Associates, Partnerships, Acquisitions, Oh My!
Associates, Partnerships, Acquisitions, Oh My! is organized by Dentaltown, L.L.C.
Released: 6/6/2012
Review Date: 6/30/2022
Expiration Date: 6/30/2025
Overview:
This course is designed to educate young dentists (0-10 years out of dental school) on the various stages of their early careers. The course will first focus on associate agreements and the issues and concerns a young dentist must be aware of prior to signing the agreement. The course will then turn to the issues one faces when attempting to buy into a practice and become a partner. The course will view in-depth the many compensation scenarios, buy-in concerns, structural issues, and buy-out scenarios as well as additional major concerns a dentist needs to know about prior to entering into a partnership or shareholder agreement. Next, the course will briefly focus on dental practice start-ups and some of the unique issues a dentist faces when attempting to start up a dental practice. Finally, the course will review in depth the issues a buyer faces when acquiring a dental practice, either as a buy-in situation or as a complete acquisition. The focus will be on key issues that should be contained in your purchase agreement and some of the numerous pitfalls you need to be aware of prior to closing on your acquisition.
Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to achieve the following:
• Have a fundamental understanding of the general issues one will face with respect to legal documents through the early stages of a doctor's career.
• Be able to protect themselves from making a decision that increases the risk of harm to the doctor's career as a result of entering into employment or a transition that is harmful to the individual doctor.
• Know key issues to focus on for an associate agreement, leases, partnership agreements and purchase agreements