Post-effective Amendment to Registration Statement (pos Am)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 20, 2020

Registration No. 333-225382

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

to

Form S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Tallgrass Energy, LP

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		47-3159268
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

4200 W. 115th Street, Suite 350

Leawood, Kansas 66211

[phone]

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Christopher R. Jones

4200 W. 115th Street, Suite 350

Leawood, Kansas 66211

[phone]

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copy to:

Mollie Duckworth

Baker Botts L.L.P.

98 San Jacinto Blvd., Suite 1500

Austin, Texas 78701

[phone]

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), File No. 333-225382, of Tallgrass Energy, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“TGE”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 1, 2018. The Registration Statement registered the offer and sale from time to time of an indeterminate number of Class A shares representing limited partner interests in TGE (“Class A Shares”), preferred shares representing limited partner interests in TGE (“Preferred Shares”), and partnership securities representing limited partner interests in TGE (“Partnership Securities” and, together with Class A Shares and Preferred Shares, the “Securities”), representing an aggregate maximum offering price not to exceed $1,000,000,000, and 125,291,659 Class A Shares offered by selling security holders named therein.

On April 17, 2020, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 16, 2019, by and among TGE, Tallgrass Energy GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the general partner of TGE, Prairie Private Acquiror LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Buyer”), and Prairie Merger Sub LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Buyer merged with and into TGE, with TGE surviving the merger and continuing to exist as a Delaware limited partnership (the “Merger”). At the effective time of the Merger each issued and outstanding Class A Share (except for any Class A Shares owned by Prairie Non-ECI Acquiror LP, a Delaware limited partnership, Prairie ECI Acquiror LP, a Delaware limited partnership, Prairie VCOC Acquiror LP, a Delaware limited partnership, Prairie Secondary Acquiror LP, a Delaware limited partnership, and Prairie Secondary Acquiror E LP, a Delaware limited partnership) was converted into the right to receive $22.45 per Class A Share in cash without any interest thereon.

In connection with the Merger, TGE has terminated all offerings of Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by TGE in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance and remain unsold at the termination of such offering, TGE hereby removes from registration by means of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 all of such securities registered and remaining unsold under the Registration Statement.    

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Leawood, State of Kansas, on April 20, 2020.

 

TALLGRASS ENERGY, LP
By:		Tallgrass Energy GP, LLC,
		its general partner
		By:		/s/ William R. Moler
				William R. Moler Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature		Title		Date
/s/ William R. Moler William R. Moler		Director and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)		April 20, 2020
/s/ Gary D. Watkins		Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)		April 20, 2020
Gary D. Watkins
/s/ Marcelino Oreja Arburúa		Director		April 20, 2020
Marcelino Oreja Arburúa
/s/ Guy G. Buckley		Director		April 20, 2020
Guy G. Buckley
/s/ Matthew J. Runkle		Director		April 20, 2020
Matthew J. Runkle
/s/ Wallace C. Henderson		Director		April 20, 2020
Wallace C. Henderson
/s/ Matthew Sheehy		Director		April 20, 2020
Matthew Sheehy