OREANDA-NEWS. TPG Capital and investment division Goldman Sachs will buy the company of wireless communication Alltel Corp. for $25 billion, Reuters informed.

TPG Capital (former Texas Pacific Group) and GS Capital Partners will get Alltel for $71,5 per share by cash, Alltel informed. The transaction becomes the largest in the sector of merge and absorption by the private investment capital.

Shares of Alltel closed on Friday at the rate of $65,35 per share.

Including the debt, cost of the transaction will make approximately $27,5 billion.