Our services & experience
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Our services
Corporate advice and M&A
We act for a diverse range of automotive businesses on all manner of corporate transactions.
These include:
- Corporate mergers, acquisitions and disposals.
- Buying and selling car dealerships, including multi-site groups.
- Structuring dealership sales and purchases.
- Group reorganisations.
- Corporate governance and compliance.
Real estate, property and construction
Including:
- Acquisition of new sites.
- Changes in site usage.
- Planning and environmental law.
- Construction.
- Lease renewals.
Commercial contracts
Including:
- Drafting and reviewing commercial contracts with suppliers.
- Advice on terms & conditions of trading.
Employment law
Including:
- Business immigration and the movement of key personnel within international groups.
- Advice on restructuring your workforce when moving from a franchise to an agency model.
- Contracts, policies and procedures.
- Employment litigation.
Intellectual property
Including:
- Brand protection and enforcement.
- Managing your IP portfolio.
- Protecting company names, domain names and logos.
- Design protection for new makes, models and features of vehicles.
Regulatory
Including:
- Health and safety advice.
- Advice on what to do if you have a Health and Safety Executive visit.
- Protection of workforce.
- Environmental compliance.
- Advice on what to do if you have an Environment Agency visit.
Litigation and recovery
Including:
- Advising on business interruption insurance.
- Acting in litigation on quality and fitness for purpose of motor vehicles.
- Recovery of monies due under Hire Purchase Agreements.
- Recovery of motor vehicles to their legal owner.
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Our experience
- Arnold Clark — acting on a number of site disposals and acquisitions, as well as providing ongoing employment advice.
- Bridgestone Tyres — advising on the sale of a subsidiary and various property instructions.
- Specialist Cars — advising on the sale of its three-site BMW and Mini dealership to Synter Group.
- Pentagon Motor Holdings — advising on the sale of its 21-site, multi-franchise group.
- Codeweavers — advising on its sale to Cox Automotive.
- Brayleys Cars — advising on its acquisitions of Thames Honda (a four-site Honda dealership), Orpington Honda, Grovebury Cars and Romford Honda.
- Caterham Cars — advising on contracts, intellectual property protections and its new manufacturing facility.
- Skoda — working with a sports marketing consultant to create a standard sponsorship agreement around professional road cycling events and teams, with regard to the rights that can be used by individual Skoda dealerships.
- VT Holdings group — advising on its acquisitions of Griffin Mill Garages and Wessex Garages.
