GTN ACQUISITION

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2015

GTN ACQUISITION

GTN ACQUISITION

NOTE 6GTN ACQUISITION

On April 1, 2015, the Partnership acquired the remaining 30 percent interest of GTN from a subsidiary of TransCanada (2015 GTN Acquisition), which resulted in GTN being wholly-owned by the Partnership. The total purchase price of the 2015 GTN Acquisition was $446 million plus the final purchase price adjustment of $11 million, for a total of $457 million. The purchase price consisted of $264 million in cash (including the final purchase price adjustment of $11 million), the assumption of $98 million in proportional GTN debt and the issuance of $95 million of new Class B units to TransCanada.

The Partnership funded the cash portion of the transaction using a portion of the proceeds received on our March 13, 2015 debt offering (see Note 5). The Class B units entitle TransCanada to a distribution based on 30 percent of GTN’s annual distributions as follows: (i) 100 percent of distributions above $20 million through March 31, 2020; and (ii) 25 percent of distributions above $20 million thereafter. Under the terms of the Partnership Agreement, the Class B distribution will be initially calculated to equal 30 percent of GTN’s distributable cash flow for the nine months ending December 31, 2015, less $15 million.

Prior to this transaction, the remaining 30 percent interest held by a subsidiary of TransCanada was reflected as a non-controlling interest in the Partnership’s consolidated financial statements. The 2015 GTN Acquisition of this already-consolidated entity was accounted as a transaction between entities under common control, similar to a pooling of interests, whereby the acquired interest was recorded at TransCanada’s carrying value and the total excess purchase price paid was recorded as a reduction in Partners’ Equity.

The net purchase price was allocated as follows:

(millions of dollars)
Net Purchase Price (a)	359
Less: TransCanada’s carrying value of non-controlling interest at April 1, 2015	232
Excess purchase price (b)	127

(a) Total purchase price of $457 million less the assumption of $98 million of proportional GTN debt by the Partnership.

(b) The excess purchase price of $127 million was recorded as a reduction in Partners’ Equity.

Our General Partner also contributed approximately $2 million to maintain its effective 2 percent interest in the Partnership.