This Amendment No. 2 to Schedule 13D (this “Amendment No. 2”) relates to the Class A Shares Representing Limited Partner Interests (the “Class A Shares”) of Tallgrass Energy, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Issuer”), and amends and supplements the initial statement on Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Persons with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 11, 2019 (the “Original 13D”), as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Persons with the SEC on March 25, 2019 (“Amendment No. 1” and, together with the Original 13D, the “Schedule 13D”). Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Amendment No. 2 shall have the same meanings ascribed to them in the Schedule 13D. Except as specifically provided herein, this Amendment No. 2 does not modify any of the information previously reported in the Schedule 13D.
Item 3. | Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration. |
Item 3 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended by amending and restating the last two sentences of Item 3 as follows:
The consideration for the Class A Shares purchased by the Prairie Secondary Acquirors was obtained through capital contributions from their partners.
The information in Schedules 1 and 2 attached hereto is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5. | Interest in Securities of the Issuer. |
Item 5(a) – (b) of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:
Calculations of the percentage of Class A Shares beneficially owned are calculated in accordance with Rule13d-3 and assumes that there are 279,852,537 Class A Shares outstanding (other than for (i) Class A Acquiror and the Prairie Secondary Acquirors, which assumes 179,197,416 Class A Shares outstanding,(ii) Up-C Acquiror 1, which assumes 277,264,598 Class A Shares outstanding and(iii) Up-C Acquiror 2, which assumes 181,785,355 Class A Shares are outstanding), which takes into account the number of TE Units that may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the Reporting Persons, as applicable, which are exchangeable together with Class B Shares for a corresponding number of Class A Shares, pursuant to the TGE LP Agreement (defined in Item 6 below).
The aggregate number and percentage of Class A Shares beneficially owned by each Reporting Person and, for each Reporting Person, the number of shares as to which there is sole power to vote or to direct the vote, shared power to vote or to direct the vote, sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition, or shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition are set forth on rows 7 through 11 and row 13 of the cover pages of this Schedule 13D and are incorporated herein by reference.
Class A Acquiror directly holds 21,751,018 Class A Shares.
Up-C Acquiror 1 directly holds 98,067,182 Class B Shares and a corresponding number of TE Units, andUp-C Acquiror 2 directly holds 2,587,939Class B Shares and a corresponding number of TE Units.
Secondary Acquiror 1 directly holds 773,510 Class A Shares, and Secondary Acquiror 2 directly holds 1,127,935 Class A Shares.
Holdings Manager is the general partner of each of theUp-C Acquirors, Class A Acquiror and each of the Prairie Secondary Acquirors. Blackstone Infrastructure is the sole member of Holdings Manager. BIA GP L.P. is the general partner of Blackstone Infrastructure. BIA GP L.L.C. is the general partner of BIA GP L.P. Blackstone Holdings III L.P. is the sole member of BIA GP L.L.C. Blackstone Holdings III GP L.P. is the general partner of Blackstone Holdings III L.P. Blackstone Holdings III GP Management L.L.C. is the general partner of Blackstone Holdings III GP L.P. The Blackstone Group L.P. is the sole member of Blackstone Holdings III GP Management L.L.C. Blackstone Group Management L.L.C. is the general partner of The Blackstone Group L.P. Blackstone Group Management L.L.C. is wholly-owned by Blackstone’s senior managing directors and controlled by its founder, Stephen A. Schwarzman.
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