“If you want the best automotive advisor in the business, you don’t have to look any further. You’d be hard put to find an advisor with more savvy, experience and common sense in the car business than John Pico.” – Glenn Hartzheim, 5 Star Dodge Dealer and former president of the San Francisco Dodge Dealers Advertising Association - 35+ year dealer.

Mr. Pico was “very knowledgeable with respect to the automotive business" and his knowledge and negotiation skills were "critical to the final process of the purchase. John Pico was very analytical and detailed throughout the whole process and I have no hesitation in recommending him." – Tom Durant, number one volume Chevrolet dealership in North America (2006). - 35+ year dealer.

Over the past three and one-half decades Mr. Pico has assisted hundreds of dealers from coast-to-coast acquire new facilities, buy and sell dealerships, value their stores, open new points and negotiate and settle "out of trust" positions.

When added together, his transactions would well exceed One Billion Dollars in value and his array of experiences range from handling upside-down position of over Fifty Million Dollars, an out of trust position of over 4 Million dollars and a bank overdraft of $30 million dollars. It is almost impossible for a person in the industry not to know someone involved with one of his transactions. See: Partial Transaction List for a summary of a number of transactions he has completed.

Starting in 1972, Pico entered the automobile business by representing automobile dealership groups such as Tasha Corporation (once the 18th largest dealer group in the U.S. before it sold to AutoNation), and handling sales such as Lucy DiGulio’s sale of her deceased husband’s share of Prospect Motors (currently the largest General Motors dealership in the United States) to Skip Halverson.

In 2001 Hank Torian the former owner of Tasha Corporation again retained Mr. Pico to consult with him on the sale of Stevens Creek Lexus (the #1 pre-owned Lexus Dealership in northern California) to the Penske Automotive Group. The sale was consummated the same year.

Before retiring from the active practice of law in 1980 Mr. Pico and his law firm represented numerous automotive dealers in the reorganizations, purchases, and sales of dealerships. He both tried cases as the attorney for the dealerships and arbitrated and mediated dealer related cases.

Mr. Pico built upon his experiences and became a student of the industry by receiving training and attending seminars with respect to the various departments in new car dealerships, participating in National Automobile Dealer Association (NADA) Management Education Program, having "hands-on "experience" operating a store by filling in as General Manager on an "interim" bases. In 1986, after five years of research and two years of writing, Mr. Pico authored and National Legal Publishing Company published the nation’s first book on Buying and Selling Automobile Dealerships.

Mr. Pico has helped such notables as Barry Lambert Harris, Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration under President George H.W. Bush, sell his dealership facility, John Whitney Payson of Falmouth, ME sell his dealership, (Payson's family owned the 1969 World Champion NY Mets), Cart Racing Champion Jimmy Vasser get into the business with his first franchises and his most recent acquisition and in between, packaged what was at the time, the largest automotive transaction in Colorado history when then Denver Bronco Quarterback and Superbowl MVP John Elway ventured into the business with his purchase of five franchises and three dealership facilities.

He also represented the first Indian Nation in history to receive a new car dealer franchise agreement. Dealing with a "Nation" posed unique issues (such as: civil immunities, state and federal tax exemptions and trust lands, to name a few) for the factory, for the State and for the Dealer’s Association.

His preparation, collaboration, education, experience, and efforts, helped obtain approval and licensing in only 90 days.