Overseas office spinning out - MS Exchange 2010 currently tied to company AD - Should we create a new environment or UTILISE the current Exchange.

We have a situation where our company is in the process of separation.  Our office does not have domain controllers onsite - authentication is actually done at our head office - where domain controllers are in fact installed.
At our site we have an exchange server running Exchange 2010 - this obviously houses our mailboxes for domain X.  The separation will mean would have to install 2 new domain controllers locally as well as either :
Disconnect Exchange from DOMAIN X and re-configure for THE NEW DOMAIN.
My question, is :
Question1
How easy would it be to disconnect our existing exchange from the current global exchange environment (where it currently fails over to an exchange in the US ) ?
Question2
Given that the exchange server can not take any down time - unless over a weekend - is disconnecting it from the current environment and re-connecting to two domain controllers a workable option  ( 2 days )  As the company will be a new entity
- no data will need to be imported.
Is it better practice to disconnect the current exchange and re-connect or would it be considered more appropriate to install a complete new exchange environment.  Side by side the cut over?
Question3
Licensing is another concern here - as all licensing currently comes in the MS Enterprise agreement.  Does anyone know if there is a way to buy licenses or transfer the licenses that we are using for desktops / servers / exchange to a new MS Enterprise
agreement. without transferring the whole agreement as this is used by the head office.  If there is no way to transfer specific licenses over to a new agreement for the new firm - is there a way of changing license keys ?
Thanks in advance for your help
Bonzo-Dog

1: If it's Production Server and Holding the Active Copy of Database then you have to Activate all the database on another server. Once that's done, remove the server from DAG Member. But before you do that make sure you have the backup of all the databases
on the server. Once it's done you can decommission the server from the environment.
Note: You can't mount those backed up databases into another exchange environment, only option will be to export the PST from EDB file and import it into new environment Mailboxes.
2: No, you can't connect exchange server to new organization, it has to be new install.
3: About the licensing, It would be better if you talk to Microsoft about it.
https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/help/contact.aspx
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