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PPP Loans: Not Out of the Woods Yet

Written by admin on June 26, 2025. Posted in 2025, Legal.

By Andrew G. Thomas & W. Kirby Bissell Applying for PPP loans and loan forgiveness under the CARES Act is likely a distant memory for many businesses, but this saga is not quite over. The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has recently intensified civil fraud investigations...

HMA’s New Data Sharing Agreement: Worse Than Before

Written by admin on June 26, 2025. Posted in 2025, Franchise News.

By Andrew G. Thomas & Nicholas A. Bader Hyundai dealers recently received a new Hyundai-Dealer Information Sharing Agreement (the “DISA”) covering the exchange of certain information between Hyundai and its dealers. While this was a new version of the DISA, it is not Hyundai’s first...

State of the Industry: Use of OEM Incentives to Leverage Dealer Compliance with Digital Sales

Written by admin on June 26, 2025. Posted in 2025, Franchise News.

By Andrew G. Thomas & W. Kirby Bissell As digital sales slowly become the norm in the automotive industry, OEMs have attempted to keep pace by creating programs and incentives targeting various aspects of digital sales. In fact, many OEMs today have programs and/or incentives aimed at...

Rest in Peace? – Inadequate succession planning could equal strife rather than success for the next generation in the dealer market.

Written by admin on June 26, 2025. Posted in 2025, Franchise News.

By: Denise Branch The franchise dealer market is no doubt generational. Many dealerships are now on at least their second generation of ownership with the next generation poised to take the reins. Yet some Dealers mistakenly wait until the time of their death to transition ownership or...

Buy-Sell Activity Slows in 1st and 2nd Quarters

Written by admin on June 26, 2025. Posted in 2025, Newsbrief.

By: Logan Parker After several years of record high dealership transaction activity, the pace of new transactions coming through our door has slowed during the first two quarters of this year. The market has not experienced such a dip in activity since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This...