Attorneys
The legal structure and agreements around the deal.
Purchase agreements, deal structure, restrictive covenants, employment matters, and closing documents. Decisions here can matter long after the transaction closes.
For dental transition professionals
The transaction already needs you.
This is where it finds you.
A dental practice transition involves more than a buyer and a seller. The purchase agreement, tax structure, acquisition financing, and real estate can each require someone with experience in dental transitions.
Dental Acquisitions gives attorneys, CPAs, lenders, and real estate professionals a place to be found when a transaction needs their role, and one connected place to work once they're part of it.
Professionals around the transaction
- Attorneys
- CPAs
- Lenders
- Real estate professionals
Four roles at launch. Room for the ones a transition turns out to need.
Found when needed
Owners, buyers, brokers, and other professionals can find you when the transaction needs your role.
Chosen by the people involved
Your profile makes you easier to find. Dental Acquisitions doesn't decide who anyone hires.
Your role stays yours
The professional relationship remains between you and the people who choose to work with you.
The missing connection
Every transition starts with a different team. The missing role is what changes.
An owner may already have an attorney. A buyer may already have a lender. A broker may know a CPA. Another professional may see that the deal now needs someone else. Every transition begins with a different set of relationships in place.
When a role is still open, the search often stays inside the relationships people already have. Dental Acquisitions gives the people inside the transaction another place to look, with multiple participating professionals to consider, without putting anyone in charge of building the team.
Who may go looking
- Practice owner
- The owner chooses directly. An owner can compare participating professionals for the role they need and choose who they're comfortable with.
- Buyer
- The buyer chooses directly. A buyer can keep the professionals already in place and look for the roles the transaction still needs.
- Broker
- A broker introduces someone. A broker may point an owner or buyer toward a professional without controlling the rest of the team.
- Another professional
- One professional brings in another. A professional already involved may recognize another specialty is needed and make the introduction.
Nobody owns the Deal Team.
The people in the transaction decide who they work with. Dental Acquisitions doesn't replace existing professional relationships. It makes participating professionals easier to find when another role is needed.
How you get found
You don't have to find the transaction. It has to be able to find you.
A profile on Dental Acquisitions shows four things: your role, where you work, your firm, and your experience with dental transitions. It may already exist. If it does, you claim it and complete it. If it doesn't, you create it.
When someone inside a transaction goes looking for the role you fill, your profile gives them a way to find and consider you alongside other participating professionals. The person looking decides what happens next.
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Your profile exists.
Role, location, firm, dental transition experience. Claimed or created, then kept current.
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A role is needed.
An owner, buyer, broker, or another professional realizes the transaction is missing what you do.
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You're found.
They look for the role. Your profile is one of the ones they see.
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A conversation can start.
The people involved decide whether to contact you. What happens next is between you and them.
What a profile shows
Role
Attorney, CPA, lender, real estate professional, or another role that supports dental transitions.
Location
Where your work is based.
Firm
The firm or organization you work with.
Dental transition experience
Your relevant experience with dental practice transitions.
What participating means
Present in the marketplace. Not endorsed by it.
A listing is reviewed for one thing: whether the work supports dental transitions. It isn't reviewed for quality, and participation doesn't mean Dental Acquisitions has ranked, recommended, or vouched for the professional. The people in the transaction decide who they work with.
Be findable when your role matters.
Once you're part of the transaction, the work happens in one place.
Where the work happens
The deal lives in one place. So does everyone working on it.
A dental transition can run across email threads, forwarded attachments, and separate conversations that nobody sees all of. The attorney learns something the CPA needed last week. The lender is waiting on a document that already exists.
When a transaction becomes active on Dental Acquisitions, it moves into a Deal Room. The buyer, the seller, the broker, and the professionals chosen for the deal work around the same transaction in the same place. You're there because someone in the transaction brought you in.
- Who's in the room
- The people involved in this transaction. The buyer. The seller. The broker, when there is one. The attorney, CPA, lender, and real estate professional chosen for this deal. Not every professional in the marketplace. The ones on this transaction.
- How you get in
- By invitation. Someone in the transaction brings you in: the owner, the buyer, the broker, or another professional already on the deal. Being listed makes you findable. Being invited makes you part of it.
- What governs it
- Being in the Deal Room doesn't mean seeing everything in it. Nothing identifying moves without the owner's authorization. That rule applies inside the Deal Room just as it does in the seller's disclosure process. What's shared in the room is shared because the owner authorized it.
The broker doesn't leave the room when the professionals arrive.
A broker on the transaction stays on it. The Deal Room puts the professionals alongside the broker, not in place of one.
Not another email chain. A Deal Room.
The work you were brought in to do, alongside the people involved in the same transaction.
Your role in the transaction
Four roles a transaction can need. Yours may be one of them, or the next one.
Dental Acquisitions begins with four professional roles that regularly support practice transactions. Each contributes something different, and not every transaction needs all four.
CPAs
The economics, tax treatment, and financial structure.
Practice economics, tax treatment, and how the structure of the transaction affects what the parties actually keep.
Lenders
The financing that can move the transaction forward.
Acquisition financing for the buyer and the funding requirements that can determine whether a transaction can move forward.
Real estate professionals
The property issues connected to the transition.
When real estate is part of the transition, these professionals help address the lease, property, or occupancy questions connected to the deal.
Work with dental transitions?
Your role may not be on this list yet.
If your work regularly supports dental practice transitions and your role isn't represented above, there may still be a place for it here. The question is whether the work belongs in the transition, not whether it fits one of four labels.
Applications are reviewed for relevance to dental practice transitions. That review isn't an endorsement, ranking, or recommendation of the professional.
Four roles at launch. Room for the ones a transition turns out to need.
What stays yoursWhat stays yours
Being findable here changes one thing. The work stays yours.
Dental Acquisitions makes you findable when a transaction needs your role, and gives the deal one place to happen. That's the whole of what it does. What you advise, who you work with, how you're known, and on what terms you take the work were yours before, and they're yours here.
Yours
- Your judgment.
- What you advise stays yours to decide. Dental Acquisitions doesn't direct the professional work.
- Your relationships.
- The professional relationship remains between you and the people who choose to work with you.
- Your reputation.
- Your profile presents your work in your own words. It doesn't define your reputation for you.
- Your engagement.
- Whether to take the work, and on what terms, is decided between you and the client.
- Your role.
- Dental Acquisitions can make the connection possible. It doesn't perform the professional work itself.
What Dental Acquisitions doesn't do
Makes the connection possible. Nothing past that.
- Doesn't supervise the work.
- Doesn't choose the professional for the client.
- Doesn't endorse the advice.
- Doesn't guarantee an engagement.
The connection can be shared. The professional responsibility can't.
Questions professionals askQuestions professionals ask
Questions worth answering. The important ones have limits.
Four questions professionals ask after the rest of the page, answered with the same boundaries the page has used all along.
- Do I claim a profile or apply to join?
- Claim a profile if your role is already represented and a profile exists for you. Apply to join if your work regularly supports dental practice transitions and your role isn't represented yet.
- Does being listed mean Dental Acquisitions endorses me?
- No. Participation is reviewed for relevance to dental transitions, not for quality of work. The people in the transaction decide who they work with.
- Does having a profile put me into a transaction?
- Not by itself. A profile makes you findable. You become part of an active transaction only when someone in it brings you into the Deal Room.
- Can other transition professionals be included later?
- Yes, if the work belongs in a dental practice transition. The question is whether the role supports the transaction, not whether it fits one of the four launch labels.
When your role is needed
Be there when the transaction goes looking.
Claim a profile if one exists. Apply if your role supports dental practice transitions and isn't represented yet. What happens next belongs to the people who choose to work together.
Dental Acquisitions Marketplace
One marketplace. Every dental transition.