Mid-TSA engagements where the exit is slipping, extension fees are looming, and the seller's transition team is dragging. We rebuild the exit plan, renegotiate the terms, and force the calendar.
Most TSA exits slip because the seller's transition team is thinly staffed and the buyer's portfolio company is overcommitted. The exit ramp is designed to favor the seller. By month 9 of an 18 month TSA, every week of slippage costs the buyer money. This is the engagement.
Workstreams have not converged. The seller's transition team is not responsive. The buyer's PMO has lost altitude.
The fee curve jumps at month 12 or month 18. Every week of delay after the next trigger is a six or seven figure event.
Tickets sit. Cutover dates slip. Governance committee meetings produce minutes, not decisions.
IT, finance, HR, or procurement. One workstream is going to drag the others. It needs intervention now, not in three weeks.
The next milestone is at risk. The operating partner is asking why. The answer cannot be another deck.
The deliverables move the calendar. They are not status reports. The endpoint is a buyer that exits the TSA on schedule, with the smallest extension fee exposure possible, and a measured set of service-level credits in hand.
Workstream by workstream review. What is on track, what is at risk, what is broken. Specific tasks, specific owners, specific dates.
A revised milestone plan agreed with the seller. Cutover dates, dependency map, contingency triggers.
Where slippage is unavoidable, the lowest exposure path. Bundling, partial cutovers, fee curve negotiation.
Credit calculations on prior breaches. Filing strategy. Escalation paths. A real remedy structure invoked, not waved.
Joint operating meetings with the seller's transition lead. Action register. Decision log. Real decisions, every week.
Where the buyer needs to stand up replacement services in parallel. Vendor selection, contracting, cutover sequencing.
Anonymized results from prior engagements. Full case studies available on request under NDA.
24 month TSA at risk of a 4 month extension. Reorganized IT and finance workstreams, set the calendar with the seller, hit the original exit date.
Original plan called for an 18 month TSA. Compressed cutovers and standing up replacement services in parallel cut to 14.
12 months of unfiled SLA breaches. Calculated credits, built the claim file, negotiated the settlement in 6 weeks.
Fixed-fee proposal in 48 hours. Senior team on day one. The first conversation is always free.