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title: Your strongest Asset during a Carve-Out is the Carve-Out Mgmt. Office
description: A carve-out management office manages a business transition during a divestiture. Building a strong management office involves several success factors.
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# [Your strongest Asset during a Carve-Out is the Carve-Out Mgmt. Office](https://www.smartmerger.com/blog/your-strongest-asset-during-a-carve-out-is-the-carve-out-mgmt-office)

 Written by [Michael Klawon](https://www.smartmerger.com/blog/author/michael-klawon) | 26.March 2023

A carve-out management office is set up during a corporate divestiture or spin-off transaction to manage the transition of business operations from the parent company to the newly formed entity. The carve-out management office takes a crucial part in the M&A process. No matter how well you have strategized and planned the carve-out, the hardest part is the execution. It’s the responsibility of the carve-out management office to manage a rigorous and clean execution. 

In our previous articles we talked about planning aspects of a carve-out project. In this article however, we want to emphasize on how to build a strong carve-out management office that executes your strategy with confidence and rigor. There are several factors that are important to set up a carve-out management office, ranging from governance to team and tool topics. 

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