Phillip D. Brady serves as a Senior Advisor at Kerrigan Advisors, supporting the firm with his deep industry experience and expertise. Phil was President of National Auto Dealers Association (NADA) from 2001 to 2012 during which time he successfully led auto retail’s largest association through the many challenges presented by the credit crisis.
Before leading NADA, Phil served as Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary in the White House from 1991 to 1993 under President George H.W. Bush, as well as General Counsel to the US Department of Transportation. He retired as Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at Phillips 66 in 2015 and is now an adjunct professor at Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law. With his deep experience and relationships in auto retail, Phil provides counsel to the Kerrigan Advisors team and its clients on industry relationships, as well as generational and corporate planning.
Phil Brady is a cum laude graduate of both the University of Notre Dame and Loyola University School of Law. He resides in Northern Virginia and Orange County with his wife, Katie Brady.
Kerrigan Advisors is the premier sell-side advisor and thought partner to auto dealers nationwide. The firm advises the industry's leading dealership groups, enhancing value through the lifecycle of growing, operating and, when the time is right, selling their businesses. Kerrigan Advisors has represented some of auto retail's largest transactions and advised more of the largest dealership groups in the US than any other buy/sell firm in the industry. Led by a team of veteran industry experts with backgrounds in investment banking, private equity, accounting, finance and real estate, the firm does not take listings, rather they develop a customized approach for each client to achieve their personal and financial goals. In addition to Kerrigan Advisors' sell-side advisory and capital raising services, the firm also provides a suite of consulting services including growth strategy, market valuation assessments, capital allocation, transactional due diligence, open point proposals, operational improvement and real estate due diligence.
Kerrigan Advisors monitors conditions in the buy/sell market and publishes an in-depth analysis each quarter in The Blue Sky Report®, which includes Kerrigan Advisors' signature blue sky charts, multiples, and analysis for each franchise in the luxury and non-luxury segments. To download a preview of the report, click here. The firm also releases monthly The Kerrigan Index™ composed of the seven publicly traded auto retail companies with operations focused on the US market. The Kerrigan Auto Retail Index is designed to track dealership valuation trends, while also providing key insights into factors influencing auto retail. To access The Kerrigan Index™, click here. To read the 2023 Kerrigan OEM Survey, click here. Kerrigan Advisors also is the co-author of NADA's Guide to Buying and Selling a Dealership.
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