---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001606366-23-000036"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LOCO"
cik: "0001606366"
company_name: "El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-08-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T02:04:18.395379+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# El Pollo Loco repurchases 2.5M shares from largest holder Freeman Spogli for $26.6M

## Summary
- Repurchased 2.5M shares at $10.63 each, total $26,575,000, closing August 8, 2023.
- Sellers are FS Equity Partners V and FS Affiliates V; John Roth, a director, is a general partner at Freeman Spogli.
- Sellers agreed to a 30-day lockup on remaining shares owned or controlled.
- Company funded repurchase with available cash; no new debt issued.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001606366-23-000036
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LOCO
- cik: 0001606366
- company_name: El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-08-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636623000036/0001606366-23-000036-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636623000036/loco-20230807x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001606366-23-000036
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001606366-23-000036.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001606366-23-000036.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. entered into Stock Repurchase Agreement with FS Equity Partners V, L.P. and FS Affiliates V, L.P. valued at $26,575,000 (effective 2023-08-07).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: equity purchase
  - Counterparty: FS Equity Partners V, L.P. and FS Affiliates V, L.P.
  - Value: $26,575,000
  - Effective: 2023-08-07
  source text: On August 7, 2023, El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into a Stock Repurchase Agreement (the “Repurchase Agreement”) with FS Equity Partners V, L.P. and FS Affiliates V, L.P. (together, the “Sellers”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to purchase an aggregate of 2,500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), from the Sellers at a price of $10.63 per share, representing the closing price of such shares as listed on Nasdaq on August 7, 2023, for a total purchase price of $26,575,000 (the “repurchase”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636623000036/0001606366-23-000036-index.htm

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