Dental Services Organizations

/Overview

Some challenges facing dental service organizations (DSOs) are unique, while others are universal to businesses across the country. We make a positive impact on our clients by leveraging our knowledge of federal and state regulations impacting the healthcare industry, ensuring that our clients are informed as they prepare to evaluate pathways for future success. 

With a profound knowledge of dental service organization (DSO) structures, our team of dental lawyers possess unmatched expertise in creating compliant organizational and management fee structures, assisting in geographic expansions, helping DSOs expand through organic growth and acquisitions, and offering advice on managing legacy practices and growing headcounts. Whether it’s advising dental professionals and practices, or private equity firms and other investors, Nixon Peabody has the right team and experience of dental lawyers to tackle any legal need.

/Representative experience

• BrookBeam Dental: Represented the Hudson Valley, New York-based DSO in its formation, and continue to serve as general outside counsel, including add-on acquisitions
• Sentinel Capital Partners: Served as healthcare regulatory counsel on a purchase of MB2, a multi-state dental services organization, and continuing representation of MD2 on add-on acquisitions
• HENRY The Dentist: Represented in the formation of a DSO specializing in mobile dental practices and two rounds of capital raises
• MidOcean Partners: Advised on the recapitalization of Western Mass Endo and affiliated practices. This recapitalization included the formation of Affinity Dental Management. Our team continues to represent Affinity Dental Management as general outside counsel, including in add-on acquisitions, as well as healthcare regulatory, labor and employment, corporate, tax, and finance matters
• Reachout Health America: Advise the nation’s leading coordinator of mobile dental services on healthcare regulatory matters

/Recognition

• Nixon Peabody has been named a Tier 1 National firm for Health Care Law in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms® and in consecutive years prior; named “Law Firm of the Year” in Healthcare Law by Best Law Firms in 2016
• Named as a leading firm in Healthcare by Chambers USA in 2021; 31 healthcare lawyers ranked
• Recognized as a top law firm in Healthcare by the American Bar Association’s Health Law Section
• Ranked nationally as one of the largest healthcare firms by Modern Healthcare