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Partners' Capital | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Partners' Capital [Abstract] |
Partners' Capital | Partners' Capital As of March 31, 2018, ETE and ETP or their subsidiaries owned 28,463,967 common units, which constitutes 34.5% of our outstanding common units. As of March 31, 2018, our consolidated subsidiaries owned 16,410,780 Class C units representing limited partner interests in the Partnership (the “Class C Units”) and the public owned 54,028,041 common units. Series A Preferred Units On March 30, 2017, the Partnership entered into a Series A Preferred Unit Purchase Agreement with ETE, relating to the issue and sale by the Partnership to ETE of 12,000,000 Series A Preferred Units (the “Preferred Units”) representing limited partner interests in the Partnership at a price per Preferred Unit of $25.00 (the “Offering”). The Offering closed on March 30, 2017, and the Partnership received proceeds from the Offering of $300 million, which it used to repay indebtedness under its revolving credit facility. On January 25, 2018, the Partnership redeemed all outstanding Series A Preferred Units held by ETE for an aggregate redemption amount of approximately $313 million. The redemption amount includes the original consideration of $300 million and a 1% call premium plus accrued and unpaid quarterly distributions. Common Units On February 7, 2018, subsequent to the record date for SUN’s fourth quarter 2017 distribution, the Partnership repurchased 17,286,859 SUN common units owned by ETP for aggregate cash consideration of approximately $540 million. The repurchase price per common unit was $31.2376, which is equal to the volume weighted average trading price of SUN common units on the New York Stock Exchange for the ten trading days ending on January 23, 2018. The Partnership funded the repurchase with cash on hand. Activity of our common units for the three months ended March 31, 2018 is as follows:
| Number of Units
Number of common units at December 31, 2017 | 99,667,999 |
Common units repurchase | (17,286,859 | )
Phantom unit vesting | 110,868 |
Number of common units at March 31, 2018 | 82,492,008 |
Allocation of Net Income Our Partnership Agreement contains provisions for the allocation of net income and loss to the unitholders. For purposes of maintaining partner capital accounts, the Partnership Agreement specifies that items of income and loss shall be allocated among the partners in accordance with their respective percentage interest. Normal allocations according to percentage interests are made after giving effect, if any, to priority income allocations in an amount equal to incentive cash distributions allocated 100% to ETE. The calculation of net income allocated to the partners is as follows (in millions, except per unit amounts):
|  | For the Three Months Ended March 31,
|  | 2018 |  | 2017
Attributable to Common Units |  |  |  |
Distributions (a) |  | $ | 68 |  |  | $ | 82 |
Distributions in excess of net income |  | (404 | ) |  | (104 | )
Limited partners' interest in net income (loss) |  | $ | (336 | ) |  | $ | (22 | )
(a) Distributions declared per unit to unitholders as of record date |  | $ | 0.8255 |  |  | $ | 0.8255 |
Class C Units Class C Units (i) are not convertible or exchangeable into Common Units or any other units of the Partnership and are non-redeemable; (ii) are entitled to receive distributions of available cash of the Partnership (other than available cash derived from or attributable to any distribution received by the Partnership from PropCo, the proceeds of any sale of the membership interests of PropCo, or any interest or principal payments received by the Partnership with respect to indebtedness of PropCo or its subsidiaries) at a fixed rate equal to $0.8682 per quarter for each Class C Unit outstanding, (iii) do not have the right to vote on any matter except as otherwise required by any non-waivable provision of law, (iv) are not allocated any items of income, gain, loss, deduction or credit attributable to the Partnership’s ownership of, or sale or other disposition of, the membership interests of PropCo, or the Partnership’s ownership of any indebtedness of PropCo or any of its subsidiaries (“PropCo Items”), (v) will be allocated gross income (other than from PropCo Items) in an amount equal to the cash distributed to the holders of Class C Units and (vi) will be allocated depreciation, amortization and cost recovery deductions as if the Class C Units were Common Units and 1% of certain allocations of net termination gain (other than from PropCo Items). Pursuant to the terms described above, these distributions do not have an impact on the Partnership’s consolidated cash flows and as such, are excluded from total cash distributions and allocation of limited partners’ interest in net income. For the three months ended March 31, 2018, Class C distributions declared totaled $14 million. Incentive Distribution Rights The following table illustrates the percentage allocations of available cash from operating surplus between our common unitholders and the holder of our incentive distribution rights (“IDRs”) based on the specified target distribution levels, after the payment of distributions to Class C unitholders. The amounts set forth under “marginal percentage interest in distributions” are the percentage interests of our IDR holder and the common unitholders in any available cash from operating surplus we distribute up to and including the corresponding amount in the column “total quarterly distribution per unit target amount.” The percentage interests shown for our common unitholders and our IDR holder for the minimum quarterly distribution are also applicable to quarterly distribution amounts that are less than the minimum quarterly distribution.
|  |  | Marginal percentage interest in distributions
| Total quarterly distribution per Common Unit target amount |  | Common Unitholders |  | Holder of IDRs
Minimum Quarterly Distribution | $0.4375 |  | 100 | % |  | — |
First Target Distribution | Above $0.4375 up to $0.503125 |  | 100 | % |  | — |
Second Target Distribution | Above $0.503125 up to $0.546875 |  | 85 | % |  | 15 | %
Third Target Distribution | Above $0.546875 up to $0.656250 |  | 75 | % |  | 25 | %
Thereafter | Above $0.656250 |  | 50 | % |  | 50 | %
Cash Distributions Our Partnership Agreement sets forth the calculation used to determine the amount and priority of cash distributions that the common unitholders receive. Cash distributions paid or payable during 2018 were as follows:
|  | Limited Partners |  |
Payment Date |  | Per Unit Distribution |  | Total Cash Distribution |  | Distribution to IDR Holders
|  | (in millions, except per unit amounts)
May 15, 2018 |  | $ | 0.8255 |  |  | $ | 68 |  |  | $ | 18 |
February 14, 2018 |  | $ | 0.8255 |  |  | $ | 82 |  |  | $ | 21 |
|  | Series A Preferred Unit Holder
Payment Date |  | Total Cash Distribution
|  | (in millions)
January 25, 2018 (1) |  | $ | 10 |
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(1) | $10 million cash distribution paid on January 25, 2018 includes $8 million cash distribution for the three months ended December 31, 2017 and $2 million cash distribution for the period from January 1, 2018 through January 25, 2018.

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