Latham & Watkins Advises Driven Brands in US$385 Million Sale of US Car Wash Business to Whistle

Driven Brands Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: DRVN) (Driven Brands), the largest automotive services company in North America, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its US car wash business to Express Wash Operations, LLC dba Whistle Express Car Wash (Whistle) for US$385 million.

Latham & Watkins LLP represents Driven Brands in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by Washington, D.C. partner Paul Sheridan and Chicago partner Daniel Breslin, with associates Jack DeMeulenaere and Matthew Galligan. Advice was also provided on tax matters by Washington, D.C. partner Andrea Ramezan-Jackson; on compensation and benefits matters by Chicago partner Benjamin Rosemergy; on labor matters by Chicago partner Nineveh Alkhas; on environmental matters by Washington, D.C. partner Devin O’Connor; on real estate matters by Chicago counsel Jeffrey Anderson; on intellectual property matters by Washington, D.C. partner Morgan Brubaker; on data privacy and cybersecurity matters by Houston/Austin counsel Robert Brown; and on antitrust and Hart-Scott-Rodino Act matters by Washington, D.C. partners Mandy Reeves and Peter Todaro.