X0206 3 2021-09-22 0 0001645070 Sterling Check Corp. STER 0000886982 GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 200 WEST STREET NEW YORK NY 10282 0 0 1 0 0000769993 GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC 200 WEST STREET NEW YORK NY 10282 0 0 1 0 0001575993 Broad Street Principal Investments, L.L.C. 200 WEST STREET NEW YORK NY 10282 0 0 1 0 0001645928 Checkers Control Partnership, L.P. 200 WEST STREET NEW YORK NY 10282 0 0 1 0 0001883665 Broad Street Control Advisors, L.L.C. 200 WEST STREET NEW YORK NY 10282 0 0 1 0 Common Stock 69556649 I See footnotes This statement is being filed by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ("GS Group"), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC ("Goldman Sachs"), Broad Street Principal Investments, L.L.C. ("BSPI"), Checkers Control Partnership, L.P. ("Checkers"), and Broad Street Control Advisors, L.L.C. ("BSCA" and, together with GS Group, Goldman Sachs, BSPI and Checkers, the "Reporting Persons"). Each of Goldman Sachs, BSPI and BSCA is a wholly owned subsidiary of GS Group. Goldman Sachs is the manager of each of BSPI and BSCA and the investment manager of Checkers. BSCA is the general partner of Checkers. Checkers holds 45,984,922 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the issuer ("Common Stock"). BSPI holds 23,570,663 shares of Common Stock. BSCA holds 1,064 shares of Common Stock. Because of the relationships among the Reporting Persons, each of GS Group and Goldman Sachs may be deemed a beneficial owner of Common Stock held by Checkers, BSPI and BSCA, and BSCA may be deemed a beneficial owner of Common Stock held by Checkers. Each Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership of the securities reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein, if any, and this report shall not be deemed an admission that any Reporting Person is the beneficial owner of, or has any pecuniary interest in, such securities for purposes of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or for any other purpose. /s/ Jamison Yardley, Attorney-in-fact 2021-09-22 /s/ Jamison Yardley, Attorney-in-fact 2021-09-22 /s/ Jamison Yardley, Attorney-in-fact 2021-09-22 /s/ Jamison Yardley, Attorney-in-fact 2021-09-22 /s/ Jamison Yardley, Attorney-in-fact 2021-09-22