** Shares of Kimbell Royalty Partners KRP.N fall 4.7% to
$15.50 post-market as co looks to fund acquisition via equity
raise
** Fort Worth-based firm will buy oil and natural gas
mineral and royalty interests in the Midland Basin, with approx
875 producing wells on over 68,000 gross acres in $231 mln in
cash-and-unit deal
** Co offering of 9 mln common units to fund cash portion
of the acquisition of interests held by Boren Minerals
** Citi, JP Morgan and RBC jt bookrunners for offering
** KRP shares on Tues closed up 0.4% at $16.27. They were
trading around $15 a year ago
** Co has ~95.5 mln shares outstanding for ~$1.6 bln market
cap, per LSEG
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed
are his own)
((lance.tupper@tr.com 1-646-279-6380))