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From weeks of uncertainty to clarity in seven days - an engineered, AI-accelerated and expert-validated carve-out complexity assessment

Carve-Out Intelligence

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Harry Schuster & Nabih Eid

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Partner, Delivering Deal Value, PwC Germany
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Senior Manager, Delivering Deal Value, PwC Germany
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The data-driven foundation for confident decision-making at every stage of your carve-out

In a carve-out, every week of ambiguity has a price - and the bill arrives just before signing. Buyers expect clarity in days and boards expect defensibility from day one. The traditional approach to early complexity assessment - built on interviews, fragmented inputs, and subjective estimates - was never designed for the pace deals run at today.

Carve-Out Intelligence is the strategic complexity assessment that comes before the detailed work - built to give leadership a fast, defensible view of where complexity, cost and risk really lie. It works directly from your own enterprise data, anchored in a defined business perimeter, and is structured across the five PwC Deals dimensions of carve-out complexity and validated end-to-end by our senior deals experts.

“Boards, investors, and buyers no longer accept opinion-led complexity views. They expect evidence - and they expect it now. Carve-Out Intelligence is how we deliver both.”

Harry Schuster,Partner, PwC Germany

The outcome is a board-ready carve-out complexity assessment - a consistent methodology, read through the lens of your industry and transaction context - paired with an interactive dashboard that brings the full picture into focus. The analysis is engineered for reproducibility: same data, same answer, every time. It is powered by four bounded AI capabilities and gated by a senior PwC deals expert review before any output reaches you.

Our approach is built to ask the minimum of your organisation. Together with SNP, a global technology platform leader and trusted partner for companies seeking unparalleled data-enabled transformation capabilities and business agility, the extraction is secure and read-only. Your systems are never modified and your people stay focused on the business, not tied up in workshops.

“In a transaction, every number must defend itself. Carve-Out Intelligence is built on that principle - every cost, every timeline, every complexity score rests on traceable data, and every assumption is transparent to those who rely on it.”

Nabih Eid,Senior Manager, PwC Germany

And the assessment is only the beginning. The same structured data becomes the foundation for everything that follows, from TSA design and day-one readiness to separation execution. One extraction. One methodology. Carried from diagnostic through to deal execution.

Whether you are preparing a divestiture, evaluating a target, or pressure-testing complexity for the board, start with the overview that the rest of the deal will be built on. Let’s talk.

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The full anatomy of a separation. Every carve-out separates along the same five PwC Deals dimensions. We score complexity, cost, and risk across all five, consistently. Every time.

We've pre-defined the exact SAP data a carve-out requires and built the extraction exclusively with SNP. Your people stay focused on the business, not the data.

The Carve-Out Intelligence Engine calculates complexity, cost, and timeline from your data through engineered, rule-based scoring. The same client data always returns the same answer.

Experts every step of the way. AI never touches the engine’s calculations. It only validates inputs, harmonises structures, and drafts outputs - all gated by a review by PwC carve-out experts before delivery.

Zero extra effort. A board-ready complexity assessment, an interactive dashboard, and a shareable anywhere version - all delivered through PwC Junction, our secure engagement platform.

Today’s lessons. The methodology evolves with every market shift, regulatory change, and carve-out we run so that every engagement reflects today’s reality, not yesterday’s playbook.

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Built for every carve-out decision-maker

Which carve-out or exit is right for you?

Portfolio decisions made on revenue and margin alone miss the operational dimension that determines whether a separation actually works.

Carve-Out Intelligence runs lightweight, comparable assessments across multiple candidates - one, three, or five in parallel, delivered in seven, nine, or eleven business days. Each assessment scores the same five dimensions of complexity, so you can place candidates side by side.

Decide which carve-out or exit deserves your attention before months of effort begin on the wrong asset.

From decision to deal - without the surprises.

Once the board has decided, every week without clarity is value at risk. Inside a corporate carve-out, the hardest moments come between approval and close: hidden entanglements, transition costs, buyer questions no one can answer - and the interview marathons that pull your best people off the business.

Carve-Out Intelligence surfaces these issues early - fact-based scoring across five dimensions of complexity, delivered in seven business days from your own systems, without tying up your team.

Finance, M&A, and strategy move in step. The board sees defensible evidence. Buyers see a seller who has done the work.

Exit-ready. On your timeline.

An exit moves fast, and lean PortCo teams can’t carry a months-long complexity exercise. When the hold period is closing, every quarter of slippage costs IRR - and every buyer-side surprise is a price-down lever waiting to be pulled.

Carve-Out Intelligence delivers the operational evidence buyers will look for, before they look for it - separation complexity, transition costs, and standalone-readiness, scored across five dimensions in seven business days from the PortCo’s own systems.

Sponsor teams stay in control of the exit narrative. Operating partners get a defensible view without burdening lean PortCo staff. Buyers find a story they can trust.

Why your CIO and CISO should be asking for this.

In most carve-outs, data starts moving long before the controls are in place - passed between teams and copied across systems no one fully tracks.

Carve-Out Intelligence is the disciplined alternative. SNP delivers a read-only extractor, scoped to the data needed for carve-out analysis. Your team runs it under your control and the output reaches PwC only when you choose to release it. One controlled flow, one audit trail, one source of truth - delivered in seven business days, handled to your data-protection and residency standards.

Fewer hands on the data. Fewer NDAs to track. Your IT team isn’t pulled into ad-hoc data requests. Your CISO isn’t chasing files. The carve-out runs cleanly and your data stays where it belongs.

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Tested against our best - matches every dimension, catches what manual methods don’t

A live mid-market carve-out, delivered in five days under our seven-business-day standard. Carve-Out Intelligence stood head-to-head with our most experienced practitioners - and went further.

The pilot’s aim was simple: prove that Carve-Out Intelligence could match our most experienced practitioners head-to-head. Across all five dimensions of separation complexity - Process, People, Contracts, Assets, and Technology - the platform’s findings aligned substantively with the senior team’s: the same risks, the same complexity hotspots, the same priorities. It also uncovered risks the traditional approach did not identify and delivered the assessment in five days against a multi-week manual benchmark.

Carve-Out Intelligence: A faster, more defensible foundation for negotiation, planning, and operations design.

What the methodology confirmed

  • Matched senior team on every dimension. Same risks, same hotspots, same priorities - across Process, People, Contracts, Assets, and Technology.
  • Resolved messy ERP data directly. No manual cleanup. No workarounds.
  • Delivered a board-ready, audit-trailed result. Defensible for negotiation, IT planning, and diligence.

What the methodology added

  • Depth manual methods can’t provide consistently. Systematic scoring, not practitioner-dependent judgment.
  • Same data, same answer, every time. Reproducible under audit, regulator, and board scrutiny.
  • Optionality before commitment. Compare multiple carve-out perimeters head-to-head within one engagement.

One assessment. Five dimensions. One defensible score.

Carve-Out Intelligence scores separation complexity across all five dimensions -Process, People, Contracts, Assets, and Technology - in a single, reproducible assessment. Senior-team depth, delivered faster, with a documented audit trail.

Disclaimer: Case details are anonymised and representative of a single engagement. The senior-team benchmark refers to experienced PwC practitioners executing the assessment using our traditional methodology on the same scope and dataset. Productised methodology capabilities and pilot-specific findings are distinguished above.

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Harry Schuster

Partner, Delivering Deal Value, PwC Germany

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Nabih Eid

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Senior Manager, Delivering Deal Value, PwC Germany

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