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Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Community Veterinary Partners: A Vet’s 2026 Guide

By Author: Melani Seymour / June 4, 2026 / Comments Off on Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Community Veterinary Partners: A Vet’s 2026 Guide

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Community Veterinary Partners: A Vet’s 2026 Guide Key takeaways Community Veterinary Partners (CVP) is a private equity-backed veterinary consolidator headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 2009, with a hospital network concentrated in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. OMERS Private Equity is the current owner per public ownership disclosures, the…

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Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Veterinary Practice Partners: A Vet’s 2026 Guide

By Author: Melani Seymour / June 3, 2026 / Comments Off on Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Veterinary Practice Partners: A Vet’s 2026 Guide

Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Veterinary Practice Partners: A Vet’s 2026 Guide Key takeaways Veterinary Practice Partners (VPP) is a private equity-backed partnership group founded in 2011, headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, partnering with general practice hospitals across more than 20 US states. Audax Private Equity has owned VPP since 2021 per public deal…

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Selling Your Veterinary Practice to CareVet: A Vet’s 2026 Guide

By Author: Melani Seymour / June 2, 2026 / Comments Off on Selling Your Veterinary Practice to CareVet: A Vet’s 2026 Guide

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…

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Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Heartland Veterinary Partners: A Vet’s 2026 Guide

By Author: Melani Seymour / June 1, 2026 / Comments Off on Selling Your Veterinary Practice to Heartland Veterinary Partners: A Vet’s 2026 Guide

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…

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Selling Your Veterinary Practice to United Veterinary Care: A Vet’s 2026 Guide

By Author: Melani Seymour / May 31, 2026 / Comments Off on Selling Your Veterinary Practice to United Veterinary Care: A Vet’s 2026 Guide

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…

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