By Paul McGovern, CPA, Managing Partner, Downey & Company You may be reading about how hot the buy sell business is right now, but many of those deals involve large dealership groups. Me... Read more
By James Hendricks, attorney, Litchfield Cavo LLP After the Great Recession of 2008, dealers who got involved in Asset Purchase Agreements may have unwittingly discovered that union issues p... Read more
By Alysha Webb, Editor and Publisher In 1995, the well-known McLarty family sold its nine-store dealership group to Asbury Automotive Group. A non-compete kept him from immediately starting... Read more
By Jonathan Wilke, Partner, DHG Dealerships The automotive retail industry is one of the largest in the United States where the majority of the entities are privately-held or family-owned. M... Read more
By Tom Schindler – President, Automotive Advisors of America, Inc. Many prospective candidates assume that money is a sufficient qualification to purchase an automotive franchise. However, t... Read more
By Ross Henderson, COO, Emptech Whether you are purchasing an automobile dealership through a stock or asset acquisition, it is very likely that the proper due-diligence and treatment of the... Read more
By David Weaver, CEC, The Rawls Group Succession planning is a hot topic in the automotive industry and has been one frequently discussed in the pages of Automotive Buy Sell Report. Recent a... Read more
By Mark Johnson, President, MD Johnson, Inc. The entry of Berkshire Hathaway into the automotive buy sell world has shone a bright light on the dealership world and ignited a frenzy of specu... Read more
