Explanatory Note: This Amendment No. 13 (this “Amendment”) amends and supplements the Statement on Schedule 13D filed on June 9, 2014, as amended by Amendment No. 1 on Schedule 13D/A filed on February 1, 2016, Amendment No. 2 on Schedule 13D/A filed on February 22, 2016, Amendment No. 3 on Schedule 13D/A filed on July 21, 2016, Amendment No. 4 on Schedule 13D/A filed on November 30, 2016, Amendment No. 5 on Schedule 13D/A filed on July 18, 2017, Amendment No. 6 on Schedule 13D/A filed on August 4, 2017, Amendment No. 7 on Schedule 13D/A filed on August 30, 2017, Amendment No. 8 on Schedule 13D/A filed on February 27, 2018, Amendment No. 9 on Schedule 13D/A filed on September 10, 2018 (“Amendment No. 9”), Amendment No. 10 on Schedule 13D/A filed on August 5, 2019, Amendment No. 11 on Schedule 13D/A filed on December 4, 2020 and Amendment No. 12 on Schedule 13D/A filed on February 23, 2021 (as previously amended, the “Original Schedule 13D,” and as further amended by this Amendment, the “Schedule 13D/A”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) relating to the limited partner interests in Enable Midstream Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Issuer” or “Partnership”). Prior to Amendment No. 9 filed jointly by CenterPoint Energy, Inc., a Texas corporation (“CenterPoint”), and CenterPoint Energy Midstream, Inc., a Delaware Corporation (“CNP Midstream”), the Original Schedule 13D was filed jointly by CenterPoint and CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp., a Delaware corporation (“CERC”). Unless set forth below, all previous Items of the Original Schedule 13D are unchanged. Capitalized terms used herein which are not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Original Schedule 13D.
Item 4. Purposes of Transactions
Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented with the following additional disclosures:
Completion of the Partnership Merger
On February 16, 2021, the Partnership entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Energy Transfer LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Energy Transfer”), Elk Merger Sub LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Transfer (“Merger Sub”), Elk GP Merger Sub LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Transfer (“GP Merger Sub” and, together with Energy Transfer and Merger Sub, the “Energy Transfer Parties”), the General Partner of the Partnership (the “General Partner” and, together with the Partnership, the “Enable Parties”), and, solely for the purposes of Section 2.1(a)(i) therein, LE GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and sole general partner of Energy Transfer (“Energy Transfer GP”), and solely for the purposes of Section 1.1(b)(i) therein, CenterPoint.
On December 2, 2021, the Partnership completed its previously announced merger with Energy Transfer. Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, on December 2, 2021, (i) Merger Sub merged with and into the Partnership (the “LP Merger”), with the Partnership surviving the LP Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Transfer, (ii) GP Merger Sub merged with and into the General Partner (the “GP Merger” and, together with the LP Merger, the “Mergers”), with the General Partner surviving the GP Merger as a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Transfer and (iii) CenterPoint contributed, assigned, transferred, conveyed and delivered to Energy Transfer, and Energy Transfer acquired, assumed, accepted and received from CenterPoint, all of CenterPoint’s right, title and interest in each 10% Series A Fixed-to-Floating Non-Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Unit representing a limited partner interest in the Partnership (the “Series A Preferred Units”) issued and outstanding in exchange for 0.0265 newly issued 7.125% Series G Fixed-Rate Reset Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Units of Energy Transfer (the “Energy Transfer Series G Preferred Units”).
Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, on December 2, 2021, (i) Energy Transfer acquired 100% of the Partnership’s outstanding equity interests, resulting in the exchange of common units representing limited partner interests (the “Common Units”) of the Partnership owned by CenterPoint at the transaction exchange ratio of 0.8595x Energy Transfer common units for each Common Unit, (ii) CenterPoint received $5 million in cash in exchange for its interest in the General Partner and (iii) CenterPoint received approximately $385 million (liquidation preference) of Energy Transfer Series G Preferred Units in exchange for the Series A Preferred Units owned by CenterPoint.