UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): June 5, 2012

 

 

Buckeye Partners, L.P.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   1-9356   23-2432497

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

One Greenway Plaza

Suite 600 Houston, Texas

  77046
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (832) 615-8600

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

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Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The annual meeting of unitholders of Buckeye Partners, L.P. (the “Partnership”) was held on June 5, 2012. At the meeting, the following matters were voted upon by the Partnership’s unitholders: (i) the election of three Class II directors to serve on the board of directors of Buckeye GP LLC, the Partnership’s general partner, until the Partnership’s 2015 annual meeting, and (ii) the ratification of the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Partnership’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year 2012.

All nominees for director were elected, with voting as detailed below:

 

     For      Withheld      Broker Non-Votes  

1. Pieter Bakker

     52,644,883         799,353         34,433,782   

2. C. Scott Hobbs

     52,823,829         620,407         34,433,782   

3. Mark C. McKinley

     52,805,946         638,290         34,433,782   

The proposal to appoint Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Partnership’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year 2012 was ratified, with voting as detailed below:

 

For   Against     Abstain     Broker Non-Votes  
86,897,626     683,596        296,794        0   


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

BUCKEYE PARTNERS, L.P.
By:   Buckeye GP LLC,
  its General Partner
By:   /s/ WILLIAM H. SCHMIDT, JR.
  William H. Schmidt, Jr.
  Vice President and General Counsel

Dated: June 11, 2012