The Firm represented ARAMARK Holdings Corporation (“Aramark”) in connection with its $834 million initial public offering, consisting of a sale by Aramark and certain selling stockholders of 41,687,500 shares of common stock (including shares sold pursuant to the underwriters’ full exercise of their over-allotment option) at a public offering price of $20.00 per share. Aramark’s common stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “ARMK” on December 12, 2013.
Aramark is a leading global provider of food, facilities and uniform services to education, healthcare, business and industry and sports, leisure and corrections clients. With more than 270,000 employees, Aramark operates in 22 countries around the world, provides services to 86% of the Fortune 500, serves over 500 million meals annually to approximately 5 million students, services over 2,000 healthcare facilities, caters to approximately 100 million sports fans annually, and puts over 2 million people in uniforms each day.
The Simpson Thacher team included Joseph Kaufman, Paige Fleming, Siobhan Lam, James Hays and Andrew Edelen (Capital Markets); Jennifer Nadborny (Public Company Advisory Practice); Andrea Wahlquist, Douglas Tang and Brittany McCants (Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits); Jennifer Hobbs, Makiko Harunari, Caroline Gross and Michael Monteleone (Credit) and Steven Todrys and Jodi Sackel (Tax).
