Buying or Selling a Florida Marina — The Submerged Land Lease and the DEP Permit Trap
Florida marina M&A turns on the submerged land lease and the DEP environmental permit chain — items that decide whether the buyer can operate on day one.
Florida marina M&A turns on the submerged land lease and the DEP environmental permit chain — items that decide whether the buyer can operate on day one.
Florida Chapter 663 quietly lets a foreign bank fund a Florida target from an in-state banking facility with a state-specific carve-out most cross-border deal counsel never surface at the term sheet.
The Q of E is not an audit — it’s a reprice lever. How Florida lower-middle-market founders should prepare for the QofE the buyer pays for and the seller pays for in price drops.
A Florida child care center sells like real estate plus a license, except the license does not transfer. Section 402.305 change-of-ownership rules drive the timeline.
Acquiring a Florida-licensed money services business is not a normal closing. Chapter 560 requires a new license application before a controlling interest changes hands.
A non-physician can’t simply buy a Florida medical practice — s. 458.331 fee-splitting and s. 817.505 patient brokering force an MSO structure. Why, and where it gets tested.
In a Florida asset deal, a UCC search is only as good as the name you search. Section 679.5061 makes the debtor’s exact name a closing risk. How to search so liens surface.
Chapter 727 gives Florida a state-court alternative to a 363 sale. For a buyer of a distressed business it can be faster — but the protections differ. How the structure works.
A “administratively dissolved” status can stall a Florida closing. How dissolution hits an entity, and how reinstatement under s. 605.0715 relates back to fix it.
After Tiara, Florida’s economic loss rule no longer bars fraud claims between contracting parties. For M&A, that means a non-reliance clause does real work but is not a fraud…