groups from integration and marketing to offer negotiations and diligence to the closing table with high integrity and velocity. Given the company’s rapid growth, David’s allegiance to his vision is serving both the firm and its clients well. Viper is now America's leading growth transition and M&A advisory firm in dentistry, dermatology, and plastic surgery, with over $1.8 billion closed since its founding. The company saw exceptional growth in June alone, with its book of deal inventory rising to over $700 million during a summer that saw dental deals hit a record peak. Working with single practice owners remains the firm’s core business. However, with roll-ups and multi-location deals rising in popularity, transactions have evolved from smaller practices of one to three offices to multi-office practices with 15 to 30 locations in concentrated geographies in prime states. In response, Viper is broadening its reach into larger, multi-location dental practice deals suitable for rapid value creation for its dental support organizations (DSOs) partners.
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Serial entrepreneur, with more than 300 companies built, bought, and sold; recognized leader in finance selected for Top 100 People in Private Equity in 2018, retired Hall of Fame athlete, and 2010 APBA Sportsman of the Year—for David C. Branch, the drive to succeed is in his blood.
With the pace of medical practice consolidation continuing to accelerate and M&A deals reaching record highs, David’s financial skill, and his love of a challenge, spurred him to expand the firm to offer more services to its growing client base of multioffice practices with revenues over $40 million and new DSO and sub-DSO buy-side clients. Viper’s new North Palm Beach offices include an expanded finance division, which offers package development, financial modeling and forecasting, as well as practice audits, and the firm has established a multiteam closing division to facilitate post-LOI diligence through closing for all clients. Viper has also added a new department that focuses on groups of offices looking to integrate into a DSO, a collaboration that both structures them and boosts EBITDAs for market readiness. “These are exciting times,” says David. “Our Plan for 2020 will be to begin working in the ASC space, launching integrated and non-integrated DSOs, and managing recapitalization events.”
David founded Viper Equity Partners in 2009 with a vision to deliver value-added action and indispensable advice to medical clients and partners throughout the entire M&A process. Based in Palm Beach, Florida, the Viper Team consults with practice-owning doctors and
David C. Branch, Founder 1201 US Highway 1, Suite 350, North Palm Beach, FL 33408 dave@viperequitypartners.com 305.988.5945