Corporate Vets in the UK

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Ownership transparency

Corporate veterinary ownership in the UK

Explore corporate and private-equity-owned veterinary practices across the UK, including Northern Ireland. Search by practice, town, postcode or group, then open a listing to see its corporate owner, financial backer and available ownership evidence.

Corporate owner
See the consolidator or corporate group connected with each practice.
Investor or backer
Where available, listings identify private-equity, family, public-company or other financial backing.
Ownership evidence
Open a practice card to review the public evidence supporting its classification when evidence is available.

Ownership is one important factor in choosing veterinary care, but it is not a medical-quality rating. Public information can be incomplete or change over time. If a listing appears incorrect, please use the report link on its practice card.

Detailed ownership data

Corporate veterinary groups in the UK

These are groups represented in our the UK practice listings. The counts describe map records, not every location a group owns, and may include planned or closed locations where identified.

Database listings, updated September 27, 2026. These are country-specific counts in our map dataset, not company-wide totals or a complete list of all groups. Planned and closed locations are included and identified below. In-home service areas and hosted specialty services are not necessarily separate hospitals. Changes can reflect data corrections as well as openings or acquisitions.

UK groups

Practice groupOwnership / backingListings
IVC Evidensia map ↗ EQT Partners & Silver Lake 994 17 temporarily closed
Vets4Pets map ↗ Pets at Home Group 459 1 coming soon
VetPartners map ↗ BC Partners 445 2 temporarily closed
CVS Group map ↗ Publicly traded (LON: CVSG) 429 3 temporarily closed
Medivet map ↗ IVC Evidensia 357 1 temporarily closed
Linnaeus Group map ↗ Mars 215
Kin Vet Community map ↗ IVC Evidensia 26
VetThing map ↗ Axcel Vetopia 11
Altano Group map ↗ Ufenau Capital Partners 4
DNA Vetcare map ↗ Limited database coverage Dane Walker and Alan van Heerden 0