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A strategic acquirer landed Day One on the original close date across six workstreams and paid zero extension fees over an 18-month TSA.
A strategic acquirer was integrating a $400M healthcare business under an 18-month TSA running at roughly $1.1M per month. Day One had to land on the original close date across IT, finance, HR, procurement, treasury, and cybersecurity. A slipped Day One would have pushed dependent workstreams and started the extension-fee meter.
The ApproachThe firm ran a 90-day readiness program with a single integrated plan across all six workstreams. We sequenced the interdependent cutover decisions, built a day-by-day Day One runbook, and ran a cybersecurity day-one control set in parallel. Steering-committee cadence was set weekly with the seller, with a defined escalation path before any milestone could slip.
The OutcomeDay One landed on the original close date. Every workstream cut over on schedule and the business operated from day one without a control gap. Across the life of the agreement the buyer paid zero extension fees — the readiness runway removed the slippage that triggers them.
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