Exhibit 10.6
Execution Version
ELEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
This Eleventh Supplemental Indenture (this “Supplemental Indenture”), dated as of April 1, 2021, is by and among Energy Transfer LP, a Delaware limited partnership, as successor entity under the Indenture referred to below (in such capacity, the “Successor Entity”), Regency Energy Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Regency Finance”), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, Regency Energy Partners LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Regency”), and Regency Finance (together with Regency, the “Original Issuers”) duly issued 4.500% Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Notes”) in an aggregate principal amount of $600,000,000, pursuant to the Indenture dated as of April 30, 2013, by and among the Original Issuers, the guarantors party thereto and the Trustee (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified to date, the “Indenture”);
WHEREAS, on August 10, 2015, Energy Transfer, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (formerly, Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.) (“ETLP”), assumed all of Regency’s obligations under the Notes and the Indenture pursuant to that certain Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 10, 2015, among ETLP, Regency Finance and the Trustee;
WHEREAS, ETLP assigned all or substantially all of its properties and assets to Energy Transfer Operating, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“ETO”), as successor to Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. pursuant to that certain Assignment Agreement dated as of December 1, 2017 and ETO became a co-obligor under the Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Notes are the only series of securities outstanding under the Indenture on the date hereof;
WHEREAS, on December 12, 2017, Sunoco Logistics Partners Operations L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“SXL”), fully and unconditionally guaranteed the payment obligations of ETO and Regency Finance pursuant to that certain Tenth Supplemental Indenture;
WHEREAS, SXL merged with and into ETO and ETO merged (the “Merger”) with and into the Successor Entity pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger dated April 1, 2021 by and between ETO and the Successor Entity;
WHEREAS, Section 5.01(a) of the Indenture provides that ETO may, among other things, merge with or into another Person if, among other things, the Person surviving the Merger expressly assumes ETO’s obligations under the Notes and the Indenture;
WHEREAS, Section 9.01(3) of the Indenture provides that, without the consent of any Holders, the Indenture may be amended to provide for the assumption of ETO’s obligations to the Holders of the Notes in the case of a merger;
WHEREAS, the Successor Entity, Regency Finance, and ETO desire and have requested that the Trustee join in entering into this Supplemental Indenture for the purpose of evidencing the assumption by the Successor Entity of ETO’s obligations to the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture;
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