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This
Form 3 is being filed by Thomas H. Lee Equity Fund VI, L.P., (the
“Reporting Person”). On May 1, 2006, Joseph Neubauer, the Chairman of the
Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of ARAMARK Corporation,
a
corporation organized under the laws of Delaware (the “Issuer”), delivered
a letter to the Board of Directors of the Issuer in which it was
proposed
that the Reporting Person, together with investors that are expected
to
include Mr. Neubauer and funds managed by GS Capital Partners, J.P.
Morgan
Partners and Warburg Pincus LLC (the “Non-THL Investors” and collectively
with the Reporting Person the “Investors”), would offer to acquire by
merger, for a purchase price of $32.00 in cash per share, all of
the
outstanding shares of the Issuer’s Class A Common Stock and Class B Common
Stock, other than any shares held by any of the Investors and members
of
the Issuer’s senior management team that are to be invested in the
transaction (the “Proposal”). As a result of the Proposal the Investors
and certain of their affiliates may be deemed to constitute a “group”,
within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange
Act of
1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), that beneficially owns more than
10% of the outstanding shares of the Issuer's Class A Common Stock
and
Class B Common Stock. By reason of the provisions of Rule 16a-1 of
the
Exchange Act, the Reporting Person may be deemed to be the beneficial
owner of any securities that may be deemed to be beneficially owned
by the
Non-THL Investors. The Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership
of
all shares of the Issuer's Class A Common Stock and Class B Common
Stock,
including any such shares beneficially owned by the Non-THL Investors.
This Form 3 shall not be deemed an admission that the Reporting Person
is
a beneficial owner of any shares the Issuer's of Class A Common Stock
or
Class B Common Stock for purposes of Section 16 of the Exchange Act
or for
any other purpose or that the Reporting Person has an obligation
to file
this Form 3..
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