SEC Info - Global Partners LP - ‘8-K’ for 1/21/20

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): January 21, 2020

GLOBAL PARTNERS LP

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	001-32593	74-3140887
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

P.O. Box 9161

800 South Street

Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9161

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(781) 894-8800
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of exchange on which registered
Common Units representing limited partner interests	GLP	New York Stock Exchange
9.75% Series A Fixed-to-Floating Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Units representing limited partner interests	GLP pr A	New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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Item 7.01.

Regulation FD Disclosure

On January 21, 2020, Global Partners LP (the “Partnership”) issued a press release announcing that the Board of Directors of its general partner, Global GP LLC, declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.609375 per unit ($2.4375 per unit on an annualized basis) on the Partnership’s Series A preferred units for the period from November 15, 2019 through February 14, 2020. On February 18, 2020, the Partnership will pay such cash distribution to its Series A preferred unitholders of record as of the opening of business on February 3, 2020. A copy of the Partnership’s press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

In accordance with General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the information set forth in this Item 7.01 and in 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 (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, unless the Partnership specifically states that the information is to be considered “filed” under the Exchange Act or incorporates it by reference into a filing under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Item 9.01.

Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d)

Exhibit

99.1	Global Partners LP Press Release dated January 21, 2020

	GLOBAL PARTNERS LP
	By:	Global GP LLC,
		its general partner


Dated: January 21, 2020	By:	/s/ *Edward J. Faneuil*
		Executive Vice President,
		General Counsel and Secretary

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