Advent and Goldman to Buy TransUnion in $3 Billion Deal from Madison Dearborn Partners and the Pritzker family

"TransUnion, one of the nation's three largest consumer credit reporting companies, agreed on Friday to sell itself to a pair of private equity funds, including an arm of Goldman Sachs

Advent International and GS Capital Partners, the Goldman Sachs unit, will buy the company from Madison Dearborn Partners and the Pritzker family, the prominent Chicago billionaires. The deal, which values TransUnion at more than $3 billion, is one of the largest private equity transactions of the year.

The sale is the latest shakeup for TransUnion, which was controlled by the Pritzkers until 2010. When the Pritzkers sold their controlling interest to Madison Dearborn Partners, one of Chicago's largest private equity shops, the company was worth $2 billion."

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