- Sunoco (NYSE:SUN +1.1%) reaches a deal in which Energy Transfer Partners (ETP +0.1%) will drop down a second portion of ETP’s retail business to SUN in an $816M deal, which includes a 31.58% equity interest in the retail business that distributes ~5.3B gallons/year of motor fuel to much of the U.S.
- SUN will pay $775M in cash and issue $40.8M of its common units to ETP; to fund the cash portion of the transaction, SUN is offering $800M of senior notes.
- SUN says the deal gives it new exposure to customers in 26 states in the east, southeast and midwest U.S. and will complement its current base of wholesale customers in the southwest and Hawaii.