Corporate Carve-Out Strategy
Cutting a living business unit out of its parent without severing anything that keeps it alive.
A carve-out is surgery. The unit you are separating is wired into the parent in a hundred invisible ways — shared systems, shared contracts, shared people, shared overhead that never showed up on its own P&L. Cut carelessly and the standalone bleeds out.
I map every dependency before the first incision and plan the replacement for each: the transition services, the standalone systems, the real cost structure the unit will carry alone. The result is a business that can actually stand — and a cleaner story for a buyer if sale is the goal.
- Dependency mapping across systems, contracts, people, and shared services
- Standalone operating-model and cost-structure design
- Transition services agreement (TSA) scoping and exit planning
- Carve-out financials and normalized standalone P&L
- Technology and data separation roadmap
- Stranded-cost identification and mitigation
- Separation sequencing and day-one standalone readiness
- Sale-readiness packaging where divestiture is the objective
I build the separation plan from the dependencies outward, so nothing load-bearing gets cut without a replacement already in place. Where the endgame is a sale, the same work doubles as a credible standalone story that supports valuation and survives buyer diligence.
Every engagement runs under a signed NDA and, where testing is involved, a Safe Harbor agreement. Legal and ethical, start to finish.
- A complete dependency map and separation sequencing plan
- A standalone operating model with a normalized, defensible P&L
- A TSA framework and stranded-cost mitigation plan
Carve-out for sale, or for independence?+
Both are supported. The separation mechanics are similar; the packaging differs. For a sale I build the standalone story buyers will diligence; for independence I focus on durable standalone economics.
What usually goes wrong in carve-outs?+
Unmapped dependencies and stranded costs. A system or contract everyone forgot about surfaces at the worst moment. The dependency map exists precisely to prevent that.
Hire me for Corporate Carve-Out Strategy.
Signed NDA and Safe Harbor on every engagement. Projects from five figures to nine. Discreet, relentless, done right.
I only do legal, ethical hacking — under a Safe Harbor contract and NDA.