鶹ֱ & Lardner LLP Senior Counsel Connor Sabatino was featured in the article, “,” in TU Automotive discussing the legal challenges automakers face in establishing their own dealerships.
Sabatino said, “For manufacturers pursuing a direct-sales or factory-store model, the largest challenge is navigating this patchwork of dealer laws, ensuring all sales transactions occur only in a state where that activity is legal, and determining the extent of delivery-related services it can directly provide to its customers in those other states before that state’s regulatory body asserts that the delivery activity amounts to dealership activity requiring a license (which, in those states, a manufacturer cannot obtain).”
