White papers, case studies, the Day One Letter newsletter, and the TSA glossary. The resources here are written for PE operating partners, value creation teams, portfolio company CFOs and CIOs, and corporate divestiture office leaders. Every piece is buyer-side. Every piece is free.

Seven publications covering pre-signing leverage, mid-TSA renegotiation, Day One readiness, reverse TSA, service catalog templates, negotiation memos, and dispute resolution.
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Real engagements, real numbers, anonymized for confidentiality. Industrial, healthcare, tech, and large-cap carve-outs with measurable buyer-side outcomes.
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Bi-weekly TSA intelligence for PE operating partners and corporate divestiture leaders. Short, signal heavy, free. Read by operating teams across North America and Europe.
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Typical cost-plus markups, TSA fees in absolute terms, and extension step-up pricing — synthesized from published industry sources and engagement experience, with methodology and citations.
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Base TSA durations for IT, ERP, HR, finance, procurement, tax, treasury and marketing — plus carve-out, cross-border, and distressed adjustments.
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The buyer-side checklist for taking a TSA from "we should plan our exit" to "the services are terminated." Read on the page or download the PDF. No email gate.
Get the checklist →The pillar pages are the deepest free resources on the site. Each runs three to four thousand words and covers a single domain end to end. Cite them, share them, or use them as a starting point for an internal brief.
The buyer-side operating plan for ending a TSA on schedule. Lifecycle windows, exit ramp, extension fees, governance.
Read the pillar →The six leverage points in every TSA, with specific buyer-side counter positions for each.
Read the pillar →Buyer-side carve-out advisory from diligence through clean break. The five lifecycle phases and the nine workstreams.
Read the pillar →Where the savings actually are. Cost-plus pricing audit, scope reset, pass-through validation, extension fee avoidance.
Read the pillar →The ninety day playbook for Newco operational stand up across nine standard workstreams.
Read the pillar →Plain language definitions of the terms that come up in every TSA. Day One, Newco, stranded cost, reverse TSA, exit ramp, and more.
Browse terms →The resources on this site are produced by the firm for the firm's audience. PE operating partners and value creation teams who manage portfolios of carve-outs. CFOs and CIOs of newly carved-out portfolio companies who inherited a TSA they did not negotiate. Corporate divestiture office leaders who are repeatedly on the other side of these contracts.
The standard for each resource is the same. Specific. Practical. Free of consultant jargon. Written as one practitioner would write to another. No gated white papers behind ten field forms. No newsletter that takes three messages to get to a point. The audience is busy and the work is technical, so the content has to be both.
If a resource is missing that the firm should have published, the request line is open. The Day One Letter often surfaces topics raised by readers, and white papers are commissioned where the audience pattern is consistent.

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One tactic, one benchmark, or one pattern from a recent buyer-side engagement. Short. Signal heavy. Free.
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