Corporate investors continue to value surgical centers at a high multiple of profits, but they're usually skeptical of transactions when too few utilizing physicians own equity. This can spell delays and additional expenses for the founding physician, who first has to sell a portion of his ownership interests to utilizing physicians before he can turn to the more lucrative sale to a corporate buyer. But what if you could collapse the syndication of equity interests to physician-utilizers and the sale to a corporate investor into a single transaction?