(Adds details on divestiture, descriptions of companies, Cisiondeclined to comment)
WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - Cision, a public relationssoftware provider controlled by private equity firm GTCR LLC,has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy press release distributorPR Newswire from UBM Plc on condition that it sell amedia contact database, the Justice Department said on Friday.
UBM had said in December that it would sell PR Newswire toCision for $841 million to focus on its events business.
PR Newswire has agreed to sell its Agility database in asettlement that would preserve competition, the JusticeDepartment said in a statement. Cision is the largest of threemajor media database providers and PR Newswire is No. 3, itnoted.
Cision declined to comment. (Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Diane Craft and RichardChang)