A $2 Billion IT Carveout Had a 12-Month TSA. It Closed in Nine.

A $2B logistics carveout required managing a standard TSA and a reverse TSA at the same time, with zero tolerance for downtime in a 24/7 operation. The separation closed in nine months against a 12-month TSA, three months ahead of schedule and under budget.

This work was performed by Liberty Advisor Group, now a Resultant company.

Two TSAs running in opposite directions

A private equity IT carveout put a global logistics and supply chain company on a two-way clock: a standard TSA, with its former parent supporting the new company through separation, and a reverse TSA running in the other direction, with the new company supporting the parent in return. Both had to hold inside a 24/7 operation with zero tolerance for downtime.

Managing two TSAs moving in opposite directions creates an additional layer of execution complexity. Work had to be allocated carefully across each TSA while preserving continuity through the final stages of the separation. That became especially important as the TSAs approached expiration, when roughly 40 percent of the IT staff supporting the divestiture could transition back to the parent company. The team had to ensure that work was appropriately allocated for the reverse TSA.

Our role in the IT carveout

We served as the strategic and technical integrator across the full separation, owning infrastructure, applications, contracts, and governance under one accountable team rather than handing pieces off between specialists. The mandate was to move fast without compromising security and build something that would hold up years past the TSA.

What had to move without stopping

The operation ran without a single disruption, even with teams working around the clock across time zones worldwide. Every core system and all financial, logistics, and employee data moved to a new environment with zero data loss and no downtime.

Execution required standing up a new cloud-based infrastructure from scratch, including more than 750 servers supporting over 3,500 employees globally. Financial, HR, and logistics management systems all migrated without interrupting the business. A new secure network kept every location connected throughout the transition. More than 80 vendor contracts representing roughly $400 million in IT spend were audited and renegotiated under the new ownership.

Full operational independence closed in nine months against a 12-month TSA, three months ahead of schedule and under budget. The contract renegotiations delivered real savings that showed up directly in the new entity's financial performance. And because the infrastructure was rebuilt cloud-first rather than replicated from the parent, the company gained more capacity to grow than it had before the separation began.

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