of and interest on the Notes shall be made in U.S. Dollars, and the Notes shall be denominated in Dollars and in amounts of at least $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 thereafter. The Place of Payment where the principal of and any other payments due on the Notes are payable shall initially be at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in New York, New York in accordance with Section 4.02 of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

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Initially, Regions Bank will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Issuers may appoint and change any Paying Agent or Registrar or co-registrar without notice. The Company or any of its domestically organized wholly owned Restricted Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar or co-registrar.

The Notes will be payable as to principal, premium, if any, and interest at the office or agency of the Issuers maintained for such purpose within the City and State of New York, or, at the option of the Issuers, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders, and provided that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be required with respect to any amounts due on all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which shall have provided wire transfer instructions to the Issuers or the Paying Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, payment may be made pursuant to the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary in the case of Global Notes.

The Notes shall be guaranteed by each of the Initial Guarantors and, in accordance with Section 4.13, any additional Subsidiary Guarantors in accordance with Section 4.13 and Article Nine of this Supplemental Indenture.

No Subsidiary Guarantee, nor any notation thereof, shall be, or shall be required to be, endorsed on, or attached to, or otherwise physically made part of any Note.

Section 1.02 Form of Notes. The Notes shall be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, which is incorporated in and made a part of this Supplemental Indenture.

Any of the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends or endorsements as the officers executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, or to conform to usage or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.

The terms and provisions contained in the form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Supplemental Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby.

Section 1.03 Additional Notes.

The Issuers shall be entitled, subject to their compliance with Section 4.09, to issue Additional Notes under this Indenture which shall have identical terms as the Initial Notes issued on the Issue Date, other than with respect to the date of issuance, issue price and the date from which interest begins to accrue. The Initial Notes issued on the Issue Date and any Additional Notes shall be treated as a single class for all purposes under this Indenture, including waivers, consents, directions, declarations, amendments, redemptions and offers to purchase; and none of the Holders of any Initial Notes or any Additional Notes shall have the right to vote or consent as a separate class on any matter to which such Holders are entitled to vote or consent.

 

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With respect to any Additional Notes, the Issuers shall set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, which shall be delivered to the Trustee, the following information:

(1) the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes to be authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture;

(2) the issue price, the issue date and the CUSIP number and any corresponding ISIN of such Additional Notes; and

(3) if applicable, that such Additional Notes shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Notes and, in such case, the respective depositaries for such Global Notes, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by such Global Notes in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Exhibit A hereto and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Exhibit A in which any such Global Notes may be exchanged in whole or in part for Additional Notes registered, or any transfer of such Global Note in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the depositary for such Global Note or a nominee thereof.

Section 1.04 Execution and Authentication.

(a) The Initial Notes may forthwith be executed by the Issuers and delivered to the Trustee for authentication and delivery by the Trustee for original issue in accordance with the provisions of Section 303 of the Base Indenture.

(b) At any time and from time to time after the issuance of the Initial Notes, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver any Additional Notes for original issue in accordance with the provisions of Section 303 of the Base Indenture in an aggregate principal amount determined at the time of issuance and specified in an Issuer Order. Such Issuer Order shall specify the principal amount of the Additional Notes to be authenticated and the date on which the original issue of such Additional Notes is to be authenticated.

Section 1.05 Non-Business Day Payments. If any Interest Payment Date, the Stated Maturity, any Redemption Date, any Settlement Date or any Change of Control Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, then the required payment or delivery will be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date that the payment or delivery was due, and no additional interest will accrue on that required payment or delivery for the period from and after the Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity, Redemption Date, Settlement Date or Change of Control Payment Date, as the case may be, to that next succeeding Business Day.

 

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Article Two

Definitions and Incorporation by Reference

All capitalized terms contained in this Supplemental Indenture shall, except as specifically provided for herein and except as the context may otherwise require, have the meanings given to such terms in the Base Indenture. Unless the context otherwise requires, all references in this Supplemental Indenture to Articles, Sections or Exhibits refer to Articles or Sections of, or Exhibits to, this Supplemental Indenture. In the event of any inconsistency between the Base Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, this Supplemental Indenture shall govern. The rules of interpretation set forth in the Base Indenture shall be applied hereto as if set forth in full herein. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Section 2.01 Definitions.

Acquired Debt” means, with respect to any specified Person:

(1) Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock of any other Person existing at the time such other Person was merged with or into or became a Restricted Subsidiary of such specified Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock is incurred or issued in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other Person merging with or into, or becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of, such specified Person, but excluding Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock which is extinguished, retired, cancelled or repaid in connection with such Person merging with or into or becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of such specified Person; and

(2) Indebtedness secured by a Lien encumbering any asset acquired by such specified Person but excluding Indebtedness which is extinguished, retired, cancelled or repaid in connection with such asset being acquired by such specified Person.

Additional Notes” means, subject to the Company’s compliance with Section 4.09, 7.875% Senior Notes due 2032 issued from time to time after the Issue Date under the terms of the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and this Supplemental Indenture (other than pursuant to Section 304, 305 or 306 of the Base Indenture or Section 3.06, 3.09, 4.15 or 9.05 of the Supplemental Indenture.

Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For purposes of this definition, “control,” as used with respect to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by agreement or otherwise; provided, however, that beneficial ownership of 10% or more of the Voting Stock of a Person will be deemed to be control by the other Person; and further, that any third Person which also beneficially owns 10% or more of the Voting Stock of a specified Person shall not be deemed to be an Affiliate of either the specified Person or the other Person merely because of such common ownership in such specified Person. For purposes of this definition, the terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with” have correlative meanings.

Applicable Law,” except as the context may otherwise require, means all applicable laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, judgments, decrees, injunctions, writs and orders of any court or governmental or congressional agency or authority and rules, regulations, orders, licenses and permits of any United States federal, state, municipal, regional, or other governmental body, instrumentality, agency or authority.

 

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Asset Sale” means:

(1) the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of any properties or assets (including by way of a merger or consolidation or by way of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction); and

(2) the issuance of Equity Interests in any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries or the sale of Equity Interests in any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that in the case of clause (1) or (2), the disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole will not constitute an “Asset Sale” but will be governed by the provisions of Section 4.15 and/or Section 5.01 and not by the provisions of Section 4.10.

Notwithstanding the preceding, the following items will not be deemed to be Asset Sales:

(1) any single transaction or series of related transactions that involves properties or assets having a fair market value of less than $25.0 million;

(2) a transfer of properties or assets between or among any of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(3) an issuance or sale of Equity Interests by a Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or to another Restricted Subsidiary;

(4) the sale, lease or other disposition of equipment, inventory, accounts receivable or other properties or assets in the ordinary course of business;

(5) the sale or other disposition of cash or Cash Equivalents, Hedging Contracts or other financial instruments in the ordinary course of business;

(6) a Restricted Payment that is permitted by Section 4.07 or a Permitted Investment (including unwinding any Hedging Contracts);

(7) the creation or perfection of a Lien that is not prohibited by Section 4.12;

(8) dispositions in connection with Permitted Liens;

(9) surrender or waiver of contract rights or the settlement, release or surrender of contract, tort or other claims of any kind;

(10) the grant in the ordinary course of business of any non-exclusive license of patents, trademarks, registrations therefor and other similar intellectual property;

(11) an Asset Swap; and

 

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(12) an Equipment Lease Transaction.

Asset Swap” means any substantially contemporaneous (and in any event occurring within 180 days of each other) purchase and sale or exchange of any assets or properties used or useful in a Permitted Business between the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and another Person; provided that any Net Proceeds received must be applied in accordance with Section 4.10 as if the Asset Swap were an Asset Sale.

Attributable Debt” in respect of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction means, at the time of determination, the present value of the obligation of the lessee for net rental payments during the remaining term of the lease included in such Sale and Leaseback Transaction, including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended. Such present value shall be calculated using a discount rate equal to the rate of interest implicit in such transaction, determined in accordance with GAAP. As used in the preceding sentence, the “net rental payments” under any lease for any such period shall mean the sum of rental and other payments required to be paid with respect to such period by the lessee thereunder, excluding any amounts required to be paid by such lessee on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments, water rates or similar charges. In the case of any lease that is terminable by the lessee upon payment of penalty, such net rental payment shall also include the amount of such penalty, but no rent shall be considered as required to be paid under such lease subsequent to the first date upon which it may be so terminated.

Available Cash” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Partnership Agreement, as in effect on the Issue Date.

Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, United States Code, as may be amended from time to time, or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors.

Beneficial Owner” has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial ownership of any particular “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), such “person” will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities that such “person” has the right to acquire by conversion or exercise of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is exercisable only upon the occurrence of a subsequent condition. The terms “Beneficially Owns,” “Beneficially Owned” and “Beneficial Ownership” have correlative meanings.

Board of Directors” means:

(1) with respect to Finance Corp., its board of directors;

(2) with respect to the Company, the Board of Directors of the General Partner (or any other Person serving a similar function for the Company) or any authorized committee thereof; and

(3) with respect to any other Person, the board or committee of such Person serving a similar function.

 

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Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the applicable Person to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Person and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

Business Day” means each day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in Houston, Texas or in New York, New York or another place of payment are authorized or required by law to close.

Capital Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a capital lease that would at that time be required to be capitalized on a balance sheet in accordance with GAAP (other than any obligation that is required to be classified and accounted for as an operating lease for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the Issue Date), and the amount of Indebtedness represented by such obligation shall be the capitalized amount of such obligation determined in accordance with GAAP; and the stated maturity thereof shall be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such lease prior to the first date upon which such lease may be terminated by the lessee without payment of a penalty. For purposes of Section 4.12, a Capital Lease Obligation will be deemed to be secured by a Lien on the property being leased.

Capital Stock” means:

(1) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock;

(2) in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock;

(3) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership interests (whether general or limited) or membership interests; and

(4) any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person.

Cash Equivalents” means:

(1) United States dollars;

(2) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality of the United States government (provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support of those securities) having maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition;

(3) marketable general obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof and, at the time of acquisition thereof, having a credit rating of “A” or better from either S&P or Moody’s;

 

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(4) certificates of deposit, demand deposits and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’ acceptances with maturities not exceeding one year and overnight bank deposits, in each case, with any lender party to the Credit Agreement or with any domestic commercial bank or any United States branch of a foreign bank having capital and surplus in excess of $500.0 million and a Thomson Bank Watch Rating of “B” or better;

(5) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven days for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (2), (3) and (4) above entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (4) above;

(6) commercial paper having one of the two highest ratings obtainable from Moody’s or S&P and in each case maturing within one year after the date of acquisition;

(7) money market funds at least 95% of the assets of which constitute Cash Equivalents of the kinds described in clauses (1) through (6) of this definition; and

(8) marketable short-term money market and similar securities having a rating of at least P-2 or A-2 from either Moody’s or S&P, respectively, and in each case maturing within 24 months after the date of creation thereof.

Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following:

(1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets (including Capital Stock of the Restricted Subsidiaries) of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), which occurrence is followed within 60 days thereafter by a Rating Decline;

(2) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company or removal of the General Partner by the limited partners of the Company; or

(3) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation), the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of shares, units or the like, which occurrence is followed within 60 days thereafter by a Rating Decline; provided, however, that a Change of Control shall not have occurred as a result of the Beneficial Ownership of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of the Company by the Qualified Owners, so long as at least 20% of the common units of the Company remain registered and listed for trading on a national securities exchange or quoted on an established automated over-the-counter trading market in the United States.

 

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Notwithstanding the preceding, a conversion of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from a limited liability company, corporation, limited partnership or other form of entity to a limited liability company, corporation, limited partnership or other form of entity or an exchange (pursuant to merger or otherwise) of all of the outstanding Equity Interests in one form of entity for Equity Interests in another form of entity shall not constitute a Change of Control, so long as following such conversion or exchange the “persons” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) who Beneficially Owned, directly or indirectly, the Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to such transactions continue to Beneficially Own, directly or indirectly, in the aggregate more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such entity or any parent thereof or its general partner, as applicable, or continue to Beneficially Own, directly or indirectly, sufficient Equity Interests in such entity or any parent thereof or its general partner, as applicable, to elect a majority of its directors, managers, trustees or other persons serving in a similar capacity for such entity or any parent thereof or its general partner, as applicable, and, in either case no “person” Beneficially Owns, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such entity or any parent thereof or its general partner, as applicable; provided, however, that a Change of Control shall not have occurred as a result of the Beneficial Ownership of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such entity or any parent thereof or its general partner, as applicable, by the Qualified Owners, so long as at least 20% of the common units or other comparable common equity of such entity or any parent thereof or its general partner, as applicable, remains registered and listed for trading on a national securities exchange or quoted on an established automated over-the-counter trading market in the United States.

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, or any successor statute or statutes thereto.

Commission” or “SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Company” means Genesis Energy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.

Consolidated Cash Flow” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period plus, without duplication:

(1) an amount equal to any net loss realized by such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Sale, to the extent such losses were deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus

(2) provision for taxes based on income or profits of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent that such provision for taxes was deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus

(3) consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued and whether or not capitalized (including amortization of debt issuance costs and original issue discount, non-cash interest payments, the interest component of any deferred payment obligations, the interest component of all payments associated with Capital Lease Obligations, imputed interest with respect to Attributable Debt, commissions, discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letter of credit or bankers’ acceptance financings), and net of the effect of all payments made or received pursuant to interest rate Hedging Contracts, to the extent that any such expense was deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus

 

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(4) depreciation, depletion and amortization (including amortization of intangibles but excluding amortization of prepaid cash expenses that were paid in a prior period), impairment, non-cash equity based compensation expense and other non-cash items (excluding any such non-cash item to the extent that it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash expenses in any future period or amortization of a prepaid cash expense that was paid in a prior period) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period to the extent that such depreciation and amortization, impairment and other non-cash items that were deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus

(5) unrealized non-cash losses resulting from foreign currency balance sheet adjustments required by GAAP to the extent such losses were deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus

(6) all extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring items of gain or loss, or revenue or expense and, without duplication, Transaction Costs; plus

(7) any cash received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to any Direct Financing Lease during such period; plus

(8) any deferred or non-cash equity compensation or stock option or similar compensation expense, including all expense recorded for the Company’s equity appreciation rights plan in excess of cash payments for exercised rights, in each case during such period; provided, however, that actual cash payments made with respect to such deferred compensation during such period shall reduce Consolidated Cash Flow for such period; plus

(9) an amount equal to dividends or distributions paid during such period in cash to such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries by a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting; minus

(10) non-cash items increasing such Consolidated Net Income for such period;

in each case, on a consolidated basis and determined in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the aggregate of the Net Income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP, provided that:

(1) the aggregate Net Income (but not net loss in excess of such aggregate Net Income) of each of the Persons that is not a Restricted Subsidiary or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting will be excluded;

 

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(2) the Net Income of any Restricted Subsidiary will be excluded to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of that Net Income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval (that has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of its charter or any judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or its stockholders, partners or members;

(3) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles will be excluded;

(4) unrealized losses and gains under derivative instruments included in the determination of Consolidated Net Income, including those resulting from the application of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133, will be excluded;

(5) any nonrecurring charges relating to any premium or penalty paid, write off of deferred finance costs or other charges in connection with redeeming or retiring any Indebtedness prior to its Stated Maturity will be excluded;

(6) any asset (including goodwill) impairment or write-down on or related to non-current assets under applicable GAAP or Commission guidelines will be excluded; and

(7) any income or losses attributable to Direct Financing Leases will be excluded.

Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means, with respect to any Person at any date of determination, the aggregate amount of total assets included in such Person’s most recent quarterly or annual consolidated balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP less applicable reserves reflected in such balance sheet, after deducting the following amounts: (a) all current liabilities reflected in such balance sheet, and (b) all goodwill, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discounts and expenses and other like intangibles reflected in such balance sheet.

consolidation” means, with respect to any Person, the consolidation of the accounts of the Restricted Subsidiaries of such Person with those of such Person, all in accordance with GAAP; provided, however, that “consolidation” will not include consolidation of the accounts of any Unrestricted Subsidiary of such Person with the accounts of such Person. The term “consolidated” has a correlative meaning to the foregoing.

Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee” means the office of the Trustee, which office at the date hereof is located at 8 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1100, Houston, Texas 77046, Attn: Corporate Trust Services, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Issuers, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as a successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Issuers).

 

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Credit Agreement” means the Sixth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 17, 2023, by and among the Company, as borrower, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, Bank of America N.A., as syndication agent, and each of the other lenders party thereto, as amended by any successor or replacement agreements and whether by the same or any other agent, lender or group of lenders, together with the related documents thereto (including, without limitation, any guarantee agreements and security documents), in each case as such agreements may be amended (including any amendment and restatement thereof), supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, including any agreements extending the maturity of, Refinancing, replacing, increasing or otherwise restructuring all or any portion of the Indebtedness under such agreements.

Credit Facilities” means one or more debt facilities (including the Credit Agreement), commercial paper facilities or debt issuances, in each case with banks or other institutional lenders or institutional investors providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables or inventory financing (including through the sale of receivables or inventory to such lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such receivables or inventory), commercial paper, debt securities or letters of credit, in each case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or Refinanced (including Refinancing with any capital markets transaction) in whole or in part from time to time.

Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

Davison Family” means James E. Davison, James E. Davison, Jr., Steven Davison, Todd Davison and the members of their Families.

Davison Group” means (i) any member of the Davison Family, (ii) any Related Person of any such member, and (iii) the James Ellis Davison, Jr. Grantor Retained Annuity Trust, the Steven Davison Family Trust, the Todd Davison Children’s Trust c/o Argent Trust, and the Todd Davison Legacy Trust-2010 c/o Argent Trust. For the avoidance of doubt, the Persons named in (iii) above may be Related Persons of members of the Davison Family.

Default” means any event that is, or with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default.

Direct Financing Lease” means (i) the note of Genesis NEJD Pipeline, LLC owing to Genesis NEJD Holdings, LLC and related financing lease between Genesis NEJD Pipeline, LLC and Denbury Onshore, LLC and (ii) any other arrangement, in the case of (i) or (ii) in respect of which cash received pursuant to such arrangements is shown on the Company’s consolidated statement of cash flows as being attributable to “direct financing leases.”

Disqualified Stock” means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, or for which it is exchangeable, in each case at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock, in whole or in part, on or prior to the date that is 91 days after the final Stated Maturity of the Notes. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, (a) any Capital Stock that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders of the Capital Stock have the right to require the Company to repurchase or redeem such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of a change of control or an asset sale will not constitute Disqualified Stock

 

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if the terms of such Capital Stock provide that the Company may not repurchase or redeem any such Capital Stock pursuant to such provisions unless such repurchase or redemption complies with Section 4.07 and (b) any Capital Stock issued pursuant to any plan of the Company or any of its Affiliates for the benefit of one or more employees will not constitute Disqualified Stock solely because it may be required to be repurchased by the Company or any of its Affiliates in order to satisfy applicable contractual, statutory or regulatory obligations.

For purposes of Section 4.09, the “amount” or “principal amount” of any Disqualified Stock or preferred securities shall equal the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference and its maximum fixed repurchase price, in each case, exclusive of accrued dividends. For purposes hereof, the “maximum fixed repurchase price” of any Disqualified Stock or preferred securities which do not have a fixed repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such Disqualified Stock or preferred securities as if such Disqualified Stock or preferred securities were redeemed, repaid or repurchased on the date on which the “amount” or “principal amount” thereof shall be required to be determined pursuant to this Indenture; provided, however, that if such Disqualified Stock or preferred securities could not be required to be redeemed, repaid or repurchased at the time of such determination, the redemption, repayment or repurchase price will be the book value of such Disqualified Stock or preferred securities as reflected in the most recent financial statements of such Person.

Equipment Lease Transactions” means sales or transfers of new equipment within 30 days of its acquisition by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business consistent with historical practice to any Person whereby the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall then or thereafter rent or lease as lessee such new equipment or any part thereof to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as such new equipment sold or transferred.

Equity Interests” means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock).

Equity Offering” means (i) any public or private sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) made for cash on a primary basis by the Company after the Issue Date or (ii) any contribution to capital of the Company in respect of Capital Stock of the Company; provided that at any time on or after a Change of Control, any sale of Capital Stock to, or contribution to capital by, an Affiliate of the Company shall not be deemed an Equity Offering.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any successor statute or statutes thereto.

Existing Indebtedness” means the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement which is considered incurred under the first paragraph of Section 4.09 and other than intercompany Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock) in existence on the Issue Date, until such amounts are repaid.

 

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Existing Unrestricted Subsidiaries” means Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline Company, LLC, GA ORRI Holdings, LLC, GA ORRI, LLC, Independence Hub, LLC, Poseidon Oil Pipeline Company, L.L.C., TDC Americas, LLC, TDC Chile, SpA, TDC Energy Canada Ltd., TDC Peru S.A.C., and TDC South America, LLC.

fair market value” means the value that would be paid by a willing buyer to an unaffiliated willing seller in a transaction not involving distress or necessity of either party, determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company in the case of amounts of $30.0 million or more and otherwise by an officer of the General Partner, which determination will be conclusive for all purposes under this Indenture.

Family” means, with respect to any natural person, (i) such Person, (ii) any spouse or descendant of such Person, (iii) any other natural person who is a member of the family of any such Person referenced in (i)-(ii) above and (iv) any other natural person who has been adopted by such person referenced in (i)-(iii) above.

Finance Corp.” means Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation, until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, and thereafter “Finance Corp.” shall mean such successor Person.

Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means with respect to any specified Person for any four-quarter reference period, the ratio of the Consolidated Cash Flow of such Person for such period to the Fixed Charges of such Person for such period. In the event that the specified Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries incurs, assumes, guarantees, repays, repurchases, redeems, defeases or otherwise discharges any Indebtedness (other than ordinary working capital borrowings) or issues, repurchases or redeems preferred securities subsequent to the commencement of the applicable four-quarter reference period and on or prior to the date on which the event for which the calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made (the “Calculation Date”), then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio will be calculated giving pro forma effect to such incurrence, assumption, guarantee, repayment, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other discharge of Indebtedness, or such issuance, repurchase or redemption of preferred securities, and the use of the proceeds therefrom as if the same had occurred at the beginning of such period.

In addition, for purposes of calculating the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio:

(1) acquisitions that have been made by the specified Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or by any Person acquired by such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries), including through mergers, consolidations or otherwise (including acquisitions of assets used in a Permitted Business), and including in each case any related financing transactions (including repayment of Indebtedness) during the four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such reference period and on or prior to the Calculation Date, will be given pro forma effect as if they had occurred on the first day of the four-quarter reference period, including any Consolidated Cash Flow and any pro forma expense and cost reductions that have occurred or are reasonably expected to occur within the next 12 months, in the reasonable judgment of the chief financial or accounting officer of the General Partner (regardless of whether those cost savings or operating improvements could then be reflected in pro forma financial statements in accordance with Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities Act or any other regulation or policy of the Commission related thereto);

 

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(2) the Consolidated Cash Flow attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in accordance with GAAP, and operations or businesses (and ownership interests therein) disposed of prior to the Calculation Date, will be excluded;

(3) the Fixed Charges attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in accordance with GAAP, and operations or businesses disposed of prior to the Calculation Date, will be excluded, but only to the extent that the obligations giving rise to such Fixed Charges will not be obligations of the specified Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries following the Calculation Date; and

(4) interest income reasonably anticipated by such Person to be received during the applicable four-quarter period from cash or Cash Equivalents held by such Person or any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person, which cash or Cash Equivalents exist on the Calculation Date or will exist as a result of the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, will be included.

For purposes of this definition, (a) any Person that is a Restricted Subsidiary on the Calculation Date will be deemed to have been a Restricted Subsidiary at all times during the reference period; and (b) any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary on the Calculation Date will be deemed not to have been a Restricted Subsidiary at any time during the reference period.

Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the sum, without duplication, of:

(1) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued (including the interest component of any deferred payment obligations, the interest component of all payments associated with Capital Lease Obligations, imputed interest with respect to Attributable Debt, commissions, discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letter of credit or bankers’ acceptance financings), and net of the effect of all payments made or received pursuant to interest rate Hedging Contracts; plus

(2) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period; plus

(3) any interest expense on Indebtedness of another Person that is guaranteed by such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries or secured by a Lien on assets of such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries, whether or not such guarantee or Lien is called upon; plus

 

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(4) the product of (a) all dividends, whether paid or accrued and whether or not in cash, on any series of Disqualified Stock of such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, other than dividends on Equity Interests payable solely in Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) or to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, times (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is one minus the then current combined federal, state and local statutory tax rate of such Person, expressed as a decimal,

in each case, on a consolidated basis and determined in accordance with GAAP.

Furthermore, in calculating “Fixed Charges” for purposes of determining the “Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio”:

(a) interest on outstanding Indebtedness determined on a fluctuating basis as of the Calculation Date and which will continue to be so determined thereafter shall be deemed to have accrued at a fixed rate per annum equal to the rate of interest on such Indebtedness in effect on the Calculation Date;

(b) if interest on any Indebtedness actually incurred on the Calculation Date may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rates, then the interest rate in effect on the Calculation Date will be deemed to have been in effect during the reference period;

(c) notwithstanding clauses (1) and (2) above, interest on Indebtedness determined on a fluctuating basis, to the extent such interest is covered by Hedging Contracts, shall be deemed to accrue at the rate per annum resulting after giving effect to the operation of such agreements; and

(d) interest on Indebtedness referred to in clause (3) will be included only to the extent attributable to the portion of such Indebtedness that is so guaranteed by such Person or its Restricted Subsidiaries or so secured by a lien on the assets thereof (provided that the amount of such Indebtedness so secured will be the lesser of (x) the fair market value of such assets at the date of determination and (y) the amount of such Indebtedness).

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, which are in effect from time to time.

Global Notes” means Notes issued in the form of Global Securities.

Government Securities” means securities that are:

(1) direct obligations of the United States of America for the timely payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged; or

(2) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuers thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities

 

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Act), as custodian with respect to any such Government Securities or a specific payment of principal of or interest on any such Government Securities held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such depository receipt; provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the Government Securities or the specific payment of principal of or interest on the Government Securities evidenced by such depository receipt.

guarantee” means a guarantee other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business, direct or indirect, in any manner including by way of a pledge of assets, acting as co-obligor or through letters of credit or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof, of all or any part of any Indebtedness; provided, however, that the term “guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. When used as a verb, “guarantee” has a correlative meaning.

Guarantors” means each of (a) the Subsidiaries of the Company, other than Finance Corp., executing this Supplemental Indenture as initial guarantors of the Notes, (b) any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that becomes a Guarantor by executing a supplement to this Indenture in accordance with Section 4.13 or Section 9.03 hereof and (c) the respective successors and assigns of such Restricted Subsidiaries, as required under Article Nine hereof, in each case, until the Subsidiary Guarantee of such Person is released pursuant to Section 7.02, Section 7.03 or Section 9.05 hereof.

Hedging Contracts” means, with respect to any specified Person:

(1) (i) any agreement of such Person with any other Person whereby, directly or indirectly, such Person is entitled to receive from time to time periodic payments calculated by applying either a floating or a fixed rate of interest on a stated notional amount in exchange for periodic payments made by such other Person calculated by applying a fixed or a floating rate of interest on the same notional amount or (ii) any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate future agreement, interest rate option agreement, interest rate cap agreement or interest rate collar agreement entered into with one or more financial institutions and designed to protect the Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries entering into the agreement against fluctuations in interest rates with respect to Indebtedness incurred;

(2) any foreign exchange contract or similar currency protection agreement entered into with one or more financial institutions and designed to protect the Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries entering into the agreement against fluctuations in currency exchanges rates with respect to Indebtedness incurred;

(3) any commodity futures contract, forward contract, commodity swap agreement, commodity option or other similar agreement or arrangement or any combination thereof designed to protect against fluctuations in the price of Hydrocarbons purchased, used, produced, processed or sold by that Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries at the time; and

 

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(4) any other agreement or arrangement designed to protect such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries against fluctuations in interest rates, commodity prices or currency exchange rates.

Holder” means a Person in whose name a Note is registered.

Hydrocarbons” means (i) crude oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, drip gasoline, natural gasoline, condensate, distillate, liquid hydrocarbons, gaseous hydrocarbons and all constituents, elements or compounds thereof and all products, by-products, (ii) all other substances (whether or not hydrocarbon in nature) produced in connection therewith or refined, separated, settled or derived therefrom or the processing thereof, and all other minerals and substances, including, but not limited to, liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas, kerosene, sulphur, lignite, coal, uranium, thorium, iron, geothermal steam, water, carbon dioxide, helium, and (iii) any and all other minerals, ores or substances of value, and the products and proceeds therefrom.

Indebtedness” means, with respect to any specified Person, any indebtedness of such Person, without duplication and whether or not contingent:

(1) in respect of borrowed money;

(2) evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments;

(3) in respect of all outstanding letters of credit issued for the account of such Person that support obligations that constitute Indebtedness (provided that the amount of such letters of credit included in Indebtedness shall not exceed the amount of the Indebtedness being supported) and, without duplication, the unreimbursed amount of all drafts drawn under such letters of credit issued for the account of such Person;

(4) in respect of bankers’ acceptances;

(5) representing Capital Lease Obligations;

(6) representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property, except any such balance that constitutes an accrued expense or trade payable; or

(7) representing any obligations under Hedging Contracts,

if and to the extent any of the preceding items (other than letters of credit and obligations under Hedging Contracts) would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet of the specified Person prepared in accordance with GAAP; provided, however, that any indebtedness which has been defeased in accordance with GAAP or defeased pursuant to the irrevocable deposit of cash or Cash Equivalents (in an amount sufficient to satisfy all such indebtedness obligations at maturity or redemption, as applicable, and all payments of interest and premium, if any) in a trust or account created or pledged for the sole benefit of the holders of such indebtedness (and subject to no other Liens) and the other applicable terms of the instrument governing such indebtedness shall not constitute “Indebtedness.” In addition, the term “Indebtedness” includes, with respect to any Person, all Indebtedness of other Persons secured by a Lien on any asset of the specified

 

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Person (other than Indebtedness of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or Joint Venture of the specified Person to the extent secured by a Lien on or pledge of Equity Interests of such Unrestricted Subsidiary or Joint Venture as contemplated by clause (9) of the definition of “Permitted Liens”), whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by the specified Person (provided that the amount of such Indebtedness will be the lesser of (a) the fair market value of such asset at such date of determination and (b) the amount of such Indebtedness of such other Persons) and, to the extent not otherwise included, the guarantee by the specified Person of any Indebtedness of any other Person. For the avoidance of doubt, the term “Indebtedness” excludes

(i) any obligation arising from any agreement providing for indemnities, purchase price adjustments, holdbacks, contingency payment obligations based on a final financial statement or report or the performance of the acquired or disposed assets or similar obligations (other than guarantees of Indebtedness) incurred by the specified Person in connection with the acquisition or disposition of assets;

(ii) accrued expenses and trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business;

(iii) any unrealized losses or charges in respect of Hedging Contracts (including those resulting from the application of FAS 133);

(iv) any obligations in respect of (a) bid, performance, completion, surety, appeal and similar bonds, (b) obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances, (c) insurance obligations or bonds and other similar bonds and obligations and (d) any guarantees or letters of credit functioning as or supporting any of the foregoing bonds or obligations; provided, however that such bonds or obligations mentioned in subclause (a), (b), (c) or (d) of this clause (iv) are incurred in the ordinary course of the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries and do not relate to obligations for borrowed money;

(v) any obligations in respect of completion bonds, performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds, bankers’ acceptances, letters of credit, insurance obligations or bonds and other similar bonds and obligations incurred by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business and any guarantees and obligations of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to or letters of credit functioning as or supporting any of the foregoing bonds or obligations; and

(vi) any contracts and other obligations, agreements instruments or arrangements described in clause (11) of the definition of “Permitted Liens.”

The “amount” or “principal amount” of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date will be, except as specified below, determined in accordance with GAAP:

(1) in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount, the accreted value of the Indebtedness;

(2) in the case of obligations under any Hedging Contracts, the termination value of the agreement or arrangement giving rise to such obligations that would be payable by such Person at such date;

 

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(3) in the case of any Capitalized Lease Obligation, the amount determined in accordance with the definition thereof;

(4) in the case of other unconditional obligations (other than those specified in clauses (1) or (2) of the first paragraph of this definition), the amount of the liability thereof determined in accordance with GAAP;

(5) in the case of other contingent obligations (other than those specified in clauses (1) or (2) of the first paragraph of this definition), the maximum liability at such date of such Person; and

(6) the principal amount of the Indebtedness, together with any interest on the Indebtedness that is more than 30 days past due, in the case of any other Indebtedness.

Indenture” means the Base Indenture, as amended, supplemented and modified by this Supplemental Indenture, as may be further amended, supplemented or modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof, including the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part hereof.

Independent Advisor” means a reputable accounting, appraisal or nationally recognized investment banking, engineering or consulting firm (a) which does not, and whose directors, officers and employees or Affiliates do not, have a direct or indirect material financial interest in the Company and (b) which, in the judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, is otherwise disinterested, independent and qualified to perform the task for which it is to be engaged.

Initial Guarantors” means the Subsidiaries of the Company, other than Finance Corp., executing this Supplemental Indenture as initial guarantors of the Notes.

Initial Notes” means the $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes issued on the Issue Date. The Initial Notes comprise all Notes issued under this Supplemental Indenture other than any Additional Notes.

Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P or, if either such rating agency ceases to rate the Notes for reasons outside of the Company’s control, the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any other nationally recognized statistical rating agency selected by the Company.

Investments” means, with respect to any Person, all direct or indirect investments by such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the forms of loans (including guarantees or other obligations), advances or capital contributions (excluding (1) commission, travel and similar advances to officers and employees made in the ordinary course of business and (2) advances to customers in the ordinary course of business that are recorded as accounts receivable on the balance sheet of the lender), purchases or other acquisitions for consideration of Indebtedness, Equity Interests or other securities, together with all items that are or would be classified as investments on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP. Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, the amount of any Investment shall be its fair

 

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market value at the time the Investment is made and shall not be adjusted for increases or decreases in value or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment. If the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company sells or otherwise disposes of any Equity Interests of any direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary of the Company such that, after giving effect to any such sale or disposition, such Person is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, the Company will be deemed to have made an Investment on the date of any such sale or disposition in an amount equal to the fair market value of the Equity Interests of such Restricted Subsidiary not sold or disposed of in an amount determined as provided in Section 4.07(c). The acquisition by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company of a Person that holds an Investment in a third Person will be deemed to be an Investment made by the Company or such Subsidiary in such third Person in an amount equal to the fair market value of the Investment held by the acquired Person in such third Person on the date of any such acquisition in an amount determined as provided in Section 4.07(c).

Issue Date” means May 9, 2024, the date of original issuance of the Initial Notes under this Supplemental Indenture.

Joint Venture” means any Person that is not a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company in which the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries makes any Investment.

Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under Applicable Law, including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to sell or give a security interest in and any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any jurisdiction other than a precautionary financing statement respecting a lease not intended as a security agreement.

Make-Whole Premium” means, with respect to a Note at any time, the excess, if any, of (a) the present value at such time of (i) the redemption price of such Note at May 15, 2027 pursuant to Section 3.07(a) plus (ii) any required interest payments due on such Note through May 15, 2027 (except for accrued and unpaid interest at such time), computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate at such time plus 50 basis points, discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), over (b) the principal amount of such Note.

Measuring Date” means November 18, 2010.

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

Net Income” means, with respect to any specified Person, the net income (loss) of such Person, determined in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in respect of preferred securities dividends, excluding, however:

(1) any gain (or loss), together with any related provision for taxes on such gain (or loss), realized in connection with: (a) any Asset Sale; or (b) the disposition of any securities by such Person or the extinguishment of any Indebtedness of such Person; and

 

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(2) any extraordinary gain (or loss), together with any related provision for taxes on such extraordinary gain (or loss).

Net Proceeds” means the aggregate cash proceeds received by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of any Asset Sale (including any cash received upon the sale or other disposition of any non-cash consideration received in any Asset Sale), net of:

(1) the direct costs relating to such Asset Sale, including legal, accounting and investment banking fees, and sales commissions, severance costs and any relocation expenses incurred as a result of the Asset Sale;

(2) taxes paid or payable or taxes required to be accrued as a liability under GAAP as a result of the Asset Sale, in each case, after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements;

(3) amounts required to be applied to the repayment of Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the properties or assets that were the subject of such Asset Sale in accordance with the terms of any Lien upon or other security agreement of any kind with respect to such assets or which must by its terms or in order to obtain a necessary consent to such Asset Sale, or by applicable law, be repaid out of the proceeds from such Asset Sale;

(4) any amounts to be set aside in any reserve established in accordance with GAAP or any amount placed in escrow, in either case for adjustment in respect of the sale price of such properties or assets or for liabilities associated with such Asset Sale and retained by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries until such time as such reserve is reversed or such escrow arrangement is terminated, in which case Net Proceeds shall include only the amount of the reserve so reversed or the amount returned to the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries from such escrow arrangement, as the case may be; and

(5) all distributions and other payments required to be made to minority interest holders in the Restricted Subsidiaries or Joint Ventures that are the subject of such Asset Sale.

Non-Recourse Debt” means Indebtedness:

(1) as to which neither the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) provides credit support of any kind (including any undertaking, agreement or instrument that would constitute Indebtedness), (b) is directly or indirectly liable as a guarantor or otherwise, or (c) is the lender;

(2) no default with respect to which (including any rights that the holders of the Indebtedness may have to take enforcement action against an Unrestricted Subsidiary) would permit upon notice, lapse of time or both any holder of any other Indebtedness (other than the Notes) of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to declare a default on such other Indebtedness or cause the payment of the Indebtedness to be accelerated or payable prior to its Stated Maturity; and

 

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(3) the explicit terms of which provide there is no recourse against any of the Capital Stock or assets of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries except as contemplated by clause (9) of the definition of “Permitted Liens.”

For purposes of determining compliance with Section 4.09, in the event that any Non-Recourse Debt of any of the Company’s Unrestricted Subsidiaries ceases to be Non-Recourse Debt of such Unrestricted Subsidiary, such event will be deemed to constitute an incurrence of Indebtedness by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company.

Notes” has the meaning stated in the third recital of this Supplemental Indenture and more particularly means any Notes authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture. For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture:

(a) the term “Notes” shall include all Additional Notes issued hereunder, and

(b) all Notes shall be treated as a single class for purposes of this Supplemental Indenture as specified in Section 1.03.

Obligations” means any principal, premium, if any, interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization, whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such proceeding), penalties, fees, charges, expenses, indemnifications, reimbursement obligations, damages, guarantees, and other liabilities or amounts payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness or in respect thereto.

Officer” means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary or any Vice President of such Person (or, if such Person is a limited partnership, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary or any Vice President of such Person’s general partner).

Pari Passu Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Issuers or any Guarantor that ranks pari passu in right of payment with the Notes or such Guarantor’s Subsidiary Guarantees, as applicable.

Partnership Agreement” means the Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of the Company, dated as of December 28, 2010, as in effect on the Issue Date and as such may be further amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.

 

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Permitted Business” means either (1) gathering, transporting, compressing, treating, processing, marketing, distributing, storing or otherwise handling Hydrocarbons, or activities or services reasonably related or ancillary thereto including entering into Hedging Contracts in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes to support these businesses and the development, manufacture and sale of equipment or technology related to these activities, (2) any other business that generates gross income that constitutes “qualifying income” under Section 7704(d) of the Code or (3) any activity that is ancillary, complementary or incidental to or necessary or appropriate for the activities described in clause (1) or (2) of this definition.

Permitted Business Investments” means Investments by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in any Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Company or in any Joint Venture, provided that:

(1) either (a) at the time of such Investment and immediately thereafter, the Company could incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness under the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 4.09(a) or (b) such Investment does not exceed the aggregate amount of Incremental Funds (as defined in Section 4.07) not previously expended at the time of making such Investment;

(2) if such Unrestricted Subsidiary or Joint Venture has outstanding Indebtedness at the time of such Investment, either (a) all such Indebtedness is Non-Recourse Debt or (b) any such Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary or Joint Venture that is recourse to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (which shall include all Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary or Joint Venture for which the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may be directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, obligated to pay, whether pursuant to the terms of such Indebtedness, by law or pursuant to any guarantee, including any “claw-back,” “make-well” or “keep-well” arrangement) at the time such Investment is made, constitutes Permitted Debt or could be incurred at that time by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries under the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 4.09(a); and

(3) such Unrestricted Subsidiary’s or Joint Venture’s activities are not outside the scope of the Permitted Business.

Permitted Investments” means:

(1) any Investment in the Company (including through purchases of Notes) or in a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;

(2) any Investment in Cash Equivalents;

(3) any Investment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in a Person, if as a result of such Investment:

(a) such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or

(b) such Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys substantially all of its properties or assets to, or is liquidated into, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;

 

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(4) any Investment made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration (a) from an Asset Sale that was made pursuant to and in compliance with Section 4.10 or (b) pursuant to clause (6) of the items deemed not to be Asset Sales under the definition of “Asset Sale”;

(5) any Investment in any Person solely in exchange for the issuance of, or out of the net cash proceeds of the substantially concurrent (a) contribution (other than from a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) to the equity capital of the Company in respect of or (b) sale (other than to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company; provided, however, that such amounts are not included in Incremental Funds;

(6) any Investments received (a) in compromise or resolution of, or upon satisfaction of judgments with respect to, (i) obligations of trade creditors or customers that were incurred in the ordinary course of business, including pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of any trade creditor or customer or (ii) litigation, arbitration or other disputes (including pursuant to any bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings) with Persons who are not Affiliates or (b) as a result of a foreclosure by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to any secured Investment in default;

(7) Hedging Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes;

(8) Permitted Business Investments;

(9) payroll, travel and similar advances to cover matters that are expected at the time of such advances ultimately to be treated as expenses for accounting purposes and that are made in the ordinary course of business;

(10) loans or advances to officers, directors or employees made in compliance with law and in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary and otherwise in compliance with Section 4.11;

(11) any Investment in any Person to the extent such Investment consists of prepaid expenses, negotiable instruments held for collection and lease, utility and workers’ compensation or performance and other similar deposits made in the ordinary course of business by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(12) Investments that are in existence on the Issue Date, and any extension, modification or renewal of any such Investments, but only to the extent not involving additional advances, contributions or other Investments of cash or other assets or other increases of such Investments (other than as a result of the accrual or accretion of interest or original issue discount or the issuance of pay-in-kind securities, in each case, pursuant to the terms of such Investments as in effect on the Issue Date);

(13) guarantees of performance of operating leases or other obligations (other than Indebtedness) arising in the ordinary course of business;

 

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(14) Investments of a Restricted Subsidiary existing on the date such entity became a Restricted Subsidiary acquired after the Issue Date or of any entity merged into or consolidated with the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 5.01 to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition, merger or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, merger or consolidation;

(15) repurchases of or other Investments in the Notes;

(16) Guarantees of Indebtedness other than Indebtedness of an Affiliate permitted under Section 4.09; and

(17) other Investments in any Person having an aggregate fair market value (measured on the date each such Investment was made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (17) that are at the time outstanding, do not exceed the greater of (a) $50.0 million or (b) 5.0% of the Company’s Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.

Permitted Liens” means:

(1) Liens securing Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement or any other Credit Facilities;

(2) Liens in favor of the Company or the Guarantors;

(3) Liens on property of a Person existing at the time such Person (a) becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or (b) is merged with or into or consolidated with the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, provided that, in the case of subclause (b), such Liens were in existence prior to the contemplation of such merger or consolidation and do not extend to any assets (other than improvements thereon, accessions thereto and proceeds thereof) other than those of the Person merged into or consolidated with the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary;

(4) Liens on property existing at the time of acquisition of the property by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; provided that such Liens were in existence prior to the contemplation of such acquisition;

(5) any interest or title of a lessor to the property subject to a Capital Lease Obligation;

(6) Liens for the purpose of securing the payment of all or a part of the purchase price of, or Capital Lease Obligations, purchase money obligations or other payments incurred to finance the acquisition, lease, improvement or construction of or repairs or additions to, assets or property acquired or constructed in the ordinary course of business; provided that:

 

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(a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness secured by such Liens is otherwise permitted to be incurred under this Indenture and does not exceed the cost of the assets or property so acquired or constructed; and

(b) such Liens are created within 360 days of the later of the acquisition, lease, completion of improvements, construction, repairs or additions or commencement of full operation of the assets or property subject to such Lien and do not encumber any other assets or property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary other than such assets or property and assets affixed or appurtenant thereto;

(7) Liens existing on the Issue Date;

(8) Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business (a) to secure the performance of tenders, bids, statutory obligations, surety or appeal bonds, trade contracts, government contracts, operating leases, performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature or (b) in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security or similar legislation;

(9) Liens on and pledges of the Equity Interests of any Unrestricted Subsidiary or any Joint Venture owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to the extent securing Non-Recourse Debt or other Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary or Joint Venture;

(10) Liens on pipelines or pipeline facilities that arise by operation of law;

(11) Liens arising under operating agreements, joint venture agreements, partnership agreements, oil and gas leases, farmout agreements, division orders, contracts for sale, transportation or exchange of crude oil and natural gas, unitization and pooling declarations and agreements, area of mutual interest agreements and other agreements arising in the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries that are customary in the Permitted Business;

(12) Liens upon specific items of inventory, receivables or other goods or proceeds of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries securing such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances or receivables securitizations issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory, receivables or other goods or proceeds and permitted by Section 4.09;

(13) Liens securing Obligations of the Issuers or any Guarantor under the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees or otherwise under this Indenture, as the case may be;

(14) Liens securing any Indebtedness equally and ratably with all Obligations due under the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee pursuant to a contractual covenant that limits Liens in a manner substantially similar to Section 4.12;

 

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(15) Liens to secure performance of Hedging Contracts of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes;

(16) Liens securing any insurance premium financing under customary terms and conditions, provided that no such Lien may extend to or cover any assets or property other than the insurance being acquired with such financing, the proceeds thereof and any unearned or refunded insurance premiums related thereto;

(17) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims that are not yet delinquent or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently concluded; provided that any reserve or other appropriate provision as is required in conformity with GAAP has been made therefor;

(18) any attachment or judgment Lien that does not constitute an Event of Default;

(19) survey exceptions, easements or reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, rights-of-way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning or other restrictions as to the use of real property that were not incurred in connection with the Indebtedness and that do not in the aggregate materially adversely affect the value of said properties or materially impair their use in the operation of the business of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(20) Liens arising from Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings regarding operating leases entered into by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(21) leases or subleases granted to others that do not materially interfere with the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;

(22) Liens (other than Liens securing Indebtedness) on, or related to, assets to secure all or part of the costs incurred in the ordinary course of the Permitted Business for the gathering, compression, treating, distribution, production, processing, transportation, marketing, storage or otherwise handling of Hydrocarbons;

(23) statutory and contractual Liens of landlords to secure rent arising in the ordinary course of business and Liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, suppliers, materialmen, repairmen and other Liens imposed by law incurred in the ordinary course of business for sums not yet delinquent or being contested in good faith;

(24) Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provision relating to banker’s Liens, rights of set-off or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other funds maintained with a creditor depository institution; provided, however, that (a) such deposit account is not a dedicated cash collateral account and is not subject to restrictions against access by the Issuers in excess of those set forth by regulations promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board and (b) such deposit account is not intended by the Issuers or any Restricted Subsidiary to provide collateral to the depository institution;

 

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(25) Liens in favor of collecting or payor banks having a right of setoff, revocation, refund or chargeback with respect to money or instruments of the Issuers or any Restricted Subsidiary on deposit with or in possession of such bank;

(26) Liens arising under this Indenture in favor of the Trustee for its own benefit and similar Liens in favor of other trustees, agents and representatives arising under instruments governing Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under this Indenture; provided, however, that such Liens are solely for the benefit of the trustees, agents or representatives in their capacities as such and not for the benefit of the holders of such Indebtedness;

(27) Liens arising from the deposit of funds or securities in trust for the purpose of decreasing or defeasing Indebtedness so long as such deposit of funds or securities and such decreasing or defeasing of Indebtedness are permitted under Section 4.07;

(28) other Liens incurred by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, provided that, after giving effect to any such incurrence, the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness then outstanding and secured by any Liens incurred pursuant to this clause (28) does not exceed the greater of (a) $50.0 million or (b) 5.0% of the Company’s Consolidated Net Tangible Assets; and

(29) any Lien renewing, extending, refinancing or refunding a Lien permitted by clauses (1) through (27) above, provided that (a) the principal amount of the Indebtedness secured by such Lien is not increased except by an amount equal to a reasonable premium or other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection therewith and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder and (b) no assets encumbered by any such Lien other than the assets permitted to be encumbered immediately prior to such renewal, extension, refinance or refund are encumbered thereby (other than improvements thereon, accessions thereto and proceeds thereof).

In each case set forth above, notwithstanding any stated limitation on the assets that may be subject to such Lien, a Permitted Lien on a specified asset or group or type of assets may include Liens on all improvements, additions and accessions thereto and all products and proceeds thereof (including dividends, distributions and increases in respect thereof).

Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries issued in a Refinancing of other Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than intercompany Indebtedness); provided that:

(1) the principal amount of such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of the Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities being Refinanced (plus all accrued interest on the Indebtedness or accrued and unpaid dividends on preferred securities and the amount of all expenses and premiums incurred in connection therewith);

 

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(2) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a final maturity date later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities being Refinanced;

(3) if the Indebtedness being Refinanced is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees on terms at least as favorable to the Holders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities being Refinanced or shall be Disqualified Stock or preferred securities of the obligor on the Indebtedness being Refinanced;

(4) if such Indebtedness being Refinanced is Indebtedness of the Issuers or one or more Guarantors, then such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall be Indebtedness solely of the Issuers or such Guarantors which were obligors or guarantors of such Indebtedness being Refinanced;

(5) if any preferred securities being Refinanced were not Disqualified Stock of the Issuers, the Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be Disqualified Stock of the Issuers; and

(6) if any preferred securities being Refinanced were preferred securities of a Restricted Subsidiary, the Refinancing Indebtedness shall be preferred securities of such Restricted Subsidiary.

Notwithstanding the preceding, any Indebtedness incurred under Credit Facilities pursuant to Section 4.09 shall be subject only to the refinancing provision in the definition of Credit Facilities and not pursuant to the requirements set forth in the definition of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness.

Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, limited liability company or government or other entity.

preferred securities” of any Person means any Capital Stock of any class or classes (however designated) of such Person that has preferential rights to any other Capital Stock of any class of such Person with respect to dividends or redemptions or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such Person.

Qualified Owners” means (i) the Company and its Subsidiaries, (ii) the Davison Group and (iii) any Related Persons with respect to any Person specified in clauses (i) or (ii) of this definition. Any person or group whose acquisition of beneficial ownership constitutes a Change of Control in respect of which a Change of Control Offer is (or pursuant to Section 4.15(g) is not required to be) made in accordance with the requirements of this Indenture will thereafter, together with its Affiliates, constitute an additional Qualified Owner.

 

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“Rating Agency” means each of S&P and Moody’s, or if (and only if) either or both of S&P and Moody’s shall not make a rating on the notes publicly available, a nationally recognized statistical rating agency or agencies, as the case may be, selected by the Company, which shall be substituted for S&P or Moody’s, as the case may be.

Rating Decline” means a decrease in the rating of the Notes by each of the two Rating Agencies by one or more gradations (including gradations within rating categories as well as between rating categories). In determining whether the rating of the Notes has decreased by one or more gradations, gradations within rating categories, such as + or – for S&P, and 1, 2, and 3 for Moody’s, will be taken into account; for example, in the case of S&P, a rating decline either from BB+ to BB or BB– to B+ will constitute a decrease of one gradation.

Refinance” means, in respect of any Indebtedness or preferred securities, to refinance, extend, renew, refund, repay, prepay, redeem, effect a change by amendment or modification, defease or retire, or to issue Indebtedness or preferred securities in exchange or replacement for (or the net proceeds of which are used to Refinance), such Indebtedness or preferred securities in whole or in part. “Refinanced” and “Refinancing” shall have correlative meanings.

Related Person” means, with respect to a particular Qualified Owner, (i) to the extent such Person is an individual, (a) each other member of such Qualified Owner’s Family; (b) any Person that is directly or indirectly Controlled by such Qualified Owner and/or any one or more members of such Qualified Owner’s Family; (c) any Person with respect to which such Qualified Owner and/or one or more members of such Qualified Owner’s Family and/or all Related Persons thereto, collectively, constitute at least a majority of the executors or trustees thereof (or in a similar capacity); and (d) any person that is an estate planning vehicle (such as a trust) of which such Qualified Owner and/or one or more members of such Qualified Owner’s Family and/or any Related Persons thereto, collectively, are substantial beneficiaries; or (ii) to the extent such Qualified Owner is not an individual, (x) any controlling stockholder, partner, member, 51% (or more) owned Subsidiary or immediate family member (in the case of an individual) of such Qualified Owner; or (y) any trust, corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other Person (other than any individual), the beneficiaries, stockholders, partners, members, owners or Persons beneficially holding (directly or through one or more subsidiaries) a 51% or more controlling interest of which consist of any one or more Qualified Owners or such other Persons referred to in the immediately preceding clause (x) or this clause (y).

Reporting Default” means a Default described in Section 6.01(a)(iv).

Restricted Investment” means an Investment other than a Permitted Investment.

Restricted Subsidiary” of a Person means any Subsidiary of the referent Person that is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary. Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, Finance Corp. shall be a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company.

 

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S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any direct or indirect arrangement with any Person or to which any such Person is a party providing for the leasing to the Issuers or a Restricted Subsidiary of any property, whether owned by the Issuers or any Restricted Subsidiary at the Issue Date or later acquired, which has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person or to any other Person from whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such Person on the security of such property.

Senior Debt” means

(1) all Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary outstanding under Credit Facilities and all obligations under Hedging Contracts with respect thereto;

(2) any other Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary permitted to be incurred under the terms of this Indenture, unless the instrument under which such Indebtedness is incurred expressly provides that it is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee; and

(3) all Obligations with respect to the items listed in the preceding clauses (1) and (2).

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding sentence, Senior Debt will not include:

(a) any intercompany Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to the Company or any of its Affiliates; or

(b) any Indebtedness that is incurred in violation of this Indenture.

For the avoidance of doubt, “Senior Debt” will not include any trade payables or taxes owed or owing by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary.

Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that would be a “significant subsidiary” as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Regulation is in effect on the Issue Date.

Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any installment of interest or principal on any series of Indebtedness, the date on which the payment of interest or principal was scheduled to be paid in the original documentation governing such Indebtedness, and will not include any contingent obligations to repay, redeem or repurchase any such interest or principal prior to the date originally scheduled for the payment thereof.

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any specified Person:

(1) any corporation, association or other business entity (other than a partnership or limited liability company) of which more than 50% of the total voting power of Voting Stock is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person (or a combination thereof); and

 

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(2) any partnership (whether general or limited) or limited liability company (a) the sole general partner or member of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person, or (b) if there is more than a single general partner or member, either (x) the only managing general partners or managing members of which are such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person (or any combination thereof) or (y) such Person owns or controls, directly or indirectly, a majority of the outstanding general partner interests, member interests or other Voting Stock of such partnership or limited liability company, respectively.

Subsidiary Guarantee” means any guarantee by a Guarantor of the Issuers’ Obligations under this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and the Notes pursuant to Article Nine hereof.

Transaction Costs” means any legal, professional and advisory fees or other transaction costs and expenses paid (whether or not incurred) by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with any incurrence of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or any issuance of other equity securities or any Refinancing thereof.

Treasury Rate” means as of any redemption date the yield to maturity at such redemption date of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15(519) which has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior to the date fixed for redemption (or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the period from such redemption date to May 15, 2027; provided, however, that if such period is not equal to the constant maturity of a United States Treasury security for which a weekly average yield is given, the Company shall obtain the Treasury Rate by linear interpolation (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth of a year) from the weekly average yields of United States Treasury securities for which such yields are given, except that if the period from such redemption date to May 15, 2027 is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year shall be used. The Company will (a) calculate the Treasury Rate on the second Business Day preceding the applicable redemption date and (b) prior to such redemption date file with the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the Make-Whole Premium and the Treasury Rate and showing the calculation of each in reasonable detail.

Uniform Commercial Code” means the New York Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time.

Unrestricted Subsidiary” means (i) the Existing Unrestricted Subsidiaries and (ii) any other Subsidiary of the Company (other than Finance Corp.) that is designated by the Board of Directors of the Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to a Board Resolution, but only to the extent that, in the case of clause (i) or (ii), such Subsidiary:

 

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(1) except to the extent permitted by subclause (2)(b) of the definition of “Permitted Business Investments,” has no Indebtedness other than Non-Recourse Debt owing to any Person other than the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(2) is not party to any agreement, contract, arrangement or understanding with the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company unless the terms of any such agreement, contract, arrangement or understanding are no less favorable to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons who are not Affiliates of the Company;

(3) is a Person with respect to which neither the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has any direct or indirect obligation (a) to subscribe for additional Equity Interests or (b) to maintain or preserve such Person’s financial condition or to cause such Person to achieve any specified levels of operating results; and

(4) has not guaranteed or otherwise directly or indirectly provided credit support for any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.

All Subsidiaries of an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall also be Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

Any designation of a Subsidiary of the Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a Board Resolution giving effect to such designation and an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the preceding conditions and was permitted by Section 4.07. If, at any time, any Unrestricted Subsidiary would fail to meet the preceding requirements as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, it will thereafter cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for purposes of this Indenture and any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary will be deemed to be incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company as of such date and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be incurred as of such date under Section 4.09, the Company will be in default of such covenant.

Voting Stock” of any Person as of any date means the Capital Stock of such Person (or, if such Person is a limited partnership, such Person or its general partner, as applicable) that is at the time entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of such Person (or, if such Person is a limited partnership, its general partner).

Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness or preferred securities at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing:

(1) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal or (with respect to preferred securities) redemption or similar payment, including payment at final maturity, in respect of the Indebtedness or preferred securities, by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by

(2) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.

 

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Section 2.02 Other Definitions.

 

Term

  

Defined in Section

“Affiliate Transaction”    Section 4.11(a)
“Asset Sale Offer”    Section 3.09
“Calculation Date”   

Section 2.01 under “Fixed

Charge Coverage Ratio”

“Change of Control Offer”    Section 4.15(a)
“Change of Control Payment”    Section 4.15(a)
“Change of Control Purchase Date”    Section 4.15(a)
“Change of Control Settlement Date”    Section 4.15(a)
“Covenant Defeasance”    Section 7.03
“Discharge”    Section 10.01
“Event of Default”    Section 6.01(a)
“Excess Proceeds”    Section 4.10(d)
“Incremental Funds”    Section 4.07(a)
“incur”    Section 4.09(a)
“Legal Defeasance”    Section 7.02
“Offer Amount”    Section 3.09
“Offer Period”    Section 3.09
“Payment Default”    Section 6.01(a)
“Permitted Debt”    Section 4.09(b)
“Restricted Payments”    Section 4.07(a)
“Settlement Date”    Section 3.09
“Termination Date”    Section 3.09(a)
“Trailing Four Quarters”    Section 4.07(a)

Section 2.03 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this Supplemental Indenture refers to a provision of the Trust Indenture Act, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Supplemental Indenture. Any terms incorporated in this Supplemental Indenture that are defined by the Trust Indenture Act, defined by Trust Indenture Act reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule under the Trust Indenture Act have the meanings so assigned to them.

Section 2.04 Rules of Construction.

Unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;

(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;

(3) “or” is not exclusive;

(4) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;

 

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(5) the meanings of the words “will” and “shall” are the same when used to express an obligation;

(6) references to sections of or rules under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall be deemed to include substitute, replacement or successor sections or rules adopted by the SEC from time to time;

(7) “herein,” “hereof” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole (as amended or supplemented from time to time) and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and

(8) when the words “includes” or “including” are used herein, they shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation.”

Article Three

Redemption and Prepayment

Article XI of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes except as, and to the extent, described in this Article Three.

Section 3.01 Notices to Trustee.

If the Issuers elect to redeem Notes pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of Section 3.07 hereof, they shall furnish to the Trustee, at least five Business Days (unless a shorter period shall be agreeable to the Trustee) before the date of giving notice of the redemption pursuant to Section 3.03, an Officers’ Certificate setting forth (i) the clause of Section 3.07 pursuant to which the redemption shall occur, (ii) the redemption date, (iii) the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed, (iv) the redemption price, (v) any conditions precedent to the redemption, and (vi) whether they request the Trustee to give notice of such redemption. Any such notice may be cancelled at any time prior to the sending of notice of such redemption to any Holder and shall thereby be void and of no effect.

Section 3.02 Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed.

(a) If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select the Notes to be redeemed among the Holders of the Notes as follows: (1) if the Notes are listed on any national securities exchange, in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange on which the Notes are listed; or (2) if the Notes are not listed on any national securities exchange, on a pro rata basis, or when the Notes are Global Notes, pursuant to Applicable Procedures. In the event of partial redemption other than on a pro rata basis, the particular Notes to be redeemed shall be selected, not less than three (3) Business Days (unless a shorter period shall be agreeable to the Trustee) prior to the giving of notice of the redemption pursuant to Section 3.03, by the Trustee from the outstanding Notes not previously called for redemption.

 

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(b) The Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuers in writing of the Notes selected for redemption and, in the case of any Note selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. Notes and portions of Notes selected shall be in amounts of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000; except that if all of the Notes of a Holder are to be redeemed, the entire outstanding amount of Notes held by such Holder, even if not $2,000 or a multiple of $1,000, shall be redeemed. Provisions of this Supplemental Indenture that apply to Notes called for redemption also apply to portions of Notes called for redemption.

(c) The provisions of clauses (a) and (b) of this Section 3.02 shall not apply with respect to any redemption affecting only a Global Note, whether such Global Note is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Global Note shall be in an authorized denomination.

Section 3.03 Notice of Redemption.

(a) At least 10 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, except that redemption notices may be sent more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection with a Legal Defeasance, Covenant Defeasance or Discharge, the Issuers shall mail or cause to be mailed, by first class mail (and when all the outstanding Notes are Global Notes, sent pursuant to the Applicable Procedures), a notice of redemption to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address. In the case of redemption pursuant to Section 3.07(b), the redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent and be given prior to the completion of the related Equity Offering.

(b) The notice shall identify the Notes to be redeemed and shall state:

(i) the redemption date;

(ii) the redemption price or, if the redemption price is not then determinable, the manner in which it is to be determined;

(iii) if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such Note to be redeemed and that, after the redemption date upon surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion shall be issued in the name of the Holder upon cancellation of the original Note;

(iv) the name and address of the Paying Agent;

(v) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;

(vi) that, unless the Issuers default in making such redemption payment, interest on Notes called for redemption shall cease to accrue on and after the redemption date and the only remaining right of the Holders of such Notes is to receive payment of the redemption price upon surrender to the Paying Agent of the Notes redeemed;

 

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(vii) the paragraph of the Notes and/or Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the Notes called for redemption are being redeemed;

(viii) that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP or ISIN number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Notes; and

(ix) any conditions precedent to the redemption.

(c) If any of the Notes to be redeemed is in the form of a Global Note, then the Issuers shall modify such notice to the extent necessary to accord with the procedures of the Depositary applicable to redemption.

(d) A notice of redemption with respect to any redemption pursuant Section 3.07(c) need not set forth the Make-Whole Premium but only the manner of calculation thereof in reasonable detail. The Issuers will notify the Trustee of the Make-Whole Premium with respect to any such redemption promptly after the calculation, and the Trustee shall not be responsible for such calculation.

(e) At the Issuers’ request, the Trustee shall give the notice of optional redemption in the Issuers’ names and at their expense; provided, however, that the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee, as provided in Section 3.01, an Officers’ Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice as provided in Section 3.03(b).

Section 3.04 Effect of Notice of Redemption.

Once notice of redemption is sent in accordance with Section 3.03 hereof, Notes called for redemption become irrevocably due and payable on the redemption date at the redemption price, unless a condition precedent described in the notice of redemption is not satisfied. Notices of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to (i) one or more conditions precedent and (ii) in the case of a redemption pursuant to Section 3.07(b), the completion of the related Equity Offering. If sent in the manner provided for in Section 3.03, the notice of redemption shall be conclusively presumed to have been given and delivered whether or not a Holder receives such notice. Failure to give timely notice or any defect in the notice shall not affect the validity of the redemption.

Section 3.05 Deposit of Redemption Price.

(a) Prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the redemption date, the Issuers shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Subsidiary thereof is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003 of the Base Indenture) money sufficient in same day funds to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed on that date. The Paying Agent shall promptly return to the Issuers any money deposited with the Paying Agent by an Issuer in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed.

 

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(b) If the Issuers comply with the provisions of Section 3.05(a), on and after the redemption date, interest shall cease to accrue on the Notes or the portions of Notes called for redemption whether or not such Notes are presented for payment, and the only remaining right of the Holders of such Notes shall be to receive payment of the redemption price upon surrender to the Paying Agent of the Notes redeemed. If any Note called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender for redemption because of the failure of an Issuer to comply with Section 3.05(a), interest shall be paid on the unpaid principal, from the redemption date until such principal is paid, and to the extent lawful, on any interest not paid on such unpaid principal, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes and in Section 4.01 hereof.

Section 3.06 Notes Redeemed in Part.

Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed in part, the Issuers shall issue in the name of the Holder and the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder at the expense of the Issuers a new Note equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Note surrendered.

Section 3.07 Optional Redemption.

(a) Except as set forth in clauses (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 3.07, the Issuers shall not have the option to redeem the Notes pursuant to this Section 3.07 prior to May 15, 2027. On or after May 15, 2027, the Issuers shall have the option to redeem the Notes, in whole or in part at any time, at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount) set forth below, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an interest payment date that is on or prior to the redemption date), if redeemed during the twelve-month period beginning on May 15 of the years indicated below:

 

Year

   Percentage  

2027

     103.938

2028

     101.969

2029 and thereafter

     100.0000

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (a) of this Section 3.07, at any time prior to May 15, 2027, the Issuers may on any one or more occasions redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued under this Indenture, upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at a redemption price of 107.875% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an interest payment date that is on or prior to the redemption date), in an amount not greater than the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings, provided that:

(i) at least 65% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued under this Indenture remains outstanding immediately after the occurrence of each such redemption (excluding any Notes held by the Company and its Subsidiaries); and

 

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(ii) each such redemption occurs within 120 days of the date of the closing of each such Equity Offering.

(c) Prior to May 15, 2027, the Issuers may redeem all or part of the Notes at a redemption price equal to the sum of:

(i) 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus

(ii) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an interest payment date that is on or prior to the redemption date), plus

(iii) the Make-Whole Premium at the redemption date.

(d) The Notes may also be redeemed, as a whole, following certain Change of Control Offers, at the redemption price and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.15(h).

(e) Any redemption pursuant to this Section 3.07 shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.01 through Section 3.06 hereof.

Section 3.08 Mandatory Redemption.

Neither of the Issuers shall be required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

Section 3.09 Offer to Purchase by Application of Excess Proceeds.

In the event that, pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof, the Company shall be required to commence an offer to all Holders to purchase Notes (an “Asset Sale Offer”), it shall follow the procedures specified below.

The Asset Sale Offer shall remain open for a period of 20 Business Days following its commencement and no longer, except to the extent that a longer period is required by Applicable Law (the “Offer Period”). No later than five Business Days after the termination of the Offer Period (the “Settlement Date”), the Company shall purchase and pay for the principal amount of Notes required to be purchased pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof (the “Offer Amount”) or, if less than the Offer Amount has been validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn), all Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) in response to the Asset Sale Offer. Payment for any Notes so purchased shall be made in the manner prescribed in the Notes.

Upon the commencement of an Asset Sale Offer, the Company shall send, by first class mail, or otherwise deliver, a notice to each of the Holders, with a copy to the Trustee. The notice shall contain all instructions and materials necessary to enable such Holders to tender Notes pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer. The Asset Sale Offer shall be made to all Holders. The notice, which shall govern the terms of the Asset Sale Offer, shall state:

 

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(a) that the Asset Sale Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 3.09 and Section 4.10 hereof and the length of time the Asset Sale Offer shall remain open, including the time and date the Asset Sale Offer will terminate (the “Termination Date”);

(b) the Offer Amount and the purchase price;

(c) that any Note not tendered or accepted for payment shall continue to accrue interest;

(d) that, unless the Company defaults in making such payment, any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer shall cease to accrue interest after the Settlement Date;

(e) that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer may only elect to have all of such Note purchased and may not elect to have only a portion of such Note purchased;

(f) that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to any Asset Sale Offer shall be required to surrender the Note, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the Note completed, to the Company or a Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice, before the Termination Date;

(g) that Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Company or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, receives, prior to the Termination Date, a telegram, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Note the Holder delivered for purchase, and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased;

(h) that, if the aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered by Holders, and Pari Passu Indebtedness surrendered by holders or lenders, collectively, exceeds the amount the Company is required to repurchase, the Trustee shall select the Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis (based on the principal amounts of Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness (or, in the case of Pari Passu Indebtedness issued with significant original issue discount, based on the accreted value thereof) tendered (with such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate by the Trustee so that only Notes in denominations of $2,000, or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000, shall be purchased)); and

(i) that Holders whose Notes were purchased only in part shall be issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered (or transferred by book-entry transfer).

If any of the Notes subject to an Asset Sale Offer is in the form of a Global Note, then the Company shall modify such notice to the extent necessary to accord with the procedures of the Depositary applicable to repurchases.

 

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Promptly after the Termination Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment Notes or portions thereof tendered pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer in the aggregate principal amount required by Section 4.10 hereof, and prior to the Settlement Date it shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Notes or portions thereof were accepted for payment by the Company in accordance with the terms of this Section 3.09 and Section 4.10. Prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Settlement Date, the Company or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall mail or deliver to each tendering Holder an amount equal to the purchase price of the Notes tendered by such Holder and accepted by the Company for purchase, and the Company shall issue a new Note, and the Trustee shall authenticate and mail or deliver such new Note to such Holder, in a principal amount equal to any unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered. Any Note not so accepted shall be promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the Holder thereof. The Company shall publicly announce the results of the Asset Sale Offer on or before the Settlement Date.

Section 3.10 No Limit on Other Purchases.

Nothing in this Indenture or the Notes shall prohibit or limit the right of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company from time to time to repurchase the Notes at any price in open market purchases or negotiated transactions, by tender offer or otherwise without any notice to or consent by Holders. Any Notes purchased by the Company may, to the extent permitted by law, be held or resold or may, at the Company’s option, be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. Any Notes delivered to the Trustee for cancellation may not be reissued or resold and will promptly be cancelled.

Article Four

Covenants

Section 1001, Section 1002, Section 1004 and Section 1005 of the Base Indenture shall not apply to, and the covenants therein shall be deemed included in this Supplemental Indenture solely for the benefit of a different series of Securities than, the Notes.

Section 4.01 Payment of Notes.

The Issuers shall pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and interest and premium, if any, on the Notes on the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes.

Principal, interest and premium, if any, shall be considered paid on the date due if the Paying Agent, if other than the Company or a Subsidiary thereof, holds as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the due date money deposited by an Issuer or a Guarantor in immediately available funds and designated for and sufficient to pay all principal, interest and premium, if any, then due.

The Issuers shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal at the rate equal to the interest rate on the Notes to the extent lawful; and they shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace period), at the same rate to the extent lawful.

 

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Section 4.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency.

The Issuers shall maintain an office or agency (which may be an office of the Trustee or an Affiliate of the Trustee) where Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment and they shall maintain an office or agency in the United States (which may be an office of the Trustee or an Affiliate of the Trustee) where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuers in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuers shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Issuers shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.

The Issuers may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations. Further, if at any time there shall be no such office or agency where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment, the Issuers shall forthwith designate and maintain such an office or agency. The Issuers shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

The Issuers hereby designate the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as one such office or agency of the Company. In addition, Notes may be presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange, and notices and demands to or upon the Issuers in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served, at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.

Section 4.03 Reports.

(a) Whether or not required by the Commission, so long as any Notes are outstanding, the Company will file with the Commission for public availability within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and regulations (unless the Commission will not accept such a filing), and, if the Commission will not accept such a filing, the Company will furnish to the Trustee and, upon its prior request, to any of the Holders or Beneficial Owners of Notes (by hard copy or internet access), within five Business Days of the date such filing would otherwise be required to be made with the Commission:

(i) quarterly and annual financial and other information with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries that would be required to be contained in a filing with the Commission on Forms 10-Q and 10-K if the Company were required to file such Forms, prepared in all material respects in accordance with the rules and regulations applicable to such Forms and, with respect to the annual information only, a report thereon that would be required to be contained in a Form 10-K by the Company’s certified independent accountants; and

(ii) all current reports that would be required to be filed with the Commission on Form 8-K if the Company were required to file such reports.

The Company shall at all times comply with Trust Indenture Act § 314(a).

 

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(b) If the Company has designated any of its Subsidiaries as Unrestricted Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries that, when taken together with all other Unrestricted Subsidiaries, are “minor” within the meaning of Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X, substituting 5% for 3% where applicable), then the quarterly and annual financial information required by Section 4.03(a)(i) shall include a reasonably detailed presentation, either on the face of the financial statements or in the footnotes to the financial statements or in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, of the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries separate from the financial condition and results of operations of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

(c) Delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee under this Section is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of the foregoing shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein.

(d) The Company will be deemed to have furnished to the Holders and Beneficial Owners of Notes and securities analysts and prospective investors the reports referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) of Section 4.03(a) if the Company has posted such reports or information on the Company Website and issued a press release in respect thereof. For purposes of this Section 4.03, the term “Company Website” means the collection of web pages that may be accessed on the World Wide Web using the URL address http://www.genesisenergy.com or such other address as the Company may from time to time designate in writing to the Trustee.

(e) The Trustee shall not be obligated to monitor or confirm, on a continuing basis or otherwise, the Company’s compliance with the foregoing covenants or participate in any conference calls.

Section 4.04 Compliance Certificate.

(a) The Issuers shall deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year ending after December 31, 2024, an Officers’ Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officers with a view to determining whether the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his or her knowledge the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which he or she may have knowledge and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto).

(b) The Issuers shall, so long as any of the Notes are outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, forthwith upon any Officer of the Company or Finance Corp. becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default, a statement specifying such Default or Event of Default.

 

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Section 4.05 Taxes.

The Company shall pay, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay, prior to delinquency, all material taxes, assessments, and governmental levies except such as are contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings or where the failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the Notes.

Section 4.06 Stay, Extension and Usury Laws.

Each of the Issuers and each of the Guarantors covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and each Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.

Section 4.07 Limitation on Restricted Payments.

(a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:

(1) declare or pay any dividend or make any other payment or distribution on account of the Company’s or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries’ Equity Interests (including any payment in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) or to the direct or indirect holders of the Company’s or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries’ Equity Interests in their capacity as such (other than dividends or distributions payable in Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company or payable to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company);

(2) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value (including in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Company) any Equity Interests of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company held by any Person (other than a Restricted Subsidiary) other than through the exchange therefor solely of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company;

(3) make any payment on or with respect to, or purchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value before twelve months prior to any scheduled final maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund payment any Indebtedness that is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees (excluding any intercompany Indebtedness between or among the Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries), except a payment of interest or principal at the Stated Maturity thereof (other than a purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of any such subordinated Indebtedness that is so purchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired or retired for value in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or payment at final maturity, in each case due within 120 days of the date of such purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value); or

 

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(4) make any Restricted Investment,

(all such payments and other actions set forth in these clauses (1) through (4) above being collectively referred to as “Restricted Payments”), unless, at the time of and after giving effect to such Restricted Payment, no Default (except a Reporting Default) or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur as a consequence of such Restricted Payment and either:

(i) if the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Company’s most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available at the time of such Restricted Payment (the “Trailing Four Quarters”) is not less than 1.75 to 1.0, such Restricted Payment, together with (without duplication of amounts included in clause (e) below) the aggregate amount of all other Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding Restricted Payments permitted by clauses (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (8), (9), (10), (11) and (14) of the next succeeding paragraph) with respect to the quarter for which such Restricted Payment is made, is less than the sum, without duplication, of:

(a) Available Cash with respect to the Company’s preceding fiscal quarter, plus

(b) 100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds received by the Company (including the fair market value of any Permitted Business or long-term assets that are used or useful in a Permitted Business to the extent acquired in consideration of Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock)) after the Measuring Date as a contribution to its common equity capital or from the issue or sale of Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) or from the issue or sale of convertible or exchangeable Disqualified Stock or convertible or exchangeable debt securities of the Company that have been converted into or exchanged for such Equity Interests (other than Equity Interests (or Disqualified Stock or debt securities) sold to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company), plus

(c) to the extent that any Restricted Investment that was made after the Measuring Date is sold for cash or otherwise liquidated or repaid for cash, the cash return of capital with respect to such Restricted Investment (less the cost of disposition, if any), plus

(d) the net reduction in Restricted Investments resulting from dividends, repayments of loans or advances, or other transfers of assets in each case to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any Person (including Unrestricted Subsidiaries) or from redesignations of Unrestricted Subsidiaries as Restricted Subsidiaries, to the extent such amounts have not been included in Available Cash for any period commencing on or after the Measuring Date (items (b), (c) and (d) being referred to as “Incremental Funds”), minus

 

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(e) the aggregate amount of Incremental Funds previously expended pursuant to this clause (i) and clause (ii) below; or

(ii) if the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Trailing Four Quarters is less than 1.75 to 1.0, such Restricted Payment, together with (without duplication of amounts included in (a) or (b) below) the aggregate amount of all other Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding Restricted Payments permitted by clauses (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (8), (9), (10), (11) and (14) of the next succeeding paragraph) with respect to the quarter for which such Restricted Payment is made (such Restricted Payments for purposes of this clause (ii) meaning only distributions on the Company’s common units, subordinated units, or incentive distribution rights, plus the related distribution on the general partner interest), is less than the sum, without duplication, of:

(a) $80.0 million less the aggregate amount of all prior Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to this clause (ii)(a) since the Issue Date, plus

(b) Incremental Funds to the extent not previously expended pursuant to this clause (ii) or clause (i) above.

(b) So long as no Default (except a Reporting Default) or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would be caused thereby (except with respect to clauses (1), (2), (3), (4), (7), (8), (10), (11), (12) and (13) below under which the Restricted Payment is permitted), the preceding provisions will not prohibit:

(1) the payment of any dividend or distribution within 60 days after the date of its declaration, if at the date of declaration the payment would have complied with the provisions of this Indenture;

(2) the purchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of any Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor that is subordinate in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Subsidiary Guarantee thereof or of any Equity Interests of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in exchange for, or out of the net cash proceeds of the substantially concurrent (a) contribution (other than from a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) to the equity capital of the Company in respect of or (b) sale (other than to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) of, Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock), with a sale being deemed substantially concurrent if such redemption, repurchase, retirement, defeasance or other acquisition occurs not more than 120 days after such sale; provided, however, that the amount of any such net cash proceeds that are utilized for any such redemption, repurchase, retirement, defeasance or other acquisition will be excluded (or deducted, if included) from the calculation of Available Cash and Incremental Funds;

 

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(3) the purchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor that is subordinate in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Subsidiary Guarantee thereof or Disqualified Stock of the Company or any Guarantor with the net cash proceeds from an incurrence of, or in exchange for, Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness;

(4) the payment of any dividend or distribution by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to the holders of its Equity Interests on a pro rata basis;

(5) the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Equity Interests of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company pursuant to any director or employee equity subscription agreement or equity option agreement or other employee benefit plan or to satisfy obligations under any Equity Interests appreciation rights or option plan or similar arrangement; provided, however, that the aggregate price paid for all such purchased, redeemed, acquired or retired Equity Interests may not exceed $5.0 million in any calendar year plus (A) the cash proceeds received during such calendar year by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from the sale of the Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) to any such directors or employees (provided that the amount of such cash proceeds utilized for any such purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value will not increase the amount of Incremental Funds under clause (i)(b) of Section 4.07(a)) plus (B) the cash proceeds of key man life insurance policies received during such calendar year by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(6) the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of Indebtedness that is subordinated or junior in right of payment to the Notes or a Subsidiary Guarantee at a purchase price not greater than (i) 101% of the principal amount of such subordinated or junior Indebtedness and accrued and unpaid interest thereon in the event of a Change of Control or (ii) 100% of the principal amount of such subordinated or junior Indebtedness and accrued and unpaid interest thereon in the event of an Asset Sale, in each case plus accrued interest, in connection with any Change of Control Offer or Asset Sale Offer required by the terms of such Indebtedness, but only if:

(a) in the case of a Change of Control, the Company has first complied with and fully satisfied its obligations under Section 4.15; or

(b) in the case of an Asset Sale, the Company has complied with and fully satisfied its obligations in accordance with Section 4.10;

(7) the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary representing fractional shares of such Equity Interests in connection with a merger or consolidation involving the Company or Restricted Subsidiary or any other transaction permitted by this Indenture;

(8) the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests deemed to occur upon the exercise or conversion of stock options, warrants or other convertible securities if such Equity Interests represents a portion of the exercise or conversion price thereof;

 

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(9) the declaration and payment of regularly scheduled or accrued dividends to holders of any class or series of Disqualified Stock of the Company or any preferred securities of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company issued on or after the Issue Date in accordance with the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test described in Section 4.09;

(10) the payment of any dividend or any similar distribution by a Restricted Subsidiary to the holders (other than the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary) of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of such Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such dividend or similar distribution is paid to all holders of such Equity Interests (including, to the extent holding such Equity Interests, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries) on a pro rata basis based on their respective holdings of such Equity Interests;

(11) the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Equity Interests of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary held by any current or former officers, directors or employees of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with the exercise or vesting of any equity compensation (including stock options, restricted stock and phantom stock) in order to satisfy any tax withholding obligation with respect to such exercise or vesting;

(12) any payments to dissenting equityholders not to exceed $5.0 million in the aggregate after the Issue Date (x) pursuant to applicable law or (y) in connection with the settlement or other satisfaction of claims made pursuant to or in connection with a consolidation, merger or transfer of assets in connection with a transaction that is not prohibited by this Indenture;

(13) any redemption of share purchase rights at a redemption price not to exceed $0.01 per right;

(14) the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Acquired Debt of the Company or any Guarantor that is subordinated or junior in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Subsidiary Guarantee, as the case may be, by application of (i) cash provided from operations in the ordinary course of business or (ii) proceeds from borrowings under the revolving portion of a Credit Facility (so long as within 30 days prior to such purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value, a corresponding amount of borrowings under the revolving portion of a Credit Facility was repaid from cash provided from operations in the ordinary course of business); provided, in any such case, that the Company is able to incur an additional $1.00 of Indebtedness pursuant to the first paragraph of Section 4.09 after giving effect to such purchase or redemption; provided further that this clause (14) shall not permit the application of any proceeds from any other borrowings under any Credit Facility to effect any such purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value; or

 

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(15) any other Restricted Payments not otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 4.07 in an aggregate outstanding amount not to exceed $10.0 million.

(c) The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) will be the fair market value on the date of the Restricted Payment of the Restricted Investment proposed to be made or the asset(s) or securities proposed to be transferred or issued by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to the Restricted Payment. In determining the aggregate net cash proceeds or fair market value of property other than cash received by the Company from the issuance and sale of Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) in accordance with clause (i)(b) of Section 4.07(a), amounts of cash received by the Company pursuant to clause (2) of Section 4.07(b) or clause (5) of the definition of “Permitted Investments” shall be excluded from such calculation. For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.07, (x) in the event that a Restricted Payment meets the criteria of more than one of the exceptions described in (1) through (15) of Section 4.07(b) or is entitled to be made pursuant to Section 4.07(a), the Company shall be permitted, in its sole discretion, to classify such Restricted Payment, or later classify, reclassify or re-divide all or a portion of such Restricted Payment, in any manner that complies with this Section 4.07; and (y) in the event a Restricted Payment is made pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) of Section 4.07(a), the Company will be permitted to classify whether all or any portion thereof is being (and in the absence of such classification shall be deemed to have classified the minimum amount possible as having been) made with Incremental Funds. Not later than the date of making any Restricted Payment (excluding any Restricted Payment described in clauses (2) through (15) of Section 4.07(b)), the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Restricted Payment is permitted and setting forth the basis upon which the calculations required by this Section 4.07 were computed.

Section 4.08 Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries.

(a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to:

(i) pay dividends or make any other distributions on its Capital Stock to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or pay any Indebtedness or other obligations owed to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(ii) make loans or advances to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; or

(iii) transfer any of its properties or assets to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.

(b) However, the preceding restrictions of Section 4.08(a) will not apply to encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of:

 

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(i) agreements (including the Credit Agreement) as in effect on the Issue Date and any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings of those agreements or the Indebtedness to which they relate, provided that the amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, with respect to such dividend, distribution and other payment and transfer restrictions than those contained in those agreements on the Issue Date;

(ii) this Indenture, the Notes and the Subsidiary Guarantees;

(iii) Applicable Law;

(iv) any instrument of a Person acquired by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as in effect at the time of such acquisition, which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person, or the property or assets of the Person, so acquired, provided that, in the case of any instrument governing Indebtedness, such Indebtedness was otherwise permitted by the terms of this Indenture to be incurred;

(v) customary non-assignment provisions in Hydrocarbon purchase and sale or exchange agreements or similar operational agreements or in licenses or leases, in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices;

(vi) Capital Lease Obligations, mortgage financings or purchase money obligations, in each case for property acquired in the ordinary course of business that impose restrictions on that property of the nature described in clause (iii) of Section 4.08(a);

(vii) any agreement for the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all the Capital Stock or assets of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company as to restrictions on distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary pending its sale or other disposition or other customary restrictions pursuant thereto;

(viii) Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, provided that the restrictions contained in the agreements governing such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, than those contained in the agreements governing the Indebtedness being Refinanced;

(ix) Liens securing Indebtedness otherwise permitted to be incurred under the provisions of Section 4.12 that limit the right of the debtor to dispose of the assets subject to such Liens;

(x) customary provisions with respect to the disposition or distribution of assets or property in joint venture agreements, asset sale agreements, stock sale agreements and other similar agreements or other customary provisions;

(xi) any agreement or instrument relating to any property or assets acquired after the Issue Date, so long as such encumbrance or restriction relates only to the property or assets so acquired and is not and was not created in anticipation of such acquisitions;

 

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(xii) restrictions on cash, Cash Equivalents or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(xiii) any other agreement governing Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities of the Company or any Guarantor that is permitted to be incurred or issued by Section 4.09; provided, however, that such encumbrances or restrictions are not materially more restrictive, taken as a whole, than those contained in this Indenture or the Credit Agreement as it exists on the Issue Date;

(xiv) encumbrances and restrictions contained in contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business not relating to any Indebtedness and that do not, individually or in the aggregate, detract from the value of, or from the ability of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries to realize the value of, property or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in any manner material to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; and

(xv) Hedging Contracts permitted from time to time under this Indenture.

Section 4.09 Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred Stock.

(a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to (collectively, “incur”) any Indebtedness (including Acquired Debt), the Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, issue any Disqualified Stock, and the Company will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to issue any preferred securities; provided, however, that the Company and any of the Restricted Subsidiaries may incur Indebtedness (including Acquired Debt) or issue Disqualified Stock or preferred securities, if, for the Company’s most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such additional Indebtedness is incurred or such Disqualified Stock or preferred securities are issued, the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio would have been at least 2.0 to 1.0, determined on a pro forma basis (including a pro forma application of the net proceeds therefrom), as if the additional Indebtedness had been incurred or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities had been issued, as the case may be, at the beginning of such four-quarter period.

(b) Section 4.09(a) will not prohibit the incurrence or issuance of any of the following items of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities (collectively, “Permitted Debt”) described below:

(i) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of additional Indebtedness (including letters of credit) under one or more Credit Facilities, provided that, after giving effect to any such incurrence, the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness incurred under this clause (i) (with letters of credit being deemed to have a principal amount equal to the maximum potential liability of the Company and its Subsidiaries thereunder) and then outstanding does not exceed the greater of (a) $1.7 billion or (b) $750.0 million plus 20.0% of the Company’s Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of the date of incurrence;

 

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(ii) the incurrence by the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries of the Existing Indebtedness;

(iii) the incurrence by the Company and the Guarantors of Indebtedness represented by the Initial Notes and the related Subsidiary Guarantees issued on the Issue Date;

(iv) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness represented by Capital Lease Obligations, mortgage financings or purchase money obligations, in each case, incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or cost of construction or improvement of property, plant or equipment used in the business of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, including all Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (iv), provided that after giving effect to any such incurrence, the principal amount of all Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (iv) and then outstanding does not exceed the greater of (a) $25.0 million or (b) 2.5% of the Company’s Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of the date of incurrence;

(v) the incurrence or issuance by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to, extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock that was permitted by this Indenture to be incurred under Section 4.09(a) or clause (ii), (iii), (xiii) or (xvi) of this Section 4.09(b) or this clause (v);

(vi) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of intercompany Indebtedness between or among the Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that:

(a) if the Company is the obligor on such Indebtedness and a Guarantor is not the obligee, such Indebtedness must be expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of all Obligations with respect to the Notes, or if a Guarantor is the obligor on such Indebtedness and neither the Company nor another Guarantor is the obligee, such Indebtedness must be expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of all Obligations with respect to the Subsidiary Guarantee of such Guarantor; and

(b) (i) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Equity Interests that results in any such Indebtedness being held by a Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company and (ii) any sale or other transfer of any such Indebtedness to a Person that is neither the Company nor a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company will be deemed, in each case, to constitute an incurrence (as of the date of such issuance or transfer) of such Indebtedness by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, that was not permitted by this clause (vi);

 

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(vii) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of obligations under Hedging Contracts in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes;

(viii) the guarantee by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that was permitted to be incurred by another provision of this Section 4.09;

(ix) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of obligations relating to net Hydrocarbon balancing positions arising in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practice;

(x) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness in respect of self-insurance, bid, performance, surety and similar bonds issued for the account of the Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, including guarantees and obligations of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to letters of credit supporting such obligations (in each case other than an obligation for money borrowed);

(xi) the issuance by (x) any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries to the Company or to any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any Disqualified Stock or preferred securities or (y) the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any Disqualified Stock; provided, however, that, in the case of (x) or (y):

(a) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Equity Interests that results in any such Disqualified Stock or preferred securities being held by a Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; and

(b) any sale or other transfer of any such Disqualified Stock or preferred securities to a Person that is not either the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company

shall be deemed, in each case, to constitute an issuance of such Disqualified Stock or preferred securities by such Restricted Subsidiary or the Company, as applicable, that was not permitted by this clause (xi);

(xii) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of liability in respect of the Indebtedness of any Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Company or any Joint Venture but only to the extent that such liability is the result of the Company’s or any such Restricted Subsidiary’s being a general partner of such Unrestricted Subsidiary or Joint Venture and not as guarantor of such Indebtedness and provided that, after giving effect to any such incurrence, the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness incurred under this clause (xii) and then outstanding does not exceed $25.0 million;

 

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(xiii) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Acquired Debt in connection with a merger or consolidation satisfying either one of the financial tests set forth in Section 5.01(a)(iv);

(xiv) the incurrence of Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument inadvertently (except in the case of daylight overdrafts) drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business; provided, however, that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five Business Days of incurrence;

(xv) the incurrence of Indebtedness or the issuance of Disqualified Stock or preferred securities of any of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent the net proceeds thereof are concurrently (a) used to redeem all of the outstanding Notes or (b) deposited to effect Covenant Defeasance or Legal Defeasance or satisfy and discharge this Indenture as described in Article Seven and Article Ten;

(xvi) the incurrence of Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries consisting of the financing of insurance premiums in customary amounts consistent with the operations and business of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries; and

(xvii) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of additional Indebtedness or the issuance by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Disqualified Stock; provided that, after giving effect to any such incurrence or issuance, the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness incurred and Disqualified Stock issued under this clause (xvii) and then outstanding does not exceed the greater of (a) $50.0 million or (b) 5.0% of the Company’s Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of the date of incurrence or issuance.

For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.09, in the event that an item of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities (including Acquired Debt) meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Permitted Debt described in clauses (i) through (xvii) above, or is entitled to be incurred pursuant to Section 4.09(a), the Company will be permitted to classify (or later classify or reclassify in whole or in part in its sole discretion) such item of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities in any manner (including by dividing and classifying such item of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities in more than one type of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities permitted under such covenant) that complies with this Section 4.09. The dollar equivalent principal amount of any Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency and incurred pursuant to any dollar-denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness shall be calculated based on the relevant exchange rates in effect at the time of incurrence. Any Indebtedness under Credit Facilities on the Issue Date shall be considered incurred under Section 4.09(a), subject to any subsequent classification or reclassification permitted pursuant to this paragraph.

 

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The accrual of interest, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the accretion of principal with respect to a non-interest bearing or other discount security, the payment of interest on any Indebtedness in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, and the payment of dividends on Disqualified Stock or preferred securities in the form of additional shares of the same class of Disqualified Stock or preferred securities will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness or an issuance of Disqualified Stock or preferred securities for purposes of this Section 4.09, provided, in each such case, that the amount thereof is included in Fixed Charges of the Company as accrued (adjusted, in the case of dividends, by the fraction specified in clause (4)(b) of the definition of “Fixed Charges”). For purposes of this Section 4.09, (i) the accrual of an obligation to pay a premium in respect of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities arising in connection with the issuance of a notice of redemption or making of a mandatory offer to purchase such Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities and (ii) unrealized losses or charges in respect of Hedging Contracts (including those resulting from the application of SFAS 133) will, in case of clause (i) or (ii), not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness or issuance of Disqualified Stock or preferred securities. Further, the accounting reclassification of any obligation or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or preferred securities will not be deemed an incurrence of Indebtedness or issuance of Disqualified Stock or preferred securities for purposes of this Section 4.09.

For purposes of determining any particular amount of Indebtedness under this Section 4.09, (i) guarantees of, or obligations in respect of letters of credit relating to, Indebtedness otherwise included in the determination of such amount shall not also be included and (ii) if obligations in respect of letters of credit are incurred pursuant to a Credit Facility and are being treated as incurred pursuant to clause (i) of the definition of “Permitted Debt” and the letters of credit relate to other Indebtedness, then such other Indebtedness shall not be included.

Section 4.10 Limitation on Asset Sales.

(a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, consummate an Asset Sale unless:

(i) the Company (or a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be) receives consideration at the time of the Asset Sale at least equal to the fair market value of the assets or Equity Interests issued or sold or otherwise disposed of; and

(ii) at least 75% of the aggregate consideration received by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the Asset Sale and all other Asset Sales since the Issue Date is in the form of cash. For purposes of this provision, each of the following will be deemed to be cash:

(a) any liabilities, as shown on the Company’s or any Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet, of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than contingent liabilities and liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets pursuant to a customary novation agreement that releases the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from further liability (or in

 

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lieu of such a release, the agreement of the acquiror or its parent company to indemnify and hold the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary harmless from and against any loss, liability or cost in respect of such assumed Indebtedness or liabilities accompanied by the posting of a letter of credit (issued by a commercial bank that has an Investment Grade Rating) in favor of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary for the full amount of the liability and for so long as the liability remains outstanding; provided, however, that such indemnifying party (or its long term debt securities) shall have an Investment Grade Rating (with no indication of a negative outlook or credit watch with negative implications, in any case, that contemplates such indemnifying party (or its long term debt securities) failing to have an Investment Grade Rating) at the time the indemnity is entered into);

(b) any securities, notes or other obligations received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are, within 180 days after the Asset Sale, converted by the Company or such Subsidiary into cash, to the extent of the cash received in that conversion; and

(c) any stock or assets of the kind referred to in clause (ii), (iii) or (v) of Section 4.10(b).

(b) Within 360 days after the receipt of any Net Proceeds from an Asset Sale, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may apply those Net Proceeds at its option to any combination of the following:

(i) to repay Senior Debt;

(ii) to acquire all or substantially all of the properties or assets of a Person primarily engaged in a Permitted Business;

(iii) to acquire a majority of the Voting Stock of a Person primarily engaged in a Permitted Business;

(iv) to make capital expenditures; or

(v) to acquire other long-term assets that are used or useful in a Permitted Business.

(c) The acquisition of stock or assets, or making of a capital expenditure, pursuant to clauses (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) of Section 4.10(b) shall be deemed to be satisfied if an agreement (including a lease, whether a capital lease or an operating lease) committing to make the acquisitions or expenditure referred to therein is entered into by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary with a Person other than an Affiliate of the Company within the time period specified in Section 4.10(b) and such Net Proceeds are subsequently applied in accordance with such agreement within six months following the date such agreement is entered into.

 

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(d) Pending the final application of any Net Proceeds, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may invest the Net Proceeds in any manner that is not prohibited by this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes). Any Net Proceeds from Asset Sales that are not applied or invested as provided in the preceding paragraph will constitute “Excess Proceeds.”

(e) On the 361st day after the Asset Sale (or, at the Company’s option, any earlier date), if the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds then exceeds $25.0 million, the Company will make an Asset Sale Offer to all Holders of Notes, and to all holders of Pari Passu Indebtedness then outstanding, to purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes and such Pari Passu Indebtedness that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds. The offer price in any Asset Sale Offer will be equal to 100% of the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the Settlement Date, subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an interest payment date that is on or prior to the Settlement Date, and will be payable in cash. The Company may satisfy the foregoing obligations with respect to any Net Proceeds from an Asset Sale by making an Asset Sale Offer with respect to such Net Proceeds prior to the expiration of the relevant 360 days (or such longer period provided above). If any Excess Proceeds remain after consummation of an Asset Sale Offer, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may use those Excess Proceeds for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness tendered into such Asset Sale Offer exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Trustee will select the Notes and such Pari Passu Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis as set forth in Section 3.09(h). Upon completion of each Asset Sale Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds will be reset at zero.

(f) The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with each repurchase of Notes pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Section 4.10, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under such provisions by virtue of such conflict.

Section 4.11 Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates.

(a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Company (each, an “Affiliate Transaction”), unless:

(i) the Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are no less favorable to the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person; and

 

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(ii) the Company delivers to the Trustee, with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $25.0 million, an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with this Section 4.11 and that such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Company or the Company’s Conflicts Committee (or other committee serving a similar function).

(b) The following items will not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, therefore, will not be subject to the provisions of Section 4.11(a):

(i) any employment, severance, employee benefit, director or officer indemnification, equity award, equity option or equity appreciation or other compensation agreement or plan entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and payments, awards, grants or issuances of securities pursuant thereto;

(ii) transactions between or among any of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(iii) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Company solely because the Company owns, directly or through a Restricted Subsidiary, an Equity Interest in, or otherwise controls, such Person;

(iv) transactions effected in accordance with the terms of (a) agreements described in the annual report on Form 10-K of the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 under the caption “Transactions with Related Persons” or in note 15 to the Company’s audited historical financial statements included in such annual report, in each case, as such agreements are in effect on the Issue Date, (b) any amendment or replacement of any of such agreements or (c) any agreements entered into hereafter that are similar to any of such agreements, so long as, in the case of clause (b) or (c), the terms of any such amendment or replacement agreement or future agreement are, on the whole, no less advantageous to the Company or no less favorable to the Holders in any material respect than the agreement so amended or replaced or the similar agreement referred to in the preceding clause (a), respectively;

(v) customary compensation, indemnification and other benefits made available to officers, directors or employees of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Company, including reimbursement or advancement of out-of-pocket expenses and provisions of officers’ and directors’ liability insurance;

(vi) sales of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) to Affiliates of the Company, or receipt by the Company of capital contributions from holders of its Equity Interests;

(vii) Permitted Investments or Restricted Payments that are permitted by Section 4.07;

 

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(viii) payments to the General Partner with respect to reimbursement for expenses in accordance with the Partnership Agreement as in effect on the Issue Date and as it may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, so long as any such amendment, modification or supplement is no less favorable to the Company in any material respect than the agreement prior to such amendment, modification or supplement;

(ix) in the case of contracts for gathering, transporting, treating, processing, marketing, distributing, storing or otherwise handling Hydrocarbons, or activities or services reasonably related or ancillary thereto, or other operational contracts, any such contracts are entered into in the ordinary course of business on terms substantially similar to those contained in similar contracts entered into by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and third parties, or if neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary has entered into a similar contract with a third party, then the terms are no less favorable than those available from third parties on an arm’s-length basis;

(x) (a) guarantees by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of performance of obligations of Unrestricted Subsidiaries or Joint Ventures in the ordinary course of business, except for guarantees of Indebtedness in respect of borrowed money, and (b) pledges by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of Capital Stock in Unrestricted Subsidiaries or Joint Ventures for the benefit of lenders or other creditors of Unrestricted Subsidiaries or Joint Ventures as contemplated by clause (9) of the definition of “Permitted Liens” with respect to clause (b) so long as any such transaction, if involving aggregate consideration in excess of $25.0 million, has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Company;

(xi) transactions between the Company and any Person, a director of which is also a director of the General Partner or, if applicable, the Company; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the General Partner or, if applicable, the Company on any matter involving such other Person; and

(xii) any transaction in which the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or that such transaction meets the requirements of Section 4.11(a).

Section 4.12 Limitation on Liens.

The Company will not and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any Lien of any kind (other than Permitted Liens) securing Indebtedness upon any of their property or assets, now owned or hereafter acquired, unless the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, is secured on an equal and ratable basis with (or on a senior basis (to at least the same extent as the Notes are senior in right of payment) to, in the case of

 

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obligations subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or such Subsidiary Guarantee, as the case may be) the obligations so secured until such time as such obligations are no longer secured by a Lien. Any Lien created for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes pursuant to the preceding sentence shall provide by its terms that such Lien shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon the release and discharge of the initial Lien.

Section 4.13 Additional Subsidiary Guarantees.

If, after the Issue Date, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is not already a Guarantor guarantees any other Indebtedness of either of the Issuers or any Guarantor, which, when combined with any other Indebtedness for which such Restricted Subsidiary is an obligor or guarantor, is at least $10.0 million in aggregate principal amount, then that Subsidiary will become a Guarantor by executing a supplemental indenture substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto and delivering it to the Trustee within 20 Business Days of the date on which it guaranteed or incurred such Indebtedness, as the case may be, together with any Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel required by Section 8.06; provided, however, that the preceding shall not apply to Subsidiaries of the Company that have properly been designated as Unrestricted Subsidiaries in accordance with this Indenture for so long as they continue to constitute Unrestricted Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding the preceding, any Subsidiary Guarantee of a Restricted Subsidiary that was incurred pursuant to this Section 4.13 will be released at such time as specified under Section 9.05.

Section 4.14 Existence.

Except as otherwise permitted pursuant to the terms hereof (including consolidation and merger permitted by Section 5.01), the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its partnership existence, and the corporate, partnership or other existence of each of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in accordance with the respective organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve the existence of any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (except Finance Corp.) if the Company shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the Notes.

Section 4.15 Offer to Repurchase Upon Change of Control.

(a) Within 30 days following the occurrence of a Change of Control, unless the Issuers have previously or concurrently exercised their right to redeem all of the Notes pursuant to Section 3.07, the Company shall make an offer (a “Change of Control Offer”) to repurchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess of $2,000) of each Holder’s Notes at a purchase price (the “Change of Control Payment”) in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of settlement (the “Change of Control Settlement Date”), subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an interest payment date that is on or prior to the Change of Control Settlement Date. Within 30 days following a Change of Control, unless the Issuers have previously or concurrently exercised their right to redeem all of the Notes pursuant to Section 3.07, the Company shall send a notice of the Change of Control Offer to each Holder and the Trustee describing the transaction or transactions that constitute the Change of Control and stating:

 

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(i) that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 4.15 and that all Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn will be accepted for payment;

(ii) the purchase price and the purchase date, which shall be no earlier than 30 days but no later than 60 days from the date such notice is sent (the “Change of Control Purchase Date”);

(iii) that the Change of Control Offer will expire as of the time specified in such notice on the Change of Control Purchase Date and that the Company shall pay the Change of Control Payment for all Notes accepted for purchase as of the Change of Control Purchase Date promptly thereafter on the Change of Control Settlement Date;

(iv) that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue interest;

(v) that, unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Change of Control Payment, all Notes accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer shall cease to accrue interest after the Change of Control Settlement Date;

(vi) that Holders electing to have any Notes purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender the Notes, properly endorsed for transfer, together with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the Notes completed and such customary documents as the Company may reasonably request, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice prior to the termination of the Change of Control Offer on the Change of Control Purchase Date;

(vii) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the Paying Agent receives, prior to the termination of the Change of Control Offer, a telegram, facsimile transmission, notice as provided in the Applicable Procedures, or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of Notes delivered for purchase, and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have the Notes purchased; and

(viii) that Holders whose Notes are being purchased only in part will be issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, which unpurchased portion must be equal to $2,000 in principal amount or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess of $2,000.

 

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(b) If any of the Notes subject to a Change of Control Offer is in the form of a Global Note, then the Company shall modify such notice to the extent necessary to accord with the procedures of the Depositary applicable to repurchases. Further, the Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of Notes as a result of a Change of Control. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Section 4.15, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under such provisions by virtue of such conflict.

(c) On the Change of Control Purchase Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment all Notes or portions thereof (in minimum denominations of $2,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000) properly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) pursuant to the Change of Control Offer. Promptly thereafter on the Change of Control Settlement Date the Company shall:

(i) deposit with the Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered (and not validly withdrawn); and

(ii) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions of Notes being purchased by the Company.

(d) On the Change of Control Settlement Date, the Paying Agent shall mail to each Holder of Notes properly tendered the Change of Control Payment for such Notes (or, if all the Notes are then in global form, make such payment through the facilities of the Depositary) and the Trustee shall authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, if any; provided, however, that each such new Note will be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess of $2,000. The Company shall publicly announce the results of the Change of Control Offer on or as soon as practicable after the Change of Control Purchase Date.

(e) The Change of Control provisions of this Section 4.15 shall be applicable whether or nor any other provisions of this Indenture are applicable.

(f) Prior to complying with any of the provisions of this Section 4.15, but in any event no later than the Change of Control Settlement Date, the Company or any Guarantor must either repay all of its other outstanding Senior Debt or obtain the requisite consents, if any, under all agreements governing such Senior Debt to permit the repurchase of Notes required by this Section 4.15.

(g) The Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer following a Change of Control if (i) a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the time and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Section 4.15 applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Company and purchases all Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer or (ii) irrevocable notice of redemption of all Notes has been given pursuant to Section 3.07, unless there is a default in payment of the applicable redemption price.

 

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(h) A Change of Control Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control, and conditioned upon the occurrence of such Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is in effect for the Change of Control at the time of making the Change of Control Offer.

(i) In the event that upon consummation of a Change of Control Offer less than 10% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (including any Additional Notes) that were originally issued are held by Holders other than the Issuers or Affiliates thereof, the Issuers will have the right, upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, given not more than 30 days following the purchase pursuant to the Change of Control Offer described above, to redeem all of the Notes that remain outstanding following such purchase at a redemption price equal to the Change of Control Payment plus, to the extent not included in the Change of Control Payment, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes that remain outstanding, to the date of redemption (subject to the right of Holders on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).

Section 4.16 No Inducements.

The Company will not, and the Company will not permit any of its Subsidiaries, either directly or indirectly, to pay or cause to be paid any consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to any Beneficial Owner or Holder of any Notes for or as an inducement to any consent to any waiver, amendment or supplement of any terms or provisions of this Indenture or the Notes, unless such consideration is offered to be paid (or agreed to be paid) to all Beneficial Owners and Holders of the Notes which so consent in the time frame set forth in the solicitation documents relating to such consent.

Section 4.17 Permitted Business Activities.

(a) The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, engage in any business other than a Permitted Business, except to such extent as would not be material to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole.

(b) Finance Corp. shall not incur Indebtedness unless (1) the Company is an obligor or a co-obligor or guarantor of such Indebtedness or (2) the net proceeds of such Indebtedness are loaned to the Company, used to acquire outstanding debt securities issued by the Company or used to repay Indebtedness of the Company as permitted under Section 4.09. Finance Corp. shall not engage in any business not related directly or indirectly to obtaining money or arranging financing for the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Section 4.18 Sale and Leaseback Transactions.

The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction other than an Equipment Lease Transaction; provided, however, that the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may enter into a Sale and Leaseback Transaction if:

(i) the Company or that Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, could have (a) incurred Indebtedness in an amount equal to the Attributable Debt relating to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction under the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test in Section 4.09(a) and (b) incurred a Lien to secure such Indebtedness pursuant to Section 4.12;

 

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(ii) the gross cash proceeds of that Sale and Leaseback Transaction are at least equal to the fair market value, as determined in accordance with the definition of that term in Section 2.01 and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee, of the property that is the subject of that Sale and Leaseback Transaction; and

(iii) the transfer of assets in that Sale and Leaseback Transaction is permitted by, and the Company applies the proceeds of such transaction in compliance with, Section 4.10.

Section 4.19 Covenant Termination.

If at any time (a) the rating assigned to the Notes by S&P and Moody’s is an Investment Grade Rating, (b) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture and (c) the Issuers have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate certifying to the matters specified in clauses (a) and (b) of this sentence as of the date of such certificate, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries will no longer be subject to the provisions of Section 3.09, Section 4.07, Section 4.08, Section 4.09, Section 4.10, Section 4.11, Section 4.17, Section 4.18, Section 4.20, and Section 5.01(a)(iv). However, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries will remain subject to all of the other provisions of this Indenture.

Section 4.20 Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

(a) The Board of Directors of the Company may designate any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary if that designation would not cause a Default. If a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, the aggregate fair market value of all outstanding Investments owned by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the Subsidiary properly designated will either be deemed to be an Investment made as of the time of the designation that will reduce the amount available for Restricted Payments under Section 4.07(a) or represent Permitted Investments, as determined by the Company. That designation shall only be permitted if the Investment would be permitted at that time and if the Subsidiary so designated otherwise meets the definition of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

(b) The Board of Directors of the Company may at any time designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; provided that such designation will be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of any outstanding Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary and such designation will only be permitted if (1) such Indebtedness is permitted under Section 4.09, either as “Permitted Debt” or pursuant to the first paragraph thereof with the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, calculated on a pro forma basis as if such designation had occurred at the beginning of the four-quarter reference period, and (2) no Default or Event of Default would be in existence following such designation.

 

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Article Five

Successors

Article VIII of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes except as, and to the extent, described in this Article Five.

Section 5.01 Merger, Consolidation, or Sale of Assets.

(a) Neither of the Issuers may, directly or indirectly, (1) consolidate or merge with or into another Person (whether or not such Issuer is the survivor), or (2) sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties or assets in one or more related transactions to another Person, unless:

(i) either (1) such Issuer is the survivor or (2) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than such Issuer ) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made is a Person organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state of the United States or the District of Columbia; provided, however, that Finance Corp. may not consolidate or merge with or into any Person unless the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger is a corporation satisfying such requirement so long as the Company is not a corporation;

(ii) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than such Issuer) or the Person to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made expressly assumes all the obligations of such Issuer under the Notes, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and this Supplemental Indenture pursuant to an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee;

(iii) immediately after such transaction no Default or Event of Default exists;

(iv) in the case of a transaction involving the Company and not Finance Corp., either;

(a) the Company or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Company), or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made will, on the date of such transaction immediately after giving pro forma effect thereto and to any related financing transactions as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 4.09(a); or

(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and any related financing transactions on a pro forma basis as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Company), or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition has been made, will be equal to or greater than the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company immediately before such transactions; and

 

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(v) such Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger or disposition and such supplemental indenture comply with this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes); provided, however, that such counsel may rely, as to matters of fact, on a certificate or certificates of officers of the General Partner.

(b) Notwithstanding the restrictions described in Section 5.01(a)(iv), (i) any Restricted Subsidiary (other than Finance Corp.) may consolidate with, merge into or dispose of all or part of its properties and assets to the Company or (ii) the Company may consolidate or merge with or into a Subsidiary of the Company, in each case, without the Company being required to comply with Section 5.01(a)(iv) in connection with any such consolidation, merger or disposition.

(c) Notwithstanding Section 5.01(a), the Company may reorganize as any other form of entity in accordance with the following procedures, provided that:

(i) the reorganization involves the conversion (by merger, sale, contribution or exchange of assets or otherwise) of the Company into a form of entity other than a limited partnership formed under Delaware law;

(ii) the entity so formed by or resulting from such reorganization is an entity organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia;

(iii) the entity so formed by or resulting from such reorganization expressly assumes all the obligations of the Company under the Notes, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and this Supplemental Indenture pursuant to an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee;

(iv) immediately after such reorganization no Default or Event of Default exists;

(v) such reorganization is not materially adverse to the Holders or Beneficial Owners of the Notes (for purposes of this clause (v) a reorganization will not be considered materially adverse to the Holders or Beneficial Owners of the Notes solely because the successor or survivor of such reorganization (a) is subject to federal or state income taxation as an entity or (b) is considered to be an “includible corporation” of an affiliated group of corporations within the meaning of Section 1504(b) of the Code or any similar state or local law); and

(vi) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such reorganization and such supplemental indenture comply with this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes); provided, however, that such counsel may rely, as to matters of fact, on a certificate or certificates of officers of the General Partner.

 

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(d) Upon any consolidation or merger or any disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company in accordance with the foregoing, in which the Company is not the surviving entity, the surviving entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and the Notes with the same effect as if such surviving entity had been named as such, and thereafter (except in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of the Company’s properties or assets) the Company will be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Notes.

Section 5.02 Successor Substituted.

Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of an Issuer in accordance with Section 5.01, the successor formed by such consolidation or into or with which such Issuer is merged or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and may exercise every right and power of, such Issuer under the Notes, this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) with the same effect as if such successor had been named as such Issuer in this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and the Notes and shall be substituted for such Issuer (so that from and after the date of such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and the Notes referring to the “Company” or “Finance Corp.,” as the case may be, shall refer instead to the successor and not to the Company or Finance Corp., as the case may be); and thereafter, if an Issuer is dissolved following a transfer of all or substantially all of its properties or assets in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and the Notes it shall be discharged and released from all obligations and covenants under this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and the Notes. The Trustee shall enter into a supplemental indenture to evidence the succession and substitution of such successor and such discharge and release of such Issuer.

Article Six

Defaults and Remedies

Section 501, Section 502, Section 504, Section 506, Section 507, Section 512, Section 513 and Section 514 of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes, except as, and to the extent, described in this Article Six.

Section 6.01 Events of Default.

(a) An “Event of Default” occurs if one of the following shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be involuntary or be effected by operation of law):

 

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(i) an Issuer defaults in the payment when due of interest with respect to the Notes and such default continues for a period of 30 days;

(ii) an Issuer defaults in the payment when due of the principal of or premium, if any, on the Notes;

(iii) the Company fails to comply with the provisions of Section 5.01;

(iv) the Company fails to comply with the provisions of Section 4.03 for 180 days after notice to the Company by the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding of such failure;

(v) the Company fails to comply with any other covenant or other agreement in this Supplemental Indenture (including Section 3.09, Section 4.10 and Section 4.15), the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or the Notes for 60 days after notice to the Company by the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding of such failure;

(vi) a default occurs under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is guaranteed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries), whether such Indebtedness or guarantee now exists or is created after the Issue Date, if such default:

(a) is caused by a failure to pay principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on such Indebtedness prior to the expiration of any grace period provided in such Indebtedness (a “Payment Default”); or

(b) results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its Stated Maturity,

and, in each case, the principal amount of any such Indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness under which there has been a Payment Default or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates $20.0 million or more; provided, however, that if any such Payment Default is cured or waived or any such acceleration rescinded, or such Indebtedness is repaid, within a period of 60 days from the continuation of such Payment Default beyond the applicable grace period or the occurrence of such acceleration, as the case may be, such Event of Default and any consequential acceleration of the Notes shall be automatically rescinded, so long as such rescission does not conflict with any judgment or decree;

(vii) the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries fails to pay final judgments aggregating in excess of $20.0 million (to the extent not covered by insurance by a reputable and creditworthy insurer as to which the insurer has not disclaimed coverage), which judgments are not paid, discharged or stayed for a period of 60 days;

 

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(viii) any Subsidiary Guarantee is held in any judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or ceases for any reason to be in full force and effect or any Guarantor, or any Person acting on behalf of any Guarantor, denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee (other than, in any such case, by reason of release of a Guarantor in accordance with Section 9.05); and

(ix) the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of Bankruptcy Law:

(a) commences a voluntary case,

(b) consents in writing to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case,

(c) consents in writing to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property,

(d) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or

(e) admits in writing it generally is not paying its debts as they become due; or

(x) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

(a) is for relief against the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company in an involuntary case;

(b) appoints a Custodian of the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or for all or substantially all of the property of the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company, that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company; or

(c) orders the liquidation of the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company;

 

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and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 consecutive days.

Any reference in this Article Six or elsewhere in this Supplemental Indenture to “Event of Default” shall be deemed to refer to and include only the Events of Default with respect to the Notes specified in this Section 6.01, and the term “Default” as so used in this Supplemental Indenture shall have a correlative meaning.

Section 6.02 Acceleration.

If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing and is known to the Trustee, the Trustee by notice to the Issuers, or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, by notice to the Issuers and the Trustee, may declare all the Notes to be due and payable immediately. Upon any such declaration, the Notes shall become due and payable immediately, together with all accrued and unpaid interest and premium, if any, thereon. Notwithstanding the preceding, if an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a)(ix) or (x) occurs with respect to the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company, all outstanding Notes shall become due and payable immediately without further action or notice, together with all accrued and unpaid interest and premium, if any, thereon. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of all of the Holders rescind an acceleration and its consequences if (i) the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree; (ii) all existing Events of Default (except with respect to nonpayment of principal, interest or premium, if any, that have become due solely because of the acceleration) have been cured or waived; (iii) to the extent the payment of such interest is lawful, interest on overdue installments of interest and overdue principal, which has become due other than by such declaration of acceleration, has been paid; and (iv) the Issuers have paid the Trustee its reasonable compensation and reimbursed the Trustee for its expenses, disbursements and advances. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

Section 6.03 Other Remedies.

(a) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and is known to the Trustee, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Notes, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or this Supplemental Indenture.

(b) The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder of a Note in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default. All remedies are cumulative to the extent permitted by law.

 

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Section 6.04 Waiver of Past Defaults.

Holders of a majority in principal amount of Notes (including any Additional Notes) then outstanding (including waivers obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Note) by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences hereunder, except a continuing Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or interest or premium, if any, on the Notes. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Supplemental Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 6.05 Control by Majority.

Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on it. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or this Supplemental Indenture or that the Trustee determines may be unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders of Notes or that may involve the Trustee in personal liability; provided, however, that the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of the Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a Default or Event of Default relating to the payment of principal or interest) if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.

Section 6.06 Limitation on Suits.

(a) A Holder of a Note may pursue a remedy with respect to the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantees, only if:

(1) the Holder of a Note gives to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default;

(2) the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy;

(3) such Holder of a Note or Holders of Notes offer and, if requested, provide to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense;

(4) the Trustee does not comply with the request within 60 days after receipt of the request and the offer and, if requested, the provision of indemnity; and

(5) during such 60-day period the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes do not give the Trustee a direction inconsistent with the request.

(b) A Holder of a Note may not use this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) to prejudice the rights of another Holder of a Note or to obtain a preference or priority over another Holder of a Note.

 

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Section 6.07 Rights of Holders of Notes to Receive Payment.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), the right of any Holder of a Note to receive payment of principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Note (including in connection with an offer to purchase), or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

Section 6.08 Collection Suit by Trustee.

If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a)(i) or (ii) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee is authorized to recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Issuers and the Guarantors for the whole amount of principal of, and interest and premium, if any, remaining unpaid on the Notes and interest on overdue principal and, to the extent lawful, interest and such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

Section 6.09 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

The Trustee is authorized to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the Holders of the Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuers (or any other obligor upon the Notes), their creditors or their property and shall be entitled and empowered to collect, receive and distribute any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and any custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607 of the Base Indenture. To the extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607 of the Base Indenture out of the estate in any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, money, securities and other properties that the Holders may be entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

 

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Section 6.10 Priorities.

(a) If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article Six, it shall pay out the money in the following order:

First: to the Trustee, its agents and attorneys for amounts due under Section 607 of the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), including payment of all compensation, expense and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the Trustee’s costs and expenses of collection;

Second: to Holders of Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal, interest and premium, if any, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for principal, interest and premium, if any, respectively; and

Third: to the Company or to such party as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.

(b) The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders of Notes pursuant to this Section 6.10.

Section 6.11 Undertaking for Costs.

In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or this Supplemental Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as a Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant. This Section does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder of a Note pursuant to Section 6.07, or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes.

Article Seven

Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

Article XIII of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes, except as, and to the extent, described in this Article Seven.

Section 7.01 Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

The Issuers may, at the option of their respective Boards of Directors evidenced by a resolution set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, at any time, exercise their rights under either Section 7.02 or Section 7.03 with respect to all outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article Seven.

 

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Section 7.02 Legal Defeasance and Discharge.

Upon the Issuers’ exercise under Section 7.01 of the option applicable to this Section 7.02, the Issuers shall, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.04 hereof, be deemed to have discharged their obligations with respect to all outstanding Notes, and each Guarantor shall be deemed to have discharged its obligations with respect to its Subsidiary Guarantee, on the date the conditions set forth in Section 7.04 below are satisfied (hereinafter, “Legal Defeasance”). For this purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Issuers shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the Outstanding Notes, and each Guarantor shall be deemed to have paid and discharged its Subsidiary Guarantee (which in each case shall thereafter be deemed to be “Outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 7.05 hereof and the other Sections of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture referred to in (a) and (b) below) and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Notes or Subsidiary Guarantee and this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuers, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following provisions which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive solely from the trust fund described in Section 7.04, and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on such Notes when such payments are due, (b) the Issuers’ obligations with respect to such Notes under Section 304, Section 305 and Section 306 of the Base Indenture and Section 4.02, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the Issuers’ and the Guarantors’ obligations in connection therewith and (d) the Legal Defeasance provisions of this Article Seven. Subject to compliance with this Article Seven, the Issuers may exercise their option under this Section 7.02 notwithstanding the prior exercise of their option under Section 7.03 hereof.

If the Issuers exercise their Legal Defeasance option, each Guarantor will be released and relieved of any obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee, and any security for the Notes (other than the trust) will be released.

Section 7.03 Covenant Defeasance.

Upon the Issuers’ exercise under Section 7.01 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 7.03, the Issuers shall, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.04, be released from their obligations under the covenants contained in Article Four (other than those in Section 4.01, Section 4.02, Section 4.06 and Section 4.14), Section 3.09 and Section 5.01(a)(iv) on and after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “Covenant Defeasance”), and the Notes shall thereafter be deemed not “Outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed “Outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the Outstanding Notes, the Issuers and any Guarantor may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 6.01, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and such Notes shall be unaffected thereby. In addition, upon the Issuers’ exercise under Section 7.01 of the option applicable to this Section 7.03, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.04, Sections 6.01(a)(iii) through 6.01(a)(viii) hereof shall not constitute Events of Default.

 

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If the Issuers exercise their Covenant Defeasance option, each Guarantor will be released and relieved of any obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee and any security for the Notes (other than the trust) will be released.

Section 7.04 Conditions to Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance:

(1) the Issuers must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized investment bank, appraisal firm or firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the outstanding Notes on the date of fixed maturity or on the applicable redemption date, as the case may be, and the Issuers must specify whether the Notes are being defeased to the date of fixed maturity or to a particular redemption date;

(2) in the case of an election under Section 7.02, the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that:

(a) the Issuers have received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling; or

(b) since the Issue Date, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law,

in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance had not occurred; provided, however, that such counsel may rely, as to matters of fact, on a certificate or certificates of Officers of the General Partner;

(3) in the case of an election under Section 7.03, the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred; provided, however, that such counsel may rely, as to matters of fact, on a certificate or certificates of Officers of the General Partner;

 

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(4) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting from the incurrence of Indebtedness or other borrowing of funds, or the grant of Liens securing such Indebtedness or other borrowing, all or a portion of which are to be applied to such deposit);

(5) such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any material agreement or instrument (other than this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes)) to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound;

(6) the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Issuers with the intent of preferring the Holders over any other creditors of the Issuers or with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding creditors of the Issuers or others; and

(7) the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant Defeasance have been complied with; provided, however, that such counsel may rely, as to matters of fact, on a certificate or certificates of Officers of the General Partner.

Section 7.05 Deposited Money and Government Securities to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.

(a) Subject to Section 7.06, all money and non-callable Government Securities (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.04 in respect of the outstanding Notes shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and this Supplemental Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company or any of its Subsidiaries acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, interest and premium, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

(b) The Issuers shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the cash or non-callable Government Securities deposited pursuant to Section 7.04 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the outstanding Notes.

(c) Anything in this Article Seven to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Issuers from time to time upon the written request of the Issuers any money or non-callable Government Securities held by it as provided in Section 7.04 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee (which may be the opinion delivered under Section 7.04(a)), are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Legal Defeasance, Covenant Defeasance or Discharge, as the case may be.

 

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Section 7.06 Repayment to Issuers.

Subject to applicable escheat and abandoned property laws, any money or non-callable Government Securities deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by an Issuer, in trust for the payment of the principal of or interest or premium, if any, on any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, interest or premium, if any, has become due and payable shall be paid to the Issuers on their written request or (if then held by an Issuer) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured creditor, look only to the Issuers for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money or non-callable Government Securities, and all liability of the Issuers as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, shall at the written direction and expense of the Issuers cause to be published once, in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (national edition), notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such notification or publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Issuers.

Section 7.07 Reinstatement.

If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or non-callable Government Securities in accordance with Section 7.05 by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Issuers’ obligations under this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 7.02 or Section 7.03 until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 7.05; provided, however, that, if an Issuer makes any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, such Issuer shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

Article Eight

Amendment, Supplement and Waiver

Article IX of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes except as, and to the extent, described in this Article Eight.

Section 8.01 Without Consent of Holders of Notes.

Notwithstanding Section 8.02, the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes without the consent of any Holder of a Note:

 

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(1) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;

(2) to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes;

(3) to provide for the assumption of an Issuer’s obligations to the Holders of Notes pursuant to Article Five;

(4) to make any change that would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders of the Notes or that does not adversely affect the legal rights hereunder of any Holder;

(5) to secure the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees pursuant to the requirements of Section 4.12 or otherwise;

(6) to provide for the issuance of Additional Notes in accordance with the limitations set forth in this Supplemental Indenture;

(7) to add any additional Guarantor with respect to the Notes or to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its Subsidiary Guarantee, in each case, in accordance with Article Nine;

(8) to comply with requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture with respect to the Notes under the Trust Indenture Act;

(9) to evidence or provide for the acceptance of appointment under this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) of a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes;

(10) to provide for the reorganization of the Company as any other form of entity in accordance with Section 5.01(c); or

(11) to conform the text of the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes to any provision of the section entitled “Description of Notes” in the prospectus supplement relating to the Notes dated May 6, 2024.

Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a resolution of its Board of Directors authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental indenture, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Section 8.06, the Trustee shall join with the Issuers and the Guarantors in the execution of any amended or supplemental indenture authorized or permitted by the terms of this Indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into such amended or supplemental indenture that affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

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Section 8.02 With Consent of Holders of Notes.

Except as provided above in Section 8.01 and below in this Section 8.02, the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued under this Indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes), and, subject to Section 6.04 and Section 6.07, any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with any provision of this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued under this Indenture including consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, tender offer or exchange offer for Notes. However, without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment, supplement or waiver may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):

(1) reduce the principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver to this Supplemental Indenture, the Notes or the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes);

(2) reduce the principal of or change the fixed maturity of any Note or alter any of the provisions with respect to the redemption of the Notes (except as provided in Section 3.09, Section 4.10 and Section 4.15);

(3) reduce the rate of or change the time for payment of interest on any Note;

(4) waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on the Notes (except a rescission of acceleration of the Notes by the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration);

(5) make any Note payable in currency other than that stated in the Notes;

(6) make any change in the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) relating to waivers of past Defaults or Events of Default or the rights of Holders of Notes to receive payments of principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on the Notes (other than payments required by Section 3.09, Section 4.10 and Section 4.15);

(7) waive a redemption payment with respect to any Note (other than a payment required by Section 3.09, Section 4.10 and Section 4.15);

(8) release any Guarantor from any of its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee or this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), except in accordance with the terms of this Supplemental Indenture; or

(9) make any change in the preceding amendment, supplement and waiver provisions.

 

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Upon the request of the Issuers accompanied by Board Resolutions authorizing their execution of any such amended or supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence satisfactory to the Trustee of the consent of the Holders of Notes as aforesaid, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Section 8.06, the Trustee shall join with the Issuers and the Guarantors in the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture, unless such amended or supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such amended or supplemental indenture.

It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Notes under this Section 8.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.

After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section becomes effective, the Company shall send to the Holders of Notes affected thereby a notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of the Company to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such amendment, supplement or waiver.

Section 8.03 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act.

Every amendment or supplement to this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or the Notes shall be set forth in an amended or supplemental indenture that complies with the TIA as then in effect.

A consent to any amendment, supplement or waiver under this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or the Notes by any Holder given in connection with a purchase, tender or exchange of such Holder’s Notes shall not be rendered invalid by such purchase, tender or exchange.

Section 8.04 Effect of Consents.

After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder, unless it makes a change described in any of clauses (1) through (9) of Section 8.02, in which case, the amendment, supplement or waiver shall bind only each Holder of a Note who has consented to it and every subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same indebtedness as the consenting Holder’s Note.

Section 8.05 Notation on or Exchange of Notes.

(a) The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment, supplement or waiver on any Note thereafter authenticated. The Issuers, in exchange for all Notes, may issue and the Trustee shall, authenticate new Notes that reflect the amendment, supplement or waiver.

(b) Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Note shall not affect the validity and effect of such amendment, supplement or waiver.

 

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Section 8.06 Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc.

The Trustee shall sign any amended or supplemental indenture authorized pursuant to this Article Eight if the amendment or supplement does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. In executing any amended or supplemental indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to the provisions of Section 601 of the Base Indenture) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and that all conditions precedent are satisfied.

Section 8.07 Effect of Supplemental Indentures.

Upon the execution of any amended or supplemental indenture under this Article Eight, the Indenture (including this Supplemental Indenture) shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such amended or supplemental indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Notes theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture shall limit or affect the provisions of Article IX or Section 513 of the Base Indenture insofar as relating to any amendment or waiver in respect of any series of Securities other than the Notes.

Article Nine

Guarantees

Article XIV of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes, except as, and to the extent, described in this Article Nine.

Section 9.01 Subsidiary Guarantees.

(a) Subject to this Article Nine, each of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally guarantees, on a senior unsecured basis, to each Holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or the Notes held thereby and the Obligations of the Issuers under the Notes, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or this Supplemental Indenture, that: (a) the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the Notes will be promptly paid in full when due, subject to any applicable grace period, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration, upon repurchase or redemption or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal of and premium and (to the extent permitted by law) interest on the Notes, and all other payment Obligations of the Issuers to the Holders or the Trustee under the Notes, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or this Supplemental Indenture will be promptly paid in full and performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (b) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, subject to any applicable grace period, whether at

 

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Stated Maturity, by acceleration, upon repurchase or redemption or otherwise. Failing payment when so due of any amount so guaranteed for whatever reason, the Guarantors will be jointly and severally obligated to pay the same immediately. An Event of Default under this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes shall constitute an event of default under the Subsidiary Guarantees, and shall entitle the Holders to accelerate the obligations of the Guarantors hereunder in the same manner and to the same extent as the Obligations of the Issuers.

(b) The Guarantors hereby agree that their obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Notes, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or this Supplemental Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against an Issuer, any action to enforce the same or any other circumstance (other than complete performance) which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a Guarantor. Each Guarantor further, to the extent permitted by law, hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of an Issuer, any right to require a proceeding first against an Issuer, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that its Subsidiary Guarantee will not be discharged except by complete performance of the Obligations contained in the Notes, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and this Supplemental Indenture.

(c) If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to an Issuer, the Guarantors, or any Custodian, Trustee or other similar official acting in relation to any of the Issuers or the Guarantors, any amount paid by an Issuer or any Guarantor to the Trustee or such Holder, the Subsidiary Guarantees, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect. Each Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to, and hereby waives, any right of subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any Obligations guaranteed hereby.

(d) Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (a) the maturity of the Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article Six for the purposes of its Subsidiary Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Obligations guaranteed thereby, and (b) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such Obligations as provided in Article Six, such Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantor for the purpose of its Subsidiary Guarantee. The Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from any non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the Holders under the Subsidiary Guarantees.

Section 9.02 Limitation on Guarantor Liability.

The obligations of each Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee will be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee or pursuant to its contribution obligations under this Indenture, result in the obligations of such Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under federal or state law and not otherwise being void or voidable under any similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally.

 

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Section 9.03 Subsidiary Guarantee Evidenced by Indenture; No Notation of Subsidiary Guarantee.

(a) The Subsidiary Guarantee of any Guarantor shall be evidenced solely by its execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture (or, in the case of any Guarantor that is not party to this Supplemental Indenture on the Issue Date, a supplemental indenture) and not by an endorsement on, or attachment to, any Note of any Subsidiary Guarantee or notation thereof. To effect any Subsidiary Guarantee of any Guarantor not a party to this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) on the Issue Date, such future Guarantor shall execute and deliver a supplemental indenture substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, which supplemental indenture shall be executed and delivered on behalf of such Guarantor by an Officer of such Guarantor.

(b) Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its Subsidiary Guarantee set forth in Section 9.01 shall be and remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on any Note a notation of such Subsidiary Guarantee.

(c) The delivery of any Note by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Subsidiary Guarantees set forth in this Supplemental Indenture on behalf of each of the Guarantors.

Section 9.04 Guarantors May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms.

(a) No Guarantor shall sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties or assets to, or consolidate with or merge with or into (whether or not such Guarantor is the surviving Person), another Person (other than the Company or another Guarantor), unless, (i) either (1) the Person acquiring the properties or assets in any such sale or other disposition or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than such Guarantor) unconditionally assumes all the obligations of such Guarantor, pursuant to a supplemental indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit B, under the Notes, this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and its Subsidiary Guarantee on terms set forth therein, or (2) if the Person acquiring the properties or assets in any such sale or disposition or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger is not (either before or after giving effect to such transaction) a Guarantor, such transaction complies with the provisions of Section 4.10, and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default exists.

(b) In the case of any such consolidation or merger and upon the assumption by the successor Person, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and substantially in the form of Exhibit B, of the Subsidiary Guarantee and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) to be performed by the Guarantor, such successor Person shall succeed to and be substituted for the Guarantor with the same effect as if it had been named herein as a Guarantor.

 

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Section 9.05 Releases of Guarantors.

(a) The Subsidiary Guarantee of a Guarantor shall be released: (1) in connection with any sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of such Guarantor or such Guarantor’s direct or indirect parent (including by way of merger or consolidation) to one or more Persons that are not (either before or after giving effect to such transaction) a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, if the sale or other disposition complies with Section 4.10; (2) in connection with any sale or other disposition of all of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor or such Guarantor’s direct or indirect parent to one or more Persons that are not (either before or after giving effect to such transaction) a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, if the sale or other disposition complies with Section 4.10; (3) if the Company designates any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 4.20; (4) upon Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance or Discharge in accordance with Article Seven or Article Ten; (5) upon the liquidation or dissolution of such Guarantor, provided no Default or Event of Default has occurred that is continuing; or (6) at such time as such Guarantor ceases to guarantee any other Indebtedness of either of the Issuers and any other Guarantor.

(b) Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that any of the conditions described in Section 9.05(a) has occurred, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably requested by the Company in order to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee. Any Guarantor not released from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the Notes and for the other obligations of such Guarantor under this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) as provided in this Article Nine.

Article Ten

Satisfaction and Discharge

Article IV of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes except as, and to the extent, described in this Article Ten.

Section 10.01 Satisfaction and Discharge.

This Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) shall be satisfied and discharged and shall cease to be of further effect as to all Notes issued hereunder (except for (a) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive solely from the trust fund described in clause (b) of this Section 10.01, and as more fully set forth in such clause (b), payments in respect of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on such Notes when such payments are due, (b) the Issuers’ obligations with respect to such Notes under Section 304, Section 305 and Section 306 of the Base Indenture and Section 4.02 and (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the Issuers’ obligations in connection therewith), when:

 

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(1) either:

(a) all Notes that have been authenticated, except lost, stolen or destroyed Notes that have been replaced or paid and Notes for whose payment money has been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Issuers, have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

(b) all Notes that have not been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable or will become due and payable within one year by reason of the delivery of a notice of redemption or otherwise, and the Issuers or any Guarantor has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination of cash in U.S. dollars and non-callable Government Securities, in amounts as will be sufficient without consideration of any reinvestment of interest, to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on the Notes not delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for principal, premium, if any, and accrued interest to the date of fixed maturity or redemption;

(2) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of the deposit or will occur as a result of the deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting from the incurrence of Indebtedness or other borrowing of funds, or the granting of Liens securing such Indebtedness or other borrowing of funds, all or a portion of which are to be applied to such deposit) and the deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any material agreement or instrument (other than this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes)) to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound;

(3) the Issuers or any Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all sums payable by it under this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes);

(4) the Issuers have delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee to apply the deposited money toward the payment of the Notes at fixed maturity or the redemption date, as the case may be; and

(5) the Issuers have delivered an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee stating that all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) (“Discharge”) have been satisfied; provided, however, that such counsel may rely, as to matters of fact, on a certificate or certificates of officers of the General Partner.

 

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Article Eleven

Miscellaneous

Section 11.01 Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders of Notes.

Holders may communicate pursuant to Trust Indenture Act Section 312(b) with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or the Notes. The Issuers, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of Trust Indenture Act Section 312(c).

Section 11.02 Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.

(a) Upon any request or application by an Issuer to the Trustee to take any action under this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), such Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee:

(i) an Officers’ Certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (which shall include the statements set forth in Section 11.03) stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent and covenants, if any, provided for in this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) relating to the proposed action have been satisfied; and

(ii) an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (which shall include the statements set forth in Section 11.03) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent and covenants have been satisfied.

Section 11.03 Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.

(a) Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Supplemental Indenture (other than a certificate provided pursuant to Trust Indenture Act Section 314(a)(4)) shall comply with the provisions of Trust Indenture Act Section 314(e) and shall include:

(i) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;

(ii) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

(iii) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been satisfied; and

(iv) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been satisfied.

In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

 

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Any certificate or opinion of an Officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such Officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of, or representation by, counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an Officer or Officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Supplemental Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

Section 11.04 Governing Law.

THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

Section 11.05 Trust Indenture Act Controls.

If any provision of this Supplemental Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by the Trust Indenture Act §318(c), such imposed duties shall control. If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act which is required to be a part of and govern the Indenture, such required provision of the Trust Indenture Act shall control. If any provision of this Supplemental Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the TIA that may be so modified or excluded, the provision of the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to apply to the Indenture as so modified or shall be excluded, as the case may be.

Section 11.06 Successors.

All agreements of the Issuers and the Guarantors in this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes shall bind their respective successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Supplemental Indenture shall bind its successors.

Section 11.07 Severability.

In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

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Section 11.08 Counterparts.

The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture, and each party hereto may sign any number of separate copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Supplemental Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

Section 11.09 No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Unitholders.

None of the General Partner or any past, present or future director, officer, partner, employee, incorporator, manager or unitholder or other owner of Capital Stock of the General Partner, the Issuers or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Issuers or any Guarantor under the Notes, the Subsidiary Guarantees or this Indenture, or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.

Section 11.10 Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.

The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Supplemental Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Supplemental Indenture and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 11.11 No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.

The Indenture (including this Supplemental Indenture) insofar as relating to the Notes may not be used to interpret any other indenture, loan or debt agreement (including the Indenture (including any other supplemental indenture thereto) insofar as relating to any series of Securities other than the Notes) of the Issuers or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or of any other Person. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement (including the Indenture (including any other supplemental indenture thereto) insofar as relating to any series of Securities other than the Notes) may not be used to interpret the Indenture (including this Supplemental Indenture) insofar as relating to the Notes.

Section 11.12 Scope of this Supplemental Indenture.

The changes, modifications and supplements to the Base Indenture effected by this Supplemental Indenture shall be applicable only with respect to, and shall only govern the terms of, and shall be deemed expressly included in this Supplemental Indenture solely for the benefit of, the Notes which may be issued from time to time, and shall not apply to any other Securities that may be issued under the Base Indenture unless a supplemental indenture with respect to such other Securities specifically incorporates such changes, modifications and supplements.

 

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Section 11.13 Ratification and Incorporation of Base Indenture.

As supplemented hereby, the Base Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the Base Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of Notes shall be bound hereby.

Section 11.14 Covenants Not Applicable.

In accordance with Section 301(18), Section 901(2) and Section 901(5) of the Base Indenture, (i) except as, and to the extent, described herein, the covenants and agreements on the part of the Issuers in Section 501, Section 502, Section 504, Section 506, Section 507, Section 512, Section 513, Section 514, Section 1001, Section 1002, Section 1004 and Section 1005, and Article IV, Article VIII, Article IX, Article X, Article XI, Article XIII and Article XIV of the Base Indenture are hereby eliminated from the Base Indenture in respect of, and shall not apply to, and shall be deemed covenants included in the Supplemental Indenture solely for the benefit of a different series of Securities than, the Notes; and (ii) no Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall arise, or be deemed to exist as the result of any failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or perform any of such covenants or agreements.

Section 11.15 Patriot Act.

The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee with such information within their possession or control as it may reasonably request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the U.S.A. Patriot Act.

Section 11.16 Benefits of Supplemental Indenture.

Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or in the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties to this Supplemental Indenture and their successors hereunder and the Holders of the Notes, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes).

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

SIGNATURES
ISSUERS:
GENESIS ENERGY, L.P.
By:   Genesis Energy, LLC,
  its general partner
By:  

/s/ Grant E. Sims

  Name:   Grant E. Sims
  Title:   Chief Executive Officer
GENESIS ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION
By:  

/s/ Grant E. Sims

  Name:   Grant E. Sims
  Title:   Chief Executive Officer
GUARANTORS:
GENESIS CRUDE OIL, L.P.
GENESIS PIPELINE TEXAS, L.P.
GENESIS PIPELINE USA, L.P.
GENESIS SYNGAS INVESTMENTS, L.P.
By:   Genesis Energy, LLC,
  its general partner
By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

  Name:   Kristen O. Jesulaitis
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

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GUARANTORS (continued):
AMERICAN NATURAL SODA ASH CORP.
By:   GENESIS ALKALI WYOMING, LP,
  its sole member
By:   GENESIS ALKALI HOLDINGS, LLC,
  its general partner
By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

  Name:   Kristen O. Jesulaitis
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
GEL CHOPS I, L.P.
GEL CHOPS II, L.P.
By:   GEL CHOPS GP, LLC,
  its general partner
By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

  Name:   Kristen O. Jesulaitis
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
CAMERON HIGHWAY PIPELINE I, L.P.
By:   CAMERON HIGHWAY PIPELINE GP, L.L.C.
  its general partner
By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

  Name:   Kristen O. Jesulaitis
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
GENESIS ALKALI WYOMING, LP
By:   GENESIS ALKALI HOLDINGS, LLC, its general partner
By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

  Name:   Kristen O. Jesulaitis
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

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GUARANTORS (continued):
AP MARINE, LLC
BR PORT SERVICES, LLC
CASPER EXPRESS PIPELINE, LLC
CAMERON HIGHWAY PIPELINE GP, L.L.C.
DAVISON PETROLEUM SUPPLY, LLC
DAVISON TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, INC.
DAVISON TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, LLC
DEEPWATER GATEWAY, L.L.C.
FLEXTREND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.L.C.
GEL CHOPS GP, LLC
GEL DEEPWATER, LLC
GEL IHUB, LLC
GEL LOUISIANA FUELS, LLC
GEL ODYSSEY, LLC
GEL OFFSHORE, LLC
GEL OFFSHORE PIPELINE, LLC
GEL PALOMA, LLC
GEL PIPELINE OFFSHORE, LLC
GEL POSEIDON, LLC
GEL SEKCO, LLC
GEL SYNC LLC
GEL TEX MARKETING, LLC
GEL TEXAS PIPELINE, LLC
GEL WYOMING, LLC
GENESIS ALKALI HOLDINGS COMPANY, LLC
GENESIS ALKALI HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS ALKALI, LLC
GENESIS BR, LLC
GENESIS CHOPS I, LLC
GENESIS CHOPS II, LLC
GENESIS DAVISON, LLC
GENESIS DEEPWATER HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS ENERGY, LLC
GENESIS FREE STATE HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS GTM OFFSHORE OPERATING COMPANY, LLC
GENESIS IHUB HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS MARINE, LLC
GENESIS NEJD HOLDINGS, LLC

 

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Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture


GENESIS ODYSSEY, LLC
GENESIS OFFSHORE, LLC
GENESIS OFFSHORE HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS PIPELINE ALABAMA, LLC
GENESIS POSEIDON, LLC
GENESIS POSEIDON HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS RAIL SERVICES, LLC
GENESIS SAILFISH HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS SEKCO, LLC
GENESIS SMR HOLDINGS, LLC
GENESIS TEXAS CITY TERMINAL, LLC
HIGH ISLAND OFFSHORE SYSTEM, L.L.C.
MANTA RAY GATHERING COMPANY, L.L.C.
MATAGORDA OFFSHORE, LLC
MILAM SERVICES, INC.
POSEIDON PIPELINE COMPANY, L.L.C.
RED RIVER TERMINALS, L.L.C.
SAILFISH PIPELINE COMPANY, L.L.C.
SEAHAWK SHORELINE SYSTEM, LLC
SOUTHEAST KEATHLEY CANYON PIPELINE COMPANY, L.L.C.
SYNC PIPELINE LLC
TDC SERVICES, LLC
TDC, L.L.C.
TEXAS CITY CRUDE OIL TERMINAL, LLC
THUNDER BASIN HOLDINGS, LLC
By:  

/s/ Kristen O. Jesulaitis

  Name:   Kristen O. Jesulaitis
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

Signature Page to

Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture


REGIONS BANK,
as Trustee
By:  

/s/ Moses Ballenger

  Name:   Moses Ballenger
  Title:   Vice President

 

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Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture


EXHIBIT A

[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO AN ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.]1

 

1 

Include only on Global Note.

 

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GENESIS ENERGY, L.P.

GENESIS ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION

 

No. A-1    $        
  

CUSIP No.

ISIN No.

7.875% Senior Note due 2032

Genesis Energy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, and Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation, jointly and severally promise to pay to _____________, or registered assigns, the principal sum of ______________ Dollars [or such greater or lesser amount as may be indicated on Schedule A hereto]1 on May 15, 2032.

Interest Payment Dates: May 15 and November 15.

Record Dates: May 1 and November 1.

Additional provisions of this Note are set forth on the other side of this Note.

 

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If this Note is a Global Note, add this provision and include the attachment captioned “[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL NOTES] — SCHEDULE A — SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE”.

 

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GENESIS ENERGY, L.P.
By:   Genesis Energy, LLC,
  its general partner
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
GENESIS ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF

AUTHENTICATION

Regions Bank,

as Trustee, certifies that

this is one of the Notes

referred to in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture.

 

By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF NOTE]

7.875% Senior Note due 2032

Capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.

1. Interest. Genesis Energy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Company”), and Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Finance Corp.” and, together with the Company, the “Issuers”), jointly and severally promise to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at 7.875% per annum from May 9, 2024 until maturity. The Issuers will pay interest, if any, semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year (each an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing November 15, 2024. If an Interest Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the interest payment to be made on such Interest Payment Date will be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date, and no additional interest will accrue solely as a result of such delayed payment. Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of original issuance; provided that if there is no existing Default or Event of Default in the payment of interest, and if this Note is authenticated between a record date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date, except in the case of the original issuance of Notes, in which case interest shall accrue from the date of authentication. The Issuers shall pay (i) interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, from time to time on demand at a rate that is the then applicable interest rate on the Notes and (ii) interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest and Additional Interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) from time to time on demand at the same rate to the extent lawful. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

2. Method of Payment. The Issuers will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the May 1 and November 1 next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes are cancelled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 307 of the Base Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. Holders must surrender Notes to the Paying Agent to collect payments of principal and premium, if any, together with accrued and unpaid interest due at maturity. The Notes will be payable as to principal, premium, if any, and interest at the office or agency of the Issuers maintained for such purpose within the City and State of New York, or, at the option of the Issuers, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders, and provided that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be required with respect to any amounts due on all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which shall have provided wire transfer instructions to the Issuers or the Paying Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if this Note is a Global Note, payment may be made pursuant to the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary as permitted in the Indenture. Such payment shall be in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.

 

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3. Paying Agent and Registrar. Initially, Regions Bank, the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.

4. Indenture. The Issuers issued the Notes under an Indenture dated as of May 21, 2015 (the “Original Indenture”; the Original Indenture, as supplemented by the Trustee Succession Agreement referred to below, the “Base Indenture”, and the Base Indenture, as it may be further amended or supplemented from time to time (including by the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture referred to below) in accordance with the terms thereof, the “Indenture”) among the Issuers, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as defined below), as supplemented by the Agreement of Resignation, Acceptance and Appointment, dated as of September 30, 2020 (the “Trustee Successor Agreement”), by and among the Issuers, the predecessor Trustee and the successor Trustee, and by the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture thereto dated as of May 9, 2024 (the “Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture”), among Regions Bank, as trustee (together with, as to any time prior to September 30, 2020, U.S. Bank National Association, as predecessor trustee, each, in such capacity, the “Trustee”), the Issuers and the Initial Guarantors. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code §§ 77aaa-77bbbb). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms. Any conflict between the Notes and the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) will be governed by the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes). Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to be bound by all of the terms and provisions of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), as the same may be amended from time to time. The Notes are unsecured senior obligations of the Issuers the aggregate principal amount of which is unlimited.

5. Optional Redemption.

(a) Except as set forth in subparagraphs (b), (c) and (d) of this Paragraph 5, the Issuers shall not have the option to redeem the Notes prior to May 15, 2027. On or after May 15, 2027, the Issuers shall have the option to redeem the Notes, in whole or in part at any time, upon prior notice as set forth in Paragraph 8, at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount) set forth below, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the redemption date), if redeemed during the twelve-month period on May 15 of the years indicated below:

 

Year

   Percentage  

2027

     103.938

2028

     101.969

2029 and thereafter

     100.0000

 

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(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph 5, at any time prior to May 15, 2027, the Issuers may on any one or more occasions redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued under the Indenture at a redemption price of 107.875% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the redemption date), in an amount not greater than the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings; provided that (i) at least 65% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued under the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture remains outstanding immediately after the occurrence of each such redemption (excluding any Notes held by the Company and its Subsidiaries) and (ii) each such redemption occurs within 120 days of the date of the closing of each such Equity Offering.

(c) Prior to May 15, 2027, the Issuers may redeem all or part of the Notes upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at a redemption price equal to the sum of (1) the principal amount thereof, plus (2) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an interest payment date that is on or prior to the redemption date), plus (3) the Make-Whole Premium at the redemption date.

(d) The Notes may also be redeemed, as a whole, following certain Change of Control Offers, at the redemption price and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.15(h) of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture.

6. Mandatory Redemption. Neither of the Issuers shall be required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes. The Issuers may, at any time and from time to time, purchase Notes in open market purchases or negotiated transactions by tender offer or otherwise.

7. Repurchase at Option of Holders.

(a) Within 30 days following the occurrence of a Change of Control, unless the Issuers have previously or concurrently exercised their right to redeem all of the Notes as described in paragraph 5 above, the Company shall make an offer (a “Change of Control Offer”) to repurchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess of $2,000) of each Holder’s Notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of settlement (the “Change of Control Settlement Date”), subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Change of Control Settlement Date. Within 30 days following a Change of Control, unless the Issuers have previously or concurrently exercised their right to redeem all of the Notes as described in paragraph 5 above, the Company shall send a notice of the Change of Control Offer to each Holder and the Trustee describing the transaction that constitutes the Change of Control and setting forth the procedures governing the Change of Control Offer as required by Section 4.15 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture.

 

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(b) On the 361st day after an Asset Sale, if the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds then exceeds $25.0 million, the Company shall commence an offer to all Holders of Notes (an “Asset Sale Offer”) pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, and to all holders of any Pari Passu Indebtedness then outstanding, to purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes and such Pari Passu Indebtedness that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds, at an offer price in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the Settlement Date, subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Settlement Date, in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture. If any Excess Proceeds remain after consummation of an Asset Sale Offer, the Company may use such remaining Excess Proceeds for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered by Holders thereof and Pari Passu Indebtedness surrendered by holders or lenders, collectively, exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Trustee shall select the Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis (with such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate by the Trustee so that only Notes in denominations of $2,000, or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000, shall be purchased) on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of tendered Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness. Holders of Notes that are the subject of an offer to purchase will receive an Asset Sale Offer from the Company prior to any related purchase date and may elect to have such Notes purchased by completing the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the Notes.

8. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption will be sent at least 10 days but not more than 60 days (except as otherwise provided in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture if the notice is issued in connection with a Legal Defeasance, Covenant Defeasance or Discharge) before the redemption date to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address. If sent in the manner provided for in Section 3.03 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, the notice of optional redemption shall be conclusively presumed to have been given and delivered whether or not a Holder receives such notice. Failure to give timely notice or any defect in the notice shall not affect the validity of the redemption. Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000, unless all of the Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed. On and after the redemption date interest shall cease to accrue on Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.

9. Guarantees. The payment by the Issuers of the principal of and premium and interest on the Notes is fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a joint and several senior unsecured basis by each of the Guarantors to the extent set forth in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture.

10. Denominations, Transfer, Exchange. The Notes are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents, and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes due on transfer or exchange. The Issuers need not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, they need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed.

 

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11. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered holder of a Note shall be treated as its owner for all purposes.

12. Amendment, Supplement and Waiver. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, and any existing default or compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes. Without the consent of any Holder of a Note, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented (1) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, (2) to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, (3) to provide for the assumption of an Issuer’s obligations to Holders of the Notes pursuant to Article Five of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, (4) to make any change that would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders of the Notes or that does not adversely affect the legal rights of any Holder of the Notes, (5) to secure the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees pursuant to Section 4.12 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture or otherwise, (6) to provide for the issuance of Additional Notes in accordance with the limitations set forth in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, (7) to add any additional Guarantor with respect to the Notes or to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its Subsidiary Guarantee, in each case as provided in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, (8) to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) with respect to the Notes under the Trust Indenture Act, (9) to evidence or provide for the acceptance of appointment under the Indenture of a successor Trustee, (10) to provide for the reorganization of the Company as any other form of entity in accordance with Section 5.01(c) of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture or (11) to conform the text of the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture or the Notes to any provision of the section entitled “Description of Notes” in the prospectus supplement relating to the Notes dated May 6, 2024.

13. Defaults and Remedies. Events of Default include: (i) default for 30 days in the payment when due of interest on the Notes; (ii) default in payment when due of the principal of or premium, if any, on the Notes when due at Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon required repurchase, upon declaration or otherwise; (iii) failure by the Company to comply with Section 5.01 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture; (iv) failure by the Company for 180 days after notice to comply with Section 4.03 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture; (v) failure by the Company for 60 days after notice to comply with any of its other agreements in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture (including Sections 3.09, 4.10 and 4.15 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture), the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or the Notes; (vi) default under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is guaranteed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries), whether such Indebtedness or guarantee now exists or is created after the Issue Date, if such default (a) is caused by a failure to pay principal

 

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of, or premium or interest, if any, on such Indebtedness prior to the expiration of any grace period provided in such Indebtedness (a “Payment Default”) or (b) results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its Stated Maturity and, in each case, the principal amount of any such Indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness under which there has been a Payment Default or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates in excess of $20.0 million, provided, however, that if any such Payment Default is cured or waived or any such acceleration rescinded, or such Indebtedness is repaid, within a period of 60 days from the continuation of such Payment Default beyond the applicable grace period or the occurrence of such acceleration, as the case may be, such Event of Default and any consequential acceleration of the Notes shall be automatically rescinded, so long as such rescission does not conflict with any judgment or decree; (vii) failure by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to pay final judgments aggregating in excess of $20.0 million (to the extent not covered by insurance by a reputable and creditworthy insurer as to which the insurer has not disclaimed coverage), which judgments are not paid, discharged or stayed for a period of 60 days; (viii) any Subsidiary Guarantee is held in any judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or ceases for any reason to be in full force and effect or any Guarantor, or any Person acting on behalf of any Guarantor, denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee (other than, in any such case, by reason of release of a Guarantor in accordance with Section 9.05 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture); and (ix) certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization with respect to the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company as specified in Section 6.01(a)(ix) or 6.01(a)(x) of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture. If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee, by notice to the Issuers, or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, by notice to the Issuers and the Trustee, may declare all the Notes to be due and payable immediately. Notwithstanding the preceding, in the case of an Event of Default arising from such events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization described in Section 6.01(a)(ix) or 6.01(a)(x) of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, all outstanding Notes will become due and payable without further action or notice. Holders may not enforce the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) or the Notes except as provided in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes). Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power conferred on it. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of the Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a Default or Event of Default relating to the payment of principal, interest or premium) if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences under the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) except a continuing Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or premium or interest on the Notes. The Issuers are required to deliver to the Trustee annually a statement regarding compliance with the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), and, so long as any Notes are outstanding, the Issuers are required upon certain Officers becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default, to deliver to the Trustee a statement specifying such Default or Event of Default.

 

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14. Defeasance and Discharge. The Notes are subject to defeasance and discharge upon the terms and conditions specified in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture.

15. No Recourse Against Others. None of the General Partner or any past, present or future director, officer, partner, employee, incorporator, manager or unitholder or other owner of Capital Stock of the General Partner, the Issuers or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Issuers or any Guarantor under the Notes, the Subsidiary Guarantees or the Indenture, or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

16. Authentication. This Note shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of an authorized signatory of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.

17. Abbreviations. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

18. CUSIP Numbers. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Issuers have caused CUSIP numbers and corresponding ISIN numbers to be printed on the Notes and the Trustee may use CUSIP numbers and corresponding ISIN numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.

19. Governing Law. THE INDENTURE AND THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

20. Successors. In the event a successor assumes all the obligations of an Issuer under the Notes and the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes), pursuant to the terms thereof, such Issuer will be released from all such obligations.

The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to:

Genesis Energy, L.P.

811 Louisiana, Suite 1200

Houston, Texas 77002

Attention: Chief Financial Officer

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

I or we assign and transfer this Note to

Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

(Insert assignee’s Soc. Sec. or tax I.D. No.)

and irrevocably appoint _____________ agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Issuers. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Date:     Your  
    Signature:  
      Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note.

Signature Guarantee:

(Signature must be guaranteed)

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.10 or Section 4.15 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, check the box below:

Section 4.10   Section 4.15

If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.10 or Section 4.15 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, state the amount (in minimum denomination of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000) you elected to have purchased: $

 

Date:     Your  
    Signature:  
      (Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)
      Soc. Sec. or Tax Identification No.:

Signature Guarantee:

(Signature must be guaranteed)

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL NOTE]

SCHEDULE A

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE

The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:

 

Date

   Amount of decrease in
Principal Amount of
this Global Note
   Amount of increase in
Principal Amount of
this Global Note
   Principal Amount of
this Global Note
following such
decrease or increase
   Signature of
authorized officer
of Trustee or
Notes Custodian

 

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EXHIBIT B

GENESIS ENERGY, L.P.,

GENESIS ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION

and

the Guarantors named herein

7.875% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2032

FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE

DATED AS OF ______________ __, ____

REGIONS BANK,

as Trustee

 

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This SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of ____________ ___, ______ (this “Supplemental Indenture”), is among Genesis Energy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Company”), Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Finance Corp.” and, together with the Company, the “Issuers”), the Guarantors, each of the parties identified under the caption “New Guarantors” on the signature pages hereto (the “New Guarantors”) and Regions Bank, as Trustee.

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Issuers, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as defined below), entered into an indenture dated May 21, 2015 (the “Original Indenture”), among the Issuers and the predecessor Trustee referred to below, as amended, supplemented and modified by the Agreement of Resignation, Appointment and Acceptance, dated as of September 30, 2020 (the “Trustee Successor Agreement”, and the Original Indenture, as supplemented by the Trustee Successor Agreement, the “Base Indenture”), among the Issuers, the predecessor Trustee and the successor Trustee and by an Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture dated May 9, 2024 (the “Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), among the Issuers, the Initial Guarantors and Regions Bank, as trustee (together with, as to any time prior to September 30, 2020, U.S. Bank National Association, as predecessor trustee, each in such capacity, the “Trustee”), pursuant to which the Issuers have issued $___________ aggregate principal amount of 7.875% Senior Notes due 2032 (the “Notes”);

WHEREAS, Section 8.01 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture provides that the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) in order to comply with Section 4.13 or Section 9.04 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes; and

WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement according to its terms, and a valid and legally binding amendment of and supplement to, the Indenture, have been duly done and performed.

NOW, THEREFORE, to comply with the provisions of the Indenture and in consideration of the above premises, the Issuers, the Guarantors, the New Guarantors and the Trustee covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders of the Notes as follows:

ARTICLE 1

Section 1.01. This Supplemental Indenture is supplemental to the Indenture and does and shall be deemed to form a part of, and shall be construed in connection with and as part of, the Indenture for any and all purposes.

Section 1.02. This Supplemental Indenture shall become effective immediately upon its execution and delivery by each of the Issuers, the Guarantors, the New Guarantors and the Trustee.

 

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ARTICLE 2

From this date, in accordance with Section 9.03 of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and by executing this Supplemental Indenture, each New Guarantor shall be subject to the provisions of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (as it relates to the Notes) to the extent provided for in Article Nine of the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture. Each New Guarantor hereby becomes a party to the Indenture as a Guarantor with respect to the Notes and as such will have all of the rights and be subject to all of the obligations and agreements of a Guarantor under the Indenture with respect to the Notes. Each New Guarantor agrees to be bound by all of the provisions of the Indenture applicable to a Guarantor with respect to the Notes and to perform all of the obligations and agreements of a Guarantor under the Indenture with respect to the Notes.

ARTICLE 3

Section 3.01. Except as specifically modified herein, the Indenture and the Notes are in all respects ratified and confirmed (mutatis mutandis) and shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with their terms with all capitalized terms used herein without definition having the same respective meanings ascribed to them as in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture.

Section 3.02. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, no duties, responsibilities or liabilities are assumed, or shall be construed to be assumed, by the Trustee by reason of this Supplemental Indenture. This Supplemental Indenture is executed and accepted by the Trustee subject to all the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture with the same force and effect as if those terms and conditions were repeated at length herein and made applicable to the Trustee with respect hereto.

Section 3.03. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

Section 3.04. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of such executed copies together shall represent the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Supplemental Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

[NEXT PAGE IS SIGNATURE PAGE]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the date first written above.

 

GENESIS ENERGY, L.P.
By:   Genesis Energy, LLC,
  its general partner
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
GENESIS ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
GUARANTORS
[INSERT SIGNATURE BLOCK FOR EACH GUARANTOR]
NEW GUARANTORS
[INSERT SIGNATURE BLOCK FOR EACH NEW GUARANTOR]

 

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REGIONS BANK,
as Trustee
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

 

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Exhibit 5.1

 

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Genesis Energy, L.P.

Genesis Energy Finance Corporation

811 Louisiana, Suite 1200

Houston, Texas 77002

 

Re:

Genesis Energy, L.P.

Genesis Energy Finance Corporation

Registration Statement on Form S-3

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to Genesis Energy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), and Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Finance Corp” and, together with the Partnership, the “Issuers”), in connection with the registration, pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-278743) (the “Registration Statement”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), of the offering and sale by the Issuers of $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.875% Senior Notes due 2032 (the “Notes”), including the guarantees (the “Guarantees”) of the Notes by the Partnership’s subsidiaries (the “Subsidiary Guarantors” and, together with the Issuers, the “Obligors”) listed on Schedule I hereto (including the Specified Guarantors (as defined below)), to be (x) issued under an Indenture (the “Base Indenture”) dated as of May 21, 2015, among the Partnership, Finance Corp, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee (as defined below), as supplemented by the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture thereto dated as of May 9, 2024 (the “Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), among the Partnership, Finance Corp, the Subsidiary Guarantors and Regions Bank, as trustee (together with, as to any time prior to September 30, 2020, U.S. Bank National Association, as predecessor trustee, each, in such capacity, the “Trustee”), and (y) sold pursuant to the terms of an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”), dated May 6, 2024, among the Obligors and RBC Capital Markets, LLC, as representative of the underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”). For purposes of this opinion letter, the term “Specified Guarantors” means the Subsidiary Guarantors other than (i) Genesis Pipeline Alabama, LLC, (ii) Red River Terminals, L.L.C. and (iii) TDC, L.L.C. This opinion is being furnished in accordance with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Act.

We have examined originals or certified copies of such corporate or other entity records of the Issuers and the Specified Guarantors and other certificates and documents of officials of the Issuers and the Specified Guarantors, public officials and others as we have deemed appropriate for purposes of this letter. We have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to authentic original documents of all copies submitted to us as conformed, certified or reproduced


copies and that the Notes will conform to the specimen thereof we have reviewed. We have also assumed the existence and entity power to execute and deliver the Indenture of, and the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Indenture by, each of the parties thereto other than the Issuers and the Specified Guarantors, and that the Indenture is a valid and binding obligation of the Trustee, enforceable against the Trustee in accordance with its terms. As to various questions of fact relevant to this letter, we have relied, without independent investigation, upon certificates of public officials and certificates of officers of the Issuers and the Specified Guarantors, all of which we assume to be true, correct and complete.

Based upon the foregoing and subject to the assumptions, exceptions, qualifications and limitations set forth herein, we are of the opinion that, when the Notes have been duly executed by the Issuers, duly authenticated by the Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, and issued and delivered by or on behalf of the Issuers to and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, (i) the Notes will be valid and binding obligations of the Issuers, enforceable against the Issuers in accordance with their terms, and (ii) the Guarantees of the Subsidiary Guarantors will be valid and binding obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors, enforceable against the Subsidiary Guarantors in accordance with their terms.

The opinions and other matters in this letter are qualified in their entirety and subject to the following:

 

A.

We express no opinion as to the laws of any jurisdiction other than the laws of (i) the Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act of the State of Delaware, (ii) the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, (iii) the Business Organizations Code of the State of Texas, (iv) the laws of the State of New York and (v) the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

B.

The matters expressed in this letter are subject to and qualified and limited by (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer and conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally; (ii) general principles of equity, including without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief (regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); and (iii) securities laws and public policy underlying such laws with respect to rights to indemnification and contribution.

 

C.

This opinion letter is limited to the matters expressly stated herein and no opinion is to be inferred or implied beyond the opinion expressly set forth herein. We undertake no, and hereby disclaim any, obligation to make any inquiry after the date hereof or to advise you of any changes in any matter set forth herein, whether based on a change in the law, a change in any fact relating to the Obligors or any other person or any other circumstance.


We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Partnership with the Commission on or about the date hereof, to the incorporation by reference of this opinion into the Registration Statement and to the use of our name in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated May 6, 2024 and the Final Prospectus Supplement dated May 6, 2024 forming a part of the Registration Statement under the caption “Legal Matters”. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ Paul Hastings LLP
PAUL HASTINGS LLP


Schedule I

Guarantors

 

Subsidiary Guarantor

  

State or other

Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or

Organization

American Natural Soda Ash Corp.    Delaware
AP Marine, LLC    Delaware
BR Port Services, LLC    Delaware
Cameron Highway Pipeline GP, L.L.C.    Delaware
Cameron Highway Pipeline I, L.P.    Delaware
Casper Express Pipeline, LLC    Delaware
Davison Petroleum Supply, LLC    Delaware
Davison Transportation Services, Inc.    Delaware
Davison Transportation Services, LLC    Delaware
Deepwater Gateway, L.L.C.    Delaware
Flextrend Development Company, L.L.C.    Delaware
GEL CHOPS GP, LLC    Delaware
GEL CHOPS I, L.P.    Delaware
GEL CHOPS II, L.P.    Delaware
GEL Deepwater, LLC    Delaware
GEL IHUB, LLC    Delaware
GEL Louisiana Fuels, LLC    Delaware
GEL Odyssey, LLC    Delaware
GEL Offshore Pipeline, LLC    Delaware
GEL Offshore, LLC    Delaware
GEL Paloma, LLC    Delaware
GEL Pipeline Offshore, LLC    Delaware
GEL Poseidon, LLC    Delaware
GEL Sekco, LLC    Delaware
GEL SYNC LLC    Delaware
GEL Tex Marketing, LLC    Delaware
GEL Texas Pipeline, LLC    Delaware
GEL Wyoming, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Alkali, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Alkali Holdings, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Alkali Holdings Company, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Alkali Wyoming, LP    Delaware
Genesis BR, LLC    Delaware
Genesis CHOPS I, LLC    Delaware
Genesis CHOPS II, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Crude Oil, L.P.    Delaware
Genesis Davison, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Deepwater Holdings, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Energy, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Free State Holdings, LLC    Delaware


Subsidiary Guarantor

  

State or other

Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or

Organization

Genesis GTM Offshore Operating Company, LLC    Delaware
Genesis IHUB Holdings, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Marine, LLC    Delaware
Genesis NEJD Holdings, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Odyssey, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Offshore, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Offshore Holdings, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Pipeline Alabama, LLC    Alabama
Genesis Pipeline Texas, L.P.    Delaware
Genesis Pipeline USA, L.P.    Delaware
Genesis Poseidon, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Poseidon Holdings, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Rail Services, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Sailfish Holdings, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Sekco, LLC    Delaware
Genesis SMR Holdings, LLC    Delaware
Genesis Syngas Investments, L.P.    Delaware
Genesis Texas City Terminal, LLC    Delaware
High Island Offshore System, L.L.C.    Delaware
Manta Ray Gathering Company, L.L.C.    Texas
Matagorda Offshore, LLC    Texas
Milam Services, Inc.    Delaware
Poseidon Pipeline Company, L.L.C.    Delaware
Red River Terminals, L.L.C.    Louisiana
Sailfish Pipeline Company, L.L.C.    Delaware
Seahawk Shoreline System, LLC    Texas
Southeast Keathley Canyon Pipeline Company, L.L.C.    Delaware
SYNC Pipeline LLC    Delaware
TDC Services, LLC    Delaware
TDC, L.L.C.    Louisiana
Texas City Crude Oil Terminal, LLC    Delaware
Thunder Basin Holdings, LLC    Delaware

Exhibit 5.2

 

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May 9, 2024

Genesis Energy, L.P.

Genesis Energy Finance Corporation

Guarantors

811 Louisiana

Suite 1200

Houston, TX 77002

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as local Louisiana counsel to Red River Terminals, L.L.C. (“Red River”) and TDC, L.L.C. (“TDC”), each a Louisiana limited liability company (the “Companies” and each, a “Company”), in connection with the registration pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-278743) (the “Registration Statement”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), of the offering and sale by Genesis Energy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”) and Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (collectively, the “Issuers”), of an aggregate principal amount of $700,000,000 of 7.875% Senior Notes due 2032 (the “Notes”), including the guarantees (each, a “Guarantee”) of the Notes by certain of the Partnership’s subsidiaries (the “Subsidiary Guarantors”), including the Companies, to be issued under the Indenture referred to below. The Notes will be issued pursuant to an Indenture dated as of May 21, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), among the Issuers, the Subsidiary Guarantors and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Prior Trustee”), as supplemented by the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture thereto, dated as of May 9, 2024 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), among the Issuers, the Subsidiary Guarantors and Regions Bank as successor trustee (the “Trustee”).

Documents Examined

In connection with our opinions, we have examined the following (the “Examined Documents”):

 

i.

A photocopy of the executed Indenture;

 

ii.

Photocopies of each of the articles of organization of Red River dated July 31, 1995, as amended and of TDC dated July 23, 2001, as amended, the Operating Agreement, dated July 11, 2007, of TDC, and the Amended and Restated Operating Agreement, dated July 11, 2007, of Red River, as attached to the Certificate of Secretary Guarantors;

 

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iii.

Resolutions of the Companies dated May 13, 2015, April 15, 2024, and May 2, 2024, as attached to the Certificate of Secretary Guarantors;

 

iv.

Officer’s Certificate dated May 9, 2024;

 

v.

Certificate of Secretary Guarantors dated as of May 9, 2024 (the “Certificate of Secretary Guarantors”); and

 

vi.

Good standing certificates of the Companies dated May 3, 2024 issued by the Secretary of State of Louisiana (the “Louisiana Certificates”).

Assumptions

For purposes of this Opinion, we have assumed:

 

A.

That all signatures on the documents, agreements and instruments reviewed by us are genuine;

 

B.

That all documents submitted to us as originals are authentic and what they purport to be and all documents submitted to us as certified, conformed or photostatic copies conform to the originals of such documents;

 

C.

The legal capacity of natural persons, the existence and entity power of all parties to the Examined Documents and all other documents (other than the Companies with respect to the Indenture (including its Guarantee pursuant thereto)), and the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Examined Documents and all other documents by the parties thereto (other than the Companies with respect to the Indenture (including its Guarantee pursuant thereto));

 

D.

That each member, manager, officer, or other representative of the Companies (and each member, manager, officer, or other representative of any tier thereof) is validly existing and in good standing under the law of the jurisdiction of its formation and has taken all action necessary or received all necessary authorizations under any applicable organizational documents and applicable law to authorize the execution and delivery of articles of organization, operating agreements, resolutions, and authorizations governing the Companies and of the Indenture (including their respective Guarantees) and the performance by the Companies of their respective obligations under the Indenture (including their respective Guarantees);

 

E.

That the Indenture been duly executed and delivered by all parties thereto (other than the Companies); and that the Indenture constitutes the valid and binding obligation of each party thereto, enforceable against each such party in accordance with its terms;

 

F.

That there is no requirement of authorization, consent, order, approval, license, or exemption of, or filing requirement or registration with, any person or state or federal governmental authority with respect to the parties’ due execution, delivery or performance of the Indenture that has not been duly obtained or made and that is not in full force and effect;

 

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G.

That the Companies are direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of the Partnership;

 

H.

The existence and entity power and due authorization of each person not a natural person (other than, with respect to the Indenture, the Companies) to execute and deliver the Indenture and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Indenture;

 

I.

As we were not present at the execution of the Indenture, we have relied upon certificates of the Companies as to the physical execution by a duly elected, qualified and acting officer of each Company, of the Indenture and have assumed that a copy of the Indenture has been irrevocably and unconditionally delivered to the Trustee on behalf of the Issuers and the Subsidiary Guarantors;

 

J.

As to various questions of fact relevant to this Opinion, we have relied, without independent investigation, upon the Examined Documents, certificates (and website printouts) of state agencies and public officials, certificates of officers of the Companies and the representations and warranties of the Companies in the Indenture, all of which we assume to be true, correct, and complete. We have made no inquiry of the Companies or any other person or entity (including governmental authorities) regarding, and no review of, any judgments, orders, decrees, franchises, licenses, certificates, permits or other public records or agreements to which the Companies are a party other than the Examined Documents;

 

K.

None of the Examined Documents or any other documents submitted to us have been amended or terminated orally or in writing; and

 

L.

There has not been any change in the good standing status of the Companies from that reflected in the Louisiana Certificates.

Opinions

Based upon and subject to the foregoing and the assumptions, limitations, qualifications, and exceptions set out below, we are of the opinion that:

 

1)

Each Company is validly existing as a limited liability company and is in good standing under the laws of the State of Louisiana;

 

2)

Each Company has the limited liability company power to execute and deliver the Indenture and perform its obligations under the Indenture (including its Guarantee pursuant thereto);

 

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3)

The execution and delivery of the Indenture by each Company and the performance by each Company of its obligations under the Indenture (including its Guarantee pursuant thereto) have been duly authorized by all necessary limited liability company action; and

 

4)

The Indenture has been duly and validly executed and delivered by each Company.

Limitations, Exceptions, and Qualifications

The foregoing opinions are subject to the following limitations, exceptions, and qualifications:

 

I.

Our opinions with respect to the existence and good standing set forth in Paragraph (1) above are based solely upon the articles of organization of Red River and TDC and upon the Louisiana Certificates and speak only of the date and time set forth in the Louisiana Certificates. The opinions expressed in Paragraph (1) do not extend to, and we express no opinion as to, whether Red River or TDC is in “tax good standing” as to the payment of or filings related to taxes of the State of Louisiana (as opposed to filings relating to its entity status with the Louisiana Secretary of State).

 

II.

The matters expressed in this letter are subject to and qualified and limited by (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer and conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally; (ii) general principles of equity, including without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief (regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); and (iii) securities laws and public policy underlying such laws with respect to rights to indemnification and contribution.

 

III.

This opinion letter is limited to the matters expressly stated herein and no opinion is to be inferred or implied beyond the opinion expressly set forth herein. We undertake no, and hereby disclaim any, obligation to make any inquiry after the date hereof or to advise you of any changes in any matter set forth herein, whether based on a change in the law, a change in any fact relating to the Companies or any other person or any other circumstance.

 

IV.

You are advised that our engagement by Genesis Energy, L.P. has been limited to specific matters; consequently, there may exist matters of a legal nature involving the Companies about which we have not advised or represented the Companies and of which we have no knowledge.

 

V.

We express no opinion regarding any Blue Sky laws or any securities laws.

 

VI.

We express no opinion as to the laws of any jurisdiction other the laws of the State of Louisiana and then only as to such laws as in our experience are normally applicable to the transactions reflected in the Indenture (“Included Laws”).

 

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VII.

We express no opinion with respect to the fairness of any of the Indenture or any other matter, and in rendering the opinions expressed herein, we have assumed, with your consent, that a court of competent jurisdiction would find all such matters were entirely fair. We have assumed that no fraud, dishonesty, forgery, coercion, duress or breach of fiduciary duty exists or will exist with respect to any of the matters relevant to the opinions expressed in this Opinion.

 

VIII.

We express no opinion as to (i) the compliance of the transactions contemplated by the Indenture with any laws, regulations, or governmental requirements applicable to any party other than the Companies (and then, only as to the Included Laws), (ii) the financial condition or solvency of the Companies, (iii) the ability (financial or otherwise) of any of the Companies or any other party to meet its obligations under the Indenture, (iv) whether the execution or delivery by the Companies of, or the performance by the Companies of their respective obligations under, the Indenture will conflict with, breach, violate, cause a default, or create or impose any lien or security interest under any contract or agreement as a result of any covenant, restriction or provision with respect to any financial ratio test or any aspect of the financial condition or results of operations of the Companies, and (v) the creation, attachment, validity, enforcement, perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority of any lien or security interest.

 

IX.

The opinions expressed herein are written as of and relate solely to the date hereof, and we disclaim any obligation to update this Opinion in any manner or for any reason.

 

X.

The opinions expressed herein are rendered exclusively for your benefit in connection with the transactions described herein. Except as set forth below, the opinions expressed herein may not be used or relied upon by any other Person, nor may this Opinion or any copies or excerpts thereof be furnished to any other Person, filed with any government authority, quoted, cited or otherwise referred to without our prior written consent (except in connection with a legal or arbitral proceeding or as may be required by applicable law).

This opinion may be relied upon by Paul Hastings, LLP in connection with the opinion it is delivering to you as filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement that we understand will be filed as a part of the Registration Statement. We hereby consent to the filing of copies of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the use of our name in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Final Prospectus Supplement, each dated May 6, 2024 forming a part of the Registration Statement under the caption “Legal Matters.” In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ LISKOW & LEWIS
LISKOW & LEWIS
A Professional Law Corporation

 

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Exhibit 5.3

 

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May 8, 2024

Genesis Energy, L.P.

Genesis Energy Finance Corporation

811 Louisiana, Suite 1200

Houston, TX 77002

Re: 7.875% Senior Notes due 2032

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special Alabama counsel to Genesis Pipeline Alabama, LLC, an Alabama limited liability company (the “Company”), in connection with the registration, pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-278743) (the “Registration Statement”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), of the offering and sale by Genesis Energy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), and Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (together with the Partnership, the “Issuers”), of $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.875% Senior Notes due 2032 (the “Notes”), including the guarantees (each, a “Guarantee”) of the Notes by certain of the Partnership’s subsidiaries (the “Subsidiary Guarantors”), including the Company, to be issued under the Indenture referred to below. The Notes will be issued pursuant to an Indenture dated as of May 21, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), among the Issuers, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee (as defined below), as supplemented by the Twenty First Supplemental Indenture thereto, dated as of May 8, 2024 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), among the Issuers, the Subsidiary Guarantors and Regions Bank, as trustee (together with, as to any time prior to September 30, 2020, U.S. Bank National Association, as predecessor trustee, each, in such capacity, the “Trustee”).

In rendering the opinions set forth below, we have examined originals or certified copies of the Indenture and such corporate records of the Company and other certificates and documents of officials of the Company, public officials and others as we have deemed appropriate for purposes of this letter. We have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to authentic original documents of all copies submitted to us as conformed and certified or reproduced copies. We also have assumed the legal capacity of all natural persons, the corporate or other power of all persons signing on behalf of the parties thereto other than the Company and the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Indenture and all other documents by the parties thereto other than the Company.

Based upon the foregoing it is our opinion that, as of the date hereof:

 

  (i)

the Company is duly organized or formed, validly existing and in good standing as a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Alabama;

 

  (ii)

the Company has the limited liability company power to execute and deliver the Indenture as a Subsidiary Guarantor and perform its obligations under the Indenture (including its Guarantee pursuant thereto);

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  (iii)

the execution and delivery of the Indenture by the Company and the performance by the Company of its obligations under the Indenture (including its Guarantee pursuant thereto) have been duly authorized by all necessary limited liability company action; and

 

  (iv)

the Indenture has been duly and validly executed and delivered by the Company.

For purposes of our opinion above, “good standing” means that the Alabama Department of Revenue determined that the Company qualified for the issuance of a Certificate of Compliance as of a recent date.

This opinion is limited to the matters set out above relating to the Company and the laws of the State of Alabama. This opinion may be relied upon by Paul Hastings LLP in connection with the opinion it is delivering to you as filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. We hereby consent to the filing of copies of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act and the rules and regulations thereunder. The opinions expressed herein are rendered as of the date hereof. We do not undertake to advise you on matters that may come to our attention subsequent to the date hereof and that may affect the opinions expressed herein, including without limitations, future changes in applicable law.

 

Sincerely,
/s/ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Exhibit 99.1

Genesis Energy, L.P. Announces Public Offering of Senior Notes

HOUSTON — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Genesis Energy, L.P. (NYSE: GEL) today announced the commencement, subject to market and other conditions, of a registered, underwritten public offering of $500,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2032 (the “notes”). The notes will be co-issued with our subsidiary, Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, and will be guaranteed, with certain exceptions, by substantially all of our existing and future subsidiaries other than our unrestricted subsidiaries. We intend to use a portion of the net proceeds from the offering of the notes to redeem all of our outstanding 6.250% senior unsecured notes due 2026 and the remainder for general partnership purposes, including repaying a portion of the borrowings outstanding under our credit facility.

RBC Capital Markets, LLC is leading the offering along with several joint book-running managers and co-managers. A copy of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus relating to this offering, when available, may be obtained from RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Attn: HY Capital Markets, 200 Vesey Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10281, or by telephone at (212) 428-6200.

You may also obtain these documents for free, when they are available, by visiting the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. The offer of the notes is being made only through the prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus, each of which is part of our effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3, previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

This press release does not constitute a notice of redemption under the indenture governing the 6.250% senior unsecured notes due 2026.

Genesis Energy, L.P. is a diversified midstream energy master limited partnership headquartered in Houston, Texas. Genesis’ operations include offshore pipeline transportation, soda and sulfur services, marine transportation and onshore facilities and transportation. Genesis’ operations are primarily located in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, Wyoming and the Gulf of Mexico.

This press release includes forward-looking statements as defined under federal law. Although we believe that our expectations are based upon reasonable assumptions, no assurance can be given that our goals will be achieved, including statements regarding our ability to successfully close the offering and to use the net proceeds as indicated above. Actual results may vary materially. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement.


Contact:

Genesis Energy, L.P.

Dwayne Morley

VP – Investor Relations

(713) 860-2536

Exhibit 99.2

Genesis Energy, L.P. Upsizes and Prices Public Offering of Senior Notes

HOUSTON — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Genesis Energy, L.P. (NYSE: GEL) today announced that it has priced a public offering of $700,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of 7.875% senior unsecured notes due 2032 (the “notes”). The offering of the notes was upsized from the previously announced $500,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the notes. The price to investors will be 100% of the principal amount of the notes. The notes will be co-issued with our subsidiary, Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, and will be guaranteed, with certain exceptions, by substantially all of our existing and future subsidiaries other than our unrestricted subsidiaries. We intend to use a portion of the net proceeds from the offering of the notes to redeem all of our outstanding 6.250% senior unsecured notes due 2026 and the remainder for general partnership purposes, including repaying a portion of the borrowings outstanding under our credit facility. The offering of the notes is expected to settle and close on May 9, 2024, subject to customary closing conditions.

RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Capital One Securities, Inc., Regions Securities LLC, SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Citizens JMP Securities, LLC, Fifth Third Securities, Inc., Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. and Truist Securities, Inc. are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering and Comerica Securities, Inc. is acting as co-manager. A copy of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus relating to this offering, when available, may be obtained from:

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

Attn: HY Capital Markets

200 Vesey Street – 8th Floor

New York, NY 10281

(212) 428 - 6200

You may also obtain these documents for free, when they are available, by visiting the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. The offer of the notes is being made only through the prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus, each of which is part of our effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

This press release does not constitute a notice of redemption under the indenture governing the 6.250% senior unsecured notes due 2026.

Genesis Energy, L.P. is a diversified midstream energy master limited partnership headquartered in Houston, Texas. Genesis’ operations include offshore pipeline transportation, soda and sulfur services, marine transportation and onshore facilities and transportation. Genesis’ operations are primarily located in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, Wyoming and the Gulf of Mexico.


This press release includes forward-looking statements as defined under federal law. Although we believe that our expectations are based upon reasonable assumptions, no assurance can be given that our goals will be achieved, including statements regarding our ability to successfully close the offering and to use the net proceeds as indicated above. Actual results may vary materially. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement.

Contact:

Genesis Energy, L.P.

Dwayne Morley

VP – Investor Relations

(713) 860-2536

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