TransCanada以9.15亿美元收购Columbia Pipeline Partners

TransCanada said Tuesday it had increased its offer and agreed to pay $915 million to acquire Columbia Pipeline Partners. TransCanada this year bought the Houston company’s parent, Columbia Pipeline Group, for more than $10 billion. Columbia Pipeline Partners is a master limited partnership, an entity that companies, particularly pipeline firms, use to attract more investors through generous payouts similar to dividends. TransCanada already has a master limited partnership called TC PipeLines, and said it would absorb Columbia Pipeline Partners.

When the deal is finalized by the end of March, TransCanada will absorb the partnership and operate with TC PipeLines as its only MLP.