M&A Deal Summary

Direct Travel Acquires ATPI

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

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

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2025-09-22
Target ATPI
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) Direct Travel
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Baird (Financial)

Target

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 STATS #
Overall 18 of 18
Sector: Business Services M&A 3 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 17 of 17
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2025 M&A 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.

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