IT Carve-Out
IT Carve-Out refers to the technical and organisational separation of IT infrastructure for a divested business unit during an M&A transaction. The goal is a fully standalone, operational IT landscape for the carved-out entity, typically delivered within a 12 to 24 month Transitional Service Agreement (TSA).
IT Carve-Out in practice
An IT Carve-Out covers the separation of identities (Active Directory / Entra ID), endpoints, applications, data and network infrastructure. Typical phases: (1) discovery and asset inventory, (2) target operating model definition, (3) TSA negotiation with the selling company, (4) build-out of the standalone IT (often greenfield in Azure), (5) migration of workloads and data, (6) cutover and exit from the TSA services.
Risks: TSA terms that are too short, unclear data ownership, missing business continuity plans, licence splits across Microsoft 365 / Azure tenants. Alendris specialises in mid-market carve-outs (50-5000 employees), in particular for private equity portfolio companies.