Transaction Service Agreement Support
Case Study
The Ducats Group provides a multi-month blueprint that allows for smooth divestitures and acquisitions.
Situation
A PE firm helped a portfolio company become a $1B consulting practice by purchasing a $500M e-Discovery and Forensic Business.
Post transaction, the portfolio company needed help with TSA planning and execution and was struggling with their Big 4 partner team.
The purchase included significant infrastructure consisting of 3 data centers and 20 office locations, and 600 employees in Asia, Middle East, Europe and U.S.
Impact
After identifying large gaps in the schedule and plan conducted during diligence, TDG was able to take over the project, partner with the seller and create a more fortified TSA separation strategy, and generate an executable implementation plan.
Resolution
We not only provided the necessary program management, architecture, and engineering resources to accomplish the migration workstreams, but also ran the evaluation and selection of the critical third parties to replace the infrastructure and then on-boarded a managed service provider. The TSA was exited on time and on budget.
Areas of Scope
Technology
Operations
Due Diligence Service Tiers
Silver:
Compatibility Assessment and Cost Modeling
- Recommended for target organizations that are understood but medium risks perceived.
- Additional targeted assessments of applications, infrastructure, organization, governance, and budget with a focus on health and maturity of the capabilities of the IT organization.
- Additional deliverables include cost modeling, technology maturity assessments & organizational assessment.
Bronze:
Inventory and Documentation
- Recommended for target organizations that are well understood and minimal risk is perceived
- Collection and review of documentation to identify gaps and identify major risks
- Deliverables include a full document set with a baseline diligence report summarizing key findings & recommendations, and inventories of applications, infrastructure, organization, and governance
Gold:
Strategic Initiative Development
and Post Close Planning
- Recommended for target organizations that are poorly understood and significant risks perceived, or strategic planning and integration is required.
- Additional targeted assessments of applications, infrastructure, organization, governance, and budget with a focus on developing and scoping separation and integration
- Additional deliverables include IT organization recommendation, suggested investments, maturity scores, integration plan, and budget forecast
Contact us
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Arlington, VA 22203