6-K 1 d6k.htm FORM 6-K Form 6-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 6-K

 

 

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO

RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16

UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of November, 2009

Commission File Number: 001-33632

 

 

BROOKFIELD INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS L.P.

(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

 

 

7 Reid Street

4th Floor

Hamilton, HM 11, Bermuda

(Address of principal executive office)

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

Form 20-F  þ            Form 40-F  ¨

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):  ¨

Note: Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted solely to provide an attached annual report to security holders.

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7):  ¨

Note: Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted to furnish a report or other document that the registrant foreign private issuer must furnish and make public under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the registrant is incorporated, domiciled or legally organized (the registrant’s “home country”), or under the rules of the home country exchange on which the registrant’s securities are traded, as long as the report or other document is not a press release, is not required to be and has not been distributed to the registrant’s security holders, and, if discussing a material event, has already been the subject of a Form 6-K submission or other Commission filing on EDGAR.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Yes  ¨                    No  þ

If “Yes” is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82-            .

 

 

 


On October 30, 2009, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”), a foreign private issuer, established as a Bermuda exempted limited partnership with limited partnership units (“LP Units”) listed for trading on both the Toronto Stock Exchange (BIP.UN) and The New York Stock Exchange (BIP), disclosed certain material, previously non-public information regarding the Partnership and its business in connection with the filing of a final prospectus and related pricing of its previously announced public offering, made exclusively to Canadian residents under the laws of Canada, of LP Units without registration under Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”) pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act. The approximately $571 million of aggregate gross proceeds of this offering and concurrent exempted issuance by the Partnership to Brookfield Asset Management Inc. of redeemable purchase units exchangeable for LP Units for up to an additional estimated $435 million subject to the approval of holders of outstanding LP Units are expected to be used to finance the previously announced comprehensive restructuring and recapitalization of Babcock and Brown Infrastructure Group (ASX: BBI). Such information is being furnished by the Partnership under cover of this Form 6-K (more specifically, in the attached exhibit described below) solely to fulfill its obligation under Rules 13a-16 and 12b-20 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to disclose such information to its U.S. security holders, and not with the purpose or effect of making an offer or sale of the LP Units to any person resident in the United States. The information in this filing is being incorporated by reference into the Partnership’s management information circular related to a special meeting of unitholders to be held on November 16, 2009.

Specifically, the following information published in Canada on October 30, 2009, in connection with the above-referenced offering being made exclusively outside the United States, is being furnished to the Commission under cover of this Form 6-K pursuant to the attached exhibit 99.1.

The LP Units that are being offered exclusively outside the United States in reliance upon Regulation S under the Securities Act have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act and, accordingly, may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the Securities Act or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements.


EXHIBIT LIST

 

 

Exhibit

  

Title

99.1    Disclosure Excerpts


SIGNATURES

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, thereunto duly authorized.

 

   

BROOKFIELD INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS L.P.

by its general partner, BROOKFIELD INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS LIMITED

Dated: November 5, 2009     By:   /S/    GREG MORRISON
      Name: Greg Morrison
      Title: Vice President