The Florida Reemployment-Tax Experience Rating Follows the Business — § 443.131
A Florida asset deal can quietly raise the buyer’s payroll-tax rate. How § 443.131 transfers the seller’s reemployment-tax experience rating, plus the SUTA-dumping trap.
Florida’s § 501.171 Data-Breach Statute Is M&A Diligence, Not an IT Problem
A target’s customer database is an asset until Florida’s § 501.171 data-breach statute turns it into a liability. How FIPA reshapes M&A diligence, reps, and indemnity.
Florida Homestead and the Seller-Note Guaranty — Why the Security Is Thinner Than It Looks
A personal guaranty on a Florida seller note feels like security. Because of the constitutional homestead exemption, it often is not, and here is how to fix it.
Buying or Selling a Florida Restaurant: The 4COP Quota License Is Often the Whole Deal
In a Florida restaurant or bar sale, the liquor license can be worth more than the kitchen, and whether it transfers at all changes the entire deal structure.
Florida Conduit-Entity Doc-Stamp Tax Catches the Newco Sale
Florida’s conduit-entity rule taxes a controlling-interest sale as if the real property were deeded. Price the doc-stamp exposure at the LOI.
The Background IP License Clause — Why Every Engineer Hire Needs One in the Invention Assignment Agreement
Pure assignment captures inventions made on the job. It misses the personal library the engineer dropped into the codebase before lunch. The background IP license closes the gap acquirer’s counsel always finds.
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