From Pets to Profits

business, entrepreneurship · EN

What's actually in a veterinary practice deal — and what's actually in your contract? From Pets to Profits is a podcast about the business of veterinary medicine: practice ownership, private equity consolidation, associate compensation, employment agreements, and the deal mechanics that quietly decide who owns a clinic and what they get paid for it. Every episode, Joseph Coury — CFO of Urban Animal — brings the finance read, and Tyler Jones, JD, a veterinary M&A attorney at Helsell Fetterman, brings the legal read. Two lenses on the same story, because those are the two that decide your outcome. What they cover: • EBITDA multiples and practice valuation • Cash-at-close versus earn-outs • ProSal and production-based pay • Signing bonuses and clawbacks • Non-compete law • The path to ownership most agreements leave out Real numbers, real contract language, no jargon, and a fair amount of d