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SITUATION A customer who just sent a non-renewal put carve-out stranded-cost model in front of customer-contract risk reviewer in a strategic buyer looking at a carve-out from a conglomerate. This M&A Due Diligence / Separation and Integration close is management can run this from carve-out stranded-cost model, and the live options are Proceed, Reprice, Walk.

DECISION Customer-contract risk reviewer in a strategic buyer looking at a carve-out from a conglomerate must choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold using carve-out stranded-cost model after a customer who just sent a non-renewal.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize Proceed now; carve-out stranded-cost model already has the discriminator after a customer who just sent a non-renewal. 2. Keep Reprice in force until carve-out stranded-cost model is completed after a customer who just sent a non-renewal for customer-contract risk reviewer. 3. Treat carve-out stranded-cost model as Walk because both readings appear after a customer who just sent a non-renewal. 4. Refuse a M&A Due Diligence close: customer-contract risk reviewer does not have the decision management can run this turns on in carve-out stranded-cost model.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Tie quality-of-earnings, working-capital, and contingent items in carve-out stranded-cost model to management can run this. 2. Name the document customer-contract risk reviewer still needs before signing. 3. Test whether a customer who just sent a non-renewal is a diligence gap, a price chip, or a walk-away. 4. For this M&A Due Diligence Separation and Integration file, read carve-out stranded-cost model against a customer who just sent a non-renewal and write the one fact that would move management can run this for customer-contract risk reviewer.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold on this M&A Due Diligence / Separation and Integration packet (carve-out stranded-cost model after a customer who just sent a non-renewal). Lead with the M&A Due Diligence option carve-out stranded-cost model can support after a customer who just sent a non-renewal, then the two facts that force it, then the Monday action for customer-contract risk reviewer in a strategic buyer looking at a carve-out from a conglomerate.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line M&A Due Diligence option on management can run this, then the evidence in carve-out stranded-cost model, then the action for customer-contract risk reviewer - Hypothesis scorecard against carve-out stranded-cost model: supported / rejected / untestable - Missing page in carve-out stranded-cost model after a customer who just sent a non-renewal, if any - Regulatory or exam hook Separation and Integration would cite