---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001309402-24-000002"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GPRE"
cik: "0001309402"
company_name: "Green Plains Inc."
filed_at: "2024-01-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T01:20:16.744450+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Green Plains completes acquisition of Green Plains Partners LP for 0.405 shares + $2.00 cash per unit

## Summary
- Merger closed Jan 9, 2024; Partnership becomes indirect wholly owned subsidiary of GPRE.
- Each GPP public common unit converted into 0.405 GPRE shares plus $2.00 cash plus unpaid distributions.
- GPRE issued ~4.7 million shares and paid $29.2 million in cash to unaffiliated unitholders.
- Partnership's common units to be delisted from NASDAQ and deregistered under Exchange Act.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001309402-24-000002
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GPRE
- cik: 0001309402
- company_name: Green Plains Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-01-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940224000002/0001309402-24-000002-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940224000002/gpre-20240109.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001309402-24-000002.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  Green Plains Inc. completed an acquisition involving Green Plains Partners LP for approximately 4.7 million shares of GPRE Common Stock and paid $29.2 million in cash (closed 2024-01-09).
  - Action: acquisition
  - Counterparty: Green Plains Partners LP
  - Consideration: approximately 4.7 million shares of GPRE Common Stock and paid $29.2 million in cash
  - Closing: 2024-01-09
  source text: of a properly executed certificate of merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on January 9, 2024. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, GPRE issued approximately 4.7 million shares of GPRE Common Stock and paid $29.2 million in cash to the GPP Unaffiliated Unitholders as the aggregate Merger Consideration described above. The Merger Agreement is
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940224000002/0001309402-24-000002-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.