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How to Negotiate the Sale of Your Veterinary Practice in 2026

By Author: Melani Seymour / June 22, 2026 / Comments Off on How to Negotiate the Sale of Your Veterinary Practice in 2026

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…

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C-Corp, S-Corp or LLC: How Your Entity Type Affects Your Veterinary Practice Sale (2026)

By Author: Melani Seymour / June 19, 2026 / Comments Off on C-Corp, S-Corp or LLC: How Your Entity Type Affects Your Veterinary Practice Sale (2026)

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…

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Veterinary Practice EBITDA Add-Backs: Building Defensible Normalized Earnings in 2026

By Author: Melani Seymour / June 19, 2026 / Comments Off on Veterinary Practice EBITDA Add-Backs: Building Defensible Normalized Earnings in 2026

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…

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Selling a Single-Doctor Veterinary Practice in 2026: The Owner’s Guide

By Author: Melani Seymour / June 18, 2026 / Comments Off on Selling a Single-Doctor Veterinary Practice in 2026: The Owner’s Guide

Selling a Single-Doctor Veterinary Practice in 2026: The Owner’s Guide Key takeaways Single-doctor practices sell, but to a different buyer pool. The active buyers are associates buying in, individual buyers using SBA financing, and smaller groups, because large PE-backed platforms generally prefer scale. The discount comes from owner dependence, not size. A buyer replaces your…

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Veterinary Real Estate Sale-Leaseback: A 2026 Owner’s Guide

By Author: Melani Seymour / June 18, 2026 / Comments Off on Veterinary Real Estate Sale-Leaseback: A 2026 Owner’s Guide

Veterinary Real Estate Sale-Leaseback: A 2026 Owner’s Guide Key takeaways A sale-leaseback turns your building into cash without moving the practice — you sell the real estate to an investor and sign a long lease to keep operating in the same place, realizing close to 100 percent of the equity instead of the 65 to…

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