Veterinary practice due diligence checklist for sellers

This page is general information for sellers, not legal, tax or lending advice. VetFirm Sales does not buy veterinary practices. The state rules below cover only the states named, and they change, so confirm each item with a veterinary practice attorney, your CPA and the buyer's lender. Rules are cited as read on October 27, 2026.

What documents do you need to sell a veterinary practice?

Expect several readers, each testing something different. Tanella and Funnell write that a consolidator's accountants run a quality-of-earnings analysis on your numbers. An SBA lender orders its own valuation and checks the figures behind it against your IRS transcripts. DEA, your state board and your state's radiation program care about whose name is on each registration: DEA will not let yours pass to a buyer without its written consent, and several of the states below treat a change of owner as the end of a premises permit or X-ray registration.

What does an SBA 7(a) lender require?

If an associate or another veterinarian buys your practice with an SBA 7(a) loan, the lender works under SOP 50 10 8.1 for applications given an SBA loan number on or after October 1, 2026; files submitted through September 30, 2026 stay under SOP 50 10 8.0, so ask the lender which version governs yours.

The lender orders its own valuation. It must be requested by and prepared for the lender by an independent, accredited appraiser (ASA, CBA, ABV, CVA or BCA); the lender may not use a valuation prepared for you or for the buyer, though at a business price of $350,000 or less it may value the practice itself unless you and the buyer have a close relationship. The lender must also verify the financial figures the appraiser relied on against your IRS transcripts. Total debt, including any seller note not on full standby, cannot exceed that valuation, and any part of the price above it must be paid with equity. The practice must also show debt service coverage of at least 1.25:1 in an initial acquisition or owner buyout, or 1.15:1 in a business expansion, on its last fiscal year or the average of its last two, and the lender may not rely on projections to get there.

In an initial acquisition or business expansion at a business price of $3 million or more, not counting owner-occupied real estate, the lender also needs a quality of earnings report that is not prepared by or for you; owner buyouts are exempt. It reconciles your statements, tax returns, internal reports and IRS transcripts, documents every add-back and assesses revenue quality, including customer concentration. The lender must also document that the buyer's ownership structure meets your state's requirements for a business that needs a professional license.

1. Financial records

Make your books, your practice-management reports and your bank deposits tell the same story. Simmons & Associates' appraisers describe recasting the tax returns: the owner's salary moves up or down to fair market, and owner pay and rent count as operating costs.

• Income statements, balance sheets and cash-flow breakdowns for the last three fiscal years, plus the current year to date.

  Tanella and Funnell's list names historical statements without saying how many years. Simmons & Associates' appraisers say the last two to three years are usually examined, often as a weighted average. An SBA lender measures debt coverage on the last fiscal year or the average of the last two.

• Business tax returns for the same years.

  An SBA lender checks the figures behind its valuation against your IRS transcripts, so reconcile the returns to your statements before you hand either over.

• A year-by-year reconciliation of revenue in your practice-management software to bank deposits and to gross receipts on your returns.

  With an SBA buyer at a price of $3 million or more, the quality of earnings report includes a cash proof over the trailing 12 months and the last two fiscal years. Keep the bank statements for those periods together.

• A recast schedule: your pay as a treating veterinarian set to a fair-market rate, rent set to fair market, and each personal or one-time expense run through the practice, with the statement that shows it.

  Mandelbaum Barrett's 2024 presentation corrects EBITDA for market rent of 8% to 10% of building value and owner and doctor salaries of 20% of production. Simmons' worked example, labeled as assumptions, pays the owner-doctor 22% of personal production plus 3% of gross for management. Those are the firms' rules of thumb; fair-market rates vary by market, species and role. If an SBA lender orders a quality of earnings report, it must document every add-back.

• An accounts receivable aging, with balances over 90 days and accounts sent to collections listed, and your accounts payable. Equine and large animal

  Attorney Peter Tanella wrote in 2021 that receivables are most often handled one of three ways: you keep them and the buyer collects as a courtesy or for a fee, you collect and keep them, or the buyer pays a negotiated amount and collects after closing. At the 2022 AAEP Convention, Dr. Andrew Clark listed high accounts receivable and poor financial policies among the risk factors that lower an equine practice's value to corporate buyers.

• Inventory reports for pharmacy, diets and retail stock, with the date and method of your last count.

  Inadequate inventory management was on Dr. Clark's list too. Agree with the buyer how drugs and retail stock are counted and priced on closing day.

The guide to what a veterinary practice is worth explains how the recast figures feed the price, and why an EBITDA multiple cannot be applied to owner cash flow.

2. Practice-management software reports

The attorneys' list does not name reports from your practice-management software, revenue by veterinarian or active client counts. Run them anyway, over the same periods as your financial statements, and write the definition behind each number on the report itself.

• Revenue by veterinarian, month by month, for you and each associate, with the FTE each one works.

  Simmons & Associates' appraisers say a multi-doctor practice whose associates stay after the sale is worth more than a solo practice whose seller leaves at closing, so show how much of the revenue you produce yourself. Among owners responding to AVMA's 2024 practice owners survey, median gross revenue per FTE veterinarian in 2023 was $616,667 in companion animal exclusive practices and $416,250 in mixed animal practices; that is revenue, not value.

• Active clients and active patients, with the look-back window written next to each count.

  Practices define it differently: writing in dvm360 in 2015, the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association's executive director called a client with a transaction in the last 12 months the industry standard, while many surveyed members used 18 months or longer. For comparison, AVMA News reported an average of 3,351 active clients per practice in 2024, across practice types.

• New clients per month, and where they came from: referring veterinarians, search, reviews, shelters, breeders or word of mouth.

• Revenue by service line: wellness and vaccines, surgery, dentistry, diagnostics and imaging, in-house and online pharmacy, diets and retail, boarding and grooming.

• The share of revenue from your largest clients: in a mixed or equine practice, the top barns, trainers, farms or herds, and how many of them deal only with you. Equine and large animal

  Dr. Clark also listed client loyalty to the owner rather than the practice as a risk factor for equine practices. Where an SBA lender requires a quality of earnings report, it assesses customer concentration.

• Wellness plans and prepaid packages: how many clients are enrolled, what services they have already paid for, and how the plans would carry over to a new owner.

• Your fee schedule, the date you last updated it, and any standing discounts for staff, breeders, rescues or multi-pet households.

3. Veterinarians, staff and associate agreements

A buyer can make your team's staying a condition of the deal. AmeriVet, a group that acquires practices, lists staff committing in writing to stay among possible closing conditions. In a 2022 AAHA industry survey, filling a vacant associate veterinarian role took an average of more than 15 months; that is 2022 data and may not hold today.

• A staff census: each person's role (DVM, credentialed technician, assistant, client service, manager), hire date, pay, benefits and FTE, and whether they are an employee or an independent contractor.

  If an associate may buy all of a single owner's practice with an SBA loan, the existing owner buyout route needs the associate to have been employed by the practice for at least 24 months before the application; otherwise the loan is underwritten as an initial acquisition. SBA does not say whether an associate paid as a contractor counts, so ask the lender.

• Every associate agreement, with the pay basis (salary, production or a mix), the noncompete, the nonsolicitation clause and any assignment clause flagged.

  State law decides whether those covenants hold. Maryland voids noncompetes in employment contracts with licensed veterinarians and veterinary technicians; Utah voids veterinarian noncompetes signed from May 6, 2026 unless the veterinarian owns at least 5% of the business, and voids veterinarian nonsolicitation agreements from the same date; Minnesota voids noncompetes with employees and independent contractors signed from July 1, 2023. The FTC's nationwide rule never took effect and was removed from the Code of Federal Regulations on February 12, 2026.

• Licenses for every veterinarian and credentialed technician, with their expiry dates.

• Employee benefit plans, such as the retirement plan, health coverage, CE allowances, dues and staff pet-care discounts.

• Accrued paid time off, unused CE funds, and production bonuses earned but not yet paid.

• The people a buyer will most want to keep, such as a lead associate, your practice manager or a long-serving technician, and any retention bonus you would offer.

  In the same 2022 AAHA survey, filling a credentialed technician role took almost 13 months on average.

• Your own role after closing, in writing: how long, how many clinical days a week, and on what pay.

  Tanella and Funnell wrote in 2024 that unless you are retiring at once, a corporate buyer will most likely require an employment agreement setting how long you stay and how many clinical hours you work, usually with a noncompete. If an SBA loan funds an initial acquisition or business expansion, you may not stay on as an owner or employee, though the practice may contract with you as a consultant for up to 24 months in total. SBA does not say whether that work may include seeing patients, so settle it with the buyer's lender and your attorney.

4. The lease, real estate and equipment

Among owners responding to AVMA's 2024 practice owners survey, 54.9% held the practice in one legal entity and the land and building in another. If that is you, decide early whether the building is sold with the practice or leased to the buyer. If you keep it, the lease becomes part of the deal and its rent comes out of the practice's earnings.

• The hospital lease with every amendment and renewal option, its assignment and landlord-consent clauses, and the years remaining.

  AmeriVet lists bringing the lease up to date among possible closing conditions. Ask your landlord about assignment before you sign a letter of intent.

• If you own the building: the deed, the mortgage, the property tax bill, any appraisal, and whether you will sell it or lease it to the buyer.

  Simmons & Associates says the real estate is typically sold with the practice in a private sale, while corporate investors typically do not buy it. With an SBA buyer, owner-occupied real estate is appraised separately from the business.

• If you will be the buyer's landlord: a draft fair-market lease and a rent appraisal.

  Mandelbaum Barrett's 2024 presentation said most corporate buyers require a fair-market lease whose rent is deducted from EBITDA and confirmed by a rent appraisal. The higher the rent you set as landlord, the lower the practice price.

• An equipment list covering digital radiography, ultrasound, anesthesia machines and monitors, in-house lab analyzers, the dental unit, surgical lasers, autoclaves, kennels and runs: make, model, serial number, year and service records, and anything you plan to take with you.

  Simmons' appraisers say buyers pay for income rather than equipment, so extra or very expensive equipment does not raise the value.

• Leases, financing and service contracts on that equipment, with payoff figures.

• Ambulatory trucks and vet boxes, portable radiography and ultrasound, and any haul-in facility, stocks or stalls, with titles, loan payoffs and how often each is used. Equine and large animal

  Equine practice consultant Amy Grice, VMD, wrote in EquiManagement in November 2025 that facility and equipment costs typically run 6% to 8% of revenue for ambulatory equine practices and 9% to 11% for practices with haul-in facilities, so a haul-in facility must be used regularly to pay for itself.

5. Controlled substances and DEA

Your DEA registration ends when you discontinue the practice, and it cannot be assigned or transferred to a buyer without DEA's written consent (21 CFR 1301.52). The buyer may not handle controlled substances until DEA grants its own registration, so in our reading the buyer should apply for one at your address well before closing.

• The DEA registration for each hospital address, with its number, schedules, expiry date and the name it is issued to.

  Each principal place of practice where controlled substances are dispensed needs its own registration, so a group with several hospitals generally needs one per site. A registered veterinarian may still carry and dispense controlled substances at other sites, such as farm calls, in a state where they are licensed, as long as the site is not a principal place of practice.

• Your most recent biennial inventory, controlled-substance logs, dispensing records and DEA order forms.

  DEA requires a new inventory at least every two years, and every required inventory and record must stay available for DEA inspection and copying for at least two years.

• A counting plan for transfer day: who counts, who witnesses, and which drugs move to the buyer.

  Opened Schedule II containers must be counted exactly; opened Schedule III to V containers may be estimated unless a container holds more than 1,000 tablets or capsules.

• A dated plan for the 14-day notice, set against the buyer's own DEA application.

  DEA's rule is written for a transfer to another registrant, and the notice must name both parties and the transfer date.

• Your state controlled-substance registration, if your state has one, and the order the buyer must file in.

  Indiana's licensing agency, for one, says practitioners need a state Controlled Substance Registration for each location where they administer, store or dispense controlled substances, with some exceptions, and may apply for DEA registration once it is issued.

• If no buyer takes the stock: a plan to return your DEA certificate and unused order forms and to dispose of what is left under DEA's disposal rules.

6. Premises permit and X-ray registrations

Several states license the hospital itself, not only its veterinarians, and tie the permit to a named owner, a responsible veterinarian or both. A change of owner can end the permit or start a notice clock.

• Your premises permit or registration: its number, the owner named on it and the responsible or managing veterinarian.

  If you are the named manager and are leaving, plan your replacement. In California the board must deny, suspend or revoke the registration if the licensee manager stops being responsible and no substitute is approved.

• Your last board inspection report and anything it asked you to fix.

  North Carolina, for one, requires a facility changing ownership to be inspected and approved by its board before veterinary medicine is practiced there.

• Who may own a veterinary practice in your state, checked before you accept an offer.

  Texas bars an entity not owned entirely by Texas-licensed veterinarians from engaging in veterinary medicine, while Florida lets a non-veterinarian own an establishment with a premises permit and a designated supervising veterinarian. The guide to who can own a veterinary practice covers more states.

X-ray registrations

In the four states below, an X-ray registration does not simply pass to the buyer with the equipment.

• Every X-ray unit, including dental radiography and any CT or fluoroscopy, with its registration number, its room and its latest inspection or performance evaluation.

• Shielding plans and equipment evaluations from past inspections, filed where the buyer can find them.

  Minnesota requires a new owner to keep the previous owner's equipment-evaluation and shielding records.

7. Medical records and client notice

Who owns veterinary records, how long they are kept and how clients hear about a sale are set by each state's rules. In Ohio and Pennsylvania the minimum is three years from the last visit or treatment; Kentucky requires five years after the last patient encounter.

• Where records live: your practice-management system, imaging archive, reference-lab portals and any paper charts, and how far back each goes.

  Pennsylvania makes radiographs the property of the practice that ordered them.

• Who owns the records under your state's law, and any employment contract that says who owns them.

  Ohio treats records and radiographs as the property of the hospital or practice proprietor that prepared them. Florida's statute counts as a records owner a veterinarian to whom records are transferred, and an employer whose employment contract names it the records owner. Kentucky instead treats the information in the records as the client's property, with the practice as official custodian.

• Your policy on associates copying or taking records when they leave, and whether any have.

  In Pennsylvania, a departing salaried veterinarian may not copy or take records without the practice owner's consent.

• A records clause for the purchase agreement: who keeps the originals, for how long, and your access after closing if you face a board complaint or a liability claim.

• A client letter, drafted with the buyer, saying who the new owner is, which veterinarians are staying and how clients can get copies of their pets' records.

• A plan for patients on ongoing prescriptions and, in food animal work, your active veterinary feed directives. Equine and large animal

  The federal definition FDA uses ties a valid veterinarian-client-patient relationship to a veterinarian who has recently seen the animals, and neither it nor Kentucky's VCPR statute says what happens to existing relationships when a practice changes hands. A veterinary feed directive must be issued within a VCPR, and the veterinarian, distributor and client each keep a copy for two years; in our view, a buyer of a food animal practice will want to see yours.

8. Entity, contracts, insurance and legal matters

Tanella and Funnell's list for a consolidator's diligence also covers corporate documents, contracts, pending legal matters and insurance policies. For a veterinary hospital those include the vendors that touch every patient visit.

• Formation documents for the practice entity and a chart of who owns it, in what percentages, including any entity that holds the real estate.

• Contracts for your practice-management software, reference lab, imaging reads, pharmacy and diet suppliers, cremation, medical waste, phones and card processing, with their assignment and termination terms.

• Insurance policies, including professional liability, general liability, property and workers' compensation, with their claims history.

• Any pending or threatened lawsuit, and any board complaint, open or closed.

• Who controls the logins for your website, domain, online booking, client app and review profiles.

• If you own an emergency or specialty hospital: whether the buyer is bound by an FTC order covering your area.

  Emergency and specialty deals can draw antitrust review. A 2022 FTC consent order requires JAB Consumer Partners, the parent of National Veterinary Associates, for 10 years to get FTC approval before buying a specialty or emergency clinic within 25 miles of a JAB-owned clinic in California or Texas. The guide to selling an emergency or specialty hospital covers these orders.

9. Closing papers and Form 8594

If you sell the practice's assets, the IRS usually treats the sale as a sale of each asset separately, with gain or loss figured asset by asset; an owner who sells a corporation's stock instead usually realizes capital gain or loss. In an asset sale to which goodwill or going concern value attaches or could attach, you and the buyer generally each file Form 8594, allocating the price by asset class.

• A draft allocation across the classes, prepared with your CPA before the purchase agreement is final.

  The form's Line 6 asks whether the buyer also signed a noncompete, employment, lease, management or similar agreement with you, and the maximum paid under it, assuming any contingencies are met. If you and the buyer agree on the allocation in writing, that agreement binds you both unless the IRS determines it is not appropriate.

• Your fixed-asset and depreciation schedule, so your CPA can estimate recapture on the equipment.

  Gain on depreciated equipment is ordinary income, not capital gain, up to the depreciation allowed on it. If part of the price comes later under a seller note, that recapture is still reported in full in the year of sale.

• Deal terms that fit the loan: no earn-out, and any seller note that counts toward the buyer's equity on full standby, with no principal or interest paid for the term of the 7(a) loan. SBA 7(a) loan

• A list of who to tell once the sale is signed: your team, clients, referring hospitals, your reference lab and suppliers, the landlord, your insurers and the state board.

Deadlines and notice periods in a veterinary practice sale

Several filings have a lead time before closing or a deadline after it, from DEA's 14 days' notice before a controlled-substance transfer to Pennsylvania's 60 days for a successor's client notice. Put the ones that fall before closing on the calendar before you sign a purchase agreement with a date in it.

What should you share before and after the letter of intent?

Share enough to price the practice, under a non-disclosure agreement. One buyer, Mission Pet Health, asks sellers to sign an NDA and send financial information before it values a hospital. Before a letter of intent, that means summary financials, revenue by veterinarian, active client counts, the lease terms and the equipment list.

Hold back client names, medical records and each associate's and technician's pay until a letter of intent is signed. Tanella and Funnell wrote in December 2023 that the only potentially binding term in a consolidator's letter is often exclusivity, and that many sales sign and close the same day, so either side can walk away until then. A nearby practice that reads your full file and then walks away still knows who your clients, associates and technicians are.

How long does due diligence take?

The only diligence timelines in our research come from buyers describing their own process, so read each as one company's account. AmeriVet says a sale to a consolidator takes at least six to eight months, and on average three to four months from signing the letter of intent to closing. Mission Pet Health says it typically gives a hospital valuation within 30 to 45 days of having everything it asked for, and that closing typically takes 90 to 120 days.

In that December 2023 article, Tanella and Funnell also wrote that more consolidators were walking away late in deals. So find the missing lease amendment, the unsigned associate contract or the lapsed X-ray registration before you go to market, not while a buyer is waiting on it.

How to sell a veterinary practice shows where due diligence falls in the whole sale. If your buyer is likely to be an associate or another veterinarian with an SBA loan, read selling to an associate or another veterinarian; if it is a corporate group, read selling a veterinary practice to a corporate buyer. If you want a number before you gather any of this, request a free valuation of your practice.

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