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.

Examines the entire life cycle of a divestitureFocuses on modern divestitures and separation strategies and techniquesProvides a mix of theory and real-life case studies along with the tools and templates covering how to address unique complexities that may arise

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 andTax 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.