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Selling Your Veterinary Practice to CareVet: A Vet’s 2026 Guide Key takeaways CareVet is a private equity-backed veterinary network founded in 2018 by veterinarian Dr. Kent Thornberry and entrepreneur Greg Siwak, headquartered in the St. Louis, Missouri area and grown to more than 200 hospitals across 35-plus states. Compass Group Equity Partners, a St. Louis-based…

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Heartland Veterinary Partners: A Vet’s 2026 Guide By Melani Seymour, co-founder, Transitions Elite. When a vet hands me a Heartland offer over dinner, there’s almost always a second asset sitting in the room that nobody at the buyer’s table has talked about yet. It’s the building. The owner has spent…

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to United Veterinary Care: A Vet’s 2026 Guide Key takeaways United Veterinary Care (UVC) is a veterinarian-led group of primary, specialty, and emergency practices founded in 2019 and headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, operating more than 60 hospitals across 13 states per UVC company materials. Nordic Capital has backed UVC…

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Western Veterinary Partners: A Vet’s 2026 Guide By Melani Seymour, co-founder, Transitions Elite. Key takeaways Western Veterinary Partners is one of the fastest-scaling national veterinary platforms in the United States — headquartered in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2019, and grown to more than 325 hospitals across roughly 39 states on…

Sell My Veterinary Practice: A 2026 Owner’s Decision Guide A vet sat across from me at dinner last fall who had been thinking about selling for two years. He’d just received the third direct PE-backed offer in 90 days. He thought he was ready to pick one. The first offer came in around 8.5x EBITDA.…