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Strategic Merger Creates The Industry's Premier Life Sciences Practice Group

October 27, 2005 - ¾ÅÉ« Translations, a world leader in multilingual communication services, today announced that Crimson Language Services has joined its growing family of companies.

The merger creates a newly-formed Life Sciences Division that combines Crimson's ISO 9001:2008/ISO 13485:2003 certified quality system and patent-pending risk management methodology with the production resources and localization talent of ¾ÅÉ« and its software localization unit, Translations.com.

Crimson's Financial Translations unit will be combined with ¾ÅÉ«'s existing financial practice group¡ªproviding enhanced resources for Sarbanes-Oxley compliant financial translations.

TRANSPERFECT ACQUIRES IMPORTANT QUALITY SYSTEM & IP ASSETS

Included in the merger are important quality system (QS) and intellectual property (IP) assets¡ªspecifically designed for high-risk translation applications. Liz Elting, President and CEO of ¾ÅÉ«, said, "Crimson has developed the industry's only quality system, specifically designed for high-risk translation application, that is certified to ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003, as well as endorsed to ISO 14971:2000. This is a perfect complement to our own ISO 9001:2008 certified quality system, and we are pleased to have joined forces with a team so closely aligned with our own perspectives on both quality and client satisfaction."

As part of the arrangement, ¾ÅÉ« also stands to gain ownership of the industry's first-ever risk management patent. Based on Crimson's certified quality system, the patent-pending methodology controls translation risk at both the resource and the process level.

MERGER STRATEGY PROMOTES RETENTION, GROWTH

Phil Shawe, President and CEO of Translations.com, added, "Unlike some M&A activity, which is predicated on cost-cutting via staff reductions, the ¾ÅÉ«/Crimson union is focused completely on retention, growth, and utilizing the synergies between the companies to the benefit of our combined client base."

"The combination of ¾ÅÉ«'s Life Sciences Practice Group and Crimson Medical Translations offers clients in the medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries access to greater capacity, an enhanced scope of services, and patented translation risk management," concluded Shawe.

CRIMSON FOUNDER JOINS TRANSPERFECT SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM

Crimson's Founder and CEO, Marc H. Miller, will join ¾ÅÉ« as Division President and Vice President of Quality Systems. Miller, a Harvard alumnus and 13-year veteran entrepreneur of the language industry, stated, "We are extremely excited to be part of the ¾ÅÉ« family. This merger provides our clients with a broader suite of services, including access to the world-class software localization talent of Translations.com, another member of the ¾ÅÉ« family. Further, our San Francisco and Boston production locations match up well with the worldwide footprint of ¾ÅÉ«'s 50 offices, and will create a powerful combination with the reach to successfully undertake client engagements on a global scale."

About ¾ÅÉ«
With revenue of over $250 million, ¾ÅÉ« is the largest privately held language services provider in the world. From offices in 66 cities on 5 continents, ¾ÅÉ« offers a full range of services in over 100 languages to multinationals worldwide. With a global network of over 4,000 linguists and subject-area specialists, ¾ÅÉ« is the largest translation company to be fully ISO 9001:2008 and EN 15038:2006 certified. ¾ÅÉ« is headquartered in New York and has regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit our website at www.transperfect.com.

About Crimson Language Services

Crimson Language Services, founded in 1992, provides "Expertise in Translation for the Medical Technology Industries," as well as other highly-regulated industries. Crimson is the only translation company in the world to hold ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003 certifications and an official endorsement to ISO 14971:2000. Crimson's work has been recognized as MDD compliant by an EU Notified Body and the firm counts industry leaders such as Stryker, Chiron, Bio-Rad, and Arrow International among its regular clients.

About Translations.com

Translations.com provides software and website localization, as well as enterprise language solutions, to clients in virtually every major industry. Translations.com's business services are focused on the strategic needs of organizations seeking to communicate and conduct business in international markets. Translations.com has an established global presence on four continents and continues to pioneer new techniques and technologies for the rapid development of multilingual business solutions. For more information, visit the Translations.com web site, , or email the company at info@translations.com