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Global Business Travel Group, Inc.GBTG

Class A GBTGCIK 0001820872

Cash in trust

$818M

$817,678,426

Trust per share

$10.01

Redemption value

IPO

Oct 2020

$817M raised

Combination deadline

—

Not disclosed

Filings on record

606

Latest Oct 9, 2026

Business combination

Target
Not disclosed in an indexed filing
Announced
Dec 3, 2021
Closed
Jun 3, 2022

Overview

Global Business Travel Group, Inc. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001820872. It completed its initial public offering in Oct 2020, raising $817M in gross proceeds and listing on OTC. Class A shares trade under the ticker GBTG on OTC. The vehicle is sponsored by APSG through APSG Sponsor, L.P. The mandate targets generalist. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.

“we intend to focus our search for an initial business combination in a single industry.”
The mandate, as stated in the IPO prospectus

Reading the filings

Arithmetic on what Global Business Travel Group, Inc. has disclosed, written the way a desk would read it. These are observations, not a rating. Nothing here scores the vehicle or implies a view on it.

  • Trading at a discount to trust

    At $9.50 the shares change hands 5.10% below the $10.01 they can be redeemed for. A holder buying here is paid that spread to carry deadline and redemption risk until the vote, and the trust keeps accreting underneath it.

  • Trust versus the $10 unit

    The trust holds $10.01 per public share, 0.1% above the $10.00 the units were sold at. That spread is accrued interest on the trust and, where the charter provides for it, sponsor contributions paid in to buy more time. It is the floor a public shareholder can redeem at, not a valuation of the business.

  • Warrant coverage

    Each unit carried one-third warrant per unit. Warrants are dilution deferred: they cost the holder nothing until exercised, and they overhang the post-combination share count. Thinner coverage is generally a sign of a stronger book at pricing.

  • Underwriting

    Citigroup led the offering. It has been named on 170 SPAC IPOs, book-running 114 of them, and 53.6% of its resolved vehicles closed a deal. The syndicate has no control over whether a sponsor finds a target, but the quality of the book at pricing shapes who ends up holding the units.

How busy it has been

Filings per month since the first one. A vehicle that has gone quiet with a deadline ahead is a different proposition from one that is still working.

522602020-082026-10

606 filings in all. 42 in the last three months, against a busiest month of 52.

News on Global Business Travel Group, Inc.

Last 90 days

News sentiment

Neutral
negativeneutralpositive

Across 3 recent stories, weighted towards the newest. Scored by our own headline classifier using finance- and SPAC-specific terms. It reads what a story is about, not what the shares are worth.

SEC filing history

Free tier: filings older than 24 hours
  • 15-12G

    Deregistration of securities

    Accession 0001140361-26-039291

    Oct 9, 2026

    16d ago

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  • EFFECT

    Notice of effectiveness

    Accession 9999999995-26-003139

    Oct 5, 2026

    20d ago

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  • EFFECT

    Notice of effectiveness

    Accession 9999999995-26-003136

    Oct 5, 2026

    20d ago

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  • EFFECT

    Notice of effectiveness

    Accession 9999999995-26-003137

    Oct 5, 2026

    20d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0000004962-26-000357

    Oct 1, 2026

    24d ago

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  • SCHEDULE 13D/A

    SCHEDULE 13D/A filing

    Accession 0000004962-26-000356

    Oct 1, 2026

    24d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407695

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407692

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407690

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407685

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407681

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407656

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407647

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407644

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407641

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407630

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407622

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407619

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407616

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407603

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407601

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407599

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0001193125-26-407578

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • SCHEDULE 13D/A

    SCHEDULE 13D/A filing

    Accession 0001140361-26-037988

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 25-NSE

    Notification of delisting

    Accession 0000876661-26-000798

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • POS AM

    POS AM

    Accession 0001140361-26-037947

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • POS AM

    POS AM

    Accession 0001140361-26-037945

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • POS AM

    POS AM

    Accession 0001140361-26-037942

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • S-8 POS

    S-8 POS

    Accession 0001140361-26-037936

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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  • 8-K

    Entry into a material definitive agreement; Termination of a material definitive agreement; Completion of an acquisition; Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule; Other events

    Items 1.01, 1.02, 2.01, 2.03, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001140361-26-037931

    Sep 29, 2026

    26d ago

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Global Business Travel Group, Inc.: questions answered

What is Global Business Travel Group, Inc. (GBTG)?

Global Business Travel Group, Inc. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001820872. It completed its initial public offering in Oct 2020, raising $817M in gross proceeds and listing on OTC. Class A shares trade under the ticker GBTG on OTC. The vehicle is sponsored by APSG through APSG Sponsor, L.P. The mandate targets generalist. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.

How much does Global Business Travel Group, Inc. hold in trust?

Approximately $817,678,426, or about $10.01 per public share, as at the most recent filing on record. Trust balances move: shareholders redeem at extension votes and at the combination vote, and sponsors pay contributions in to extend. Treat the figure as a point-in-time disclosure, not a running balance.

When must Global Business Travel Group, Inc. complete a merger?

No combination deadline appears in the filings we have indexed. The date is stated in the charter and repeated in each quarterly report; where our parser could not establish it with confidence we leave it blank rather than infer one.

What happens if Global Business Travel Group, Inc. does not find a target in time?

The charter requires the vehicle to redeem 100% of the public shares and return the trust, pro rata, to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed rather than a default. Founder shares and warrants are worthless in that outcome, which is why the sponsor's incentive is to get a deal done or to buy more time. Across the market, deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.

Can I redeem shares in Global Business Travel Group, Inc., and at what price?

Public shareholders may elect to redeem in connection with a combination vote and at each extension vote, at the pro-rata trust value on the relevant record date, most recently disclosed at about $10.01 per share. Redemption is a right attached to the public shares only; warrants and rights carry no claim on the trust. The mechanics and the deadline for electing are set out in the proxy statement for the vote in question.

What tickers does Global Business Travel Group, Inc. trade under?

Class A shares trade as GBTG on OTC. Units trade first and separate into their component securities roughly 52 days after the IPO; only the Class A shares carry the redemption right against the trust.

Is the trust value the same as the share price for Global Business Travel Group, Inc.?

No, and the gap between them is the whole trade. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure of $10.01, being what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at: most recently $9.50, a discount of 5.10% to the redemption value. Quotes on this site are delayed and indicative; confirm on your own venue before trading.

How much dilution do Global Business Travel Group, Inc.'s founder shares and warrants create?

Each unit also carried one-third warrant per unit, which is dilution deferred until exercise. Both are disclosed in the prospectus and both survive into the combined company, which is why a de-SPAC at $10 is not economically the same as an IPO at $10.

Who sponsors Global Business Travel Group, Inc., and what is their track record?

APSG Sponsor, L.P is the sponsor entity, part of the APSG franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor.

Which banks underwrote the Global Business Travel Group, Inc. IPO?

Citigroup, Apollo Global, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Siebert Williams Shank. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.

Is Global Business Travel Group, Inc. tradeable, and where?

Yes. GBTG returned a live quote of $9.50 on OTC. Quotes here are delayed and refreshed on a schedule rather than streamed, so treat the figure as indicative and confirm on your own venue. Units and warrants trade under their own symbols and are quoted separately.

Is Global Business Travel Group, Inc. a good investment?

That is not a question this site answers. Global Business Travel Group, Inc. is covered here as reference data: what the company filed, when it filed it, and what the numbers in those filings say. The Edge, FOMO and Potential scores on this page are derived measures with a published formula, not ratings of investment merit: they describe the setup, and every component is shown so you can take them apart. We publish no price targets and no recommendations, and nothing here should be read as advice. The figures are a starting point for your own work, and each one carries the accession number of the filing it came from.

Where does this Global Business Travel Group, Inc. data come from?

Filings Global Business Travel Group, Inc. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001820872: the registration statement and final prospectus for the structure, quarterly and annual reports for the trust, current reports and proxy statements for deals, votes and extensions. Trust economics are taken from the registrant's own XBRL tags rather than parsed from prose, which is why they are exact. Every filing in the history above is listed with its accession number, which identifies the document uniquely on EDGAR; Pro accounts open it directly from the row.

Compiled by the SPACListing research desk

Last reconciled Oct 25, 2026

Every figure on this page is read from documents the registrants filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, principally the IPO prospectus (Form 424B4), quarterly and annual reports, current reports and proxy statements, the registrant's own XBRL tags for trust economics. Nothing is sourced from press coverage, from the companies themselves, or from a third-party aggregator. Where a filing does not disclose something, the field is left blank rather than estimated.

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