A b o u t U s
Open Road Capital is composed of long-term auto retail professionals and backed by Bain Capital, a leading global private investment firm with over $185B under management.
Open Road Capital
STORES
46
BRANDS
28
DEALER PARTNERS
8
CAPITAL DEPLOYMENT
$1 billion initial target
Partner Driven
- Respect for our dealer/partners’ abilities
- National perspective
- Acquisition expertise
- Legal, accounting and finance expertise
- Scale
- Access to information
- Real Estate experience
- Unlimited capital
We have multiple partners throughout the US, uncompetitive with one another.
Each partnership is independently structured (not cross-collateralized or cross-owned). These sister companies, managed by some of the best in the business, maintain relationships and help each other improve and grow.
Dealer Centric
Open Road is versatile, assisting dealers and their families who seek:
- Acquisitions of more dealerships.
- To take a minority or majority of their cash off the table.
- Assistance with succession planning that sometimes only capital can solve.
- And numerous derivatives of these themes.
I had two stores when I met Open Road. Together we bought three more, and only two years later, we own 11 stores and are still growing. Our partnership offers the best of both worlds – flexibility to operate my stores with autonomy, but with capital backing and resources comparable to a public group that have allowed me to grow faster and create more value than I could have imagined achieving independently.
Dealership Profile
- There is no practical upper limit to transaction size.
- We support smaller transactions and qualified first-time dealers with proprietary transactions in certain cases.
- We will hold almost any percentage of ownership, from a minority stake up to 100% ownership.
- No hold period limitation - we are an "evergreen" entity, allowing us to stay with our dealer/partners indefinitely or sell back to them in the future if they prefer.
- No geographic limitation.
- Every leading OEM has embraced our structure and approved our investments.
We pick great dealer/partners and, in turn, try to be the best possible partner to them. We believe that there is something special about great dealers and we respect this valuable skillset.