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Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Mission Pet Health: A Vet’s 2026 Guide Key takeaways Mission Pet Health is the post-merger combined entity of Southern Veterinary Partners (SVP) and Mission Veterinary Partners (MVP), formally launched in July 2025 per the Mission Pet Health press release at the time. Shore Capital Partners is a primary financial sponsor…

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to VetCor: A Vet’s 2026 Guide Key takeaways VetCor is one of the longer-established private equity-backed veterinary practice consolidators in the United States — headquartered in Hingham, Massachusetts and acquiring independent practices since the mid-1990s. Harvest Partners has been the current owner since 2018 per public ownership disclosures, the latest in…

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to AmeriVet: A Vet’s 2026 Guide Key takeaways AmeriVet Veterinary Partners is among the most active US mid-market veterinary practice acquirers in 2025-2026 per AmeriVet company materials, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. AmeriVet is owned by AEA Investors and Oaktree Capital per public ownership disclosures — a dual-sponsor PE structure common…

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to VCA: A Vet’s 2026 Guide Key takeaways VCA Animal Hospitals operates approximately 1,000 general practice and specialty hospitals across the United States, the largest US footprint of any single veterinary practice brand per VCA company materials. VCA has been owned by Mars, Incorporated since 2017, when Mars acquired the then-publicly-traded…

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Mars: A Vet’s 2026 Guide Key takeaways Mars Veterinary Health is the umbrella over VCA Animal Hospitals, Banfield Pet Hospital, BluePearl Specialty and Emergency Pet Hospital, Antech Diagnostics, Linnaeus (UK), AniCura (Europe), and VetPartners (Australia/NZ), operating roughly 3,000 hospitals globally per Mars company materials. Mars is the strategic exception in…