Buy a Dental Practice
If you’re thinking about buying a dental practice, we can help you find the right clinic at the right price.
If you’re thinking about buying a dental practice and you want to make sure you find the right practice at the best price, contact us today for a free consultation.
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What is the Buyer’s Advisory Service?
We can provide expert advice and professional services every step of the way, from thinking about location to negotiating the price.
Buying a Practice Packages
Buying a Practice
What We Offer
Ideal for start-up or newly established dental practices that need an essential financial setup and compliance.
Practice Sourcing & Selection
- Access to Samera’s internal list of practices for sale.
- Proactive search and identification of practices matching client criteria (location, size, specialty, financial goals).
Financial Strategy & Funding
- Guidance on securing acquisition finance from lenders.
- Assistance with loan structures and terms.
- Preparation of financial proposals for lenders.
Practice Valuation & Due Diligence
- Review of vendor’s initial practice valuation.
- Support for challenging the valuation if deemed inaccurate.
- In-depth financial due diligence:
- Review of historical financials (P&L, balance sheets).
- Cash flow and working capital analysis.
- Identification of financial risks/liabilities.
- Verification of income and expenses.
Challenge the Valuation/Price Negotiation
- Strategic support and negotiation on the acquisition price with the vendor.
Business Planning
- Development of a comprehensive business plan for the acquired practice, including:
- Market analysis.
- Financial projections.
Cashflow Forecasting
- Detailed projections of future cash inflows and outflows.
- Operational strategy.
- Growth plans.
Optional Extras
Legal & Compliance Integration
- Legal Partner Referrals: Specialist dental solicitor referrals for agreements (heads of terms, sale, leases).
- CQC Compliance Review (Pre-Acquisition) Referrals: Assessment of target practice’s CQC status and identification of issues.
- Employment Law Guidance Referrals: Advice on TUPE regulations for staff, review of contracts/HR policies.
Operational & Integration Support
- Post-Acquisition Integration Workshop: Planning session for the first 90 days (staffing, patient comms, systems).
- Systems Implementation & Optimization: Consultation on practice management software and workflow streamlining.
- Marketing & Patient Retention Strategy: Post-acquisition communication plan for patients, new patient attraction strategies.
- Access to Dental Buying Group: Facilitation of access to the buying group for preferential rates on equipment and consumables.
- Supplier & Service Contract Review: Analysis of existing contracts for cost-saving opportunities or renegotiation.
Ongoing Financial & Strategic Partnership
- Ongoing Accounts & Tax Client Service: Option to transition to full Samera Accounts & Tax services post-acquisition (e.g., annual accounts, tax returns, payroll, pensions).
- Post-Acquisition Financial Health Checkup: Review within 3-6 months to assess performance and identify improvements.
- Finance Director Services: Strategic financial guidance (budgeting, forecasting, monitoring).
- Cashflow Management: Ongoing support and advice for managing practice cash flow effectively.
- Fee Review (Post-Acquisition): Analysis of fee structure for profitability and competitiveness.
Price Negotiation
Our experienced team of advisors will negotiate on your behalf for any practice you may be interested in making an offer. We will help you pay the right price for the practice
Raising Finance
Our team of commercial finance brokers provide a wide range of possible financial sources and deals to help you find the best terms at a reduced client fee of 0.75%.
Free One-Day Virtual Bootcamp
This workshop is designed for dentists thinking about either setting up or buying a dental practice. This bootcamp is our most popular courses and has kickstarted countless dentists into practice ownership.
Dental Practice Valuations
Our accountants have vast experience in the dental industry and can assess the value and potential of prospective practices and identify the best options. We will conduct a full financial assessment of each practice you are interested in purchasing up to a maximum of 6 per annum.
Financial Due Diligence
We will conduct financial due diligence, assessing all financial and tax records, system reviews and overall business assessments.
Cash Flow Management & Forecasting
We can provide expert assistance and advice for forecasting and managing the cash flow and working capital within your new practice for 3 years.
Accountancy and Tax
As experienced dental accountants, we will provide the full range of accountancy and tax services via our streamlined, digital system.
Monthly Update Calls
Monthly accountability zoom call to ensure you actually get to your goal of owning a dental practice.
Case Studies
£86,000 Saved Over the Life of a Loan
The Problem
One of our recent dental practice sales clients managed to get a whopping 1.1% off their loan interest rate when they bought their first practice!
Our client approached their own bank before coming to us. Their proposition was to purchase their first practice in London with their wife.
Their bank was very receptive to the deal and offered to finance 80% of the purchase price over 15 years at a rate of 3.2% above the base rate.
That might sound like a good deal – but it doesn’t sound good to us.
The Solution
Our client then approached us to see what if we thought that the deal was a “good one” to us. It didn’t. 3.2% above base rate is far higher than we usually negotiate for our clients.
After our own information gathering exercise, we approached several lenders in the UK healthcare finance market – including the clients own bank, who had originally offered the 3.2%.
We achieved offers from multiple lenders we had approached far below the 3.2% original offer.
The Result
Through our own information gathering, structuring of the deal and negotiating the price, we managed to achieve a rate of 2.1% above the base rate – a whole 11% lower than the original offer.
And this was from the client’s own bank who had originally offered 3.2%!
So, how much did this save our client? That 1.1% saved our client £5,736 per year and £86,000 over the life of the loan. Well worth the fee payable to the broker for our experience and work completed on this deal.
Succeeding Where Other Brokers Fail
The Problem
We were recently approached by an associate dentist in the North West of England who was having trouble purchasing their first dental practice.
They told us that they had been trying to buy this practice for some months and had engaged the services of a finance broker who claimed they were healthcare specialists.
However, the brokers were unable to source any finance for the client and the brokers had now come back and said to them that he would not be able to proceed with the plans.
The Solution
Luckily, they found us online and understood that we are independent financial brokers with no ties to any specific lender or sales agents who specialise in the dental sector.
After our initial discussion, we outlined what information and documentation we would need to approach a wide range of lenders. We could not understand why the original brokers had struggled to source any finance for the client.
The client explained that we had asked for much more detailed information than their previous brokers and had a far more in depth and comprehensive process for putting a finance application together.
The Result
Once we had received the documents and put the application together we were able to obtain 3 separate offers from 3 different commercial finance lenders.
The client was then able to determine which offer best suited their situation and goals before proceeding.
They are now the proud owner of their own dental practice and in our follow up discussions, everything is going fantastically with their new practice!
£8,000 Saved on the Early Payment Fee
The Problem
One of our clients approached us with a plan to purchase a new premises recently. However, they already had a substantial loan with a lender and that loan came with an early repayment charge of 1%.
To purchase the new premises, they were looking to refinance their current deal and incur the early repayment penalty.
Luckily for them, they came to us first.
The Solution
That particular lender had recently been acquired by another firm and had taken the decision to stop providing new loans in this finance sector.
We approached the lender with the client and used our knowledge and experience to renegotiate the payment penalty.
The Result
We managed to get the early payment charge down from 1% to just 0.25% – saving our client £8,000 on the fee!
Using a commercial finance broker’s experience and knowledge pays off.
I have found my dealings with Samera, who offer a range of services, to be of the highest standard. A special thanks … been very supportive and insightful with our goal to finance the purchase of a surgery … always been on hand to offer sound advice whilst reviewing financials expertly. Thank you.
5 Stars
I can’t recommend Samera enough to anybody looking to secure finance for acquisition of a dental practice. I speak from personal experience ….. It took only days to get the finance in place and furthermore … has gone over his remit in helping me along the process with valuable advice that saves me much time and money! Basically if you want a result call Samera!
5 Stars
From the bootcamp I signed up to use … finance services … went above and beyond my expectations; helping me finance the purchase, coming with me to inspect the practice, helping me with readings accounts etc and always picking up the phone when I had questions for him. I would happily recommend Samera to any prospective buyer, and have already done so.
5 Stars
Great service, really paid attention to our needs and offered us the appropriate advice. In particular we were impressed with the time, dedication and focus given to help us finance our acquisition of a dental practice with good rates. We also managed to stay in communication during unsociable hours which really made the process convenient for us. Very helpful.
5 Stars
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Buying a Dental Practice:
Get Started
When buying a dental practice (especially if it’s for the first time), you need the competent hands of qualified professionals. Not only have we been helping the UK’s dentists to buy, start and sell dental practices for over 20 years, we are dental practice owners ourselves! We know what it takes to buy the right dental practice, we can help you find it, buy it and get it up and running.
Book a free, no-obligation consultation with one of our team at a time that suits you (including evenings). We’ll call you back and have a chat about how we can help buy your dream practice.
Learn More: Buying a Dental Practice
For more information please check out the articles and webinars in the buying a dental practice section of our Learning Centre like the Guide to Buying a Dental Practice.
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