Exhibit



Exhibit 4.11





DESCRIPTION OF PBF LOGISTICS LP’s SECURITIES
REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


As of December 31, 2019, PBF Logistics LP (“PBFX,” the “Partnership,” “our,” or “us”) had a single class of security registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”): common units (the “Common Units”) representing limited partner interests. The following description of Common Units is a summary and, as such, we do not deem them to be complete. It is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, reference to the Third Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of PBF Logistics LP, dated as of February 13, 2019 (the “partnership agreement”), which is incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of which this Exhibit 4.11 is a part. Please refer to the partnership agreement for additional information.


The Common Units


The Common Units represent limited partner interests in us that entitle the holders thereof to the rights and privileges specified to limited partners set forth in our partnership agreement, including the right to participate in Partnership distributions. 


Listing


The Common Units are traded on The New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “PBFX.”


General Partner Interest


Our general partner manages and operates us. Our general partner owns a noneconomic general partner interest in us, which does not entitle it to receive cash distributions. However, our general partner may in the future own Common Units or other equity securities in us and become entitled to receive distributions on any such acquired interests.


Cash Distributions


Our partnership agreement requires that, on or about the last day of each of February, May, August and November, following the end of each quarter, we distribute all of our available cash, with respect to such quarter, to unitholders of record on the applicable record date. Available cash generally means, for any quarter, all cash on hand at the end of the quarter:
		
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	less, the amount of cash reserves established by our general partner to:


		
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	provide for the proper conduct of our business (including cash reserves for our future capital expenditures and anticipated future debt service requirements subsequent to that quarter);


		
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	comply with applicable law, any of our debt instruments or other agreements, including our amended and restated revolving credit facility and the indenture governing our 6.875% Senior Notes due 2023; or


		
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	provide funds for distributions to our unitholders and to our general partner for any one or more of the next four quarters (provided that our general partner may not establish cash reserves for distributions if the effect of the establishment of such reserves will prevent us from distributing the minimum quarterly distribution on all Common Units and any cumulative arrearages on such Common Units for the current quarter);


		
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	plus, if our general partner so determines, all or any portion of the cash on hand on the date of determination of available cash for the quarter resulting from working capital borrowings made subsequent to the end of such quarter.




The purpose and effect of the last bullet point above is to allow our general partner, if it so decides, to use cash from working capital borrowings made after the end of the quarter but on or before the date of determination of available cash for that quarter to pay distributions to unitholders. Under our partnership agreement, working capital borrowings are generally borrowings that are made under a credit facility, commercial paper facility or similar financing arrangement, and in all cases are used solely for working capital purposes or to pay distributions to unitholders, and with the intent of the borrower to repay such borrowings within twelve months with funds other than from additional working capital borrowings.


Capital Contributions


Except for limited circumstances described in our partnership agreement or under applicable Delaware law, all of the outstanding Common Units will be fully paid and unitholders are not required to make additional contributions. 















Voting Rights


The following is a summary of the unitholder vote required for approval of the matters specified below. Matters that require the approval of a “unit majority” require the approval of a majority of our Common Units.


In voting their Common Units, our general partner and its affiliates will have no fiduciary duty or obligation whatsoever to us or the limited partners, including any duty to act in good faith or in the best interests of us or the limited partners. 


	
			
	 
	 
	 

	Issuance of additional units
	 
	No approval right.

	 
	 

	Amendment of the partnership agreement
	 
	Certain amendments may be made by our general partner without the approval of the unitholders. Other amendments generally require the approval of a unit majority. Please read “-Amendment of the Partnership Agreement.”

	 
	 

	Merger or the sale of all or substantially all of our assets
	 
	Unit majority in certain circumstances. Please read “-Merger, Consolidation, Conversion, Sale or Other Disposition of Assets.”

	 
	 

	Dissolution of our Partnership
	 
	Unit majority. Please read “-Dissolution.”

	 
	 

	Continuation of our business upon dissolution
	 
	Unit majority. Please read “-Dissolution.”

	 
	 

	Withdrawal of our general partner
	 
	Under most circumstances, the approval of a majority of the Common Units, excluding Common Units held by our general partner and its affiliates, is required for the withdrawal of our general partner prior to June 30, 2024 in a manner that would cause a dissolution of our Partnership. 

	 
	 

	Removal of our general partner
	 
	Not less than 66 2⁄3% of the outstanding Common Units, including units held by our general partner and its affiliates. 

	 
	 

	Transfer of our general partner interest
	 
	No approval right. 

	 
	 

	Transfer of ownership interests in our general partner
	 
	No approval right. 






If any person or group other than our general partner and its affiliates acquires beneficial ownership of 20% or more of any class of units, that person or group loses voting rights on all of its units. This loss of voting rights does not apply to any person or group that acquires the units from our general partner or its affiliates and any transferees of that person or group approved by our general partner or to any person or group who acquires the units with the specific prior approval of our general partner.


Amendment of the Partnership Agreement


General


Amendments to our partnership agreement may be proposed only by our general partner. However, our general partner has no duty or obligation to propose any amendment and may decline to do so free of any fiduciary duty or obligation whatsoever to us or the limited partners, including any duty to act in good faith or in the best interests of us or the limited partners. In order to adopt a proposed amendment, other than the amendments discussed below, our general partner is required to seek written approval of the holders of the number of units required to approve the amendment or to call a meeting of the limited partners to consider and vote upon the proposed amendment. Except as described below, an amendment must be approved by a unit majority.

















Prohibited Amendments


No amendment may be made that would:
		
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	enlarge the obligations of any limited partner without his or her consent, unless approved by at least a majority of the type or class of limited partner interests so affected; or


		
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	enlarge the obligations of, restrict, change or modify in any way any action by or rights of, or reduce in any way the amounts distributable, reimbursable or otherwise payable by us to our general partner or any of its affiliates without the consent of our general partner, which consent may be given or withheld in its sole discretion.




The provision of our partnership agreement preventing the amendments having the effects described in the clauses above can be amended upon the approval of the holders of at least 90.0% of the outstanding units, voting as a single class (including units owned by our general partner and its affiliates).


No Unitholder Approval


Our general partner may generally make amendments to our partnership agreement without the approval of any limited partner to reflect:
		
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	a change in our name, the location of our principal place of business, our registered agent or our registered office;


		
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	the admission, substitution, withdrawal or removal of partners in accordance with our partnership agreement;


		
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	a change that our general partner determines to be necessary or appropriate to qualify or continue our qualification as a limited partnership or a partnership in which the limited partners have limited liability under the laws of any state or to ensure that neither we nor any of our subsidiaries will be treated as an association taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxed as an entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes (to the extent not already so treated or taxed);


		
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	an amendment that is necessary, in the opinion of our counsel, to prevent us or our general partner or its directors, officers, agents or trustees from in any manner being subjected to the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 or “plan asset” regulations adopted under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, whether or not substantially similar to plan asset regulations currently applied or proposed;


		
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	an amendment that our general partner determines to be necessary or appropriate in connection with the creation, authorization or issuance of additional partnership interests or the right to acquire partnership interests;


		
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	any amendment expressly permitted in our partnership agreement to be made by our general partner acting alone;


		
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	an amendment effected, necessitated or contemplated by a merger agreement that has been approved under the terms of our partnership agreement;


		
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	any amendment that our general partner determines to be necessary or appropriate for the formation by us of, our investment in, any corporation, partnership or other entity, as otherwise permitted by our partnership agreement; 


		
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	a change in our fiscal year or taxable period and related changes;


		
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	conversions into, mergers with or conveyances to another limited liability entity that is newly formed and has no assets, liabilities or operations at the time of the conversion, merger or conveyance other than those it receives by way of the conversion, merger or conveyance; or


		
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	any other amendments substantially similar to any of the matters described in the clauses above. 




In addition, our general partner may make amendments to our partnership agreement, without the approval of any limited partner, if our general partner determines that those amendments:
		
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	do not adversely affect the limited partners, considered as a whole, or any particular class of limited partners, in any material respect; 


		
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	are necessary or appropriate to satisfy any requirements, conditions or guidelines contained in any opinion, directive, order, ruling or regulation of any federal or state agency or judicial authority or contained in any federal or state statute;


		
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	are necessary or appropriate to facilitate the trading of limited partners interests or to comply with any rule, regulation, guideline or requirement of any securities exchange on which the limited partner interests are or will be listed for trading; 


		
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	are necessary or appropriate for any action taken by our general partner relating to splits or combinations of units under the provisions of our partnership agreement;


		
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	are necessary or appropriate in connection with the creation, authorization or issuance of any class or series of partnership securities; or 













		
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	are required to effect the intent expressed in this prospectus or the intent of the provisions of our partnership agreement or are otherwise contemplated by our partnership agreement. 




Non-Taxpaying Holders; Redemption


To avoid any adverse effect on the maximum applicable rates chargeable to customers by us or any of our future subsidiaries, or in order to reverse an adverse determination that has occurred regarding such maximum rate, our partnership agreement provides our general partner the power to amend the agreement. If our general partner, with the advice of counsel, determines that our not being treated as an association taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxable as an entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes, coupled with the tax status (or lack of proof thereof) of one or more of our limited partners, has, or is reasonably likely to have, a material adverse effect on the maximum applicable rates chargeable to customers by our subsidiaries, then our general partner may adopt such amendments to our partnership agreement as it determines necessary or advisable to:
		
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	obtain proof of the U.S. federal income tax status of our limited partners (and their owners, to the extent relevant); and


		
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	permit us to redeem the units held by any person whose tax status has or is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the maximum applicable rates or who fails to comply with the procedures instituted by our general partner to obtain proof of the federal income tax status. 




The redemption price in the case of such a redemption will be the average of the daily closing prices per unit for the 20 consecutive trading days immediately prior to the date set for redemption. 


Non-Citizen Assignees; Redemption


If our general partner, with the advice of counsel, determines we are subject to U.S. federal, state or local laws or regulations that, in the reasonable determination of our general partner, create a substantial risk of cancellation or forfeiture of any property that we have an interest in because of the nationality, citizenship or other related status of any limited partner, then our general partner may adopt such amendments to our partnership agreement as it determines necessary or advisable to:
		
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	obtain proof of the nationality, citizenship or other related status of our limited partners (and their owners, to the extent relevant); and


		
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	permit us to redeem the units held by any person whose nationality, citizenship or other related status creates substantial risk of cancellation or forfeiture of any property or who fails to comply with the procedures instituted by the general partner to obtain proof of the nationality, citizenship or other related status. 




The redemption price in the case of such a redemption will be the average of the daily closing prices per unit for the 20 consecutive trading days immediately prior to the date set for redemption.


Indemnification


Under our partnership agreement, in most circumstances, we will indemnify the following persons, to the fullest extent permitted by law, from and against all losses, claims, damages or similar events:
		
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	our general partner;


		
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	any departing general partner; 


		
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	any person who is or was an affiliate of our general partner or any departing general partner;


		
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	any person who is or was a manager, managing member, general partner, director officer, employee, agent, fiduciary or trustee of the Partnership, our subsidiaries, our general partner, any departing general partner or any of their affiliates;


		
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	any person who is or was serving at the request of a general partner, any departing general partner or any of their respective affiliates as a manager, managing member, general partner, director, officer, employee, agent, fiduciary or trustee of another person owing a fiduciary duty to us or our subsidiaries;


		
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	any person who controls our general partner or any departing general partner; and


		
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	any person designated by our general partner. 




Any indemnification under these provisions will only be out of our assets. Unless our general partner otherwise agrees, it will not be personally liable for, or have any obligation to contribute or lend funds or assets to us to enable us to effectuate, indemnification. We may purchase insurance against liabilities asserted against and expenses incurred by persons for our activities, regardless of whether we would have the power to indemnify the person against liabilities under our partnership agreement.













Reimbursement of Expenses


Our partnership agreement requires us to reimburse our general partner and its affiliates for all direct and indirect expenses they incur or payments they make on our behalf and all other expenses allocable to us or otherwise incurred by our general partner and its affiliates in connection with operating our business. Our partnership agreement does not set a limit on the amount of expenses for which our general partner and its affiliates may be reimbursed. These expenses include salary, bonus, incentive compensation and other amounts paid to persons who perform services for us or on our behalf and expenses allocated to our general partner by its affiliates. Our general partner is entitled to determine in good faith the expenses that are allocable to us.


Books and Reports


Our general partner is required to keep appropriate books of our business at our principal offices. These books are maintained for both tax and financial reporting purposes on an accrual basis. For tax and fiscal reporting purposes, our fiscal year is the calendar year.


We furnish or make available to record holders of our Common Units, within 105 days after the close of each fiscal year, an annual report containing audited consolidated financial statements and a report on those consolidated financial statements by our independent public accountants. Except for our fourth quarter, we also furnish or make available summary financial information within 50 days after the close of each quarter. We are deemed to have made any such report available if we file such report with the Securities and Exchange Commission on EDGAR or make the report available on a publicly available website which we maintain.


We furnish each record holder with information reasonably required for U.S. federal and state tax reporting purposes within 90 days after the close of each calendar year. This information is expected to be furnished in summary form so that some complex calculations normally required of partners can be avoided. Our ability to furnish this summary information to our unitholders depends on their cooperation in supplying us with specific information. Every unitholder receives information to assist him or her in determining his or her U.S. federal and state tax liability and in filing his or her U.S. federal and state income tax returns, regardless of whether he or she supplies us with the necessary information.


Right to Inspect Our Books and Records


Our partnership agreement provides that a limited partner can, for a purpose reasonably related to his or her interest as a limited partner, upon reasonable written demand stating the purpose of such demand and at his or her own expense, have furnished to him or her:
		
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	a current list of the name and last known address of each record holder; 


		
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	information as to the amount of cash, and a description and statement of the agreed value of any other capital contribution, contributed or to be contributed by each partner and the date on which each became a partner;


		
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	copies of our partnership agreement, our certificate of limited partnership, related amendments and powers of attorney under which they have been executed;


		
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	information regarding the status of our business and financial condition (provided that obligation shall be satisfied to the extent the limited partner is furnished our most recent annual report and any subsequent quarterly or periodic reports required to be filed (or which would be required to be filed) with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act); and


		
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	any other information regarding our affairs that our general partner determines is just and reasonable.


    
Under our partnership agreement, however, each of our limited partners and other persons who acquire interests in our partnership interests, do not have rights to receive information from us or any of the persons we indemnify as described above under “-Indemnification” for the purpose of determining whether to pursue litigation or assist in pending litigation against us or those indemnified persons relating to our affairs, except pursuant to the applicable rules of discovery relating to the litigation commenced by the person seeking information.


Our general partner may, and intends to, keep confidential from the limited partners trade secrets or other information the disclosure of which our general partner believes in good faith is not in our best interests or that we are required by law or by agreements with third parties to keep confidential.

















Registration Rights


Under our partnership agreement, we have agreed to register for resale under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and applicable state securities laws any Common Units or other limited partner interests proposed to be sold by our general partner or any of its affiliates or their assignees if an exemption from the registration requirements is not otherwise available. These registration rights continue for two years following any withdrawal or removal of our general partner. We are obligated to pay all expenses incidental to the registration, excluding underwriting discounts.


Issuance of Additional Interests


Our partnership agreement authorizes us to issue an unlimited number of additional partnership interests for the consideration and on the terms and conditions determined by our general partner without the approval of the unitholders.


Holders of any additional Common Units we issue will be entitled to share equally with the then-existing holders of our Common Units in our distributions. In addition, the issuance of additional Common Units or other partnership interests may dilute the value of the interests of the then-existing holders of our Common Units in our net assets.


In accordance with Delaware law and the provisions of our partnership agreement, we may also issue additional partnership interests that, as determined by our general partner, may have rights to distributions or special voting rights to which the Common Units are not entitled. In addition, our partnership agreement does not prohibit our current or future subsidiaries from issuing equity interests, which may effectively rank senior to the Common Units.


Our general partner has the right, which it may from time to time assign in whole or in part to any of its affiliates, to purchase Common Units or other partnership interests or to make additional capital contributions to us whenever, and on the same terms that, we issue partnership interests to persons other than our general partner and its affiliates, to the extent necessary to maintain the percentage interest of our general partner and its affiliates, including such interest represented by Common Units, that existed immediately prior to each issuance. 


No Preemptive Rights


The holders of our Common Units do not have preemptive rights under our partnership agreement to acquire additional Common Units or other partnership interests. 


Limited Call Right


If at any time PBF Energy Inc. (“PBF Energy”) and its controlled affiliates own more than 80% of the then-issued and outstanding limited partner interests of any class, including our Common Units, PBF Energy will have the right, which it may assign in whole or in part to any of its affiliates or beneficial owners or to us, to acquire all, but not less than all, of the limited partner interests of the class held by unaffiliated persons, as of a record date to be selected by our general partner, on at least 10, but not more than 60, days’ notice. 


The purchase price in the event of this purchase is the greater of:
		
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	the highest price paid by our general partner or any of its affiliates for any limited partner interests of the class purchased within the 90 days preceding the date on which our general partner first mails its notice of election to purchase those limited partner interests; and


		
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	the average of the daily closing prices of the Partnership securities of such class over the 20 consecutive trading days preceding the date that is three days before the date the notice is mailed.




Exclusive Forum Provision


Our partnership agreement is governed by Delaware law. Our partnership agreement requires that any claims, suits, actions or proceedings:
		
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	arising out of or relating in any way to the partnership agreement (including any claims, suits or actions to interpret, apply or enforce the provisions of the partnership agreement or the duties, obligations or liabilities among limited partners or of limited partners to us, or the rights or powers of, or restrictions on, the limited partners or us);


		
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	brought in a derivative manner on our behalf;













		
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	asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer or other employee of us or our general partner, or owed by our general partner, to us or the limited partners;


		
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	asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, as amended; or


		
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	asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine




shall be exclusively brought in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction thereof, any other court located in the State of Delaware with subject matter jurisdiction), regardless of whether such claims, suits, actions or proceedings sound in contract, tort, fraud or otherwise, are based on common law, statutory, equitable, legal or other grounds, or are derivative or direct claims. By purchasing a Common Unit, a limited partner is irrevocably consenting to these limitations and provisions regarding claims, suits, actions or proceedings and submitting to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware in connection with any such claims, suits, actions or proceedings.


Dissolution


We will continue as a limited partnership until dissolved under our partnership agreement. We will dissolve upon: 
		
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	the election of our general partner to dissolve us, if approved by the holders of a unit majority;


		
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	there being no limited partners, unless we are continued without dissolution in accordance with applicable Delaware law;


		
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	the entry of decree of judicial dissolution of our Partnership; or


		
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	the withdrawal or removal of our general partner or any other event that results in its ceasing to be our general partner other than by reason of a transfer of its general partner interest in accordance with our partnership agreement or its withdrawal or removal following the approval and admission of a successor. 




Upon a dissolution under the last clause above, the holders of a unit majority may also elect, within specific time limitations, to continue our business on the same terms and conditions described in our partnership agreement by appointing as a successor general partner an entity approved by the holders of units representing a unit majority, subject to our receipt of an opinion of counsel to the effect that:
		
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	the action would not result in the loss if limited liability under Delaware law of any limited partner; and


		
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	neither we nor any of our subsidiaries would be treated as an association taxable as a corporation or otherwise be taxable as an entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes upon the exercise of that right to continue (to the extent not already so treated or taxed). 




Liquidation and Distribution of Proceeds 


Upon our dissolution, unless our business is continued, the liquidator authorized to wind up our affairs will, acting with all of the powers of our general partner that are necessary or appropriate, liquidate our assets and first apply the proceeds of the liquidation to the payment of our creditors, then distribute any remaining proceeds to the unitholders in accordance with their capital account balances, as adjusted to reflect any gain or loss upon the sale or other disposition of our assets in liquidation. The liquidator may defer liquidation or distribution of our assets for a reasonable period of time or distribute assets to partners in kind if it determines that a sale would be impractical or would cause undue loss to our partners.


Merger, Consolidation, Conversion, Sale or Other Disposition of Assets


A merger, consolidation or conversion of us requires the prior consent of our general partner. However, our general partner has no duty or obligation to consent to any merger, consolidation or conversion and may decline to do so free of any fiduciary duty or obligation whatsoever to us or the limited partners, including any duty to act in good faith or in the best interest of us or the limited partners.


In addition, our partnership agreement generally prohibits our general partner, without the prior approval of the holders of a majority of the outstanding Common Units, from causing us to sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, including by way of merger, consolidation or other combination. Our general partner may, however, mortgage, pledge, encumbrance, hypothecate or grant a security interest in all or substantially all of our assets without such approval. Our general partner may also sell all or substantially all of our assets under a foreclosure or other realization upon those encumbrances without such approval. Finally, our general partner may consummate any merger without the prior approval of our unitholders if we are the surviving business entity in the transaction, our general partner has received an opinion of counsel regarding limited liability and tax matters, the transaction would not result in a material amendment











to the partnership agreement (other than an amendment that the general partner could adopt without the consent of other partners), each of our units will be an identical unit of our Partnership following the transaction and the partnership securities to be issued do not exceed 20% of our outstanding partnership interests immediately prior to the transaction. If the conditions specified in our partnership agreement are satisfied, our general partner may convert us or any of our subsidiaries into a new limited liability entity or merge us or any of our subsidiaries into, or convey all of our assets to, a newly formed entity, if the sole purpose of that conversion, merger or conveyance is to effect a mere change in our legal form into another limited liability entity, we have received an opinion of counsel regarding limited liability and tax matters and the governing instruments of the new entity provide the limited partners and our general partner with the same rights and obligations as contained in our partnership agreement. Our unitholders are not entitled to dissenters’ rights of appraisal under our partnership agreement or applicable Delaware law in the event of a conversion, merger or consolidation, a sale of substantially all of our assets or any other similar transaction or event.