UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM 8-K

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CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 30, 2023

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FIESTA RESTAURANT GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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14800 Landmark Boulevard, Suite 500, Dallas, Texas, 75254

(Address of principal executive offices) (ZIP code)

(972) 702-9300

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

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Introductory Note

As previously announced, on August 6, 2023, Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Fiesta Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”), and Fiesta Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”). On October 30, 2023 (the “Closing Date”), pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub was merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”) with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

The foregoing descriptions of the Merger and the Merger Agreement do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Merger Agreement, which is included as Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by the Company on August 7, 2023 and is incorporated by reference herein.

Item 1.02. Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement.

In connection with the Merger, effective as of October 27, 2023, the Company terminated the (i) Credit Agreement, dated as of November 23, 2020 (the “Credit Agreement”), by and among the Company, the lenders from time to time party thereto and Fortress Credit Corp., as administrative agent and the collateral agent for the lenders (the “Agent”), (ii) Security Agreement, dated as of November 23, 2020, (the “Security Agreement”) among the Company, certain direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company (the “Guarantors”), as guarantors, and the Agent, and (iii) Guarantee Agreement, dated as of November 23, 2020, (the “Guarantee Agreement”) among the Guarantors and the Agent. The Credit Agreement, Security Agreement and Guarantee Agreement are described in Item 1.01 and Item 2.03 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 30, 2020, which description is incorporated by reference into this Item 1.02.

Item 2.01. Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

 

 

* Schedules and exhibits have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The Company hereby undertakes to furnish supplemental copies of any of the omitted schedules and exhibits upon request by the SEC.

Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, relating to future events or the Company’s future performance, including any discussion, express or implied, regarding the consummation of the acquisition of the Company and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “transaction”), the timing of the suspension of trading and delisting from Nasdaq, the timing of the Form 25 or Form 15 filings with the SEC, the timing and effectiveness of the appointment and departure of directors and officers and the timing and effectiveness of amendments to the Company’s organizational documents. These statements are often identified by the words “may,” “might,” “believe,” “think,” “positioned,” “estimate,” “project,” “plan,” “goal,” “target,” “assumption,” “continue,” “intend,” “expect,” “future,” “anticipate,” and other similar expressions, whether in the negative or the affirmative, that are not statements of historical fact. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that are difficult to predict, and you should not place undue reliance on the Company’s forward-looking statements. The Company’s actual results and the timing of certain events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, those discussed from time to time in our reports filed with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Additional factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements regarding the transaction or the Company include, but are not limited to: occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement or the failure to satisfy the closing conditions, the possibility that the consummation of the transaction and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement are delayed or does not occur, uncertainty as to whether the parties will be able to complete the transaction on the terms set forth in the Merger Agreement, the outcome and costs of any legal proceedings that have been or may be instituted against the parties or others following announcement or consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, challenges, disruptions and costs of integrating and achieving anticipated synergies, or that such synergies will take longer to realize than expected, risks that the transaction and other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement disrupt current plans and operations that may harm the Company’s businesses, the amount of any costs, fees, expenses, impairments and charges related to the transaction, and uncertainty as to the effects of the consummation of the transaction on the Company’s value and financial performance. All forward-looking statements and the internal projections and beliefs upon which the Company bases its expectations included in this Current Report on Form 8-K or other periodic reports represent its estimates as of the date made and should not be relied upon as representing its estimates as of any subsequent date. While the Company may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

 

SIGNATURES

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.

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