Exhibit 10.5
Execution Version
NINETEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
This Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture (this “Supplemental Indenture”), dated as of April 1, 2021, is by and between Energy Transfer LP, a Delaware limited partnership, as successor entity under the Indenture referred to below (in such capacity, the “Successor Entity”), and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, Energy Transfer, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“ETLP”) (formerly, Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.) and the Trustee have heretofore executed and delivered an indenture, dated as of January 18, 2005 (the “Base Indenture”);
WHEREAS, ETLP assigned all or substantially all of its properties and assets to Energy Transfer Operating, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“ETO”) pursuant to that certain Assignment Agreement dated as of December 1, 2017 and ETO assumed all of the obligations of ETLP under the Indenture pursuant to the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture;
WHEREAS, the series of Debt Securities of ETO listed on Annex A hereto (collectively, the “Notes”) have been issued pursuant to the Base Indenture and each applicable supplemental indenture listed therein and are outstanding as of the date of this Supplemental Indenture (the Base Indenture, as so supplemented by the applicable supplemental indentures listed on Annex A hereto and as further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified to date solely with respect to each series of Notes, the “Indentures” and, each, an “Indenture”);
WHEREAS, the Notes are the only series of securities outstanding under each of the Indentures;
WHEREAS, December 12, 2017, Sunoco Logistics Partners Operations L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“SXL”), fully and unconditionally guaranteed the payment obligations of ETO pursuant to that certain Eighteenth 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 of each of the Indentures 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(2) of each of the Indentures provides that, without the consent of any Holders, the applicable Indenture may be amended to comply with Section 5.01;
WHEREAS, the Successor Entity desires and has requested the Trustee to 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 each series of Notes under each applicable Indenture;
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