UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): December 7, 2021

Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (817) 945-9700

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2):

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On December 7, 2021, Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Kimbell”) and Kimbell Royalty Operating, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Opco” and, together with Kimbell, the “Buyer Parties”), completed the previously announced acquisition (the “Acquisition”) of mineral and royalty interests pursuant to a securities purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), dated November 9, 2021, by and among the Buyer Parties and Caritas Royalty Fund LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and certain of its affiliates as the sellers (the “Sellers”). Pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Buyer Parties acquired all of the outstanding equity interests in certain subsidiaries owned by the Sellers for $57,000,000 in cash consideration, subject to purchase price adjustments and other customary closing adjustments. Other than in respect of the transaction, there is no relationship between the Sellers and the Buyer Parties or any of the Buyer Parties’ affiliates, directors or officers or any associate of the Buyer Parties’ directors or officers.

On December 7, 2021, Kimbell issued a news release announcing that it has completed the Acquisition. A copy of the news release is attached hereto, furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference into this Item 7.01.

The information set forth in this Item 7.01 (including Exhibit 99.1) shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), nor shall such information be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, regardless of the general incorporation language of such filing, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

Concurrent with the closing of the Acquisition, Kimbell completed the previously announced redemption of 25,000 Series A Cumulative Convertible Preferred Units (the “Preferred Units”), representing the entirety of the outstanding Preferred Units originally issued by the Company in 2018. 

(d) Exhibits

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: December 7, 2021