SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Jones Adrian M (Last) (First) (Middle) STERLING CHECK CORP. 6150 OAK TREE BOULEVARD, SUITE 490 (Street) INDEPENDENCE OH 44131 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Sterling Check Corp. [ STER ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 06/12/2023
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
	Rule 10b5-1(c) Transaction Indication Check this box to indicate that a transaction was made pursuant to a contract, instruction or written plan that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c). See Instruction 10.

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Common Stock	06/12/2023		S		8,000,000(1)(2)	D	$11.73	52,676,439	I	See Footnotes(3)
Common Stock	06/12/2023		S		1,000,000(4)	D	$11.73	51,676,439(5)	I	See Footnotes(3)(5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

1. Pursuant to an underwriting agreement, dated June 7, 2023, and in connection with the secondary offering of shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the issuer ("Common Stock") pursuant to the final prospectus supplement dated June 7, 2023, which offering was consummated on June 12, 2023 (the "Offering"), Checkers Control Partnership, L.P. ("Checkers") and Broad Street Principal Investments, L.L.C. ("BSPI") sold in the aggregate 8,000,000 shares of Common Stock, consisting of 5,950,131 shares of Common Stock sold by Checkers and 2,049,869 shares of Common Stock sold by BSPI.

2. Goldman Sachs (as defined below) was one of the underwriters in the Offering.

3. The reporting person is a managing director of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC ("Goldman Sachs"). Goldman Sachs is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ("GS Group"). The reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of the securities reported herein except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein, if any.

4. Pursuant to a share repurchase agreement, dated June 5, 2023, BSPI sold 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock in connection with a share repurchase by Sterling Check Corp. which was consummated on June 12, 2023 concurrently with the Offering.

5. Goldman Sachs and GS Group may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly 33,685,715 shares of Common Stock held by Checkers, 17,266,451 shares of Common Stock held by BSPI and 1,064 shares of Common Stock held by Broad Street Control Advisors, L.L.C., in each case of which GS Group and affiliates of GS Group are the member, general partner, manager or investment manager, as applicable. In addition, as of June 12, 2023, GS Group and Goldman Sachs may be deemed to beneficially own all of the abovementioned shares of Common Stock and are deemed to beneficially own an additional 723,209 shares of Common Stock.

Remarks:

	/s/ Jamison Yardley, Attorney-in-fact	06/14/2023
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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