---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-155872"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SABR"
cik: "0001597033"
company_name: "Sabre Corp"
filed_at: "2025-07-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T09:16:50.814549+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sabre closes sale of Hospitality Solutions to TPG for $1.1B; net proceeds $960M to reduce debt

## Summary
- Sale of Hospitality Solutions business completed on July 3, 2025 for $1.1 billion cash, $960 million net of taxes and fees.
- Vast majority of net proceeds will be used to pay down debt and reduce net leverage, per CEO Kurt Ekert.
- Scott Wilson, President of Hospitality Solutions, terminated employment and received $5.3 million one-time cash bonus contingent on closing.
- Wilson’s outstanding unvested equity awards expired upon termination.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-155872
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SABR
- cik: 0001597033
- company_name: Sabre Corp
- filed_at: 2025-07-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1597033/000119312525155872/0001193125-25-155872-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1597033/000119312525155872/d10994d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  Sabre Corp completed a disposition involving Whitney Merger Sub, Inc. (Buyer, affiliated with TPG) for approximately $1,100,000,000 (closed 2025-07-03).
  - Action: disposition
  - Counterparty: Whitney Merger Sub, Inc. (Buyer, affiliated with TPG)
  - Consideration: approximately $1,100,000,000
  - Closing: 2025-07-03
  source text: On July 3, 2025, Sabre GLBL Inc. (“Sabre GLBL”), a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Sabre Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Sabre,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), Sabre HS Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Sabre HS”), and Whitney Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Buyer”), consummated the previously announced disposition of Sabre’s hospitality solutions business to Buyer in exchange for an aggregate cash purchase price amount of approximately $1,100,000,000, subject to customary purchase price adjustments (the “Disposition”), pursuant to the Stock Purchase Agreement, dated April 27, 2025, by and among Buyer, Sabre GLBL, the Company and Sabre HS (the “Purchase Agreement”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1597033/000119312525155872/0001193125-25-155872-index.htm

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