Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Upon consummation of the Acquisition, pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Company and certain direct and indirect equityholders of Alta Resources or their designees (together with their permitted assignees, the "Alta RRA Holders") entered into that certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of July 21, 2021 (the "Registration Rights Agreement"). Under the Registration Rights Agreement, among other things, subject to certain requirements and exceptions, the Company is required to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, no later than three business days following the closing of the Acquisition, a registration statement on Form S-3 (or amend an existing shelf registration statement previously filed by it) to permit the public resale of all of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) by the Alta RRA Holders from time to time as permitted by Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and to use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to remain effective until all of the Registrable Securities have ceased to be Registrable Securities or the earlier termination of the Registration Rights Agreement pursuant to its terms. Furthermore, under the Registration Rights Agreement, the Alta RRA Holders have certain demand rights and piggyback registration rights with respect to certain other underwritten offerings conducted by the Company for its own account or other shareholders of the Company. The Registration Rights Agreement contains customary indemnification and contribution obligations of the Company for the benefit of the Alta RRA Holders and vice versa (provided, however, that each Alta RRA Holder's indemnification and contribution obligation is limited to the net proceeds received by such Alta RRA Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to an offering made in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement), in each case, subject to certain qualifications and exceptions.

In connection with entering into the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company also entered into a lockup agreement with each of the Alta RRA Holders (collectively, the "Lockup Agreements"), pursuant to which, among other things, each Alta RRA Holder agreed not to sell its portion of the Stock Consideration (as defined below) during the 180 days following the closing of the Acquisition; provided, however, that (i) the Alta RRA Holders may sell up to 25% of the Registrable Securities in a single shelf underwritten offering between the 31st day following closing and the 90th day following closing and up to an aggregate of 50% of the Registrable Securities pursuant to up to two shelf underwritten offerings in the first 180 days following closing, and (ii) certain Alta RRA Holders may sell their pro rata portion of up to an aggregate amount of 2,500,000 additional shares of common stock, no par value, of the Company under certain circumstances and subject to certain limitations. Pursuant to the Lockup Agreements, the Company also agreed with each Alta RRA Holder not to sell shares of common stock during the first 30 days following the closing of the Acquisition.

The foregoing description of the Registration Rights Agreement and the Lockup Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the Registration Rights Agreement (including the form of Lockup Agreement), a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 2.01. Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

The disclosure set forth in the "Introductory Note" above is incorporated into this Item 2.01 by reference. As a result of the Acquisition and on the terms and pursuant to the conditions contained in the Purchase Agreement, on July 21, 2021, Alta Resources sold to the Company, and the Company purchased and accepted, all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of the Alta Target Entities (the "Target Interests"), free and clear of all liens (other than liens arising under federal and state securities laws, arising pursuant to the governing documents of the Alta Target Entities or imposed by the Company or any of its affiliates).

Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the consideration to be paid to Alta Resources for the Acquisition consists of $1.0 billion in cash and 105,306,346 shares of common stock, which shares represented an aggregate dollar value equal to $1.925 billion as of the date of the Purchase Agreement based on the 30-day volume-weighted average price of a share of common stock as of May 4, 2021 ($18.28), subject to customary purchase price adjustments. As a result of such purchase price adjustments, upon consummation of the Acquisition on July 21, 2021, 98,789,388 shares of common stock (the "Stock Consideration") were issued to certain direct and indirect equityholders of Alta Resources or their designees (the "Issuance").

The foregoing description of the Acquisition and the Purchase Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, reference to the Purchase Agreement, which was filed as Exhibit 2.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 7, 2021 and is incorporated by reference herein.

Item 3.02. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

The information set forth in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference in response to this Item 3.02. The Issuance was completed in reliance upon the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, provided by Section 4(a)(2) thereof as a transaction by an issuer not involving any public offering.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.





(a)    Financial statements of businesses acquired

The audited consolidated financial statements of Alta Resources and its subsidiaries as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, and for each of the three years in the period ended June 30, 2020, and the notes related thereto, are attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1 and are incorporated herein by reference.

The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of Alta Resources and its subsidiaries as of March 31, 2021 and for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, and the notes related thereto, are attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.2 and are incorporated herein by reference.





(b)     Pro forma financial information

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet of the Company and its subsidiaries as of March 31, 2021 and the unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and the year ended December 31, 2020, and the notes related thereto, are attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.3 and are incorporated herein by reference.





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(d)     Exhibits



Exhibit No. Description



  10.1        Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of July 21, 2021, by and
            among EQT Corporation and certain security holders thereof parties
            thereto, and Form of Lock-Up Agreement.




  23.1       Consent of Moss Adams LLP.

  23.2       Consent of Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.

  99.1       Audited consolidated financial statements of Alta Resources
           Development, LLC and its subsidiaries as of June 30, 2020 and 2019,
           and for each of the three years in the period ended June 30, 2020,
           and the notes related thereto.

  99.2       Unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of Alta
           Resources Development, LLC and its subsidiaries as of March 31, 2021
           and for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, and the notes
           related thereto.

  99.3       Unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet of EQT
           Corporation and its subsidiaries as of March 31, 2021 and unaudited
           pro forma condensed combined statements of operations of EQT
           Corporation and its subsidiaries for the three months ended March 31,
           2021 and the year ended December 31, 2020, and the notes related
           thereto.

  99.4       Reserves report prepared by Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.,
           dated May 3, 2021, with respect to estimates of reserves and future
           revenue of Alta Marcellus Development, LLC as of June 30, 2020.

  99.5       Audit letter prepared by Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.,
           dated May 5, 2021, with respect to estimates of reserves and future
           revenue of Alta Marcellus Development, LLC as of December 31, 2020.

104        Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL
           document).




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