Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Asset Purchase Agreement
Effective
The Storage Assets consist of the ethanol storage assets to be disposed of in
GPRE Buyers' sale of the
Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, and subject to certain limitations, the Partnership Parties and the GPRE Buyers agreed to certain indemnification provisions with each other and their respective affiliates.
The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Purchase Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 2.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, and is incorporated into this Item 1.01 by reference.
Relationships
Each of the parties to the Purchase Agreement is a direct or indirect subsidiary
of GPRE. As a result, certain individuals, including officers of GPRE and
officers and directors of the General Partner, serve as officers and/or
directors of one or more such entities. GPRE currently (as of the date of this
Current Report on Form 8-K) beneficially owns 11,586,548 common units of the
Partnership, collectively representing a 48.9% limited partner interest in the
Partnership as of
The terms and conditions of the Purchase Agreement were approved on behalf of the Partnership by the conflicts committee and the board of directors of the General Partner. The conflicts committee, which is comprised of independent members of the board of directors of the General Partner, retained independent legal counsel to assist it in evaluating and negotiating the Transaction.
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Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
On
The information furnished pursuant to Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed to be "filed" for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is not subject to the liabilities of that section and is not deemed incorporated by reference in any filing by the Partnership under the Securities Act unless specifically identified therein as being incorporated therein by reference.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits. The following exhibits are filed as part of this report.
Exhibit Description Asset Purchase Agreement, datedJanuary 25, 2021 , by and amongGreen Plains Partners LP ,Green Plains Holdings LLC , 2.1Green Plains Operating Company LLC , Green Plains EthanolStorage LLC ,Green Plains Logistics LLC ,Green Plains Inc. ,Green Plains Trade Group LLC andGreen Plains Ord LLC . 99.1 Press Release, datedJanuary 27, 2021 . 104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). ? 3
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