General Counsel · Automotive & Technology
General counsel to leading automotive and technology companies, in the boardroom and the courtroom.
Agreement Base serves a select group of clients as their senior legal team: advising leadership, structuring transactions, and directing litigation through resolution.
Counsel toCisco SystemsO'Gara Coach CompanyScreen Engine/ASI
The judgment of a general counsel, with the reach of a firm.
We sit where an in-house legal department would. Leadership calls us first, before a dealer agreement is signed, a buy-sell is priced, or a dispute is answered.
That continuity matters. We know the business, the brands it carries and the people across the table, so advice arrives quickly and fits the decision at hand. When a matter goes to litigation, we direct strategy and manage trial counsel from the first filing to the final order.
Practice
Franchised dealers face the FTC CARS Rule, state privacy law and an OEM relationship that governs nearly every major decision. Technology companies face the same privacy rules from the other side. We work both.
Automotive retail
- Franchise and OEM-dealer relationsSales and service agreements, protests, relocation and add-points
- Dealership acquisitionsBuy-sells, asset and real estate transactions, OEM approvals
- F&I complianceFTC CARS Rule, product and agency structures
Technology
- Commercial and SaaS contractingEnterprise and cross-border agreements
- Data privacy and AICCPA, SB 766, AI governance
- LicensingStudio, content and IP licensing, domestic and international
Disputes
- Litigation oversightStrategy, budgeting and management of trial counsel
- MediationCredentialed mediator
- Regulatory mattersAgency inquiries and consumer complaints
Counsel to
- Cisco SystemsCross-border commercial transactions, privacy and acquisitions
- O'Gara Coach CompanyUltra-luxury dealer group representing Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Lamborghini
- Screen Engine/ASIGeneral counsel since 2018: licensing, data compliance and partnerships
Clients also include
- Venice Motors
- Complete Mobile Care
- Somers Auto Repair
- World's Fair Communications
Founder
Nick Singer
Nick founded Agreement Base to give automotive and technology companies a general counsel who understands both industries. Before the firm, he litigated securities and antitrust matters at Hagens Berman and served as associate general counsel to an early-stage startup.
- California Bar
- Credentialed mediator
- NADA member