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ARAMARK Corporation (RMK)
$6.3B Management-Led Buyout
Summary
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Management-led
group offers $33.80 per share
- $6.3B equity value, $8.3B including assumed debt
- Offer from CEO and private equity funds
- Joseph Neubauer is CEO - controlling shareholder
- Owns 39.6% of Class A common (10 votes per share)
- Owns 16.8% of Class B common (1 votes per share)
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Ownership table At page 18
Announced
8.08.06
Closed
1.26.07
Business
services (Cafeterias, food, uniforms)
Original
proposal was at $32 per share
- Opposed by hedge fund, Eminence Capital
- Offer was increased to $33.80 (5.625%)
- Eminence claims RMK is worth more than $37 per
share
- In revised deal, CEO Neubauer has agreed to vote
his ten-vote A stock to have only one vote per share
Developments
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Club Deal
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Private equity firm sponsors
- GS Capital Partners
- CCMP Capital Investors
- JP Morgan Partners
- Thomas H Lee Partners
- Warburg Pincus LLC
Buyout
group - Initial 13D filings 5.11.06
Buyout
group - 13D amendments 8.10.06
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Advisors
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Financial
- Sponsors: Goldman Sachs / JP Morgan
- Special committee: Credit
Suisse
Legal
- Sponsors: Simpson Thacher / Sullivan
& Cromwell / Wachtell
- Special committee: Shearman &
Sterling
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Initial Proposal - Hedge Fund Opposition
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Initial
buyout offer
was $32 per share May 2006
- Company forms special committee
Offer
was opposed
by hedge fund Eminence Capital
- Held 5.8% prior to initial buyout proposal
- Has increased its holdings to 9.4%
Eminence
presentation to special committee 6.12.06
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Slides
- Precedent deals analysis
- Per share values of $37.00 to $41.26, or even
higher
- Per share values of $38.91 to $42.49
- Argues for pursuit of alternatives
- Including a leveraged 20% - 30% share repurchase
Eminence
sells off most of its holdings 8.11.06
- 13D amendment shows 1.7% position
Eminence
Capital 13D filings
- Discloses 5.8% holding
- Generic hedge fund Item 4 disclosure
re: investment purpose
- Discloses 7.8% holding
- Expresses dissatisfaction with the proposed
buyout
- Attaches letter to directors recommending
alternatives
- Discloses 9.4% holding
- Discloses special committee presentation slides
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Merger Agreement
Other Agreements
Financing
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No
financing condition 
Equity
commitment letters
Guarantees
Debt
commitment
- $4.605mm senior secured facilities
- $1.700mm senior increasing rate bridge
- $770mm senior subordinated increasing rate bridge
Merger
agreement provisions
- §4.7
Financing representation
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§4.8
Sponsor commitment representation
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§4.9
Equity rollover representation
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§5.14
Financing covenant
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§5.15
Debt tender covenant
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Deal Protection
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No
shop covenant
Break-up
fee
Vote
lock-up
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Proxy Solicitation -
Schedule 13E-3 Filings
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Shareholder
meeting held 12.20.06
Proxy
statement
Schedule
13e-3 filings
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Fairness Opinions - Advisor Presentations
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Fairness
opinions 
Advisor
board presentations
Filed as Schedule 13e-3 exhibits
Statements
about fairness
Per going private rules
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