Energy Transfer Equity and Energy Transfer Partners Announce Form S-4 Registration Statement Declared Effective by SEC

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. (NYSE: ETE) and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP) today announced that ETE’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 relating to the previously announced merger transaction between ETE and ETP has been declared effective as of September 7, 2018 by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and that ETP has filed a definitive proxy statement with the SEC for the special meeting of its unitholders to vote on the merger.