With decades of experience and deep roots in the industry, we are a leading regional legal partner for dealership owners, general managers, accounting professionals, and in-house counsel who need smart, practical solutions from experienced attorneys and professionals who know their business and speak their language.
What we do
Our clients want a firm they can trust with every legal issue that arises—and we make every effort to deliver. We provide full-service legal counsel to motor vehicle, equipment, and powersports dealers at every stage of their business.
We also represent and maintain strong relationships with industry associations, such as the New Hampshire Automobile Dealers Association (NHADA) and the National Association of Dealer Counsel (NADC). In addition, our team regularly collaborates with accountants, brokers and consultants focused on motor vehicle business acquisitions, management, and operations.
Our attorneys are licensed in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont, and frequently serve as key counsel to national dealership groups and auto industry investors.
Our attorneys specialize in:
- Mergers and acquisitions of auto, equipment, and powersports dealerships, including franchise and multi-site operations
- OEM franchise disputes, compliance and regulatory strategy, including disputes over allocation, terminations, and market areas
- Contested dealership termination litigation
- Licensing and regulatory representation before agencies, such as banking departments, departments of safety, and state licensing boards
- Day-to-day consultation regarding customer and retail disputes
- Employment law counsel
- Addressing customer claims
- Complex financing arrangements, including floorplan financing
- Private Equity investments
- Vendor contract negotiation and review
- Real estate, tax structuring, and succession planning for family-owned and private dealerships
Why choose us
We don’t just understand the law—we understand how dealerships work. That’s why our clients, from independent operators to dealership groups, turn to us to support their most important business decisions.
Our multidisciplinary team combines deep knowledge in corporate transactions, litigation, and regulatory law. We’ve closed hundreds of buy-sell deals, defended clients in complex disputes, and guided them through every kind of franchise, operational, tax, and compliance challenge.
When you work with us, you get a strategic partner whose success has been built through long term relationships and repeat business, not just the deal. Our attorneys combine a deep knowledge of the industry with a responsive firm culture dedicated to our client’s success. And with full access to our firm’s franchise, litigation, transaction, real estate, tax, labor and environmental lawyers, we make sure you get exactly what you need, when you need it—without having to start from scratch.