Black Stone Minerals LP

06/23/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/23/2021 07:57

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders (Form 8-K)

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

Black Stone Minerals, L.P. (the 'Partnership') held its 2021 annual meeting of limited partners (the 'Annual Meeting') on June 17, 2021 via live webcast for the following purposes: (1) to elect directors to the board of directors of Black Stone Minerals GP, L.L.C., the Partnership's general partner (the 'General Partner'), each to serve until the 2022 annual meeting of limited partners and thereafter until such director's successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, or until such director's earlier death, resignation, or removal, (2) to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Partnership's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2021, and (3) to approve, on a non-bindingadvisory basis, the compensation of the General Partner's named executive officers for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. Each of these items is more fully described in the Partnership's proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2021.

Proposal 1 - Election of Directors

Each of the ten nominees for director was duly elected by the Partnership's unitholders, with votes as follows:

Nominee

Votes For Votes Withheld Broker Non-Vote

Carin M. Barth

106,038,404 834,911 46,157,377

Thomas L. Carter, Jr.

106,763,521 109,794 46,157,377

D. Mark DeWalch

106,612,774 260,541 46,157,377

Jerry V. Kyle, Jr.

106,638,892 234,423 46,157,377

Michael C. Linn

105,957,957 915,358 46,157,377

John H. Longmaid

106,040,412 832,903 46,157,377

William N. Mathis

106,075,813 797,502 46,157,377

William E. Randall

106,682,537 190,778 46,157,377

Alexander D. Stuart

106,120,471 752,844 46,157,377

Allison K. Thacker

106,661,408 211,907 46,157,377

Proposal 2 - Ratification of Appointment of the Partnership's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Partnership's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2021 was ratified by the Partnership's unitholders, with votes as follows:

Votes For

Votes Against

Votes Abstain

Broker Non-Vote

152,901,907

116,786 11,999 -

Proposal 3 - Approval, on a Non-bindingAdvisory Basis, of the Compensation of the General Partner's Named Executive Officers

The compensation of the General Partner's named executive officers for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 was approved, on a non-bindingadvisory basis, by the Partnership's unitholders, with votes as follows:

Votes For

Votes Against

Votes Abstain

Broker Non-Vote

103,354,777

613,968 2,904,570 46,157,377

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