Filing Details

Accession Number:
0001056823-20-000196
Form Type:
13D Filing
Publication Date:
2020-12-14 16:52:21
Filed By:
Horizon Asset Management
Company:
Texas Pacific Land Trust (NYSE:TPL)
Filing Date:
2020-12-14
SEC Url:
13D Filing
Ownership Summary

Please notice the below summary table is generated without human intervention and may contain errors. Please refer to the complete filing displayed below for exact figures.

Name Sole Voting Power Shared Voting Power Sole Dispositive Power Shared Dispositive Power Aggregate Amount Owned Power Percent of Class
Horizon Kinetics Asset Management 1,622,551 9. 1,622,551 11. 1,622,551 20.92%
Date of Transaction Buy Sale Aggregate Amount of Securities Average Price Per Share Horizon Kinetics Asset Management
Filing

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 13D/A

Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

(Amendment No. 12)

(Name of Issuer)

Texas Pacific Land Trust

(Title of Class of Securities)

Sub-share Certificates

(CUSIP Number)

882610108

Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to

Receive Notices and Communications)

Jay Kesslen

c/o Horizon Kinetics LLC

470 Park Avenue South

New York, NY 10016

(Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement)

December 14, 2020

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §§240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box. ☒

Note: Schedules filed in paper format shall include a signed original and five copies of the schedule, including all exhibits. See Rule.13d-7 for other parties to whom copies are to be sent.

* The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person's initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page.

The information required on the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be "filed" for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act") or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes).


1.  Names of Reporting Persons.

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

13-3776334

2.  Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group

(a) ☐

(b) ☐

 

3.  SEC Use Only

4.  Source of Funds

WC

 

5.  Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)

6.  Citizenship or Place of Organization

Delaware

 

 

  Number of Shares

  Beneficially

  Owned by

  Each Reporting

  Person With:

 

 

7.  Sole Voting Power

1,622,551

 

8.  Shared Voting Power

 

 

9.  Sole Dispositive Power

  1,622,551

 

10.  Shared Dispositive Power

 

 

11.  Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person

  1,622,551

12.  Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares

13.  Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11)

  20.92

14.  Type of Reporting Person

IA


2

This Amendment No. 12 to the Schedule 13D (this "Amendment No. 12") relates to the sub-share certificates of proprietary interests (the "Shares") of Texas Pacific Land Trust ("TPL") and amends the Schedule 13D Amendment 11 filed on October 16, 2020 (the "Schedule 13D 11" and, together with this Amendment No. 12, the "Schedule 13D"). Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Amendment No. 12 have the meanings set forth in the Original Schedule 13D.

This Amendment No. 12 is being filed by Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC ("Horizon") a Delaware limited liability company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Horizon Kinetics LLC.

This Amendment No. 12 is being filed to amend Item 4, Item 5, Item 6 and Item 7  of the Schedule 13D as follows:

ITEM 4. PURPOSE OF TRANSACTION

Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is amended by adding the following:

As previously disclosed, on June 11, 2020, in connection with the plan of the Trust to reorganize (the "corporate reorganization") into a corporation formed under Delaware law (the "New Corporation"), Horizon Kinetics LLC and Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC entered into a Stockholders' Agreement (the "Stockholders' Agreement") with the Trust, SoftVest LP,  SoftVest Advisors and Mission Advisors, LP.

The Stockholders' Agreement, which establishes certain features of governance for the New Corporation, provides that the agreement will terminate if the corporate reorganization has not been completed by December 31, 2020 (the "Outside Date").  On December 14, 2020, the parties entered into the First Amendment to Settlement Agreement (the "Amendment"), to change the Outside Date to January 31, 2021.

Other than as expressly modified pursuant to the Amendment, the Stockholders' Agreement, which was filed as Exhibit 10 to the Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Persons with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2020, remains in full force and effect.

The foregoing description of the Amendment is qualified by the full text of such amendment, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 11 and is incorporated by reference herein.

ITEM 5. INTEREST IN SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER

Item 5 of the Schedule 13D is amended by adding the following:

Percentages of the Shares outstanding reported in this Amendment No. 12 are calculated based upon the 7,756,156 Shares outstanding as of October 30, 2020, as reported in TPL's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2020, filed by TPL with the SEC on November 5, 2020.

The aggregate number and percentage of the class of securities identified pursuant to Item 1 beneficially owned by Horizon, on behalf of its clients, including its proprietary accounts may be found in rows 11 and 13 of the cover page, which is hereby incorporated by reference.

This Schedule 13D does not include approximately 24,166 Shares of TPL held personally by senior portfolio managers of Horizon and their families.  The right to dividends from, or proceeds from the sale of such Shares resides with the beneficial owners of such accounts, and Horizon with respect to its proprietary accounts.  Transactions effected by Horizon in the last 60 days are as listed below.  All sales were the result of a client direction or account limitation, and no sales were made in any proprietary account. 

3


Name of Reporting Person

Date of Transaction

Buy/Sale

Aggregate Amount of Securities

Average Price Per Share

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/16/2020

Buy

95

469.42

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/16/2020

Sale

133

471.45

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/19/2020

Buy

84

472.00

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/19/2020

Sale

89

472.00

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/20/2020

Buy

84

 

469.98

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/20/2020

Sale

3155

 

470.37

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/21/2020

Buy

86

 

463.05

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/21/2020

Sale

638

 

466.58

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/22/2020

Buy

93

 

479.17

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/22/2020

Sale

739

 

477.51

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/23/2020

Buy

104

 

477.98

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/23/2020

Sale

109

 

477.98

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/26/2020

Buy

135

 

472.98

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/26/2020

Sale

154

 

472.55

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/27/2020

Buy

92

 

463.20

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/27/2020

Sale

97

 

463.20

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/28/2020

Buy

94

 

449.49

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/28/2020

Sale

316

 

449.34

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/29/2020

Buy

317

 

464.62

 


4


Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/29/2020

Sale

332

 

464.32

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/30/2020

Buy

92

 

450.41

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

10/30/2020

Sale

822

 

453.74

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/2/2020

Buy

92

 

465.44

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/2/2020

Sale

97

 

465.44

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/3/2020

Buy

303

 

483.35

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/3/2020

Sale

536

 

481.54

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/4/2020

Buy

95

 

474.51

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/4/2020

Sale

100

 

474.51

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/5/2020

Buy

426

 

506.83

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/5/2020

Sale

470

 

505.43

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/6/2020

Buy

91

 

497.58

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/6/2020

Sale

253

 

499.43

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/9/2020

Buy

133

 

574.98

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/9/2020

Sale

235

 

576.12

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/10/2020

Buy

124

 

556.02

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/10/2020

Sale

129

 

556.02

 


5


Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/11/2020

Buy

113

 

540.25

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/11/2020

Sale

118

 

540.25

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/12/2020

Buy

89

537.22

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/12/2020

Sale

94

537.22

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/13/2020

Buy

99

 

549.85

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/13/2020

Sale

104

 

549.85

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/16/2020

Buy

121

 

579.99

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/16/2020

Sale

174

 

576.15

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/17/2020

Buy

142

 

583.01

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/17/2020

Sale

176

 

582.21

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/18/2020

Buy

116

 

581.59

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/20/2020

Buy

404

 

579.17

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/20/2020

Sale

270

 

575.63

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/24/2020

Buy

10

 

630.00

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/24/2020

Sale

5

 

618.05

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/25/2020

Buy

111

 

622.98

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/25/2020

Sale

110

 

617.34

 


6


Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/27/2020

Buy

160

 

591.87

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/27/2020

Sale

129

 

591.23

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/30/2020

Buy

108

 

609.92

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

11/30/2020

Sale

113

 

609.92

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/1/2020

Buy

116

 

614.01

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/1/2020

Sale

121

 

614.01

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/2/2020

Buy

122

 

620.20

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/2/2020

Sale

130

 

620.16

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/3/2020

Buy

189

 

640.52

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/3/2020

Sale

204

 

639.79

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/4/2020

Buy

187

 

669.96

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/4/2020

Sale

192

 

669.96

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/7/2020

Buy

167

 

669.39

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/7/2020

Sale

176

 

669.39

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/8/2020

Buy

167

 

672.00

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/8/2020

Sale

305

 

668.83

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/9/2020

Buy

167

 

682.88

 


7


Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/9/2020

Sale

452

 

677.60

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/10/2020

Buy

167

 

693.02

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/10/2020

Sale

172

 

693.02

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/11/2020

Buy

156

 

692.00

 

Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

12/11/2020

Sale

201

 

692.00

 

ITEM 6. CONTRACTS, ARRANGEMENTS, UNDERSTANDINGS OR RELATIONSHIPS WITH RESPECT TO SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER

Item 6 of the Schedule 13D is amended by adding the following:

The response to Item 4 of this Amendment No. 12 is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 7. MATERIAL TO BE FILED AS EXHIBITS

Item 7 of the Schedule 13D is amended by adding thereto the following:

Exhibit Number


 

Description of Exhibits


11.

 

First Amendment to Stockholders' Agreement dated December 14, 2020.


8

SIGNATURE

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated: December 14, 2020              

/s/ Jay Kesslen                                           

Jay Kesslen

General Counsel

Horizon Kinetics LLC
Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC

 

 

9

FIRST AMENDMENT TO STOCKHOLDERS' AGREEMENT

This FIRST AMENDMENT TO STOCKHOLDERS' AGREEMENT (this "Amendment") is made and entered into as of December 14, 2020, by and among Texas Pacific Land Trust (the "Trust"), on the one hand, and Horizon Kinetics LLC ("Horizon Kinetics") and Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC (together with Horizon Kinetics and collectively with their Affiliates, "Horizon"), SoftVest Advisors, LLC ("SoftVest Advisors") and SoftVest, L.P. (together with SoftVest Advisors, their respective Affiliates and Horizon, the "Investor Group"), and Mission Advisors, LP (together with the Investor Group and its members, collectively, the "Stockholders"), on the other hand.  The Trust and the Stockholders are each herein referred to as a "party" and collectively as the "parties." Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Stockholders Agreement (as defined below) for such term.

WHEREAS, the parties previously entered into that certain Stockholders' Agreement, dated June 11, 2020 (the "Stockholders' Agreement");

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 11(a)(i)(C) of the Stockholders' Agreement, subject to certain terms and conditions, the Stockholders' Agreement shall terminate, if the Distribution Time has not yet occurred, on December 31, 2020 (the "Outside Date"); and

WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the Stockholders' Agreement to provide that the Outside Date be January 31, 2021.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties, intending to be legally bound hereby, agree as follows:

Section 11(a)(i)(C) of the Stockholders' Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following words: "January 31, 2021 (the "Outside Date")".

This Amendment modifies the Stockholders' Agreement only to the extent set forth herein.  Except as specifically amended by this Amendment, the Stockholders' Agreement shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with its terms and is hereby ratified and confirmed.  In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Amendment and the Stockholders' Agreement, this Amendment shall control.

This Amendment, and any disputes arising out of or related to this Amendment (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise), shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict of laws principles that would require the application of laws of another jurisdiction.

This Amendment may be executed in one or more textually identical counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement.  Signatures to this Amendment transmitted by facsimile transmission, by electronic mail in "portable document format" (".pdf") form, or by any other electronic means intended to preserve the original graphic and pictorial appearance of a document, shall have the same effect as physical delivery of the paper document bearing the original signature.

10

This Amendment shall be binding upon, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by and against the permitted successors and assigns of each party.

[Signature Pages Follow]

11

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties has executed this Amendment, or caused the same to be executed by its duly authorized representative, as of the date first above written.

 

TEXAS PACIFIC LAND TRUST

 

 

 

By:  /s/David E. Barry                                                        

 

Name:   David E. Barry

 

Title:   Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:  /s/John R. Norris III                                                    

 

Name:   John R. Norris III

 

Title:   Trustee


SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIRST AMENDMENT TO STOCKHOLDERS’ AGREEMENT


 

SoftVest Advisors, LLC

 

 

 

 

By:  /s/Eric L. Oliver                                                            

 

Name:   Eric L. Oliver

 

Title:   President

 

 

 

 

 

SoftVest, L.P.

 

 

 

 

By:  /s/Eric L. Oliver                                                          

 

Name:   Eric L. Oliver

 

Title:   President


SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIRST AMENDMENT TO STOCKHOLDERS’ AGREEMENT


 

Mission Advisors, LP

 

 

 

 

By:  /s/Dana F. McGinnis                                                  

 

Name:   Dana F. McGinnis

 

Title:   Chief Investment Officer


 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO STOCKHOLDERS' AGREEMENT