David Roberts

LOS ANGELES, CA, November 5, 2024 – Focus Advisors, a national automotive mergers and acquisitions advisory firm, reports that its client, Pacific Collision Equipment, has been acquired by Kalix River Holdings. Owned and operated by Robert Hornedo, Pacific Equipment sold and serviced Car-O-Liner equipment to repairers in Southern California across 1,280 zip codes. “I enjoyed … Read more

What Private Equity Firms Should Look for in a Platform Acquisition In a recent conversation with a large private equity firm, we were asked to give some advice about how they might build a substantial consolidator from scratch. This particular firm had identified a very accomplished executive in the automotive space, but not specifically in … Read more

In the last five months, more than $9 billion in capital has been invested into the collision repair industry by private equity firms. The biggest chunk of this new capital was $4.6 billion in debt refinancing by Caliber Collision. Crash Champions also refinanced a significant piece of its debt and brought in an additional equity investment. Classic Collision, CollisionRight, VIVE Collision and Kaizen all found new sponsors.  As the industry’s leading M&A advisor, we have thoughts and comments. 

A sale of your shop may seem like a long way off, but it doesn’t hurt to start thinking about what the process looks like, says Focus Advisors Managing Director David Roberts. Amid all the hustle and bustle of the last three years of COVID, PPP loans, parts shortages, technician shortages and consolidation, there has … Read more

Recently, the Investment Banking Team at Focus Advisors sat down with some key industry leaders and posed a number of provocative questions about pressing issues. Over the course of many hours, these deeply experienced entrepreneurs shared their own thoughts, opinions and principles on which they are growing their businesses. Below we share brief comments from each of them.