In February 2024, Steven Lynch was invited to a meeting with British private-equity firm Lonsdale Capital at the Westbury Hotel in Dublin. Lynch had spent nearly 20 years providing accountancy services to the dentistry industry and suspected the investor, co-founded by Irishman Ross Finegan, was plotting a move into the sector in Ireland. “I thought I was just going to meet these boys for a chat and tell them about the Irish dentist market, and that’s basically what happened, it was a two-hour meeting,” Lynch tells The Currency. A fortnight later, Lonsdale got in touch again, confirming the investor’s desire…