Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) (the "Partnership") announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Summit Midstream Holdings, LLC, has entered into amendments to its revolving credit facility (the "Revolver"). The amendments to the Revolver include reducing the Revolver commitments from $1.25 billion to $1.1 billion and eliminated the $250 million accordion feature; adding up to $400 million of junior lien indebtedness; revising restrictions on the Partnership's ability to use operating cash flow to repurchase junior debt and equity securities; increasing the total leverage covenant from 5.50x to 5.75x at all times going forward; replacing the 3.75x senior secured leverage covenant with a new 3.50x first lien leverage covenant; adding a new pricing tier of L + 325 bps if the total leverage ratio is greater than 5.00x; and restricting the Partnership's ability to resume distributions on preferred and common units, subject to achieving certain financial and liquidity thresholds.

The foregoing description of the amendments to the Revolver does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and the Third Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.



(d) Exhibits

Exhibit Number                               Description
     10.1          Fourth Amendment to Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
                 and Third Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Guarantee and
                 Collateral Agreement, dated as of December 18, 2020, by and among
                 Summit Midstream Holdings, LLC, each of the other Loan Parties
                 party thereto, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as
                 administrative and collateral agent and the Lenders party
                 thereto.
     99.1          Press Release, dated as of December 18, 2020.

     104         Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page XBRL tags are
                 embedded within the Inline XBRL document






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