As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 2021
Registration No. 333-181094
UNITED STATESSECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO FORM F-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-181094
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Golar LNG Partners LP
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Republic of the Marshall Islands | 4400 | 98-0565772 |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) | (IRS employer identification number) |
2nd Floor, S.E. Pearman Building
9 Par-la-Ville Road
Hamilton, Bermuda HM 11
+1 (441) 295-4705
(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Principal Executive Offices)
Cameron D. MacDougall, Esq.
111 W. 19th Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10011
(516) 268-7400
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copy To:
Joseph A. Coco
One Manhattan West
New York, NY 10001
(202) 371-7000
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
These Post-Effective Amendments filed by Golar LNG Partners LP, a Marshall Islands limited partnership (“GMLP” or the “Registrant”), deregister all of the (i) common units representing limited partner interests in the Registrant and (ii) debt securities ((i) and (ii) collectively, the “Securities”), remaining unsold or otherwise unissued under the following Registration Statements on Form F-3 (each, a “Registration Statement”, and collectively, the “Registration Statements”) filed by the Registrant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”):
| | • | Registration Statement on Form F-3 (No. 333-181094), which was filed with the Commission on May 2, 2012 and amended by that Amendment No. 1 filed with the Commission on May 25, 2012, registering the Securities. |
On January 13, 2021, the Registrant entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) by and among the Registrant, Golar GP LLC, a Marshall Islands limited liability company and the general partner of the Registrant, New Fortress Energy Inc., a Delaware corporation (“NFE”), Lobos Acquisition LLC, a Marshall Islands limited liability company and an indirect subsidiary of NFE (“Merger Sub”), and NFE International Holdings Limited, a private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales and an indirect subsidiary of NFE, pursuant to which Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant, with the Registrant surviving the merger as an indirect subsidiary of NFE (the “Merger”).
In connection with the Merger, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in each Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance and remain unsold at the termination of such offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration by means of these Post-Effective Amendments all of such securities registered and remaining unsold under each such Registration Statement.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-3 and has duly caused each of these Post-Effective Amendments to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in New York, New York on April 15, 2021.
| | Golar LNG Partners LP |
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| | By: | NFE International Holdings Limited |
| | | its General Partner |
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| | | By: | /s/ Chris Guinta |
| | | | Director |
No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
