X0202 3 2006-06-12 0 0000202890 Aleris International, Inc. ARS 0001014894 Brahman Capital Corp. 655 THIRD AVENUE 11TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10017 0 0 1 0 Common Stock, par value $.10 per share 3585600 I See Footnotes Brahman Capital Corp. serves as investment manager to a number of investment funds (including Brahman Partners II, L.P., Brahman Partners III, L.P., Brahman Institutional Partners, L.P., BY Partners, L.P., Brahman C.P.F. Partners, L.P., Brahman Partners II Offshore, Ltd., Brahman Partners IV, L.P. and Brahman Partners IV Offshore, Ltd.) and manages investments for certain entities in managed accounts with respect to which it has voting and dispositive authority over the Common Stock reported in this Form 3. Peter A. Hochfelder, Mitchell A. Kuflik and Robert J. Sobel are executive officers and directors of Brahman Capital Corp. and have the ability to control the decisions of Brahman Capital Corp. with respect to the assets of such investment funds and managed accounts. Brahman Management, L.L.C. is the general partner of certain of the investment funds for which Brahman Capital Corp. serves as investment manager (including Brahman Partners II, L.P., Brahman Partners III, L.P., Brahman Institutional Partners, L.P., BY Partners, L.P., Brahman C.P.F. Partners, L.P. and Brahman Partners IV, L.P.). Peter A. Hochfelder, Mitchell A. Kuflik and Robert J. Sobel are the managing members of Brahman Management, L.L.C. and have the ability to control the decisions of Brahman Management, L.L.C. with respect to the assets of such investment funds. None of Brahman Capital Corp., Brahman Management, L.L.C., Peter A. Hochfelder, Mitchell A. Kuflik or Robert J. Sobel directly owns any shares of Common Stock. Each of Brahman Capital Corp., Peter A. Hochfelder, Mitchell A. Kuflik and Robert J. Sobel may be deemed to beneficially own 3,585,600 shares of Common Stock, which represents approximately 11.43% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock. Brahman Management, L.L.C. may be deemed to beneficially own 2,034,800 shares of Common Stock, which represens approximately 6.49% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock. Each of Brahman Capital Corp., Brahman Management, L.L.C., Peter A. Hochfelder, Mitchell A. Kuflik and Robert J. Sobel disclaims any beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock included in this report to the extent such beneficial ownership exceeds such person's pecuniary interest. /s/ Brahman Capital Corp. 2006-06-22 /s/ Brahman Management, L.L.C 2006-06-22 /s/ Peter A. Hochfelder 2006-06-22 /s/ Robert J. Sobel 2006-06-22 /s/ Mitchell A. Kuflik 2006-06-22