What is Vendor-Take-Back Financing?  Vendor-take-back (VTB) financing or Vendor Financing has increasingly become a common tool used by automotive dealers to close acquisitions. In light of the recent COVID-19 crisis,

Article originally published by Automotive News on September 29th, 2020. Toronto-area based Dealer Solutions Mergers and Acquisitions (DSMA) has made The Globe and Mail’s list as one of Canada’s Top

Current climate Current reports show that M&A activity in North America for the first six months of 2020 across all industries is down significantly compared to the past few years.

Paul Stern has seen it all.  There are very few individuals that really deserve that accolade, but Paul is certainly one of them.  Over the past 50 years as Paul

Valuing your business now may seem to some as being akin to turkeys voting to bring forward Christmas.  Potentially you’ve just had a difficult March and a very tough April,

Click the link to read and download the Automotive News research piece, “On The Front Lines Of The Coronavirus Pandemic“, featuring contributions from Maxime Theoret, CFO of DSMA.  Understand how

I’ve been communicating with clients and dealership owners over the past month and there seems to be confusion surrounding the wage subsidy program offered by the federal government. Who is

The year 2020 was originally promising to be the most active year for transactions in Canada when compared to the past decade and the market had been very active in

What is Vendor-Take-Back Financing?  Vendor-take-back (VTB) financing or Vendor Financing has increasingly become a common tool used by automotive dealers to close acquisitions. In light of the recent COVID-19 crisis,

Article originally published by Automotive News on September 29th, 2020. Toronto-area based Dealer Solutions Mergers and Acquisitions (DSMA) has made The Globe and Mail’s list as one of Canada’s Top

Current climate Current reports show that M&A activity in North America for the first six months of 2020 across all industries is down significantly compared to the past few years.

Paul Stern has seen it all.  There are very few individuals that really deserve that accolade, but Paul is certainly one of them.  Over the past 50 years as Paul

Valuing your business now may seem to some as being akin to turkeys voting to bring forward Christmas.  Potentially you’ve just had a difficult March and a very tough April,

Click the link to read and download the Automotive News research piece, “On The Front Lines Of The Coronavirus Pandemic“, featuring contributions from Maxime Theoret, CFO of DSMA.  Understand how

I’ve been communicating with clients and dealership owners over the past month and there seems to be confusion surrounding the wage subsidy program offered by the federal government. Who is

The year 2020 was originally promising to be the most active year for transactions in Canada when compared to the past decade and the market had been very active in