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The TSA Exit Playbook. The buyer's reference.

35 pages. The definitive buyer-side guide to Transition Services Agreement exits for private equity firms and corporate buyers. Pre-signing leverage. Mid-TSA renegotiation. Exit acceleration. Written for operating partners and CFOs who need answers in the next 90 days.

What is inside
  • 01.The TSA negotiation leverage map. Where the buyer wins and where the seller does.
  • 02.The eight TSA pricing models and how to push back on each.
  • 03.The Day One readiness checklist across the nine standard workstreams.
  • 04.Extension fee renegotiation tactics for the buyer holding the milestone.
  • 05.Service level credit claim templates and the language that gets paid.
  • 06.Anonymized buyer side case studies across industrial, healthcare, and tech carve-outs.
Inside the Playbook

Six chapters. One buyer-side reference.

The Playbook is structured around the moments in the TSA lifecycle where the buyer either takes leverage or loses it. Each chapter is a working reference, not a narrative. Read the chapter that matches the deal phase in front of you.

Chapter 01

The leverage map

Where the buyer has negotiating power, where the seller does, and how to move three core terms from seller default to buyer favorable before signing.

Chapter 02

Eight pricing models

Cost-plus, fixed fee, mark-up plus pass-through, hybrid, FTE rate, transaction based, and two newer variants. How each one shifts margin, and the counter for each.

Chapter 03

Day One readiness

The nine workstream checklist used inside live engagements. IT, finance, HR, treasury, procurement, tax, legal, cybersecurity, and Newco commercial operations.

Chapter 04

Extension fee tactics

The extension fee curve, how to model it, and the three negotiation moves the buyer can make before the original term ends to flatten the curve.

Chapter 05

Service credit claims

SLA breach claim templates. The credit calculation worksheets. The language that gets paid. The escalation sequence before arbitration becomes the only option.

Chapter 06

Case studies

Anonymized buyer side engagements across industrial, healthcare, and tech carve-outs. Each one shows the situation, the move, and the numerical outcome.

From a Reader

"The most useful TSA reference I have read. It is the document I keep on my desk for the duration of a carve-out, not the one I read once and shelve."

Operating Partner, top-10 PE fund

The Playbook

Read it before the next carve-out closes.

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