As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 23, 2016
Registration No. 333-187795
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO
FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-187795
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
TARGA RESOURCES PARTNERS LP
TARGA RESOURCES PARTNERS FINANCE CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware Delaware |
65-1295427 32-0249658 | |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
1000 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 584-1000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of registrant’s principal executive offices)
| Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: |
Copy of communications to: | |
| Joe Bob Perkins Chief Executive Officer Targa Resources Partners LP 1000 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Houston, Texas 77002 (713) 584-1000 |
Christopher Collins Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. 1001 Fannin Street, Suite 2500 Houston, Texas 77002 (713) 758-2222 |
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to this registration statement.
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment relates to Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-187795) (the “Registration Statement”) of Targa Resources Partners LP, a Delaware limited liability partnership (the “Partnership”), and Targa Resources Partners Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation, filed on April 8, 2013, which was deemed effective upon filing and subsequently amended on October 7, 2015. The Registration Statement pertained to common units representing limited partner interests in the Partnership (“Common Units”), preferred units representing limited partner interests in the Partnership and debt securities.
On February 17, 2016, the Partnership was acquired by Targa Resources Corp. (“TRC”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Partnership, TRC, Spartan Merger Sub LLC, and Targa Resources GP LLC. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, TRC acquired indirectly all of the outstanding Common Units that TRC and its subsidiaries did not already own.
As a result of the completion of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Partnership has terminated all offerings of securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Partnership in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of such offering, the Partnership hereby removes from registration all of such securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Houston, in the State of Texas, on this 23rd day of February, 2016.
| TARGA RESOURCES PARTNERS LP | ||||
| By: | TARGA RESOURCES GP LLC, | |||
| its General Partner | ||||
| By: | /s/ Matthew J. Meloy | |
| Name: | Matthew J. Meloy | |
| Title: | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities indicated on February 23, 2016.
| * |
Chief Executive Officer and Director | February 23, 2016 | ||
| Joe Bob Perkins | (Principal Executive Officer) | |||
| Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||||
| /s/ Matthew J. Meloy |
(Principal Financial Officer) | February 23, 2016 | ||
| Matthew J. Meloy | ||||
| * |
Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer | |||
| John R. Sparger | (Principal Accounting Officer) | February 23, 2016 | ||
| * |
Executive Chairman of the Board | February 23, 2016 | ||
| James W. Whalen | ||||
| * |
Director | February 23, 2016 | ||
| Rene R. Joyce | ||||
| * |
Director | February 23, 2016 | ||
| Barry R. Pearl | ||||
| * |
Director | February 23, 2016 | ||
| Robert B. Evans | ||||
| * |
Director | February 23, 2016 | ||
| Ruth I. Dreessen | ||||
| *By: |
| /s/ Matthew J. Meloy Matthew J. Meloy Attorney-In-Fact |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Houston, in the State of Texas, on this 23rd day of February, 2016.
| TARGA RESOURCES PARTNERS FINANCE CORPORATION |
| /s/ Matthew J. Meloy |
| Matthew J. Meloy |
| Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities indicated on February 23, 2016.
| SIGNATURE |
TITLE |
DATE | ||
| * |
Chief Executive Officer and Director | February 23, 2016 | ||
| Joe Bob Perkins | (Principal Executive Officer) | |||
| /s/ Matthew J. Meloy |
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | |||
| Matthew J. Meloy | (Principal Financial Officer) | February 23, 2016 | ||
| * |
Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer | |||
| John R. Sparger | (Principal Accounting Officer) | February 23, 2016 | ||
| * |
President – Finance and Administration and | February 23, 2016 | ||
| Jeffrey J. McParland | Director | |||
| *By: |
| /s/ Matthew J. Meloy Matthew J. Meloy Attorney-In-Fact |