Automotive Dealerships
Varnum represents dealerships, automotive groups and individual partners
Supporting automotive groups and leaders in their dealings with customers, employees, original equipment manufacturers and regulatory bodies.
Our multidisciplinary team approach allows us to draw on the skills of attorneys from a wide range of legal disciplines in a cost-effective and -efficient manner to meet the needs of your particular situation. We advise clients in all legal matters typically encountered by a dealership, including contracts, franchise questions, employment matters, sales, mergers and acquisitions, and business disputes.
“They are exceptional lawyers and give us the expertise and legal advice in a way that helps us run our business. We have worked with Varnum for over 10 years and find their professionalism and capabilities to be some of the best we’ve ever worked with.”
CFO, automotive dealership
We offer a range of services for dealerships and automotive groups
These services include:
- Antitrust and trade regulations
- Contractual relations
- E-business services and digital marketing
- Franchise matters
- Financing
- General business services
- Intellectual property
- Labor and employment
- Sales, mergers and acquisitions
- Real estate
- Regulatory compliance
- Taxation
Meet the Team
Our attorneys are routinely recognized for their excellence and ability to litigate, negotiate and advise clients by Top Lawyers, Best Lawyers, Chambers USA and more.
Legal Practices Related to Automotive Dealerships
Varnum’s Restructuring, Insolvency and Creditors’ Rights lawyers represent troubled companies as well as financial stakeholders in troubled companies.
This includes investors, creditors, owners, acquirers, customers, suppliers and many other parties in interest. We work closely with clients to maximize the value of their outcomes.
Learn more about Varnum’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights Practice
For over a century, Varnum attorneys have served the business community with a full lineup of corporate services and specialties.
Whatever the nature of your company – publicly traded or privately held, multinational or local, corporation or sole proprietorship – our attorneys provide expert guidance. And whatever your business goals and legal needs, we have the skill and experience to help you manage them.
Varnum assists families in preserving, managing and transferring acquired wealth.
At Varnum, we believe that each person has a vision for life and the legacy he or she will leave behind. The vision changes and matures, but at any one time it is expressed as an objective or goals for the future.
Companies rely on us to handle the strategy and details of immigration issues so that they can get down to business.
We navigate the laws and procedures of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of State (DOS), Department of Labor (DOL) and state workforce agencies (SWAs) to place key personnel within U.S. operations and to facilitate relationships with overseas affiliates and partners. In addition, we counsel employers concerning work authorization issues, as well as compliance with immigration and labor laws.
Good business sense combined with good people sense is perhaps the best way to describe our approach to labor and employment law at Varnum.
Our labor and employment attorneys understand the importance of human resource management and development in your business strategy. We have built a practice that responds quickly to your needs, looks for practical, cost-effective business solutions and holds to sound human resource principles.
Acquisition, financing, development, management, leasing, sale – Varnum’s Real Estate Practice Team counsels clients on all matters relating to real estate.
Whether a property is commercial, industrial or residential development, our real estate attorneys know the issues and the law.