The world of M&A has always been complex and nuanced. Corporations encounter their toughest business problems during a divestiture or a merger. At the same time, optimal execution of divestitures can also create high value for the seller as well as the buyer. This book is a collection of leading practices on Divestitures and covers end to end transaction life cycle from readiness through execution including post deal transformation. It contains the synthesis of experiences across a wide array of clients across industries, ranging from $500 million to $100 billion in revenue.

Each chapter in this book can stand on its own as an authority on leading practices related to the topic it presents, and together, these chapters provide a comprehensive set of perspectives needed to successfully complete a divestiture. The highlight of the book is valuable real-life examples and references that a business can benefit from, when it is considering, analyzing or implementing a divestiture.

Autorentext
Joseph Joy is a Deloitte Principal with more than 24 years of consulting experience and is a leader of Deloitte's Technology M&A practice. He has worked on more than 150 M&A deals and has extensive M&A due-diligence, divestiture, integration, carve-out, and restructuring experience. He has led multiple large-scale, multibillion-dollar separation deals for several global clients including some of the largest and most-complex transactions ever in the history of corporate M&A. He demonstrates robust skills in leadership and management with focus on risk analysis, quality control, framework development, methodologies, governance, and cost reduction. He is a thought leader in digital transformation and is passionate about helping clients create business value and embark on transformation for growth.

Apart from client work, he has contributed to a multitude of M&A-related eminence activities including authorship in Wall Street Journal and his views and perspectives have also been published in leading books in the market. 

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Preface.- Chapter 2. Taming the Elephant - Introduction to Divestitures.- Chapter 3. Being a Prepared Seller and Identifying the Right Buyer.- Chapter 4. Upping the Ante Enhancing Deal Value.- Chapter 5. Defining the Deal Timeline Balancing Legal, HR, IT and Finance.- Chapter 6. Slicing the Pie - Asset Allocation in Divestiture.- Chapter 7. Financial Aspects of Carve-Out.- Chapter 8. Clean Financial Separation.- Chapter 9. Building the Arsenal - Setting up an Effective Separation Team and Governance.- Chapter 10. Working under the Tent Confidentiality and Restricted Information Disclosure.- Chapter 11. Getting Ready for Announcement Kickoff Planning.- Chapter 12. Building the Execution Roadmap.- Chapter 13. Managing the People Side of Divestiture - Retention and Motivation.- Chapter 14. Shaking Things Up Reorganizing.- Chapter 15. Legal Entity Operating Structure.- Chapter 16. Managing Banking and Treasury Implications during Divestiture.- Chapter 17. Legal and Tax Aspects of Divestitures.- Chapter 18. Accelerating Divestitures through Minimal Rebranding.- Chapter 19. Managing Customer and Partner Transitions during a Separation.- Chapter 20. Managing the Application Separation Lifecycle.- Chapter 21. Simplifying IT Infrastructure Separation.- Chapter 22. Managing IT in Divestiture - Orchestration, Instrumentation and Measurement.- Chapter 23. Testing - Making the IT Separation Foolproof.- Chapter 24. Cutover - Getting Ready for the launch.- Chapter 25. Command Center - Setting up Round the Clock Monitoring during Cutover.- Chapter 26. Protecting the Organization during Vulnerable Times.- Chapter 27. Transform as You Separate.- Chapter 28. Managing Data Separation and Migration during a Divestiture.- Chapter 29. Real Estate and Site Separation.- Chapter 30. Transition Service Agreements (TSA): Approach to de-risk divestitures.- Chapter 31. Contract Separation Early Identification and Negotiations.- Chapter 32. Expediting TSA Exits to Enable Strategic Transformation.- Chapter 33. Managing Separation Costs, Stranded Costs & Dis-synergies.- Chapter 34. Cost Reduction through Outsourcing.- Chapter 35. Separation Management Office - Leading Practices.- Chapter 36. Summing it all up.- Appendix A: Divestiture Playbook Overview.- Appendix B: Glossary.