Add-on Acquisition • Business Services

Direct Travel Acquires ATPI

On September 22, 2025, Direct Travel acquired business services company ATPI

Acquisition Context

This is Direct Travel’s 3rd transaction in the Business Services sector.
This is Direct Travel’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

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M&A Deal Summary
Date	September 22, 2025
Target	ATPI
Sector	Business Services
Buyer(s)	Direct Travel
Deal Type	Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s)	Baird (Financial)

Target Company

ATPI

Manchester, United Kingdom

ATPI is an international travel management and event company that serves as a natural progression of the companies’ multi-year collaboration to serve the business travel needs of global corporate clients. ATPI was founded in 2002 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom.

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Buyer

Direct Travel

Centennial, Colorado, United States

Category	Company
Founded	1980
Sector	Business Services

DESCRIPTION

Direct Travel is a corporate travel management provider offers outsourced booking and management of employee air travel, transportation and accommodations, focusing on mid- to large-sized corporate accounts. Direct Travel was founded in 1980 and is based in Centennial, Colorado.

Deal Context for Buyer	#
Overall	18 of 18
Sector: Business Services	3 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition	17 of 17
Country: United Kingdom	1 of 1
Year: 2025	1 of 1

PREVIOUS DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2020-01-14	Professional Travel Cleveland, Ohio, United States Professional Travel is a corporate travel management company specializing in mid-market corporate, leisure and group travel. Professional Travel is consistently ranked by Business Travel News as one of the top 35 travel management companies in the US based on total industry sales volume.	Buy	-

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2020-01-14

Professional Travel

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Professional Travel is a corporate travel management company specializing in mid-market corporate, leisure and group travel. Professional Travel is consistently ranked by Business Travel News as one of the top 35 travel management companies in the US based on total industry sales volume.

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