Targa Resources Corp. acquired Development company joint venture ("DevCo JV") interests held by Stonepeak Partners LP affiliates for $926.3 million, a transaction completed in January 2022, structured as Repurchase of joint-venture equity interests for cash, funded from available liquidity.
Development company joint venture ("DevCo JV") interests held by Stonepeak Partners LP affiliates operates in Logistics and Transportation (NGL pipeline, fractionation and GCX equity interest), is based in Permian Basin to Mont Belvieu, Texas / U.S. Gulf Coast. Targa Resources executed agreements to repurchase all of the interests in its development company joint ventures ("DevCo JVs") from investment vehicles affiliated with Stonepeak Partners LP. The DevCo JV structure, originally formed with Stonepeak in 2018, had let Targa access private capital to fund three growth assets while retaining an option to buy the interests back. On completion Targa held a 75% interest in the Permian-to-Mont Belvieu segment of its Grand Prix NGL Pipeline, 100% of its Train 6 fractionator at Mont Belvieu, Texas, and a 25% equity interest in the Gulf Coast Express Pipeline ("GCX"). The buy-in was announced in late 2021 and completed in January 2022.
Consolidate ownership of key growth assets, simplify the corporate structure and capture the full cash flows from Grand Prix, the Train 6 fractionator and GCX by retiring the private-capital joint-venture partner.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.