Related Party Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

(15) Related Party Transactions

Activity associated with the Company’s related party arrangements for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 is summarized below:

Expenses from related parties


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(in millions)	2020		2019
Cost of materials and other
Joint Venture Transportation Agreement:
Enable	$	3	$	2


Payments made

Dividends (1)	57		54

(1)See below for a summary of the dividends paid to IEP for the three months ended March 31, 2020.

Agency Arrangement with IEP

On February 4, 2020, CVR Energy and Icahn Enterprises Holdings LP (“IEH”), a subsidiary of IEP, entered into an agency arrangement wherein IEH would act as the agent for CVR Energy. Under this arrangement, the Company invested approximately $140 million in certain marketable securities of Delek US Holdings, Inc. (“Delek”) (NYSE ticker symbol: DK) and could make additional investments in Delek or invest in other public companies in the future under this arrangement. The Company reimbursed IEH for all costs associated with the initial purchase and did not incur any additional fees as part of this transaction.

Property Exchange

On October 22, 2019, the audit committee of CVR Energy and the Conflicts Committee of the board of directors of CVR GP each agreed to authorize the exchange of certain parcels of property owned by subsidiaries of CVR Energy with an equal number of parcels owned by subsidiaries of CVR Partners, all located in Coffeyville, Kansas (the “Property Exchange”). On February 19, 2020, a subsidiary of CVR Energy and a subsidiary of CVR Partners executed the Property Exchange agreement. This Property Exchange will enable each such subsidiary to create a more usable, contiguous parcel of land near its own operating footprint. This transaction resulted in no net impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

Dividends to CVR Energy Stockholders

The following tables present dividends paid to the Company’s stockholders, including IEP, during 2020 and 2019 (amounts presented in tables below may not add to totals presented due to rounding).


				Dividends Paid (in millions)
Related Period	Date Paid	Dividend Per Share		Stockholders		IEP		Total
2019 - 4th Quarter	March 9, 2020	$	0.80	$	23	$	57	$	80


				Dividends Paid (in millions)
Related Period	Date Paid	Dividend Per Share		Stockholders		IEP		Total
2018 - 4th Quarter	March 11, 2019	$	0.75	$	22	$	53	$	75
2019 - 1st Quarter	May 13, 2019	0.75		22		53		75
2019 - 2nd Quarter	August 12, 2019	0.75		22		53		75
2019 - 3rd Quarter	November 11, 2019	0.80		23		57		80
Total		$	3.05	$	90	$	217	$	307

For the first quarter of 2020, the Company, upon approval by the Company’s Board of Directors on May 6, 2020, declared a cash dividend of $0.40 per share, or $40 million, which is payable on May 26, 2020 to shareholders of record as of May 18, 2020. Of this amount, IEP will receive $28 million due to its ownership interest in the Company’s shares.

Dividends, if any, including the payment, amount and timing thereof, are subject to change at the discretion of the Company’s Board of Directors.

Distributions to CVR Partners’ Unitholders

Distributions, if any, including the payment, amount and timing thereof, are subject to change at the discretion of the Board of Directors of CVR Partners’ general partner. There were no distributions paid by CVR Partners during the three months ended March 31, 2020 related to the fourth quarter of 2019, and no distributions were declared for the first quarter of 2020.

The following table presents distributions paid by the Partnership to CVR Partners’ unitholders, including amounts paid to CVR Energy, during 2019.


				Distributions Paid (in thousands)
Related Period	Date Paid	Distribution Per Common Unit		Public Unitholders		CVR Energy		Total
2018 - 4th Quarter	March 11, 2019	$	0.12	$	8,924	$	4,670	$	13,594
2019 - 1st Quarter	May 13, 2019	0.07		5,205		2,724		7,929
2019 - 2nd Quarter	August 12, 2019	0.14		10,411		5,449		15,860
2019 - 3rd Quarter	November 11, 2019	0.07		5,205		2,724		7,930
Total		$	0.40	$	29,745	$	15,567	$	45,313