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| Item 1.01 | Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On July 22, 2020, Enviva Partners, LP (the “Partnership”) entered into a First Amendment and Issuing Bank Designation Agreement (the “First Amendment and Issuing Bank Designation Agreement”) by and among the Partnership, the New Issuing Banks (as defined therein) and Barclays Bank plc, pursuant to which Citibank, N.A. and Goldman Sachs Bank USA were designated as Issuing Banks under that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of October 18, 2018 (as amended by the First Amendment and Issuing Bank Designation Agreement and as may be further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), by and among the Partnership, the Lenders party thereto from time to time, Barclays Bank plc, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent, and the other Persons party thereto. The First Amendment and Issuing Bank Designation Agreement also increased the L/C Commitments available to the Partnership under the Credit Agreement. Unless otherwise specified, all capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement
The foregoing description is not complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the First Amendment and Issuing Bank Designation Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K (this "Current Report") and incorporated herein by reference.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits.
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Description | |
| 10.1 | First Amendment and Issuing Bank Designation Agreement by and among the New Issuing Banks party thereto, Enviva Partners, LP and Barclays Bank plc, dated as of July 22, 2020. | |
| 104 | The cover page from this Current Report on Form 8-K, formatted in Inline XBRL. |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| ENVIVA PARTNERS, LP | ||
| By: | Enviva Partners GP, LLC, as its sole general partner | |
Date: July 24, 2020 |
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| By: | /s/ Jason E. Paral | |
| Name: | Jason E. Paral | |
| Title: | Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary | |
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