Explanatory Note
This Amendment No. 2 (“Amendment No. 2”) to Schedule 13D relates to the common units representing limited partner interests (“Common Units”) of Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the
“Issuer”), and amends the initial statement on Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Persons on July 23, 2018, as amended by Amendment No. 1 thereto, filed by the Reporting Persons on September 25, 2018 (together, the “Schedule 13D”). Except as
otherwise specified in this Amendment No. 2, all previous Items are unchanged. Unless otherwise indicated herein, capitalized terms used but not defined in this Amendment No. 2 shall have the same meanings herein as are ascribed to such terms
in the Schedule 13D.
Item 2 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:
(a), (f) This Schedule 13D is jointly filed by and on behalf of each of the following:
In connection with an internal reorganization that became effective on January 1, 2020, among other things, (i) KKR Fund Holdings GP Limited, a former general partner of KKR Fund Holdings L.P., was dissolved and
therefore is no longer a Reporting Person on this Schedule 13D and (ii) KKR Fund Holdings L.P. was renamed KKR Group Partnership L.P.
EIGF Aggregator is the managing member of EIGF Aggregator III. KKR Energy Income is the managing member of EIGF Aggregator. KKR Associates is the general partner of KKR Energy Income. KKR Energy Income TE is the
sole member of TE Drilling Aggregator, and KKR Associates TE is the general partner of KKR Energy Income TE. KKR EIGF is the general partner of KKR Associates and the general partner of KKR Associates TE. KKR Upstream Associates is the sole
member of KKR EIGF. KKR Group Partnership and KKR Upstream are the members of KKR Upstream Associates. KKR Group Partnership is the sole member of KKR Upstream. KKR Group Holdings is the general partner of KKR Group Partnership. KKR & Co.
is the sole shareholder of KKR Group Holdings. KKR Management is the Class B shareholder of KKR & Co. Messrs. Kravis and Roberts are the founding partners of KKR Management.
Each of Messrs. Joseph Y. Bae, Robert H. Lewin, Scott C. Nuttall and David J. Sorkin is a director of KKR Group Holdings, and each of Messrs. Bae, Lewin, Kravis, Nuttall, Roberts and Sorkin is an executive officer
of
KKR Group Holdings and KKR & Co. The directors of KKR & Co. (the “KKR Directors”) are listed on Annex A attached hereto. Each of Messrs. Bae, Nuttall and Sorkin is a United States citizen, and Mr. Lewin is a Canadian citizen.
The Reporting Persons have entered into a joint filing agreement, dated as of January 30, 2020, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.10.
(b) The principal business office for the Reporting Persons and Messrs. Bae, Lewin, Nuttall and Sorkin and the KKR Directors (other than George R. Roberts) is:
c/o Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.
9 West 57th Street, Suite 4200
New York, NY 10019
The principal business office for George R. Roberts is:
c/o Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.
2800 Sand Hill Road, Suite 200
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(c) EIGF Aggregator III and TE Drilling Aggregator are engaged in the business of investing in securities.
Each of EIGF Aggregator, KKR Energy Income, KKR Energy Income TE, KKR Associates TE, KKR Associates, KKR EIGF, KKR Upstream Associates and KKR Upstream is principally engaged in the business of
being a general partner or sole or managing member as described above and managing investments through other partnerships and limited liability companies.
Each of KKR Group Partnership, KKR Group Holdings, KKR & Co. and KKR Management is principally engaged as a holding company.
The present principal occupation or employment of each of Messrs. Bae, Lewin, Kravis, Nuttall, Roberts and Sorkin is as an executive of KKR & Co. and/or one or more of its affiliates. The
present principal occupation of each of the KKR Directors is listed on Annex A attached hereto.
(d) During the last five years, none of the Reporting Persons or, to the best knowledge of the Reporting Persons, any of the KKR Directors or other persons named in this Item 2, has been convicted
in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors).
(e) During the last five years, none of the Reporting Persons or, to the best knowledge of the Reporting Persons, any of the KKR Directors or other
persons named in this Item 2, has been party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding were or are subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future
violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such laws.
Item 5 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:
(a) and (b)
The ownership percentages set forth below are calculated pursuant to Rule 13d-3 of the Act and are based on an aggregate of 29,268,652 Common Units outstanding as of January 28, 2020, as provided to the Reporting
Persons by the Issuer, plus 3,897,483 Common Units that will be received by EIGF Aggregator III and 266,076 Common Units that will be received by TE Drilling Aggregator pursuant to the terms of the Exchange Agreement, dated September 23, 2018
(the “Exchange Agreement”). Pursuant to the Exchange Agreement, the request of the
holder, each limited liability company unit (an “OpCo Unit”) of Kimbell Royalty Operating, LLC (“OpCo”), together with a Class B common unit (a “Class B Unit”) of the Issuer, may be redeemed for, at OpCo’s election, a newly-issued Common
Unit or the Cash Amount (as defined therein). On January 28, 2020, EIGF Aggregator III requested that 3,897,483 OpCo Units and 3,897,483 Class B Units be redeemed, and OpCo elected to redeem such securities for an aggregate of 3,897,483 Common
Units, and TE Drilling Aggregator requested that 266,076 OpCo Units and 266,076 Class B Units be redeemed, and OpCo elected to redeem such securities for an aggregate of 266,076 Common Units.
As of the date of this filing, (i) EIGF Aggregator III may have been deemed to be the beneficial owner of, and have sole voting and dispositive power over, 3,897,483 Common Units, which represent 11.8% of the total
number of Common Units outstanding, and (ii) TE Drilling Aggregator may have been deemed to be the beneficial owner of, and have sole voting and dispositive power over, 266,076 Common Units, which represent 0.9% of the total number of Common
Units outstanding.
Each of EIGF Aggregator (as the managing member of EIGF Aggregator III), KKR Energy Income (as the managing member of EIGF Aggregator), and KKR Associates (as the general partner of KKR Energy Income) may be deemed
to be the beneficial owner of, and have sole voting and dispositive power over, the Common Units beneficially owned by EIGF Aggregator, but each disclaims beneficial ownership of such Common Units. Each of KKR Energy Income TE (as the sole
member of TE Drilling Aggregator) and KKR Associates TE (as the general partner of KKR Energy Income TE) may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of, and have sole voting and dispositive power over, the Common Units beneficially owned by TE
Drilling Aggregator, but each disclaims beneficial ownership of such Common Units.
Each of KKR EIGF (as the general partner of KKR Associates and as the general partner of KKR Associates TE), KKR Upstream Associates (as the sole member of KKR EIGF), KKR Group Partnership (as a member of KKR
Upstream Associates and the sole member of KKR Upstream), KKR Upstream (as a member of KKR Upstream Associates), KKR Group Holdings (as the general partner of KKR Group Partnership), KKR & Co. (as the sole shareholder of KKR Group
Holdings), KKR Management (as the Class B shareholder of KKR & Co.) and each of Henry R. Kravis and George R. Roberts (as the founding partners of KKR Management) may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of, and have sole voting and
dispositive power over, or, in the case of KKR Upstream Associates and Messrs. Kravis and Roberts, shared voting and dispositive power over, the Common Units beneficially owned by EIGF Aggregator III and TE Drilling Aggregator, for an aggregate
of 4,163,559 Common Units, or 12.5% of the total number of Common Units outstanding, but each disclaims beneficial ownership of such Common Units.
To the best knowledge of the Reporting Persons, none of the KKR Directors or any other person named in Item 2 beneficially owns any Common Units except as described herein. The filing of this Amendment No. 2 shall
not be construed as an admission that any of the above-listed entities or individuals is the beneficial owner of any securities covered by this statement.
(c) None of the Reporting Persons, or, to the best knowledge of the Reporting Persons, the KKR Directors or any other person named in Item 2 has effected any transactions in the Common Units during the past 60 days
except (i) on January 27, 2020, EIGF Aggregator III requested that 702,701 OpCo Units and 702,701 Class B Units be redeemed, and OpCo elected to redeem such securities for an aggregate of 702,701 Common Units, which were sold on January 28,
2020 pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement (as defined below), (ii) on January 27, 2020, TE Drilling Aggregator requested that 47,929 OpCo Units and 47,929 Class B Units be redeemed, and OpCo elected to redeem such securities for an aggregate
of 47,929 Common Units, which were sold on January 28, 2020 pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, (iii) on January 28, 2020, EIGF Aggregator III requested that 3,897,483 OpCo Units and 3,897,483 Class B Units be redeemed, and OpCo elected to
redeem such securities for an aggregate of 3,897,483 Common Units and (iv) on January 28, 2020, TE Drilling Aggregator requested that 266,076 OpCo Units and 266,076 Class B Units be redeemed, and OpCo elected to redeem such securities for an
aggregate of 266,076 Common Units.
(d) To the best knowledge of the Reporting Persons, no one other than the Reporting Persons, or the partners, members, affiliates or shareholders of the Reporting Persons has the right to receive or the power to
direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the Common Units reported herein.
(e) Not applicable.
Item 6 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by inserting the following information:
Underwriting Agreement
On January 9, 2020, the Issuer entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”), by and among the Issuer, Kimbell Royalty GP, LLC,
Kimbell Royalty Operating, LLC, EIGF Aggregator III, TE Drilling Aggregator (together with EIGF Aggregator III, the “Selling Unitholders”) and Credit Suisse Securities
(USA) LLC, as representative of the several underwriters named in Schedule I thereto (the “Underwriters”), providing for the offer and sale by the Issuer, and the purchase by the Underwriters of 5,000,000 Common Units. Pursuant to the
Underwriting Agreement, the Selling Unitholders also granted the Underwriters an option for a period of 30 days to purchase up to an additional 750,000 Common Units from the Selling Unitholders at a purchase price of $14.8025 per Common Unit
(the “Option”). On January 24, 2020, the Underwriters fully exercised the Option, and the sale of the Selling Unitholders’ 750,000 Common Units closed on January 28, 2020.
The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement in this Item 6 does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Underwriting
Agreement, a copy of which is filed hereto as Exhibit 99.12, which is incorporated in its entirety in this Item 6.
Lock-Up Agreement
Subject to certain exceptions, pursuant to a lock-up agreement, dated January 9, 2020, the Selling Unitholders have agreed that for a period of 45 days after January 9, 2020, they will not,
directly or indirectly, (i) offer for sale, sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of (or enter into any transaction or device that is designed to, or could be expected to, result in the disposition by any person at any time in the future of) any
of the Common Units or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for any of the Common Units, or sell or grant options, rights or warrants with respect to any of the Common Units or securities convertible into or exchangeable
for the Common Units, (ii) enter into any swap or other derivatives transaction that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic benefits or risks of ownership of the Common Units, whether any such transaction described in
clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of the Common Units or other securities, in cash or otherwise, (iii) cause to be filed a registration statement, including any amendments with respect to the registration of any of the
Common Units or securities convertible, exercisable or exchangeable into the Common Units or any other of our securities or (iv) publicly disclose the intention to do any of the foregoing, in each case without the prior written consent of
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC on behalf of the Underwriters.
The foregoing description of the lock-up agreement in this Item 6 does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the form of lock-up
agreement, a copy of which is filed hereto as Exhibit 99.13, which is incorporated in its entirety in this Item 6.
Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement
On March 25, 2019, the Issuer entered into an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 25, 2019 (the “A&R RRA”), with EIGF Aggregator III, TE Drilling Aggregator and the other
parties thereto (collectively, the “RRA parties”). Pursuant to the terms of the A&R RRA, the Issuer agreed to, among other things, prepare a shelf registration statement, or an amendment to its existing shelf registration statement (the
“Shelf Registration Statement”), covering the resale of Common Units issued or issuable upon the redemption of Opco Units and a corresponding number of Class B Units held by the RRA parties (all such Common Units being the “Registrable
Securities”), file the Shelf Registration Statement with the SEC within 30 days of the execution of the A&R RRA and use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Shelf Registration Statement to become effective as soon as reasonably
practicable following such filing but, in any event, within 120 days of the execution of the A&R RRA. In addition, the A&R RRA permits the RRA parties to request to sell any or all of their Registrable
Securities in an underwritten offering that is registered pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement,
subject to certain exceptions, including, among other things, that the gross proceeds from the sale are reasonably expected to exceed $50 million in the aggregate. The A&R RRA sets forth the priority of
the RRA parties’ respective rights with regard to the inclusion of Registrable Securities in any underwritten offering.
The foregoing description of the A&R RRA in this Item 6 does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to A&R RRA, a copy of which is filed hereto as Exhibit
99.14, which is incorporated in its entirety in this Item 6.
Item 7 is hereby amended and supplemented by the addition of the following:
SIGNATURE
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.
January 30, 2020
Annex A
Directors of KKR & Co. Inc.
The following sets forth the name and principal occupation of each of the directors of KKR & Co. Inc. Each of such persons is a citizen of the United States other than Xavier Niel, who is a citizen of France.