Sell or acquire automotive dealerships across North America.
Coussa Group advises dealer principals through exit and qualified acquirers through targeted search — across every Canadian province and every US state, in English and French. Retained engagements, handled discreetly, led by advisors who work in dealership M&A exclusively.
All inquiries are handled with strict confidentiality.
Three portals. One sector-specialist process.
Sellers, buyers, and broker partners each have their own NDA-bound deal room. Choose your access below.
Seller Portal
Track your sale process end to start — CIM status, buyer outreach, IOI/LOI, diligence requests, and closing milestones.
- Confidential deal room
- NDA-bound buyer activity log
- Document signing + tracking
- Direct advisor messaging
Buyer Portal
Receive matched opportunities first. Manage your acquisition criteria, NDA library, and active mandate engagements.
- Matched opportunity feed
- NDA library + status
- Active mandate tracking
- Buyer profile + criteria
Broker Portal
Co-advisory partners track referred clients, deal economics under the 70/30 split, and joint engagement progress.
- Referred client tracking
- 70/30 economics dashboard
- Joint engagement notes
- Commission statements
Four mandates. One sector.
Coussa Group advises dealership owners and qualified buyers only — no generalist brokers, no sideline practices. Every transaction receives sector-specialist focus, from first valuation to closing.
Sell-Side Advisory
We run dealership owners through every stage of a sale — confidential valuation, NDA-bound buyer outreach, IOI/LOI, diligence, manufacturer approval, closing.
Sell your dealership →Buy-Side Advisory
Whether you're acquiring your first store or expanding a dealer group, we source off-market opportunities and negotiate on your behalf through close.
Acquire a dealership →Buyer Network
Pre-qualified, NDA-bound buyers — from independent operators acquiring their first store to national dealer groups and PE-backed retail platforms.
Buyer Network →Broker Partnerships
We co-advise with brokers, accountants, and advisors who have dealership clients — 70/30 fees, white-label execution, joint engagement.
Partner with us →Sector-specialist by design. Boutique by choice.
Coussa Group works only with automotive dealerships across every Canadian province and every US state. The firm is structured around that focus — advisor experience, buyer network, transaction process — nothing outside it.
Boutique scale means principal-led engagements. No junior-banker rotations, no cross-sector distractions, no listing-volume mandates.
Dealership-only practice
Sector-specialist M&A in North American automotive retail — not a generalist firm with a sideline practice.
Confidential process
NDA-first approach protects sellers, staff, customers, and OEM relationships throughout the engagement.
National buyer network
Pre-qualified buyers including dealer groups, private equity, and OEM-approved operators — matched to mandate criteria.
Full transaction coverage
Valuation, marketing, negotiation, due diligence, and closing — under one roof, with one principal advisor.
Our Approach
Five Shifts Decide the Outcome.
Coussa Group works every sell-side engagement against a shared methodology — The 5 Shifts — built from the preparations that separate dealer principals who exit on their own terms from those who find themselves reacting to the process.
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Mindset. Decide, Then Prepare.
Selling a dealership is a once-in-a-lifetime decision long before it is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The moment a principal honestly asks whether this is what they want to do for the rest of their life is the moment the rest of the work becomes possible. Preparation is what that decision unlocks; it cannot substitute for it.
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The Business Has to Run Without You.
A store that visibly depends on its owner sells at a multiple of EBITDA. A store that runs as a system — GM handling day-to-day, reporting running without intervention, key staff secured — sells on what it can produce under new ownership, and closes with shorter earn-outs, smaller seller notes, and less structure the seller has to live with afterward.
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One Buyer Is Not a Market.
When the first serious offer becomes the whole negotiation, every concession is real because there is nowhere else to go. A confidential process brings multiple qualified buyers to the table at the same stage, each under NDA. They compete against each other — not against the seller.
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What You Share, You Can't Unshare.
Information released reactively costs staff, customers, OEM goodwill, and price — often in ways that don't surface for months. A curated information architecture, released in stages tied to NDA depth, protects what can be protected and gives up only what is earned.
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Position Yourself as the Decision-Maker.
An M&A process is transactional, but it is also ego-driven on both sides of the table. The dealer principal who walks in as the clear author of the transaction — prepared, positioned, selling on their own timeline — ends up with a different result than the one walking in reactive. The first four shifts are what allow this positioning to be earned.
Before you retain a firm, see the framework.
The 5 Shifts is the structural read on why most dealership sales leave value on the table — and the five preparations that separate principals who exit on their own terms from those who react to the process.