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SEC FORM 3 SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*

Brannon Richard D

(Last)

(First)

(Middle)

C/O CH4 ENERGY III, LLC

421 W. 3RD ST., SUITE 750

(Street)

FORT WORTH

76102

(City)

(State)

(Zip)

2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
03/16/2016

3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. [ ETE ]

4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

X	Director	10% Owner
	Officer (give title below)	Other (specify below)

5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X	Form filed by One Reporting Person
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Units	38,400	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares	4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
SERIES A CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED UNITS	⁽¹⁾	⁽¹⁾	Common Units	38,400⁽²⁾	6.56⁽³⁾	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. The Series A Convertible Preferred Units (the "Convertible Units") representing limited partner interests in Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. (the "Partnership") will automatically convert on the first business day following the date that is the earliest of (a) May 18, 2018, (b) the date upon which all Convertible Units would be convertible into 136,612,021 common units representing limited partner interests in the Partnership ("common units"), (c) the date of a change of control of the Partnership or (d) the date of a dissolution of the Partnership (the "Conversion Date").

2. . On the Conversion Date, each Convertible Unit will automatically convert into common units, the number of which will be determined by dividing (a) the Conversion Value (as defined below) on that date by (b) $6.56. The conversion value of each Convertible Unit (the "Conversion Value") on the transaction date is zero, and the Conversion Value will increase each fiscal quarter in an amount equal to $0.285 less the cash distribution actually paid with respect to each Convertible Unit for such quarter (or, if prior to the closing of the Partnership's acquisition of The Williams Companies, Inc., or earlier termination of the merger agreement relating to such acquisition, with respect to each Participating Common Unit (as defined below)).

3. One Convertible Unit was issued for each common unit (a "Participating Common Unit") that the holder validly elected to participate in a plan (the "Plan") to forgo a portion of future potential cash distributions on Participating Common Units for a period of up to nine fiscal quarters, commencing with distributions for the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2016.

Remarks:

	Sonia Aube, Attorney-in-fact for Mr. Brannon	03/23/2016
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
(ATTORNEY-IN-FACT TO
EXECUTE SEC FORMS 3, 4 & 5 and 144 FILINGS)

I, Richard D. Brannon, do hereby appoint each Thomas P. Mason, William Jason
Healy, Sonia Aube, and Peggy J. Harrison, signing singly, as my true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:

1.	Execute the following items (each a "report" and, collectively, "reports"),
on my behalf and in my capacity as it relates to my beneficial ownership of
securities of Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. or any of its subsidiaries
("Partnership"), and to submit the same to the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC"):
a.	Forms 3, 4 and 5 (including amendments thereto) and any other reports
required pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the rules thereunder; and
b.	Form 144 and any other similar reports required under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended; and

2.	Perform any and all acts on my behalf which may be necessary or desirable to
complete and execute any Reports and timely file such Reports with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any stock exchange or similar
authority; and

3.	Take any other action in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion
of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or
legally required by the undersigned, it being understood that any document
executed by such attorney-in-fact on my behalf pursuant to this Power of
Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as
such attorney-in-fact may approve in their discretion.

I grant to each such attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to do and
perform any act necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the
rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as I
might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation.  I ratify and confirm all that such attorney-in-fact, or any
substitute of such attorney-in-fact, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by
the rights and powers granted by this Power of Attorney.

I acknowledge that each such attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at my
request, is not assuming, nor is the Partnership, assuming, any of my
responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, or applicable federal or state
securities laws generally.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until I am no
longer required to file any Reports with respect to my holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Partnership, unless I earlier revoke it
in a signed writing delivered to the General Counsel and Secretary of the
Company.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed this 22nd day of March, 2016.

/s/ Richard D. Brannon
Richard D. Brannon

STATE OF TEXAS

COUNTY OF TARRANT


	On this 22nd day of March, 2016, Richard D. Brannon personally appeared before
me, and acknowledged that he executed the foregoing instrument for the purposes
therein contained.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal.

/s/Deborah D. Womble
Notary Public

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