Sunoco LP Announces Private Offering of Senior Notes Due 2020

HOUSTON, July 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunoco LP (NYSE: SUN) ("Sunoco") today announced a private offering of $500 million of senior notes due 2020 (the "notes"). Sunoco Finance Corp., a wholly owned direct subsidiary of Sunoco, will serve as co-issuer of the notes. Sunoco intends to use the net proceeds from the offering, together with borrowings under its revolving credit facility, to fund the cash consideration for its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of Susser Holdings Corporation (the "Acquisition") from two wholly owned subsidiaries of Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP).

The offering of the notes has not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or any state securities laws and, unless so registered, the notes may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.

This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy the notes or any other securities and shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a sale of, the notes or any other securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.

About Sunoco LP Sunoco LP is a master limited partnership (MLP) that primarily distributes motor fuel to convenience stores, independent dealers, commercial customers and distributors. Sunoco also operates more than 150 convenience stores and retail fuel sites.  Sunoco's general partner is a wholly owned subsidiary of ETP. Sunoco conducts its business through wholly owned subsidiaries, as well as through its 31.58 percent interest in Sunoco, LLC, in partnership with an affiliate of ETP. While primarily engaged in natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil and refined products transportation, ETP also operates a retail and fuel distribution business through its interest in Sunoco, LLC and its wholly owned subsidiary, Sunoco, Inc. 

Cautionary Statement Relevant to Forward-Looking Information This press release includes forward-looking statements regarding future events. These forward-looking statements are based on Sunoco's current plans and expectations and involve a numbers of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to vary materially from the results and events anticipated or implied by such forward-looking statements. For a further discussion of these risks and uncertainties, please refer to the "Risk Factors" section of Sunoco's most recently filed annual report on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and in other filings made by Sunoco with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While Sunoco may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so, even if new information becomes available in the future.

Contacts

Investors:

Scott Grischow Director – Investor Relations and Treasury  (361) 884-2463, [email protected]

Anne Pearson Dennard-Lascar Associates (210) 408-6321, [email protected]

Media:

Jeff Shields, Communications Manager (215) 977-6056, [email protected]

Jessica Davila-Burnett, Public Relations Director (361) 654-4882, [email protected] 

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SOURCE Sunoco LP