SEC Form 15-12G filed by Fiesta Restaurant Group Inc.

Explanatory Note: Effective as of October 30, 2023, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of August 6, 2023, by and among Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), 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”), among other things, (i) Merger Sub was merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”) with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent, and (ii) at the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”), (1) each share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (“Common Stock”) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than shares owned by the Company, any of the Company’s subsidiaries, Parent, any of Parent’s subsidiaries (including Merger Sub’s subsidiaries), or by stockholders who have properly exercised and perfected appraisal rights under Delaware law) was automatically cancelled and converted into the right to receive $8.50 per share in cash, without interest (the “Merger Consideration”), (2) each restricted stock award with respect to Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, (i) was deemed to be fully vested and the restrictions with respect thereto lapsed, and (ii) was treated in the Merger in the same manner as the other shares of Common Stock, and (3) each award of restricted stock units pursuant to which the recipient had a right to receive shares of Common Stock (“Company Restricted Stock Unit Award”) that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, (i) was canceled and extinguished as of the Effective Time and (ii) was converted into the right to receive an amount, in cash, equal to the product of (A) the number of shares of Common Stock subject to such Company Restricted Stock Unit Award (with such number of shares for a Company Restricted Stock Unit Award subject to performance-based vesting determined at the target level of performance) multiplied by (B) the Merger Consideration. This Form 15 is intended to terminate the registration of the Common Stock under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and to terminate and suspend all filing obligations under Section 12(g) and Section 15(d), respectively, with respect to the Common Stock.