Is The Aspen Group (TAG) private equity backed?

Ownership

Label

PE-backed (Leonard Green & Partners; Ares Management; American Securities)

Owner / backers

Leonard Green & Partners; Ares Management; American Securities (since 2006)

PE stake

PE investors (several firms) hold a majority stake in the group.

How it holds practices

De novo: the group opens new offices itself. What the dentist keeps: owns the practice entity (dentist-owner via Practice Ownership Program) under a services contract with Aspen Dental Management.

Website

aspendental.com

Sources

• american-securities.com (2017-06-13)
• “Dental Practice Ownership | Aspen Dental”

Confidence

Medium About confidence

Known locations

2,588 (TX 273, FL 270, NY 123, OH 118, PA 117, NC 114, GA 113, MI 93, IL 92, TN 82, CA 78, IN 70, MA 65, MO 64, SC 64, VA 64, AL 55, WI 47, AZ 46, MN 43, NJ 42, KY 41, LA 40, MD 40, CT 37, IA 35, NH 34, AR 29, OR 27, WA 27, OK 26, MS 24, ME 23, CO 22, ID 20, KS 18, NE 18, WV 18, UT 13, NV 10, RI 10, VT 9, ND 8, SD 8, MT 7, NM 7, WY 3, DC 1)

Known locations

Showing the first 500 of 2,588 known locations: practices with their own page first, then by state and city.

Locations come from the group’s own lists and, in Dallas-Fort Worth and the Bay Area, from our checked practice lists. Lists can be out of date. Report a correction.