Exhibit 8.1
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March 7, 2024
Delek Logistics Partners, LP
7102 Commerce Way
Brentwood, Tennessee 37027
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special tax counsel to Delek Logistics Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), with respect to certain federal income tax matters in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of the offer and sale of up to 3,116,884 common units representing limited partner interests in the Partnership (including the units to be issued upon the exercise of the Underwriters’ option to purchase up to 467,532 additional Common Units) (the “Common Units”) pursuant to the terms of that certain Underwriting Agreement dated March 7, 2024, by and among the Partnership, Delek Logistics GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the general partner of the Partnership, and Truist Securities, Inc. and BofA Securities, Inc., and Raymond James & Associates, Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named on Schedule A thereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”).
The Common Units are being offered and sold by the Partnership to or through the Underwriters under a registration statement on Form S-3 originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on April 14, 2022 (File No. 333-264300) (the “Registration Statement”), including the prospectus contained therein (the “Base Prospectus”), and declared effective on April 29, 2022, as supplemented by a prospectus supplement dated March 7, 2024 (together with the Base Prospectus, the “Prospectus”). We prepared the discussion (the “Discussion”) set forth under the caption “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” in the Prospectus.
This opinion is based on various facts and assumptions and is conditioned upon certain representations made to us by the Partnership as to factual matters through a certificate of an officer of the Partnership (the “Officer’s Certificate”). In addition, this opinion is based upon the factual representations of the Partnership concerning its business, properties and governing documents as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Partnership’s responses to our examinations and inquiries.
In our capacity as special tax counsel to the Partnership, we have made such legal and factual examinations and inquiries, including an examination of originals or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction of such documents, corporate records and other instruments, as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for purposes of this opinion. In our examination, we have assumed the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the genuineness of all signatures thereon, the legal capacity of natural persons executing such documents and the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies. For purposes of our opinion, we have not made an independent investigation or audit of the facts set forth in the above-referenced documents or representations. In addition, in rendering this opinion we have assumed the truth and accuracy of all representations and statements made to us which are qualified as to knowledge or belief, without regard to such qualification.