UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of December 2015
Commission File Number: 001-36185
Dynagas LNG Partners LP |
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23, Rue Basse 98000 Monaco |
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INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM 6-K REPORT
Attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Report on Form 6-K is a copy of the press release of Dynagas LNG Partners LP (the Partnership) dated December 18, 2015: Dynagas LNG Partners L.P. Announces LNG Carrier Acquisition from Dynagas Holding Ltd. and Managements Intention to Recommend a Quarterly Distribution Increase to the Board of Dynagas LNG Partners L.P..
This Report on Form 6-K is hereby incorporated by reference into the Partnership's registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-200659) that was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with an effective date of January 15, 2015.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: December 21, 2015
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Exhibit 99.1
DYNAGAS LNG PARTNERS L.P. ANNOUNCES LNG CARRIER ACQUISITION FROM DYNAGAS HOLDING LTD. AND MANAGEMENTS INTENTION TO RECOMMEND A QUARTERLY DISTRIBUTION INCREASE TO THE BOARD OF DYNAGAS LNG PARTNERS L.P.
MONACO December 18, 2015 - Dynagas LNG Partners LP (Dynagas Partners or the Partnership) (NYSE: DLNG), an owner and operator of LNG carriers, today announced that on December 17, 2015, it has entered into an agreement with Dynagas Holding Ltd., the sponsor of the Partnership (the Sponsor), to purchase 100% of the ownership interests in the entity that owns and operates the Lena River, a 2013 built 155,000 cubic meter ice class liquefied natural gas carrier, and the related time charter contract with Gazprom Global LNG Limited (the Gazprom Charter), for an aggregate purchase price of $240.0 million. The closing of the Lena River acquisition is expected to take place on or before December 31, 2015 and is subject to customary closing conditions.
The Lena River is currently operating under the Gazprom Charter, which has an initial term of five years and expires in October 2018.
The Partnership expects to finance the Lena River acquisition with (i) approximately $72.0 million from the net proceeds of its underwritten offering of 3,000,000 9.00% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Redeemable Preferred Units, which closed in July 2015; (ii) approximately $133.0 million from the borrowings under a new $200 million senior term loan facility with a group of lenders, with ABN Amro NV acting as agent, dated December 17, 2015 (the $200 Million Term Loan Facility) and (iii) approximately $35.0 million from credit financing provided by the Sponsor (the Sponsor Credit Financing). In early 2016, the Partnership plans to draw down and utilize the remaining available borrowings under the $200 Million Term Loan Facility of approximately $67.0 million to repay the Sponsor Credit Financing and for working capital purposes.
The $200 Million Term Loan Facility is secured by the Lena River and the Yenisei River and is split in two equal $100.0 million tranches, each comprising of two advances of approximately $66.5 million and $33.5 million, respectively. Each tranche is repayable in 20 consecutive quarterly installments of approximately $1.56 million each, commencing three months after the drawdown of each tranche and a balloon payment of $68.8 million at maturity, in January 2021.
The Partnership estimates that the Lena River will generate approximately $86.6 million of incremental contracted revenues over its remaining minimum charter term, assuming full utilization, and approximately $24.8 million of estimated net cash from operations for the first 12 months after the closing of the acquisition. The Board of Directors of the Partnership (the Board) and the Conflicts Committee of the Board have approved the Lena River acquisition. The Conflicts Committee retained Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP as legal counsel in connection with the contemplated transaction and the Partnership has been advised by Seward & Kissel LLP.
Following the completion of the Lena River acquisition, the Partnerships management intends to recommend to the Board an increase in the Partnerships quarterly cash distribution per common and subordinated unit of between 4% to 6%. The proposed increase would result in a quarterly cash distribution per common and subordinated unit of between $0.4394 to $0.4479 which would become effective for the quarter ending March 31, 2016. Assuming the distribution increase is recommended by management and approved by the Board, it will result in annualized cash distributions of between $1.76 and $1.79 per common and subordinated unit, which would represent an increase of between 21% to 23% since the Partnerships initial public offering. Any such increase would be conditioned upon, among other things, the closing of the Lena River acquisition, the approval of such increase by the Board and the absence of any material adverse developments or potentially attractive opportunities that would make such an increase inadvisable.
Tony Lauritzen, Chief Executive Officer of the Partnership, commented:
We are pleased to announce the acquisition of our third LNG Carrier from our Sponsor since our initial public offering. In this short period of two years we have doubled the size of our fleet and increased our cash distributions per common and subordinated unit at a cumulative annualized level consistent with the targets we set out to achieve. In addition our contracted cash flows provide sufficient comfort to support our belief that the aforementioned proposed distributions to our unitholders are sustainable.
About Dynagas LNG Partners LP
Dynagas LNG Partners LP (NYSE: DLNG) is a growth-oriented partnership formed by Dynagas Holding Ltd. to own, and operate liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers employed on multi-year charters. The current fleet of Dynagas LNG Partners consists of five LNG carriers, each of which has a carrying capacity of approximately 150,000 to 155,000 cbm.
Visit the Partnerships website at www.dynagaspartners.com
Contact Information:
Dynagas LNG Partners LP
23, Rue Basse, 98000 Monaco
Attention: Michael Gregos
Tel. +37799996445
Email: management@dynagaspartners.com
Investor Relations / Financial Media:
Nicolas Bornozis
President
Capital Link, Inc.
230 Park Avenue, Suite 1536 New York, NY 10169
Tel. (212) 661-7566
E-mail: dynagas@capitallink.com
Forward-Looking Statements
Matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor protections for forward-looking statements in order to encourage companies to provide prospective information about their business. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts.
The Partnership desires to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is including this cautionary statement in connection with this safe harbor legislation. The words believe, anticipate, intends, estimate, forecast, project, plan, potential, may, should, expect, expected, pending and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements.
The forward-looking statements in this press release are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including without limitation, examination by the Partnerships management of historical operating trends, data contained in its records and other data available from third parties. Although the Partnership believes that these assumptions were reasonable when made, because these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies which are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond the Partnerships control, the Partnership cannot assure you that it will achieve or accomplish these expectations, beliefs or projections.
In addition to these important factors, other important factors that, in the Partnerships view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes in demand for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) shipping capacity, changes in the Partnerships operating expenses, including bunker prices, drydocking and insurance costs, the market for the Partnerships vessels, availability of financing and refinancing, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, potential liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international political conditions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events, vessel breakdowns and instances of off-hires and other factors. Please see our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a more complete discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties. The information set forth herein speaks only as of the date hereof, and the Partnership disclaims any intention or obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of developments occurring after the date of this communication.