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Our Services
Selling Dealerships
  • Structuring Asset & Stock Purchase Agreements
  • Structuring Non-Competition Agreements - Personal & Business
  • Structuring Blue Sky Agreements - Personal Goodwill and Business Goodwill
  • Structuring Consulting Fee Agreements
  • Dealership Valuations
  • Checklists and Forms


Investing in Car Dealerships
  • Business Plan Analysis
  • Negotiation Process
  • Due Diligence
  • Factory and Finance Application Process
  • Takeover Checklists and Forms


Troubled Dealerships
  • Work-outs and Reorganizations
  • Out of Trust Workouts
  • Crisis & Interim Management Services
  • Upside-Down / Out-of-Round Advice
  • Creditor Advisory Services
  • Wind Down Management
  • Consultant to Receiver in Automotive Group Receivership
  • Consultant to Debtor – Chapters 11 Bankruptcy Reorganization
  • Consultant to Debtor – Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Liquidation
  • Debtor Advisory Services

  • Operating Dealerships
    • Fraud and Embezzlement Detection and Resolution
    • Employee Theft


    Litigation Support, Mediation and Arbitration

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    Our Team

    Advising Automobile Dealers is a Texas Limited Liability Company, owned and operated by John Pico. The people listed below are independent contractors who also work for other businesses.

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    John Pico, BA, JD has been advising automobile dealers since 1972 and through six decades has completed over 1,000 automobile dealership transactions. He is the Managing Member of Advising Automobile Dealers LLC.

     In 1982, he sold his law firm, retired from the practice of law and moved to Aspen, Colorado to raise his family. While there, he specialize in advising dealers buying and selling dealerships, and has been employed by dealers, lenders, courts and investors to consult in a myriad dealership purchase and sale transactions whose combined values exceed . . . . [Click on name above to continue reading background.]

    Robert C. Sexton, BA spent over 30-years working for the State of Colorado. He retired as the Director of the Auto Industry Division of the Colorado Department of Revenue. He is a licensed Private Investigator and a licensed Real Estate Broker.

    He has also served as the Executive Secretary of the Motor Vehicle Dealer Licensing Board where, among other duties, he was responsible for licensing in the Auto Industry Division. With a background of over 30-years experience in law enforcement, Mr. Sexton was also responsible for licensing, regulatory enforcement and criminal investigations of all licensed motor vehicle dealers in the Auto Industry Division. In his capacity as Chief Investigator . . . . [Click on name above to continue reading background.]

    JoshPicoJoshua J. Pico, BA, JD graduated from The Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. Joshua went on to graduate cum laud from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law. He has co-authored articles in the automotive industry, prior to entering law, he helped prepare numerous dealership analyses and has helped organize closings for both import and domestic dealerships. Today, he practices law in Texas is our outside counsel..

    As an independent, outside counsel to Advising Automobile Dealership LLC, we occasionally call upon the combination of his legal knowledge and automotive experience for advice and . . . . [Click on name above to continue reading background.]

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    Six decades of advising dealers
    Thousands of completed automobile dealership transactions

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