Service
Separation and carve-out
When a business is bought, sold, or split, the deal is signed on a timetable the application estate did not agree to. Systems, data, contracts and people have to land on the right side of the line — and both businesses have to run, without interruption, from Day 1.
This is the work Taui knows best: we have led IT separation at the scale of a national rail and ports group being split into standalone companies. We know which decisions must be made early, which can safely wait, and where transitional arrangements turn from bridge into trap.
What we do
- IT due diligence — what the estate really contains, what it costs, and what the separation or integration will actually take.
- Separation architecture and planning: the application, data, infrastructure and contract split, sequenced against the deal timetable.
- Day 1 design and delivery — the minimum safe operating position, and the path to full independence beyond it.
- Transitional service agreement (TSA) design, and the exit plans that stop TSAs becoming permanent.
- Integration planning and execution for the acquiring side of the same transactions.
When to call us
- A divestment, demerger or acquisition is in prospect and nobody has yet sized the technology work.
- Deal diligence needs someone who can read an application estate, not just a contract register.
- A signed deal has a Day 1 date and the separation plan is still a slide.
- TSAs from a previous transaction are still running and the exit keeps slipping.
Planning a separation?
A first conversation costs nothing and usually clarifies the problem, whether or not we end up working together.
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