Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
22 May 2023security holder rights change▼ BadMajor
Evolve announced a one-for-thirty reverse split of its common units, expected to take effect after the market closed on June 13, 2023. Units were to trade split-adjusted from June 14, with cash paid in place of fractional units and holders' relative rights unchanged.
A thirteenth amendment to the credit agreement. The facility has now been amended thirteen times in eight years, each one a small concession keeping the partnership just inside its covenants.
The HOBO renewable diesel arrangement was amended so that Evolve pays the development fee only if it chooses to proceed - the language of a partner looking for a way out rather than in.
NYSE American found Evolve below the listing standards again, on both partners' equity and losses. The same deficiency that first appeared in April 2020, never actually cured.
Stonepeak filed a Schedule 13E-3 on its November 2020 arrangement to take common units instead of preferred distributions. On October 28, 2022 it elected to take 27,442,638 common units for Q3 2022, lifting its stake from about 75.3% to 78.2% (80.3% with the warrant), and the filing says it did not currently anticipate exercising the limited call right.
Evolve Transition Infrastructure LP Pres. & Chief Invest. Officer Jonathan C. M. Hartigan disposed of 3,251,136 shares via option/appreciation-right settlement.
The reason for the settlement, stated plainly: Mesquite had been short-paying its invoices, using the cheaper western Catarina tariff for eastern Catarina volumes. Evolve's single customer had simply been paying it less than the contract required.
Evolve settled its disputes with Mesquite Energy - the post-bankruptcy Sanchez Energy - and restated the Catarina gathering agreement. The 2015 contract that made the partnership worth owning had to be renegotiated with a counterparty that no longer accepted its terms.