Legacy featured in the Dave Cantin Group’s 2025 Mid-Year Market Outlook Report

Legacy featured in the Dave Cantin Group's 2025 Mid-Year Market Outlook Report

Legacy Automotive Capital is honored to have been featured in the Dave Cantin Group’s 2025 Mid-Year Market Outlook Report. This timely update sheds light on pivotal trends shaping the automotive retail landscape in the first half of 2025—including affordability challenges, the emerging presence of Chinese automakers, shifts in consumer EV adoption, and how dealers are navigating tariff impact with diversified revenue strategies.

We extend our sincere thanks to the Dave Cantin Group for spotlighting our work and contributing to this insightful industry dialogue.

Read the 2025 Mid-Year Market Outlook Report here.

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Join Legacy at 2025 NAMAD in Las Vegas this August

Join Legacy at 2025 NAMAD In Las Vegas

Legacy Automotive Capital is excited to be attending the 2025 NAMAD Conference. We specialize in helping franchised dealers unlock capital through sale-leaseback financing, acquisition funding, construction capital and succession solutions—allowing you to grow your dealership portfolio while preserving operational control.

If you’re looking to fund your next acquisition, strengthen liquidity, or explore succession strategies, we’d welcome the opportunity to meet in person at NAMAD.

Schedule a meeting with us here or stop by our team during the conference.

We look forward to connecting.

Best regards,
Austin Wolfington
Co-Founder  |  Legacy Automotive Capital

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Estate Planning

Use Cases for our Capital: Estate planning

Discover how car dealers use Legacy Automotive Capital’s programs as an effective estate planning solution, enabling them to keep business ownership within the family while funding essential needs.

Scenario: Family Patriarch passes away
Problem: Family is left with large tax bill
Solution: Sell Real Estate to pay tax bill
Result: Maintain Business Control / Ownership

Contact Todd Marcelle at todd@legacyautocapital.com to learn more.

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Who Is Legacy Auto Capital

Who Is Legacy Auto Capital

Legacy Automotive Capital was founded by car dealers who recognized a need for additional financial solutions to support dealership growth. With a deep understanding of the industry, we focus on recognizing and leveraging the unique value each dealer brings to their operation.

Founded and Focused on:

  • Recognition of the operations and blue sky value created by the dealer
  • Access to additional capital to allow good dealers to grow efficiently

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Q2 2025 Update

Q2 2025 Update at Legacy

Legacy Automotive Capital closed another strong quarter, adding the first Toyota dealership to our portfolio — a milestone that reflects our continued expansion across brands and geographies.

We also supported dealer-operators navigating time-sensitive ROFR scenarios, providing quick-close capital solutions across multiple U.S. markets. In a still-constrained lending environment, our sale-leaseback and construction capital programs remain critical tools for growth-minded dealers.

 

Contact Todd Marcelle at todd@legacyautocapital.com to learn more.

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Deal Announcement: Northeast Land Rover

Deal Announcement: Northeast Land Rover Portfolio

Legacy Automotive Capital is pleased to announce the successful closing of a two-property Land Rover dealership portfolio located in the Northeast.

The portfolio is occupied by a top-performing dealer group with a strong track record in luxury automotive retail. The transaction required expedited coordination to meet critical closing deadlines. Legacy was proud to provide the capital solution needed to support a smooth and timely closing for the seller.

This deal reflects our continued focus on delivering customized real estate and M&A financing solutions for franchised new car dealers nationwide. At Legacy Automotive Capital, we help operators execute complex transactions with speed, certainty, and industry expertise.

We congratulate all parties involved and look forward to supporting future growth across the automotive retail landscape.

Contact Todd Marcelle at todd@legacyautocapital.com to receive a free assessment of your real estate.

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Most active brands: LAC

Most Active Brands Legacy Is Working With

Legacy is actively funding and acquiring dealerships across all volume, luxury, and non-luxury franchised new car brands. We’re committed to supporting dealership growth and success across the automotive spectrum.

Below are where we have been most focused:

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Chick-fil-A’s Use of Sale-Leaseback Capital

Chick-Fil-A's use of sale-leaseback capital

Chick-fil-A employs sale-leaseback agreements to fuel its expansion strategy, converting owned real estate into liquid capital while maintaining operational control. In this approach, Chick-fil-A sells restaurant properties to investors and leases them back under long-term agreements.

This tactic provides immediate funds for opening new locations, upgrading technology, and enhancing operations without incurring additional debt. It also allows Chick-fil-A to focus on its core business while outsourcing property management to real estate investors. Additionally, fixed lease payments create predictable occupancy costs, simplifying financial planning and reducing exposure to real estate market fluctuations.

By strategically leveraging sale-leasebacks, Chick-fil-A supports its growth while maintaining financial flexibility and operational efficiency, exemplifying its innovative approach to smart growth.

Contact Legacy to learn how this innovative strategy can help unlock the value of your dealership’s real estate and support your expansion.

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Legacy Automotive Capital Raises $500 Million

Legacy Automotive Capital Raises $500 Million

Legacy Automotive Capital is aiming to deploy $500 million over the next 36 months by assisting dealers in acquiring property in buy-sell transactions or providing them capital via a dealership sale-leaseback.

An investment firm, led by the co-founders and an investor of a business sold to Reynolds and Reynolds Co., aims to spend $500 million over the next three years by assisting dealers in acquiring property in buy-sell transactions or providing capital via sale-leasebacks of dealerships.

Legacy Automotive Capital, founded in 2019 by Ben Catanese, Todd Marcelle and TJ Doyle and based in Exton, Pa., in suburban Philadelphia, has an additional $1 billion in funding commitments that could come later.

“We believe that we can represent the real estate component of the capital stack in a buy-sell transaction,” Catanese, Legacy’s CEO, told Automotive News. “That’s really where we think we can be helpful, where we currently are being helpful to dealers.”

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Acquisition Announcement – Honda Portfolio

Acquisition Announcement – Honda Portfolio

Legacy Automotive Capital re-capitalizes a regional dealer group through its acquisition of 2 Honda dealership properties in the Northeast US. The acquisition adds 2 properties to Legacy’s growing dealership portfolio.

"I recently worked with Legacy on multiple transactions and was pleased with the professionalism and efficiency of their process. The company was true to their word, acted quickly, and allowed me to successfully execute on our business and personal goals while minimizing the day-to-day activities of running the business. We hope we can work with Legacy in the future and recommend their program to any dealers looking to expand or recapitalize their holdings..”
Lundgren Automotive Group

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