by Zac Fine | Feb 3, 2019 | Acquisitions, Buying & selling, Disposals, Due diligence, Exit plan, Ireland, Site finding
Portman Dental Care will start buying dental practices in Ireland this year. It wants 30 and is inviting stakeholders to dinner in Dublin on Monday to spread the word. We caught up with Gary Chapman, head of M&A at Portman, for the story. Is this a new approach...
by Zac Fine | Jan 28, 2019 | Acquisitions, Buying & selling, Disposals, Due diligence, Exit plan
Is 2019 going to be the year you buy or sell a dental practice? We caught up with Lily Head of Lily Head Dental Practice Sales for an update on how the market’s doing and what to look for in a dental practice broker. Lily, what’s the mood in the market? The market is...
by Zac Fine | Nov 28, 2018 | Acquisitions, Disposals, Due diligence, Exit plan, Movers and shakers, NHS, Recruitment, Site finding, Wealth management
Market research is invaluable when you are thinking about buying or selling a practice. Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has produced a document called The Dental Industry 2018: Staffing, Brexit and The Dentist Shortage. We thought there was an...
by Jonathan Fine | Apr 18, 2018 | Disposals, Exit plan, Planning, Retirement, Tax, Wealth management
The average dentist currently works to age 74 according to Practice Exchange, the online job and course board. It’s an extrapolation from US figures that show average retirement age for dentists in 2001 as 64.8, rising to 69.3 in 2011. But it feels wrong. Granted, the...
by Guest | Jan 24, 2018 | Acquisitions, Buying & selling, Disposals, Mental health, Wealth management
This week we share the musings of guest blogger Ross Martin, Accountancy Director at Hive Business, as he wonders whether owning one £2m turnover practice is better than two £1m ones. Thanks Ross. Just like no one needs to explain why they want a second child, a...
by Zac Fine | Sep 20, 2017 | Acquisitions, Disposals, Due diligence, Exit plan, Movers and shakers, Site finding
You might have noticed that dental practice values only seem be going one way: up. Some people, us included, keep saying these things never last. Yet brokers are seeing demand continue to rise. What’s behind this? We asked Frank Taylor & Associates director Chris...
