The exit priced first
What leaving costs and what it abandons, calculated before the notice — so the decision to go is made on numbers, not on exhaustion.
Separation & exit exposure
Leaving a business relationship without leaving a claim behind.
Exit exposure planning by Aun & Co.: separations from partnerships, ventures and long-term contracts, structured so the departure does not become the dispute.
Exits generate disputes at a higher rate than entrances: a partner leaving a company, a party terminating a long-term contract, a venture unwinding — each departure crystallises every deferred grievance and prices every ambiguous term at once. Separation exposure work maps what an exit will trigger — termination rights, penalty clauses, accrued claims, guarantees, restrictive covenants — and then structures the departure so it withstands the litigation it might otherwise invite.
The work spans
- Exit-trigger analysis: what terminating actually sets in motion
- Separation agreements with real releases and real finality
- Accrued-claims inventory: what each side could still assert
- Guarantees, security and covenant tails surviving the exit
- Termination executed by the book: grounds, notices, cure periods
- You want out of a partnership and every conversation about terms turns into an argument about history.
- A long-term contract has become ruinous and you need the exit that does not read as breach.
- A co-founder is leaving and the release must actually end things, not pause them.
- You exited informally years ago and claims from that relationship keep resurfacing.
Before any notice is sent, the firm prices the exit both ways: what you may owe on departure, and what you leave unclaimed by going. Termination grounds are matched to the record — a wrongly framed exit converts the departing party into the breaching one. The separation agreement is then drafted around the inventory: releases scoped to what is actually known, carve-outs for what is not, and finality provisions that make reopening expensive.
04 · What you get
Grounds matched to record
Termination framed on the basis your documents actually support, keeping you the terminating party rather than the defendant.
Releases that hold
Separation agreements with scoped releases, carve-outs and finality mechanics — the difference between an ending and an intermission.
The firm has acted for a partner exiting a multi-year venture where accounts had never been formally settled. The engagement inventoried each side's assertable claims, priced the netting, and closed the separation with a release structured to survive the one dispute both sides could foresee.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
How do I exit a long-term contract without being sued for breach?
By matching the exit route to your record: a contractual termination right properly exercised, an accumulated-breach case properly documented, or a negotiated release. The fatal pattern is exiting first and searching for the ground afterwards — sequence is everything.
What should a separation agreement include to be final?
A claims inventory both sides acknowledge, mutual releases scoped to it, carve-outs for genuinely unknown matters, payment and handover mechanics with deadlines, and a dispute clause for the agreement itself. Vague global releases invite the litigation they pretend to end.
Do guarantees and non-competes survive after I leave?
Often, yes — personal guarantees, security and covenant tails live by their own terms, not by your departure. An exit plan inventories every surviving instrument and negotiates its release explicitly; the ones forgotten at separation are the ones enforced later.