The team is built from former Big 4 carve-out leads, former PE portfolio operations executives, and senior IT and finance practitioners. Selection over scale. The advisor who scopes the work is the advisor who runs the work.
The firm was founded by the two people who run the files. They scope the work, sit on the steering committees, and sign the deliverables. The principals are on every intake call.
Fredrik brings ten-plus years of mergers-and-acquisitions experience across carve-outs, divestitures, and post-close separation. He leads the firm's TSA exit and IT separation practice. His background spans carve-out separation management and private-equity value creation, with hands-on delivery of ERP, identity, and infrastructure cutovers in live Day-One environments. He works directly with operating partners and portfolio-company CIOs to compress exit timelines and remove stranded cost.
Morten has spent over a decade in M&A, on both buy-side and sell-side transactions. He leads TSA negotiation, renegotiation, and governance. He has sat on both sides of the table on transition services agreements and is fluent in the seller's pricing playbook — cost-plus mark-ups, pass-through structures, and extension-fee mechanics. He runs the finance-separation and Day-One readiness workstreams and chairs steering-committee escalations on behalf of buyers.

TSA work rewards experience, not headcount. The firm staffs lean. Every active engagement is led by two senior practitioners, dedicated, with the firm's principals on the file. The model is built so the right people are always in the room.
Former partners and senior managers who ran carve-out advisory at the four largest accounting firms. They know the seller's playbook because they wrote it.
Former operating partners and portfolio operations leads. They have signed engagement letters from the other side. They know what a sponsor needs to see by Friday.
Senior CIOs, CFOs, and transformation leads who have stood up Day One in real environments. ERP cutovers, payroll continuity, treasury operations. The work that decides whether Day One holds.
Specialist counsel who have negotiated and disputed TSAs across industries. Not a substitute for the buyer's M&A counsel. A complement, with TSA depth.
No layered teams. No partner-then-associate-then-analyst pipeline. Every engagement carries two senior practitioners assigned full-time. They scope the work, run the work, and hand it off. Continuity is the deliverable.
Lead and second on every engagement. Both senior, both dedicated, both with TSA-specific experience. No analysts billing time.
Every engagement carries a named principal accountable to the buyer. The principal joins steering committees. The principal signs the deliverable.
The advisor who scopes the engagement is the advisor who runs it. No handoff to a junior team after signature, no rotating cast on the steering committee — the same senior pair stays on the file from first call through TSA exit.
One tactic, one benchmark, or one pattern from a recent buyer-side engagement. Short. Signal heavy. Free.
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