Blackstone is the sole member of Blackstone Holdings III GP Management L.L.C. and indirectly controls HFA, an indirect subsidiary of Blackstone, through one or more subsidiaries. The sole holder of the Series II preferred stock of Blackstone is Blackstone Group Management L.L.C. Blackstone Group Management L.L.C. is wholly-owned by Blackstone’s senior managing directors and controlled by its founder, Stephen A. Schwarzman.
Neither the filing of this Schedule 13D nor any of its contents shall be deemed to constitute an admission that any of the Reporting Persons (other than to the extent they directly hold the securities reported on this Schedule 13D) is the beneficial owner of the Class A Common Stock referred to herein for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or for any other purpose, and such beneficial ownership is expressly disclaimed. Each Reporting Person expressly disclaims beneficial ownership of such Class A Common Stock and any assertion or presumption that it or he and the other persons on whose behalf this Schedule 13D is filed constitute a “group.”
In discussing certain agreements and arrangements in Item 6 of this Schedule 13D, the Reporting Persons (including through certain of their affiliates) describe arrangements involving I Squared Capital and Apache (as defined below) and certain of their respective affiliates. However, neither the filing of this Schedule 13D nor any of its contents shall be deemed to constitute an admission that the Reporting Persons are members of a “group” for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act with such other persons. Each Reporting Person disclaims being a member of a “group” with ISQ, Apache and/or their respective affiliates and further disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Class A Common Stock that may be deemed to be beneficially owned by such persons.
Any beneficial ownership of Class A Common Stock by any of the persons listed on Schedule I is set forth on Schedule I attached hereto.
(c) Except as set forth in Item 6 of this Schedule 13D, none of the Reporting Persons or, to the best knowledge of the Reporting Persons, any other person named in Schedule I, has effected any transaction in Class A Common Stock in the past 60 days.
(d) To the best knowledge of the Reporting Persons, no one other than the Reporting Persons, or the partners, members, affiliates or shareholders of the Reporting Persons, has the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the Class A Common Stock reported herein as beneficially owned by the Reporting Persons.
(e) Not applicable.
Item 6. | Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer |
The information provided or incorporated by reference in Item 4 is hereby incorporated by reference herein.
Contribution Agreement and Closing Transactions
On February 22, 2022, the Issuer completed the transactions contemplated by that certain Contribution Agreement, dated October 21, 2021, (the “Contribution Agreement” and the completion of such transactions, the “Closing”) by and among the Issuer, the Partnership, New BCP Raptor Holdco, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“New Raptor”), and, solely for the purposes set forth therein, BCP Raptor Holdco, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Raptor”). Pursuant to the Contribution Agreement, New Raptor contributed all of the equity interests of Raptor and BCP Raptor Holdco GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, to the Partnership in exchange for 50,000,000 Common Units and 50,000,000 shares of Class C Common Stock.
In connection with the receipt of such Common Units and shares of Class C Common Stock, 2,650,000 Common Units were redeemed on a one-for-one basis for shares of Class A Common Stock (the “Conversion”), with 2,599,801 of those shares being subject to forfeiture back to the Company in certain circumstances (the “Restricted Shares”), and a corresponding number of shares of Class C Common Stock were cancelled. Following the Conversion, New Raptor distributed the Equity Consideration (as defined below) on a pro rata basis, subject to certain transfer restrictions and, in the case of the Restricted Shares, forfeiture provisions set forth on the legends thereto (the “Distribution”). The transactions contemplated by the Contribution Agreement, the Conversion and the Distribution are collectively referred to herein as the “Transactions.”
In connection with Distribution, the Issuer entered into that certain Consideration Allocation Rights Agreement, dated as of February 22, 2022, with BCP Aggregator, BX Permian, Buzzard Midstream LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and controlled affiliate of ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund II L.P. (“Buzzard”), and certain other parties listed on the signature pages thereto (the “Consideration Allocation Agreement”), pursuant to which the Issuer agreed that it would re-issue, on a one-for-one basis, shares of Class A Common Stock to the extent Restricted Shares are forfeited by the original holders thereof on February 25, 2025 and February 26, 2026, or an
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