Independent Sponsor LOI Negotiation in Dental Practice Management
Securities and M&A counsel for independent sponsors negotiating dental practice management transactions, from LOI to close to the capital markets that open up afterward.
An independent sponsor closing dental practice management transactions in the $10M to $130M EV range has a defined set of moves at the LOI Negotiation stage. Most of them are not in a generic M&A textbook.
The typical dental practice management platform sits at $10M to $130M EV with EBITDA in the $2.5M to $22M range. The thesis runs on DSO buy-up under an MSO. Insurance mix dictates valuation. Read the PPO contracts before the EBITDA.
How LOI Negotiation actually gets structured.
Cap the exclusivity at 60 days, with one 30-day extension you control.
Name the earnout, the rollover percentage, and the management fee in the LOI itself, not later.
Reserve QofE and rep-and-warranty insurance as buyer expenses, paid at close.
Build a no-shop carve-out for inbound strategic bids above a threshold.
In dental practice management, layer in MSO model documented per state as part of the LOI Negotiation workstream.
Letting the seller's counsel draft the first LOI. The frame of reference sets every fight that follows.
"An LOI is not a non-binding nicety. It is the deal, in skeleton."Jason Powell · LOI Negotiation
The deal is one thing. The capital that opens up after close is another.
Refinancing, recaps, growth rounds, and the right strategic conversation eighteen months early are all downstream of relationships that take years to build and minutes to use.
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The portion of seller proceeds reinvested into the post-close entity, aligning seller with buyer.
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Bring the dental practice management deal. Get LOI Negotiation done right.
Direct counsel from a securities and M&A attorney with billions in structured transactions, the independent-sponsor-native playbook, and the capital markets network that opens up post-close.