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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

    Publications

    BUYING AND SELLING AUTOMOBILE DEALERSHIPS

    Buying and Selling Automobile Dealerships, National Legal Publishing Co.

    United States Library of Congress ISBN# 0-936381-03-5 Table of Contents

    United States Library of Congress ISBN# 0-936381-04-3 Index to Volume II

    United States Library of Congress Number 89-082568 Index to Volume II

    Is Now the Right Time to Buy a Car Dealership?

    Buying New Car Dealerships: Common Mistakes

    VALUING DEALERSHIPS

    Investing in a Car Dealerships: How to Do It Right

     ✓  Automobile Dealerships – Blue Sky

    Automobile Dealerships – How to Value them

    IRS Revenue Ruling 59-60

    OPERATING DEALERSHIPS

    ✓  Automobile Dealers – Do You Really Have a Right to Refuse Inventory?

    Auto CFO Controllers’ Roundtable Speech – 2014

    Auto CFO Controllers’ Roundtable Speech – 2012

    Auto CFO Controllers’ Roundtable Speech – 2010

    NEGOTIATING THE DEAL

    ✓  Buying and Selling Automobile Dealerships – Axioms When Negotiating

     Buying and Selling Automobile Dealerships – Limitations When Negotiating

    Public Companies Effect of Framework Agreements

    FINANCIALLY TROUBLED DEALERSHIPS

    ✓  Out of Trust (OT) by September 2023

    ✓  Automobile Dealerships – Out of Trust – Tips for Dealers

    ✓  Automobile Dealerships – Out of Trust – Tips for Lenders

    Automobile Dealerships – Out of Trust – Keepers

    ✓  Automobile Dealerships – Creating a Workout Plan

    Out of Trust and Workout Advice

      Car Title Disputes

    TERMINATING DEALERSHIPS / LIQUIDATING DEALERSHIPS

    ✓ Death of an Automobile Dealership – Checklist for dealership that is liquidating without a buyer using the same facility as the old dealership.

    ✓  Automobile Dealerships – Terminating Checklist for dealers who are selling their dealership and having the buyer continue operations at the dealership’s current location.

    AUTOMOTIVE NEWS INTERVIEWS

    Public Dealership Groups

    Buying and Selling Automobile Dealerships

     Small dealers can’t afford price tags of best stores

     Dearth of product, death of Mercury?

    Gray Sky, Not Blue; Store Values Wilt

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    We Could Make the Difference
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