Ascendal Group is a British public transport company that operates Whippet in Cambridgeshire, the Ascendal Punta Arenas in southern Chile, and has a small shareholding in Hong Kong bus companies of Citybus through Bravo Transport.

[1] Leishman is the son of Transit Systems co-founder Graham Leishman and was previously the Business Development Director at Transit Systems.

[3][4] The bus operation was transferred to Ascendal Group in October 2018.

[5] Ascendal Punta Arenas is Ascendal's bus operations in Punta Arenas, Magallanes Region, that started in October 2020.

Ascendal owns 0.6% of Bravo Transport, which owns Hong Kong bus operators Citybus and previously New World First Bus.