International law firm McDermott Will & Emery represented an affiliate of private equity fund Public Pension Capital in its investment in Life Science Outsourcing, Inc. Life Science Outsourcing is a California-based medical device contracting manufacturer providing medical package testing, validation, sterilization and distribution services to leading medical device companies.

• This transaction was completed on January 25, 2021.

• McDermott Will & Emery acted as legal counsel to Public Pension Capital.

• Life Sciences Outsourcing, Inc. is headquartered in Brea, California and has successfully worked with more than 850 medical device startups as a trusted outsource partner by accelerating product speed to market and enabling customers to continually develop increasingly complex and innovative commercial medical devices.

• Public Pension Capital is a New York-based private equity fund, founded by former senior partners of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Public Pension Capital invests in a select group of industries, including Business and Financial Services, Industrial Services and Healthcare Services.

• The McDermott team was led by Kristian Werling and included William Hadler, Elaine Kao, Dan Zucker, Vernessa Pollard, Anisa Mohanty, Ike Chidi, Daniel Doron, Sarah Schanz, Allison Wilkerson, Sarah Raaii, Jed Gordon, Warren Zeserman, David Neville, Kate Williams, and Mark Bilut.

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