FWRG - First Watch Restaurant Group Inc. Announces Secondary Offering of Common Stock | Benzinga
BRADENTON, Fla., March 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. ("FWRG" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:FWRG), a leading Daytime Dining concept serving breakfast, brunch and lunch, today announced the launch of an underwritten secondary offering (the "Offering") by certain funds managed by Advent International, L.P. (the "Selling Stockholders") of 6,000,000 shares of the Company's common stock ("Common Stock").
The underwriter has a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 900,000 shares of Common Stock at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions.
The Selling Stockholders will receive all of the proceeds from the Offering. The Company is not selling any shares of Common Stock in the Offering and will not receive any proceeds from the Offering.
Barclays is acting as the sole underwriter of the Offering.
The underwriter proposes to offer the shares of Common Stock from time to time for sale in one or more transactions on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, in the over-the-counter market, through negotiated transactions or otherwise at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to prevailing market prices or at negotiated prices.
The Offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement (including a prospectus) filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in the shelf registration statement and other documents the Company has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and the Offering. The Offering will be made only by means of a free writing prospectus, a prospectus and a related prospectus supplement relating to the Offering, copies of which may be obtained from Barclays Capital Inc. c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 Barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com, (888) 603-5847. A copy of the free writing prospectus, the prospectus and the related prospectus supplement relating to the Offering may also be obtained free of charge by visiting EDGAR on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
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