Kirkland & Ellis, Squire Sanders and Addleshaw Goddard are among the firms to have taken roles on GTCR's joint acquisition of UK-based consumer credit company Callcredit, from Vitruvian Partners.

The deal, which was announced today (17 February), sees the Chicago-based private equity house enter into a buyout of the company with Callcredit's management, including CEO John McAndrew and managing director Graham Lund.

A number of news reports have valued the deal above £480m.

Kirkland advised GTCR, with private equity partners Gavin Gordon, David Arnold and Stephen Ritchie, debt finance partner Neel Sachdev, tax partners Ian Taplin, Dulcie Sawle Daly, William Welke and Mike Carew all joining the team.

Gordon and Taplin were part of a US-UK Kirkland team that advised GTCR on its £900m acquisition of Premium Credit in 2012.

Callcredit's shareholders were advised by Squire Sanders' Leeds office, with corporate partners Paul Mann and Jonathan Jones taking the lead. The firm previously advised Callcredit's management when the company was sold by original owner Skipton Building Society to Vitruvian Partners in 2009.

This time, Addleshaws took the lead role for Callcredit management, with private equity head Yunus Seedat leading a team alongside managing associate Susie Siddall.

Vitruvian Partners turned to long-time adviser Dickson Minto, while the underwriting banks – GE Capital, HSBC and Lloyds Bank – were advised by Clifford Chance.

Separately, Sullivan & Cromwell acted for Crescent Capital on the mezzanine financing aspects of the deal, with finance and restructuring partner Chris Howard advising alongside corporate partner Ben Perry.

Callcredit, which employs around 1,000 people in the UK, Japan, China, Dubai and Lithuania, provides credit reference and marketing services for the UK's largest financial institutions and alternative lenders.

GTCR said its investment in the company was funded from GTCR Fund X, a $3.25bn (£1.94bn) private equity fund raised in 2011.