Technology Deal Restructuring & Exits
Overview
Technology relationships rarely stay aligned with business reality. Vendors consolidate, pricing models shift, programs underperform, disputes arise, and operating strategies change. When this happens, organizations need more than dispute management – they need structured realignment.
LB3 helps enterprises stabilize, renegotiate, and exit complex technology agreements while preserving operational continuity and improving commercial position. Because we focus exclusively on customer-side technology relationships and understand provider behavior deeply, we can identify leverage quickly and convert pressure points into better outcomes.
Strategy, Not Panic
Regain control of underperforming technology and relationships so your business can move forward with confidence.
Create clear, practical exit strategies that minimize disruption and protect your operations when change becomes necessary.
Resolve provider disputes with solutions that reduce risk, avoid unnecessary escalation, and keep your teams focused on what matters.
Source and onboard the right replacement providers while unwinding shared environments safely and efficiently.
What We Do
We advise on restructuring across outsourcing, managed services, enterprise software, and network services deals, including:
- Integrating terms into agreements to provide flexibility for transitions to other providers and technologies
- Dispute avoidance and resolution via settlement negotiations
- Assessing and creating contract leverage to renegotiate scope or exit with minimal cost exposure
- Pricing and commercial commitments renegotiations
- Developing corrective action plans
- Realigning software licensing and recovering entitlements
- Developing provider consolidation strategies
- Planning and executing exits and transitions
- Negotiating transition agreements
We often advise clients where operational continuity is critical, particularly when existing service or network constraints make immediate replacement infeasible.
Exits as Strategy
Exit readiness is not a last resort – it is a core component of leverage. LB3 structures exit frameworks at contract inception and facilitates execution of the strategy when relationships must change.
Our work includes:
- Structured termination pathways
- Transition services negotiation
- Replacement provider sourcing and transitioning
- Data extraction and portability
- Unwinding shared environments
- Financial true-up and liability management
- Mitigate risks by working with business teams to ensure migration plans are coordinated with the enterprise’s contractual obligations
We help organizations move from reactive provider dependence to controlled transition.
We Help Enterprises:
Stabilize, renegotiate, or exit underperforming agreements while keeping your business moving.
Design your contracts and your departure so your data is secure, accessible, and transferable.
Move from provider dependence to structured transitions with well-designed pathways and practical execution support.
Use leverage – not litigation – to secure fast, business focused resolutions that reduce risk and cost.
Dispute Resolution
Litigation is costly, disruptive, and time-consuming. When disputes with providers arise, we work to find practical resolutions.
Our counsel includes:
- Identifying potential issues and workarounds
- Understanding the provider’s pain points and elasticity to best develop resolution strategy
- Creating leverage
- Working through billing disputes and developing forward looking resolution of pricing issues
- Negotiating practical solutions that don’t impose debilitating conditions on the enterprise
- Long and short term planning
- Drafting and executing effective settlements
- Assisting enterprises in developing contracts that avoid disputes and build in remedies when disputes arise
Collaboration, rather than litigation, often yields the best results. Our practical, results driven approach has enabled enterprises to achieve substantial time and cost savings.
How We Differ
Large firms often treat restructuring as litigation-adjacent work or a procurement exercise. We treat it as operating strategy – integrating negotiation, technical realities, governance, business case management mechanisms, and digital asset considerations within a single engagement.
The result is not just resolution, but repositioning.
Podcast Insights
Explore how we help organizations effectively restructure and/or exit technology and vendor relationships. Marc Lindsey expounds on how to manage an IT contract through divestiture, which is often challenging, since vendors generally don’t let their customer just replicate a contract into a new “carbon” copy of the contract for the divested entity.
