Travelport Files for $100M IPO

Press release from the issuing company

Thursday, June 5th, 2014

Headquartered in Atlanta, Travelport Worldwide Limited announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed $100 million initial public offering of its common shares. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined. Travelport intends to use the net proceeds from an offering to reduce the Company's outstanding indebtedness.

Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank Securities are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering.

Travelport is a world-leading travel commerce platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the $7 trillion global travel and tourism industry.

Our travel commerce platform, enables travel providers, travel agencies, corporations and developers to connect. This increases profitability and drives commercial success across the business-to-business (“B2B”) travel marketplace.

As travel industry demands evolve, we’re utilizing our platform to redefine the distribution and merchandising of airline core and ancillary products, as well as extending our reach into the growing world of travel commerce beyond air, including hotel, car rental, rail, cruise and tour operators.

Travelport has an unmatched global geographic reach with a presence in over 170 countries, 3,600 full time employees and 1,100 employees in majority-owned subsidiaries. Our travel commerce platform is marketed under the names Travelport Apollo, Travelport Galileo and Travelport Worldspan. We have a 57% holding in eNett – our virtual payment provider. In 2013 our net revenue was $2.1 billion.