Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
16 Nov 2009debt financing● NeutralMajor
The partnership consolidated its borrowings into a single $350 million reserve-based facility led by Royal Bank of Scotland, maturing in 2012. Reserve-based means the banks re-test the collateral twice a year - which is how a gas producer with falling prices loses its credit without missing a payment.
4 May 2009director officer appointment● NeutralMajor
The partnership signed direct employment agreements with its four senior executives - chief executive Stephen Brunner, finance chief Charles Ward, general counsel Lisa Mellencamp and controller Michael Hiney - through its own services subsidiary. With the sponsor's future uncertain, the partnership was making its management its own rather than borrowed.
Morgan Stanley I.R.S. #, Morgan Stanley Strategic Investment reported a Evolve Transition Infrastructure LP shareholding of 315,450 shares (1.40% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
The partnership reaffirmed its 2008 forecast and set out a 2009 plan, an attempt to steady unitholders after a quarter in which its sponsor's ownership had been thrown open and gas prices had collapsed.
Morgan Stanley I.R.S. #, Morgan Stanley Strategic Investment disclosed a new substantial Evolve Transition Infrastructure LP shareholding (5.10% of votes).
The partnership's sponsor, Constellation Energy Group, agreed to be taken over by MidAmerican in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis, and had to publicly reaffirm that it would keep providing management services. When a managed partnership's manager is itself in play, its stability is no longer its own to guarantee.
The CoLa acquisition closed, funded by drawing on the credit facility. The partnership now holds coalbed methane in Alabama's Robinson's Bend field, gas in the Cherokee Basin, and this new Woodford position - all bought with borrowed money against a fixed distribution.
Then called Constellation Energy Partners, the partnership agreed to pay CoLa Resources about $53.4 million for interests in 83 non-operated Woodford Shale wells in Oklahoma, adding 13.1 billion cubic feet of proved producing gas reserves. A yield vehicle buying producing assets to support its distribution - the model it followed until gas prices broke it.
SWANK CAPITAL, LLC, SWANK ENERGY INCOME ADVISORS, LP, JERRY V. SWANK disclosed a new substantial Evolve Transition Infrastructure LP shareholding (5.92% of votes).