Posts by Author: Melani Seymour

The first question is almost never about the offer. It is about the wire. How much of this actually reaches my account? I have had that conversation over dinner more times than I can count, and it arrives roughly ninety seconds after an owner reads me the headline number off a term sheet he has…

You get the letter. You type the name into Google that evening, expecting to find the usual private equity sponsor behind it. You don’t find one. Mortenson Dental Partners says it has none. Its own materials put the figure in large type on the front page: $0 private equity. The organization describes itself as owned…

Open the schedule for three weeks out. Look at the hygiene column. You already know what you are going to see, which is why most owners stop looking. Tuesday has four patients where there should be nine. Thursday is worse. And somewhere in the software there is a recall list that has quietly grown past…

Asset Sale vs Stock Sale for a Dental Practice: A 2026 Owner Guide  Choosing between an Asset Sale vs Stock Sale for a Dental Practice fundamentally dictates your after-tax net proceeds, liability exposure, and how corporate buyers structure their acquisition. Because nearly all private equity-backed Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) and individual buyers strongly prefer asset purchases to…

The email lands at 6:40 on a Thursday morning. Subject line: “Partnership conversation.” You have four locations, eleven operatories between them, and a schedule that has not had a real gap in it since March. You are not looking to sell. You read it anyway. Everybody does. By the weekend you have typed the name…