Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(7)
Registration No. 333-224206
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered | | Amount to be Registered(1) | | Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Unit | | Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price | | Amount of Registration Fee(2) |
Limited Partnership Units | | 11,771,400 | | $48.85 | | $575,032,890 | | $74,639.27 |
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(1) | Includes 1,535,400 Limited Partnership Units subject to underwriters’ option, solely to cover overallotments. |
(2) | Calculated in accordance with Rule 457(r) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. |
Prospectus Supplement
to Prospectus dated February 19, 2020
BROOKFIELD RENEWABLE PARTNERS L.P.
$500,028,600
10,236,000 Limited Partnership Units
This offering (the “Offering”) of limited partnership units (the “LP Units”) of Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”, and collectively with its subsidiary entities and operating entities, “Brookfield Renewable”) under this prospectus supplement (this “Prospectus Supplement”) consists of 10,236,000 LP Units at a price of $48.85 per LP Unit (the “Offering Price”). 5,600,000 LP Units are being offered by Brookfield Holdings (Alberta) Limited (“BHAL”) and 4,636,000 LP Units are being offered by Brookfield Investments Corporation (“BIC”). In the event that the Underwriters (as defined below) exercise their Over-Allotment Option (as defined below), the LP Units comprising the Over-Allotment Option will be offered by Brookfield Renewable Power Inc. (“BRPI” and collectively with BHAL and BIC, the “Selling Securityholders”). We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of LP Units to be offered by the Selling Securityholders. The expenses of the Offering, not including the underwriting commissions, are estimated at $1,000,000 and are payable by the Partnership.
Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (“BAM”), the controlling securityholder of the Partnership, indirectly owns all of the voting securities of the Selling Securityholders.
The holders of LP Units (the “Unitholders”) will be entitled to receive distributions, as and when declared by the board of directors of Brookfield Renewable Partners Limited (the “General Partner”), the general partner of the Partnership, payable quarterly on the last day of December, March, June and September of each year, to Unitholders of record on the last business day of November, February, May and August, respectively. The first distribution that purchasers of the LP Units offered hereunder will be entitled to receive, if they continue to own the LP Units, is the distribution expected to be payable on or about September 30, 2020 to holders of record on or about August 31, 2020. A purchaser who acquires LP Units in the Offering will not be entitled to receive the distribution payable on June 30, 2020 to holders of record on May 29, 2020.
The LP Units trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) under the symbol “BEP.UN” and on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) under the symbol “BEP”. On May 22, 2020, before the public announcement of the Offering, the closing price of the LP Units on the TSX and the NYSE was C$67.90 and $48.50 per LP Unit, respectively.
Investing in the LP Units involves risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning on pageS-9 of this Prospectus Supplement, beginning on page 1 of the accompanying prospectus of our Partnership dated February 19, 2020 (the “Prospectus”), the risk factors included in our most recent Annual Report (as defined below), and in other documents incorporated by reference in this Prospectus Supplement.
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this Prospectus Supplement or the accompanying Prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
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| | Price to Public | | | Underwriters’ Fee(1) | | | Net Proceeds to the Selling Securityholders(2) | |
Per LP Unit | | $ | 48.85 | | | $ | 1.954 | | | $ | 46.896 | |
Total(3) | | $ | 500,028,600 | | | $ | 20,001,144 | | | $ | 480,027,456 | |
(1) | The Underwriters’ fee is equal to 4.00% of the gross proceeds of the Offering. See “Underwriting”. |
(2) | The expenses of the Offering, not including the Underwriters’ fee, are estimated to be $1,000,000 and are payable by the Partnership. |
(3) | BRPI has granted the Underwriters the option (the “Over-Allotment Option”) exercisable for 30 days after the closing date of the Offering to purchase from BRPI on the same terms up to 1,535,400 additional LP Units to cover over-allotments, if any, and for market stabilization purposes. If the Over-Allotment Option is exercised in full, the total price to the public will be $575,032,890, the Underwriters’ fee will be $23,001,316 and the net proceeds to the Selling Securityholders will be $552,031,574. This Prospectus Supplement also qualifies the grant of the Over-Allotment Option and the distribution of the LP Units issuable upon the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option. A purchaser who acquires LP Units forming part of the over-allotment position acquires those LP Units under this Prospectus Supplement, regardless of whether the over-allotment position is ultimately filled through the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option or secondary market purchases. |
The Underwriters (as defined below) expect to deliver the initial LP Units on or about June 3, 2020 through the book-entry facilities of CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc.
Joint Book-Running Managers
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Scotiabank | | TD Securities | | CIBC Capital Markets |
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HSBC | | | | Citigroup |
The date of this Prospectus Supplement is May 27, 2020