Bright Horizons Family Solutions Announces Proposed Secondary Offering of 8.5M Shares by Selling Stockholders

Bright Horizons Family Solutions BFAM today announced that certain of its stockholders intend to offer for sale 8,500,000 shares of its common stock pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, the selling stockholders expect to grant the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 1,275,000 shares from the selling stockholders. The offering is subject to market and other conditions. The selling stockholders will receive all of the proceeds from this offering. No shares are being sold by the Company. The offering will be made through an underwriting group led by Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan and Barclays, along with BofA Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Baird, BMO Capital Markets, Stifel and Wells Fargo Securities. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus. When available, a copy of the final prospectus related to the offering may be obtained by contacting: Goldman, Sachs & Co., Attn: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, (Tel: 866-471-2526), email: prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; J.P. Morgan, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Ave., Edgewood, NY 11717 (Tel: 866-803-9204); or Barclays, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Ave., Edgewood, NY 11717 (Tel: 888-603-5847), email: barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com. A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, 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. About Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. Bright Horizons Family Solutions® is a leading provider of high-quality child care, early education and other services designed to help employers and families better address the challenges of work and life. The Company provides center-based full service child care, back-up dependent care and educational advisory services to more than 850 clients across the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada and India, including more than 130 FORTUNE 500 companies and more than 75 of Working Mother magazine's 2012 "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers". Bright Horizons is one of FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" and is one of the UK's Best