MONACO - September 15, 2017 - GasLog Partners LP (NYSE:GLOP) ("GasLog Partners" or the "Partnership") and
GasLog Ltd. (NYSE:GLOG) ("GasLog") announced today that they have approved entering into an agreement for the Partnership to
purchase from GasLog 100% of the shares in the entity that owns and charters Solaris (the "Acquisition"). The aggregate
purchase price for the Acquisition will be $185.9 million, which includes $1 million for positive net working capital balances to
be transferred with the vessel. GasLog Partners expects to finance the acquisition with cash on hand and the assumption of $117
million of Solaris' existing debt. The Acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2017 and is subject to
satisfaction of certain customary closing conditions. The Board of Directors of GasLog, the Board of Directors of GasLog Partners
(the "Board") and the Conflicts Committee of the Board have approved the Acquisition.
Solaris is a 155,000 cubic meter tri-fuel diesel electric liquefied natural gas ("LNG") carrier built in 2014. The
vessel is currently on a multi-year time charter with a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc ("Shell") through June
2021. Shell has two consecutive extension options which, if exercised, would extend the charter for a period of either five or ten
years.
The Partnership believes that the Acquisition will be immediately accretive to distributable cash flow per unit and is
consistent with its strategy to grow cash distributions through dropdown and third-party acquisitions. GasLog Partners estimates
that Solaris will add approximately $20 million to EBITDA(1) in the first 12 months after closing. Accordingly, the
Acquisition purchase price represents a multiple of approximately 9.2x(2) estimated EBITDA.
Andy Orekar, Chief Executive Officer of GasLog Partners, stated, "I am very pleased to continue executing our growth strategy
with this accretive dropdown transaction. Solaris represents the ninth LNG carrier the Partnership will have acquired from GasLog
since our IPO, and its multi-year charter to Shell will provide incremental visible cash flows. The Acquisition will expand the
Partnership's fleet to 12 wholly owned LNG carriers, increase our contracted days to approximately 90% for 2018 and 72% for 2019,
and significantly grow our contracted EBITDA."
Paul Wogan, Chief Executive Officer of GasLog, stated, "We continue to execute on our strategy of dropping vessels into GasLog
Partners and recycling the capital to GasLog. This transaction values Solaris at a premium to book value, allowing us to strengthen
our balance sheet and providing further funding for future profitable growth. Through our unit ownership and incentive distribution
rights, we will benefit from future increases in GasLog Partners' distributions, which should continue to enhance our cash flow,
growth prospects and valuation."
(1)EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. Please refer to Exhibit I for guidance on the underlying assumptions used
to derive EBITDA.
(2)Acquisition multiple is calculated using net purchase price of $184.9 million.
About GasLog Partners
GasLog Partners is a growth-oriented master limited partnership focused on owning, operating and acquiring LNG carriers under
multi-year charters. Upon closing of the Acquisition, GasLog Partners' fleet will consist of 12 LNG carriers with an average
carrying capacity of approximately 154,000 cbm GasLog Partners' principal executive offices are located at Gildo Pastor Center, 7
Rue du Gabian, MC 98000, Monaco. Visit GasLog Partners' website at http://www.gaslogmlp.com.
About GasLog
GasLog is an international owner, operator and manager of LNG carriers providing support to international energy companies as part
of their LNG logistics chain. GasLog's consolidated fleet consists of 27 LNG carriers (22 ships on the water and 5 on order).
GasLog also has an additional LNG carrier which was sold to a subsidiary of Mitsui Co. Ltd. and leased back under a long-term
bareboat charter. Upon closing of the Acquisition, GasLog's consolidated fleet will include 12 LNG carriers in operation owned by
GasLog's subsidiary, GasLog Partners. GasLog's principal executive offices are at Gildo Pastor Center, 7 Rue du Gabian, MC 98000,
Monaco. Visit GasLog's website at http://www.gaslogltd.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
All statements in this press release that are not statements of historical fact are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning
of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements that address
activities, events or developments that the Partnership expects, projects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future,
particularly in relation to our operations, cash flows, financial position, liquidity and cash available for dividends or
distributions, plans, strategies, business prospects and changes and trends in our business and the markets in which we operate. We
caution that these forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date of this press release,
about factors that are beyond our ability to control or predict, and are not intended to give any assurance as to future results.
Any of these factors or a combination of these factors could materially affect future results of operations and the ultimate
accuracy of the forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you should not unduly rely on any forward-looking statements.
Factors that might cause future results and outcomes to differ include, but are not limited to, the following:
- general LNG shipping market conditions and trends, including spot and long-term charter rates, ship values, factors affecting
supply and demand of LNG and LNG shipping, technological advancements and opportunities for the profitable operations of LNG
carriers;
- continued low prices for crude oil and petroleum products and volatility in gas prices;
- our ability to leverage GasLog's relationships and reputation in the shipping industry;
- our ability to enter into time charters with new and existing customers;
- changes in the ownership of our charterers;
- our customers' performance of their obligations under our time charters and other contracts;
- our future operating performance, financial condition, liquidity and cash available for dividends and distributions;
- our ability to purchase vessels from GasLog in the future;
- our ability to obtain financing to fund capital expenditures, acquisitions and other corporate activities, funding by banks
of their financial commitments, funding by GasLog of the revolving credit facility with GasLog entered into on April 3, 2017 and
our ability to meet our restrictive covenants and other obligations under our credit facilities;
- future, pending or recent acquisitions of ships or other assets, business strategy, areas of possible expansion and expected
capital spending or operating expenses;
- our expectations about the time that it may take to construct and deliver newbuildings and the useful lives of our
ships;
- number of off-hire days, dry-docking requirements and insurance costs;
- fluctuations in currencies and interest rates;
- our ability to maintain long-term relationships with major energy companies;
- our ability to maximize the use of our ships, including the re-employment or disposal of ships no longer under time charter
commitments, including the risk that our vessels may no longer have the latest technology at such time;
- environmental and regulatory conditions, including changes in laws and regulations or actions taken by regulatory
authorities;
- the expected cost of, and our ability to comply with, governmental regulations and maritime self-regulatory organization
standards, requirements imposed by classification societies and standards imposed by our charterers applicable to our
business;
- risks inherent in ship operation, including the discharge of pollutants;
- GasLog's ability to retain key employees and provide services to us, and the availability of skilled labor, ship crews and
management;
- potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents, political events, piracy or acts by terrorists;
- potential liability from future litigation;
- our business strategy and other plans and objectives for future operations;
- any malfunction or disruption of information technology systems and networks that our operations rely on or any impact of a
possible cybersecurity breach; and
- other risks and uncertainties described in the Partnership's Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC on February 13,
2017, available at http://www.sec.gov.
GasLog and GasLog Partners undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained in this press
release, whether as a result of new information, future events, a change in our views or expectations or otherwise. New factors
emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of these factors. Further, we cannot assess the impact of
each such factor on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to be
materially different from those contained in any forward-looking statement.
The declaration and payment of distributions are at all times subject to the discretion of our board of directors and will
depend on, amongst other things, risks and uncertainties described above, restrictions in our credit facilities, the provisions of
Marshall Islands law and such other factors as our board of directors may deem relevant.
EXHIBIT I
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
EBITDA
EBITDA is defined as earnings before interest income and expense, gain/loss on interest rate swaps, taxes, depreciation and
amortization. EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, is used as a supplemental financial measure by management and
external users of financial statements, such as investors, to assess our financial and operating performance. The Partnership
believes that this non-GAAP financial measure assists our management and investors by increasing the comparability of our
performance from period to period. The Partnership believes that including EBITDA assists our management and investors in (i)
understanding and analyzing the results of our operating and business performance, (ii) selecting between investing in us and other
investment alternatives and (iii) monitoring our ongoing financial and operational strength in assessing whether to continue to
hold our common units. This increased comparability is achieved by excluding the potentially disparate effects between periods of
interest, gain/loss on interest rate swaps, taxes, depreciation and amortization, which items are affected by various and possibly
changing financing methods, financial market conditions, capital structure and historical cost basis and which items may
significantly affect results of operations between periods.
EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered as an alternative to, or as a substitute for, or
superior to profit, profit from operations, earnings per unit or any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance
with IFRS. Some of these limitations include the fact that it does not reflect (i) our cash expenditures or future requirements for
capital expenditures or contractual commitments, (ii) changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs and (iii) the
cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments, on our debt. Although depreciation and amortization are
non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and EBITDA does not
reflect any cash requirements for such replacements. It is not adjusted for all non-cash income or expense items that are reflected
in our statement of cash flows and other companies in our industry may calculate this measure differently to how we do, limiting
its usefulness as a comparative measure.
For the entity owning Solaris, estimated EBITDA for the first 12 months of operation following the completion of the
Acquisition is based on the following assumptions:
· closing of the Acquisition in the fourth quarter of 2017 and timely receipt of
charter hire specified in the charter contracts;
· utilization of 363 days and no drydocking;
· vessel operating and supervision costs and charter commissions per current
internal estimates; and
· general and administrative expenses based on management's current internal
estimates.
GasLog and GasLog Partners consider the above assumptions to be reasonable as of September 15, 2017, but if these assumptions
prove to be incorrect, actual EBITDA for the entity owning the vessel could differ materially from our estimates. The prospective
financial information was not prepared with a view toward public disclosure or with a view toward complying with the guidelines
established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, but, in the view of management, was prepared on a reasonable
basis and reflects the best currently available estimates and judgments. However, this information is not fact and should not be
relied upon as being necessarily indicative of future results, and readers of this document are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on the prospective financial information. Neither our independent auditors nor any other independent accountants have
compiled, examined, or performed any procedures with respect to the prospective financial information contained above, nor have
they expressed any opinion or any other form of assurance on such information or its achievability and assume no responsibility
for, and disclaim any association with, such prospective financial information.
Contacts:
Alastair Maxwell
Chief Financial Officer
Phone: +44-203-388-3105
Jamie Buckland
Head of Investor Relations
Phone: +44-203-388-3116
Email: ir@gaslogltd.com
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