Posts by Author: Melani Seymour

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…

C-Corp, S-Corp or LLC: How Your Entity Type Affects Your Veterinary Practice Sale (2026) Key takeaways Your entity type decides how many times your sale gets taxed. A pass-through (S corp, LLC, partnership) is generally taxed once; a C corporation can be taxed twice on an asset sale, once at the 21 percent corporate level…

Veterinary Practice EBITDA Add-Backs: Building Defensible Normalized Earnings in 2026 Key takeaways Add-backs are the number your price is built on. Value equals normalized EBITDA times the multiple, so every defensible add-back you can document raises the price by the full multiple, and every one you can’t document costs you the same. The biggest add-back…