Posts by Author: Melani Seymour
When Your Veterinary Practice Sale Falls Through: What to Do Next in 2026
Key takeaways Most deals now die in diligence, not at the bank. In a 2025 study of 75 broken letters of intent, diligence findings killed 25.3 percent of deals and earnings discrepancies another 21.3 percent; financing failures fell to 10.7 percent, half their 2023 share. The letter of intent protects the buyer more than you.…
Read MoreMB2 Dental and Your Practice: What Owners Should Know in 2026
Most approaches ask you to sell your practice. This one asks you to buy into something. That sounds like marketing. Then you look at how the deal is actually built, and it turns out to be the whole thing. MB2 Dental calls itself a dental partnership organization rather than a DSO. The distinction is not…
Read MoreSelling Your Veterinary Practice Without a Broker in 2026
Key takeaways Yes, you can legally sell without a broker in every state — and in 2 specific situations it genuinely works: the buyer is already known to you and the deal is simple. Self-directed sales succeed when the buyer already exists. For-sale-by-owner home data makes the pattern vivid: only 5 percent of 2025 sales…
Read MoreRollover Equity and Earnouts in a DSO Deal: What You’re Really Buying
An owner sent me a letter of intent last spring with one line highlighted in yellow. The headline number. She had read the rest twice. Twice. She still could not tell me what most of it meant, and she is a careful, numerate dentist who runs a tight ship and reads her own profit-and-loss statement…
Read MoreWho Owns Mission Pet Health in 2026—and What It Means if You’re Selling to Them
Key takeaways Shore Capital is the sponsor of record. Silver Lake also lists Mission as a current investment partnered since 2024 under Silver Lake Partners & Alpine. Mission is the combined platform. SVP and MVP merged in late 2024, then introduced the Mission Pet Health brand in 2025. Public records stop short of percentages. They…
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