HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC (NYSE:VNR) (“Vanguard”) announced today its intention to voluntarily transfer its stock exchange listing from the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) to The NASDAQ Global Select Market (“NASDAQ”), an exchange of The NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ). Vanguard currently expects that its Class A common units will commence trading on the NASDAQ on April 23, 2013 and will continue to be listed under the ticker symbol “VNR.” Vanguard’s common units will continue to trade on the NYSE until the transfer has been completed.
Scott W. Smith, President & Chief Executive Officer, commented, “After careful consideration, we believe the NASDAQ will provide our unitholders with access to an advanced trading platform and will be a more cost effective platform for Vanguard currently and even more so in the future as we continue to grow. In addition, NASDAQ offers quantitative and qualitative governance standards more beneficial to listed companies with significant retail unitholders, particularly those related to quorum requirements.”
“We are proud to welcome Vanguard Natural Resources to NASDAQ’s family of premier energy companies,” said Bruce Aust, Executive Vice President, Global Corporate Client Group, NASDAQ OMX. “Vanguard Natural Resources joins more than 130 companies to transfer their listings to The NASDAQ Stock Market in recent years, and we look forward to supporting VNR and its unitholders in the years to come.”
About Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC
Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC is a publicly traded limited liability company focused on the acquisition, production and development of mature, long-lived oil and natural gas properties in the United States. The Company's assets consist primarily of producing and non-producing oil and natural gas reserves located in the Arkoma Basin in Arkansas and Oklahoma, Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming and Montana, the Piceance Basin in Colorado, South Texas, the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana, the Wind River Basin in Wyoming, the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Mississippi. More information on Vanguard can be found at www.vnrllc.com.
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