Principal Profile

Fredrik Filipsson

Founder & Managing Principal at TSA Advisory LLC. TSA exit acceleration, IT and ERP separation, Day-One cutovers, stranded-cost removal, PE value creation.

Background

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.

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Selected Writing

Recent insights by Fredrik.

Fredrik has authored 195+ buyer-side analyses in the TSA Advisory insights library. A selection below; browse the full blog →

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What Is a TSA Mark-Up

A TSA mark-up is the margin the seller adds on top of its cost to provide a transition service. How it works, where it i

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What Is a TSA Exit Ramp?

A TSA exit ramp gets the buyer off each transition service on schedule. Notice periods, partial exits, and the terms tha

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What Is a Separation Management Office (SMO)?

Separation management office explained. The SMO is the program office that runs a carve-out, governs the TSA, and drives

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What Is a NewCo in a Carve-Out

A NewCo carve-out is the standalone entity a buyer stands up to receive a divested business. What it owns, what it depen

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What Is Day One in M&A?

Day One in M&A is the first day the acquired business operates under new ownership. What must work, what the TSA covers,

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What Are Stranded Costs in a Carve-Out?

Stranded costs are the expenses left behind when a carve-out exits a TSA but the underlying cost does not fall away. How

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Using AI to Accelerate Carve-Out Separation

AI carve-out guidance for buyers. Where artificial intelligence genuinely speeds TSA exit and separation, where it does

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TSAs in Roll-Up Acquisitions

Roll-up TSA guidance for buyers. How transition services stack across a sequence of bolt-on acquisitions, and how to avo

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TSAs in Corporate Spin-Offs

Corporate spin-off TSA guidance. How transition services work when a parent separates a business unit, and how the spun-

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