Posts by Author: Melani Seymour

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Destination Pet: A 2026 Guide Key takeaways Destination Pet is a private equity-backed pet health and wellness platform founded in 2017 by Shane Kelly and headquartered in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, per the company’s own materials. LetterOne owns it through its L1 Health arm, having agreed to acquire Destination Pet in…

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Companion Pet Partners: A 2026 Guide Key takeaways Companion Pet Partners is a private equity-backed platform formed by Cortec Group in January 2020, headquartered in Los Angeles, and focused on acquiring and operating general-practice hospitals across the Western United States, per Cortec’s portfolio page. The footprint is roughly 30 hospitals…

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Blue River PetCare: A 2026 Guide Key takeaways Blue River PetCare is a Chicago-based, Partners Group-backed veterinary practice consolidator founded in 2009 — operating more than 200 independently-branded general practice hospitals across the US per Blue River company materials. The defining feature is a decentralized model: each acquired practice retains…

What Happens to Your Staff and Clients When You Sell Your Veterinary Practice (2026) Key takeaways Your team almost always keeps their jobs — the staff and clients are the value, so buyers want to retain them, and sellers negotiate a clause requiring the buyer to offer continued employment at current pay. Benefits and PTO…

How to Negotiate the Sale of Your Veterinary Practice in 2026 Key takeaways Competition is the single biggest lever, full stop. A structured process with multiple qualified bidders moves price and terms further than any clever line you could deliver across the table, because buyers behave completely differently when they know they can lose the…