Confidential Practice Sales
Off-market and discreetly marketed sales of fee-for-service, specialty, and multi-site practices. Your staff, patients, and competitors learn only what you choose, when you choose.
For sellers
Established · British Columbia
The most successful dental practices in Canada deserve a broker of equal stature.
Christopher Cushion Dental Brokers is an invitation-only brokerage representing high-performing dental practices across British Columbia and Canada. We do not list. We curate, advise, and quietly deliver exceptional outcomes for practice owners who have spent a career building something worth selling well.
$200M+
Practice Value Represented
98%
Asking-Price Realization
Curated
Buyer Pool, Pre-Qualified
“A practice is the work of a lifetime. Its sale should be treated accordingly.”
Trusted by founders, principals & multi-site owners
Confidential
Discreet
Selective
Independent
What We Do
A single brokerage. The full transition.
Most brokers list practices. We orchestrate transitions — from the first valuation conversation to the final handshake, with a team that includes specialist dental accountants, transition counsel, and lenders we have worked with for years.
Independent Valuations
Earnings-based appraisals built on three years of normalised financials, location dynamics, and current Canadian transaction comparables. Used by lenders, accountants, and the CRA.
Request a valuationQualified Buyer Representation
Solo dentists, partnerships, family offices, and DSO acquirers — each pre-screened for financial capacity, clinical alignment, and cultural fit before they see a single number.
For buyersTransition & Associate-to-Owner
Phased transitions, associate buy-ins, and partnership unwinds. We design the structure with your accountant and counsel, then run the process end-to-end.
Explore transitionsReal Estate Advisory
We advise on the clinic premises alongside the practice — separate sale, leaseback, or hold-and-collect. Most brokers ignore the building. Most owners shouldn't.
Premises & holdingsEstate & Legacy Planning
For founders thinking three to ten years ahead: scenario valuations, value-build advisory, and contingency planning so an unplanned event never becomes a fire sale.
Plan privately
Why Christopher Cushion
We represent the practice, not the transaction.
A dental practice sale is the largest financial event of most dentists' careers. It should not be treated like a residential listing. Our work begins with understanding what you have built — clinically, culturally, financially — and ends only when the right successor is in your chair.
- Invitation-only representation. We accept a limited number of engagements per year. Yours is given the attention it deserves.
- True independence. No DSO ownership, no preferred buyer relationships, no kickbacks. Your interests are the only ones we represent.
- Buyer-side intelligence. We maintain an active book of pre-qualified buyers — from solo associates to institutional acquirers — across BC and Canada.
- Discretion as default. Confidentiality agreements precede every conversation. Your team and patients are never the source of the news.
- End-to-end stewardship. Valuation, marketing, negotiation, due diligence, financing, transition. One firm. One number. One person you call.
Our Process
Six steps. One outcome. No surprises.
We have refined this process across more than two hundred million dollars of represented practice value. It is deliberate, sequenced, and built around your timeline — not ours.
Private Consultation
A confidential conversation — by phone, in our offices, or over dinner. We learn the practice, your timeline, and your definition of a good outcome.
Independent Valuation
A defensible, earnings-based appraisal grounded in current Canadian comparables. Delivered as a bound report, not a spreadsheet.
Confidential Information Memorandum
A curated document — written, designed, and produced in-house — that presents the practice the way a buyer's lender, accountant, and lawyer need to see it.
Curated Buyer Outreach
We approach a small, pre-qualified list. Every conversation begins with an NDA. Your competitors and staff hear nothing.
Offers, Negotiation & LOI
We manage the offer process, structure the deal alongside your counsel, and protect the price through diligence. No re-trading.
Transition & Close
Financing, legal, regulatory, premises, and the patient/staff communications plan. You sign once. We coordinate everything else.
In Their Words
Quietly, the highest compliment is a referral.
I interviewed three brokers. Christopher was the only one who asked what I wanted to do after the sale before asking what the practice did last year. That told me everything.
They valued our practice 22% above the offer we had quietly entertained on our own. The final transaction closed at the valuation. Calm, professional, exact.
Our staff found out the day after closing — and from us, with champagne. That alone was worth every dollar of the engagement.
Current Representation
Select practices, by request.
We do not publish a public listings catalogue. Active representations are introduced — under NDA — to pre-qualified buyers within our network. To request access to current opportunities in British Columbia and across Canada, request buyer-side qualification.
Common Questions
What owners ask first.
How much is my dental practice worth in British Columbia?
Most BC general practices transact at a multiple of earnings (normalised EBITDA), with the multiple driven by location, fee-for-service ratio, hygiene contribution, premises arrangements, and the trajectory of the last three years. A defensible practice valuation accounts for all of this and produces a number a lender and an accountant will both accept. Our independent valuation engagement typically completes within three to five weeks.
How long does it take to sell a dental practice?
A well-prepared practice typically sells within six to nine months from engagement to close — sometimes faster for off-market transactions to a known buyer, sometimes longer for specialty practices or multi-site groups. We do not recommend rushing the process; the difference between a six-month sale and a nine-month sale is rarely worth the difference in outcome.
Will my staff and patients find out the practice is for sale?
Not from us. Every prospective buyer signs a non-disclosure agreement before they see your practice name. We do not post your practice on public websites, do not use brokers' MLS-style listing services without your written approval, and do not contact staff or patients directly. The vast majority of our engagements close before staff or patients learn anything.
Do you sell practices outside of British Columbia?
Yes. While British Columbia is our home market, we represent practices across Canada — Alberta, Ontario, and beyond — for owners whose practice and buyer pool merit our model. Most out-of-province engagements come through referrals from clients, accountants, or counsel.
What are your fees?
We work on a success-fee basis for practice sales, payable only at closing. Valuation engagements and long-horizon advisory work are billed as fixed fees, agreed in advance. There are no upfront listing fees, no marketing recoveries, and no charges for cancelled transactions. Specifics are discussed and documented in the engagement letter.
Can you help me sell the practice and the building together?
Yes — and we strongly recommend at least considering it. The combined sale of a practice and its premises can materially change the after-tax outcome, particularly where the building is held in a separate corporation. We model both options and advise on the structure most likely to deliver the best result.
I am three to ten years away from selling — is it too early to talk?
It is the right time. The owners who realise the most value are almost always those who engaged a broker three to ten years before sale. We offer long-horizon advisory engagements that include periodic valuations, value-build planning, and quiet preparation work — without committing you to a sale on any timeline.
A First Conversation
When you are ready, we are discreet, deliberate, and very good at this.
Most of our clients begin with a single confidential call. There is no obligation, no listing agreement, and no pressure — only a careful conversation about what you have built and what comes next.