(8) Certain Provisions of the Partnership Agreement

(a) Issuance of Common Units

In November 2014, the Partnership entered into an Equity Distribution Agreement (the “BMO EDA”) with BMO Capital Markets Corp., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Jefferies LLC, Raymond James & Associates, Inc. and RBC Capital Markets, LLC (collectively, the “Sales Agents”) to sell up to $350.0 million in aggregate gross sales of the Partnership’s common units from time to time through an “at the market” equity offering program. The Partnership may also sell common units to any Sales Agent as principal for the Sales Agent’s own account at a price agreed upon at the time of sale. The Partnership has no obligation to sell any of the common units under the BMO EDA and may at any time suspend solicitation and offers under the BMO EDA. For the six months ended June 30, 2016, the Partnership sold an aggregate of 3.3 million common units under the BMO EDA, generating proceeds of approximately $52.3 million (net of approximately $0.5 million of commissions). The Partnership used the net proceeds for general partnership purposes. As of June 30, 2016, approximately $264.4 million remains available to be issued under the BMO EDA.

(b) Class C Common Units

In March 2015, the Partnership issued 6,704,285 Class C Common Units representing a new class of limited partner interests as partial consideration for the acquisition of Coronado. The Class C Common Units were substantially similar in all respects to the Partnership's common units, except that distributions paid on the Class C Common Units could be paid in cash or in additional Class C Common Units issued in kind, as determined by the General Partner in its sole discretion. Distributions on the Class C Common Units for the three months ended December 31, 2015 and March 31, 2016 were paid-in-kind through the issuance of 209,044 and 233,107 Class C Common Units on February 11, 2016 and May 12, 2016, respectively. All of the outstanding Class C Common Units converted into common units on a one-for-one basis on May 13, 2016.

In January 2016, the Partnership issued an aggregate of 50,000,000 Series B Cumulative Convertible Preferred Units (“Preferred Units”) representing the Partnership's limited partner interests to Enfield Holdings, L.P. (“Enfield”) in a private placement for a cash purchase price of $15.00 per Preferred Unit (the “Issue Price”), resulting in net proceeds of approximately $724.1 million after fees and deductions. Proceeds from the private placement were used to partially fund the Partnership's portion of the purchase price payable in connection with the Tall Oak acquisition. Affiliates of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and affiliates of TPG Global, LLC own interests in the general partner of Enfield. The Preferred Units are convertible into the Partnership's common units on a one-for-one basis, subject to certain adjustments, at any time after the record date for the quarter ending June 30, 2017 (a) in full, at the Partnership's option, if the volume weighted average price of a common unit over the 30-trading day period ending two trading days prior to the conversion date (the “Conversion VWAP”) is greater than 150% of the Issue Price or (b) in full or in part, at Enfield’s option. In addition, upon certain events involving a change of control of the General Partner or our managing member, all of the Preferred Units will automatically convert into a number of common units equal to the greater of (i) the number of common units into which the Preferred Units would then convert and (ii) the number of Preferred Units to be converted multiplied by an amount equal to (x) 140% of the Issue Price divided by (y) the Conversion VWAP.

As a holder of Preferred Units, Enfield is entitled to receive a quarterly distribution, subject to certain adjustments, equal to (x) during the quarter ending March 31, 2016 through the quarter ending June 30, 2017, an annual rate of 8.5% on the Issue Price payable in-kind in the form of additional Preferred Units and (y) thereafter, an annual rate of 7.5% on the Issue Price payable in cash (the “Cash Distribution Component”) plus an in-kind distribution equal to the greater of (A) an annual rate of 1.0% of the Issue Price and (B) an amount equal to (i) the excess, if any, of the distribution that would have been payable had the Preferred Units converted into common units over the Cash Distribution Component, divided by (ii) the Issue Price. A distribution on the Preferred Units for the three months ended March 31, 2016, was paid-in kind through the issuance of 992,445 Preferred Units on May 12, 2016. A distribution on the Preferred Units was declared for the three months ended June 30, 2016, which will result in the issuance of 1,083,589 additional Preferred Units on August 11, 2016. Income was allocated to the Preferred Units in an amount equal to the quarterly distribution with respect to the period earned. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2016, $18.0 million and $29.8 million of income was allocated to the Preferred Units, respectively.

(d) Distributions

Unless restricted by the terms of the Partnership credit facility and/or the indentures governing the Partnership’s senior unsecured notes, the Partnership must make distributions of 100% of available cash, as defined in the partnership agreement, within 45 days following the end of each quarter. Distributions are made to the General Partner in accordance with its current percentage interest with the remainder to the common unitholders, subject to the payment of incentive distributions as described below to the extent that certain target levels of cash distributions are achieved. The General Partner is not entitled to its general partner or incentive distributions with respect to the Preferred Units issued in kind.

Under the quarterly incentive distribution provisions, generally the Partnership's General Partner is entitled to 13.0% of amounts the Partnership distributes in excess of $0.25 per unit, 23% of the amounts the Partnership distributes in excess of $0.3125 per unit and 48.0% of amounts the Partnership distributes in excess of $0.375 per unit.

A summary of the Partnership's distribution activity relating to the common units for the six months ended June 30, 2016 is provided below:



Declaration period	Distribution/unit		Date paid/payable
Fourth Quarter of 2015	$	0.39	February 11, 2016
First Quarter of 2016	$	0.39	May 12, 2016
Second Quarter of 2016	$	0.39	August 11, 2016

(e) Allocation of Partnership Income

Net income is allocated to the General Partner in an amount equal to its incentive distributions as described in (d) above. The General Partner's share of net income consists of incentive distributions to the extent earned, a deduction for unit-based compensation attributable to ENLC’s restricted units and the percentage interest of the Partnership’s net income adjusted for ENLC's unit-based compensation specifically allocated to the General Partner. The net income allocated to the General Partner is as follows for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 (in millions):



	Three Months Ended June 30,						Six Months Ended June 30,
	2016			2015			2016			2015
Income allocation for incentive distributions	$	14.2		$	11.3		$	28.0		$	20.1
Unit-based compensation attributable to ENLC’s restricted units	(3.6		)	(3.9		)	(7.6		)	(10.9		)
General Partner share of net income (loss)	—			0.2			(2.4		)	0.3
General Partner interest in drop down transactions	—			11.5			—			36.1
General Partner interest in net income	$	10.6		$	19.1		$	18.0		$	45.6