Sidley is advising a wholly owned subsidiary of TransUnion, a U.S. consumer credit reporting company, on the purchase of the Callcredit group (Callcredit), the second largest credit reference company in the UK for £1 billion. Callcredit is being sold by the private equity firm GTCR LLC, which bought Callcredit in 2014. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2018.

The Sidley team was led by Thomas Thesing, Sava Savov, Michelle Tong and Priya Rupal. The multi-office team included members focusing on Financial Services Regulatory, Tax, Privacy and Cybersecurity, Global Finance, Technology and IP Transactions, Commercial Litigation and Disputes, Real Estate, Employment, Insurance and Corporate/M&A, including Seth Katz, Leonard Ng, Rachpal K. Thind, Susan Fanning, William Long, James Crooks, Oliver Currall, Patrick Harrison, Andrew Fox, Martin Membery, Jennifer Coplan and counsel Scott Goldstein and Jade Williams-Adedeji. The team also included associates Zoe Woodhouse, Peter Mabe, Andrew Cebula, Kai Zhang, Oliver Lewis, Peter McCorkell, Jennifer Watts, Francesca Blythe, William Gwyn, Nils Gravenhorst, Jason Pegnall, Oliver Rosshandler, Monika Zdzieborska, John Bedford, Alex Cox, Jack Roxburgh, Samantha Walker, Jack Mayall, Nathan Wenk and Imani Lee.