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Preferred Units and Warrants | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2019
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Preferred Units and Warrants | (9) Preferred Units and Warrants ​ On the Transactions Date, we completed a private placement of $500 million in the aggregate of (i) newly authorized and established Series A Preferred Units (the “Preferred Units”) and (ii) warrants to purchase common units (the “Warrants”) pursuant to a Series A Preferred Unit and Warrant Purchase Agreement dated January 15, 2018, with certain investment funds managed or advised by EIG Global Energy Partners (collectively, the “Preferred Unitholders”). We issued 500,000 Preferred Units with a face value of $1,000 per Preferred Unit and issued two tranches of Warrants to the Preferred Unitholders, which included Warrants to purchase 5,000,000 common units with a strike price of $17.03 per unit and 10,000,000 common units with a strike price of $19.59 per unit. The Warrants may be exercised by the holders thereof at any time beginning April 2, 2019 and before April 2, 2028. ​ The Preferred Units rank senior to the common units with respect to distributions and rights upon liquidation. The Preferred Unitholders are entitled to receive cumulative quarterly cash distributions equal to $24.375 per Preferred Unit. The distribution attributable to the quarter ended September 30, 2019 will be paid on November 8, 2019 to Preferred Unitholders of record as of the close of business on October 28, 2019. ​ The Preferred Units are presented as temporary equity in the mezzanine section of the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets because the redemption provisions exercisable on or after April 2, 2028 are outside the Partnership’s control. The Preferred Units have been recorded at their issuance date fair value, net of issuance cost. Net income allocations increase the carrying value and declared distributions decrease the carrying value of the Preferred Units. As the Preferred Units are not currently redeemable and it is not probable that they will become redeemable by us, adjustment to the initial carrying amount is not necessary and would only be required if it becomes probable that the Preferred Units would become redeemable by us. ​ Changes in the Preferred Units balance from December 31, 2018 through September 30, 2019 are summarized below (in thousands): ​
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​ | ​ | Preferred Units
Balance at December 31, 2018 | ​ | $ | 477,309
Net income allocated to Preferred Units | ​ | ​ | 36,563
Cash distributions on Preferred Units | ​ |  | (36,563)
Balance at September 30, 2019 | ​ | $ | 477,309
​ The Warrants are presented within the equity section of the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets in accordance with GAAP as they are indexed to the Partnership’s common units and require physical settlement or net common unit settlement. ​ Refer to Note 12 for information about the rights EIG Veteran Equity Aggregator, L.P. (along with its affiliated funds, “EIG”) has to designate one of the members of the Board of Directors of USA Compression GP, LLC (the “Board”).

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